Over time, however, the descendants have gradually forgotten the homely virtues that earned their family's fame. The generations before have exerted themselves in endless labors, accumulating great wealth through thrift and industry. You can build walls and floors upon them without fear that they will crumble.TOWARD THE BURDEN LIMITBefore we discuss springtime, let's review winter.Set before the eye of your imagining the heirs, for instance, to a vast steel fortune. The three qualities above - skill, creativity, empathy - are the Post-Contemporary proposal for foundations to be trusted. But to build, one must give up doubt in certain very important ways: one must trust in one's foundations. Post-Contemporary is a name for the dawning season, for springtime, a time to build up. It has been a long season of breaking down, and I think we are about at the end of it. There have been fancy names for the principles involved - modernism and postmodernism, deconstructionism, critical theory - but what it comes to in the end is breaking down, breaking down the past, breaking down tradition, breaking down assumptions and mores. I think we can all agree that for Western art, since the hour of that famous urinal, this has been a verse 3b1 kind of time: a season of breaking down. It describes the world, and life, but it applies to art as well. For a sense of it, we start with the famous third chapter of Ecclesiastes, verses 1-3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:2 A time to be born, and a time to die a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal a time to break down, and a time to build up This is the start of a poignant tapestry of opposites, developing the idea of cyclic time. EmpathyAbsent any stricter definition, I guess I'll tell you what I think it is, and why it's important. You could call it an art movement, except that the only things about it which everyone interested in participating seems to agree on are that the art called Post-Contemporary should show three qualities:1. And the room is what I'd like to talk about with you today - it was the room for the Post-Contemporary Art collection.Post-Contemporary Art sounds very official, doesn't it' I'm not sure who came up with the term, but I know that painter Graydon Parrish pushed for its use to describe something which, in its current state, is very loose and amorphous. The museum is the New Britain Museum of American Art. The painting is Day, my first painting of Leah, a muse and friend I have worked with almost every week since 2009. In September, I experienced a landmark in my life as an artist: the opening of a room in a museum in which a painting of mine is permanently installed.
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