As a matter of fact there never was a time when indiscriminate internationalism has not produced inferior results, or, conversely, when a wholesome nationalism has failed to give artistic achievement redoubled strength and significance. The most salutary influence in contemporary art is precisely the realization that his innate and fundamental racial endowment is the artists richest possession, that it is, in short, his very reason for being. Fortunately for painting in particular, those conventions which have long exerted a dominant sway over the destinies of art are rapidly losing their ascendancy, and there are hence springing up on all sides and in every land groups of painters who now depict whatever they see fit and in whatever manner their individual predilections may dictate. A certain 1:7 Dg.l.
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