The artist's right to change his mind never got a better demonstration than the one given by Painter William Zorach. "The modern movement," he said in 1922, when he was 35, "has freed art from the idea of reproducing nature, an idea which has been persistently followed since the Greeks and which has been suddenly found to have nothing to do with art. The essential contribution of modern art to esthetics is the broadening and developing of purely abstract forms and colors." That same year, Zorach gave up professional painting in favor of sculpture, and the work he has produced since...
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