Although a cool evening, there were many "hot" spots and art objects in the Arts Colony. The dA Gallery did not disappoint. There were two exhibitions, including the one on the New Traditionalists. Here we have a theme, "new traditionalism", but what does it mean. This is not obvious and is meant to have many connotations, but it will be fun to see what concurrence we can achieve on it. I will give it at start, but you need to help me flesh it out. The New Traditionalists are representational artists. In this sense, the continue the work of traditional artists by painting things we can recognize, that represent the people land places with which we are familiar. But in what sense are they new? There are, at the very least, new voices such as Yolanda Gonzalez, a Latino artist, whose work appeared in at least one other gallery in the Arts Colony besides the dA (and is impressively expensive - one work was $12,000). The dA regards her as part of the New Traditionalism. How, then does she help to define this movement?
