Tune in to the TV sitcom where Janie goes to the art show, and upon seeing a heap of garbage on the floor exclaims, "Someone should clean this mess up!" The curator, overhearing the remark retorts in return, "Harumph! W-h-y d-o-n-'-t y-o-u r-e-e-e-a-d the l-a-b-e-l!"

So the pendulum swings. From super realism where every skin pore and hair is shown, to the `heap of garbage on the floor', (and many say they are just different manifestations of the same thing), we must guess that the pendulum is swinging to its outer limits, once again.
 

"...after the illusion of depth, artists now strive with equal passion to emphasize the plane... If previously geometric schematization was rejected as inartistic, artists now wallow in canonic proportions, the golden section, the equilateral triangle... If previously glazes were used to give luminosity to colors and to increase the sense of distance, colors are now spread in a dull mat medium that is seen mainly as pigment... If previously technical skill was overrated, it is now held in contempt..." (116)
Konrad Lange

 

"Any object it appears, may be called sculpture now. Duchamp, who exhibited a bottle rack in 1914, can be thanked for this development, but not by me." (117)
Sidney Geist

 

"We have had enough of the intelligent movements that have stretched beyond measure our credulity in the benefits of science. What we want now is spontaneity." (118)
Tristan Tzara , "Lecture on Dada" , 1924
 

Wassily Kandinsky said there are two poles in art: ""The Great Abstraction" and "The Great Realism". Between these two poles lie many combinations of different harmonies of the abstract and the real." (119)