> What contribution does Mr. Collin think painting can make at this point? To point out the vacuity and surface deep modern Western culture? From the article:

> What contribution does Mr. Collin think painting can make at this point? To point out the vacuity and surface deep modern Western culture? From the article: "Collins explains: 'My general feeling in terms of art making is the train got off the rails in the 1860s and 1870s, and my practical instinct is to go back to where it was, try to put it back, fix it up, and start going again.' "'Our culture,' he continued, 'has inherited the idea that if artists are not avant-garde they cannot have a significant role. That’s a fallacy we’ve inherited from some Parisian nut-job radicals. The rejection of beauty is so accepted. It’s high time that we as a culture attend to our beauty position.'" I think it's fair to call this a pedagogical platform, and a novel contribution to the world of art in general.