August 3, 2009
Traitor and spy Anthony Blunt, 1937:Certain changes will inevitably take place in the forms which artists use to express the ideas of the classless society. The conception of a painting as a unique private possession will disappear....The easel painting, which was the particular art-form evolved at the time of the Renaissance when art became essentially private, will become of secondary importance, and instead mural painting will be developed in a form suitable to the decoration of the communal buildings devoted to the culture and recreation of the workers. -- Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: Tragic, to be Blunt
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