Topic: Opinion
Realism-Only Policy at Hirschl & Adler Galleries


Lord Frederick Leighton, 1877, "The Music Lesson"

http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2003/Hirschl_and_Adler/hirschladler1.asp

I never liked non-representational art, and have had to defend it against some of my friends in college who snobbed it. HAH! H&A is a respected art gallery who have seen the light. I can't believe we as a society has been bamboozled into believing that dipping a cat in blue paint and hurling it at policemen is art.It's funny, but it's not art.

Maybe soon poems that rhyme will make a come-back?

Excerpted from reviewer Sherry Lazarus Ross: "Inherent to Hirschl & Adler's recognition of realism is their understanding that artists of stature must now be dedicated to the kind of training and skill acquisition that was expected of an artist in pervious centuries. In other words, the hard work of learning how to draw and paint.

"The modernist ideologies are no longer convincing this new generation of collectors and art enthusiasts, i.e. that abstract art is art, simply because they are told so. Hirschl and Adler see this so clearly, that they have now made it their policy to no longer represent abstract artists. They now represent a wide range of Realist artists who have obviously made the commitment to mastering the skills of drawing and painting in the Realist Tradition. It was the only form of art that truly mattered throughout history - for the language of Realism is not fashionable, it is universal, and will still be the visual language of the human race in the distant future, as it always has been."