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message, [[strikethrough]] that dares by [[/strikethrough]] with prefabricated aesthetic formulas?

How easy it would be to say to Roualt: your outlines are too heavy; to say to Kokoscha: your paintings lack solidity [[strikethrough]] form [[/strikethrough]] to have said to Vincent: your colors are too bright, your forms are too active.

The formalists vs. | the expressionists
Stuart Davis | Kokoschka 
Ozenfant | Marin
Feininger | (The "don't let a color become a color" boys)
(the space boys) | 

10/22
Lecture at ASC by Sternberg.  The guy's good, see. "Orozco the best artist today." And I for once understood fully how great art is concerned with 

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love and the human passions. (And how at home I sit before my "Bay" & wonder whether love for land is a theme of greatness.

I have tried the human figure in several things lately - but always with a feeling that "it is not my stuff" - that I am doing it out of duty rather than out of love.  I told Harlan tonight it is perhaps I cannot draw the figure well.  I think now it goes beyond that - that I cannot draw it well because I do not feel for it.

Sternberg delivered the final K.O. to guys like Speicher Kroll Benton Cadmus - & the Carnegie Show from which he was rejected.  However