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Art rides in on pleasure.

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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Pleasure
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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