"Every artist, especially right now, has to make his/her own tradition. The model of older artists and especially older artists and members of earlier generations, now dead, should be especially valuable. But each of these artists should be taken for what he/she is, a single example of a useful process, a model for our own action, but not a model primarily because of his/her specific choices, but because of the character of the process used...."continues: http://gabrielladerman.typepad.com/blog/
Gabriel Laderman, Painter of Figurative Art, Dies at 81:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/gabriel-laderman-painter-of-figurative-art-dies-at-81.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y