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Throughout the history of art, the discipline of painting has been confronted by many creative challenges. During the early 1860's to the late 1960's artists who sought truth in painting faced the emergence of three new challenges; to form new concepts, to imagine new styles, or to create new techniques. During my academic years I was schooled to believe that it was no longer germane for contemporary painters to pursue these principles.

I opted to not give credence to that and eventually created the trinity of painting (a new technique, a new style, and a new concept), of which I also refer to as The Manifesto Concerning Das.

Wilder

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"Over the course of the last two decades, I have watched the waning of public interest in contemporary visual fine art. I believe this decline stems from two circumstances. One, a greater percentage of today's public has a higher level of education than it did one hundred years ago. Due to this, the general population recognizes the subjective and elitist nature of juried competitions. Secondly, I believe that society wants to be stimulated intellectually as well as visually, but does not wish to be patronized in the process." Wilder