The value art will have in the near future will once again place innovative modern artists into the forefront. These people, who may be primarily visual artists, will be artists who do not give the bare minimum but who manifest skills in abundance. People can again produce 3 by 5 foot works which as copies are hung on walls, no need for the minimal aim of innovation as decoration. These works will instruct over a period of years a large amount of facts pertaining to a hard science, craft, skill, human or other history, social science, ad infinitum. It will be artists who will soon take over the role of educator.
Education is a virt ue, as is repetitively useful art.
This manifesto chiefly examines other aspects of the word Vritue, especially a new framework to look at the concept of Didacticism in art. There is no reason to call this The First Didactic Art Manifesto. The original definition of this Virtue aesthetic was to enhance the relation between the feeling one gets from witnessing or participating in the virtuous acts and the prolonged aesthetic experience, but with these statements were also statements about the areas I've directed my attention in 1986. This bounteous idea had to be put aside, but not forgotten, by the analysis of the other uses of the word virtue, which eventually developed into a small philosophical system. For me, this involved the interactions of science and art into a theoretical total solution of the problem of ecological ruin of the planet.