Acrylic paint is the modern version of oil paint. It can be applied to many more surfaces, and dries faster. For this reason it is more suited to contemporary forms of art.
Compare the difference with more « classic » paintings in this gallery with vivid colors, less color gradients, sharper borders, solid tints.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Walt Whitman
