artnet.com Magazine Features - Gates of Perception

artnet.com Magazine Features - Gates of Perception: "It is the old musical metaphor for abstract painting, but with a different music -- not Kandinsky" wrote Donald Kuspit on Alfred Leslie.

Along with Jack Beal and Philip Pearlstein those who found a different path from their expressionist past. It is understanding their past that allows for the value in their later art. The NY art centers rejected their move to realism without giving credit for the reality of what they choose to paint and why.