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THE FEAR OF REALISM

on Third Programme

by Anton Ehrenzweig
The abstract painter of today like, to think that the realistic art of the past tied the painter to copying his perceptions of nature.
The recently publ shed book by Frote»sor
E H Gombrich, Art and Illusion, analyses
This widespread misunderstanding of traditioLTti P Mr. Ehrenzweig thinks ; that ■ may help the modern painter to take heart and assist him in the development of a new representational art which can be discerned in the current trends of abstract art.

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