21. Soon after World War II, people began flooding into the cave to see the paintings. 22. Sweeney remembers the moment he first saw the painting. 23. The biggest leap of all will be seeing his paintings on the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 24. The only people who regularly see the painting, which experts say is worth at least several hundred thousand dollars, are guards signing in and out. 25. They want to see paintings. 26. These works reflect a keen attention to Magritte, whose paintings Ruscha undoubtedly saw in the surrealist collection of the artist William N. Copley, of Los Angeles. 27. They just want to see the paintings. 28. Thornton Dial has never seen a painting by Jackson Pollock, at least not that he knows of. 29. To see a painting we have to go to a gallery, and once there we feel obliged to concentrate. 30. To do that with someone who had seen this painting so many times, it was great, but frustrating. |