Abstract
The Artists Technical Research Institute (ATRI), a nonprofit tax-exempt organization was established to engage in scientific laboratory research and educational activities in the field of the materials and techniques of creative painting and sculpture. Its purpose is to provide the artist with scientifically reliable knowledge of the materials he uses, and their proper methods of application, and to establish standards to replace the vague empirical rules that artists have followed in the past. Its approach is purely technical; although it serves the requirements of creative art, it does not involve aesthetic values. Announcement of its program in 1961 elicited a great many enthusiastic responses from the art world here and abroad.Status of the field. Although everyone agrees that a rational knowledge of his materials is of basic importance to the painter, this area has been curiously neglected.
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