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offered instead a wide escape route, a less personally-taxing collective reality. The imagery of the cinema and television also give evidence to a growing evidence to a a growing matriarchy in our American culture."
Basing his brush strokes on these two ideas, San Antonio artist Mel Casas is producing a series of visually palatable and meaningful paintings entitled Humanscape.[humanscape in italics].
Casas, a 37-year-old assistant professor of art at San Antonio College, has completed 22 paintings in the seemingly endless series and is presently working on two others. The "humanscape" are all set against black backgrounds and feature predominantly grey to stark white figures representing the more popular and recurrent themes of today's tired video mediums.

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One painting depicts a couple kissing arduously on a giant screen while numerous miniature counterparts, representing their audience, follow suit. It is reminiscent of Saturday night in the balcony of a small town theater. In another painting, a screen siren models huge sunglasses while her audience views her through identical Florida tan shades. The  esthesia is strained as the esthesiometer vibrates from the esthesis of it all.
Casas, holder of a bachelor of arts degree from Texas Western and University of the Americas in Mexico City, feels that an artists's [artist's]work calls for a transformation or reinterpretation of the environment for the observer.
"The artist must edit his own and h is contemporaries' visual and psychological reactions to the environment. How he handles space reflects his concept of environmental freedom. 
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he searches either for the freedom of unhampered dimensions or the protection of circumscribed limits, so that at one time, the handling of space can represent the most subtle aspects of personal freedom or the most vulgar symbols of group authority and mass apathy. The artist's image, to have any validity, must offer more than physical reality. The artist must be on guard against the proclivity to reach for easy iconographic solutions. It is so easy to convert a  landscape into a topographical chart, a painted nude into nothing more than an anatomical study."
Art must be much more than this, he contends. It must continue to engage itself with profound experiences of its age and man's commitment to them. Hopefully, upon viewing the 'humanscapes', viewers will perceive the objectivity of examining their position in relation to the video mediums.
"For example, take the excessive sexuality of these mediums. Sexuality has become synonymous with knowledge, energy and equality. It is even believed to color man's creative impulses and his approach to society, religion and politics. This is where we see the struggle between patriarchy and matriarchy. In movies and television, men are portrayed as being restrictive, conservative and even ascetic in comparison to the permissiveness, progressiveness and hedonism that's characteristics of the female image. All of this is evidence of a society in a matriarchal frame of mind," Casas said.
The observers of these paintings, consequently, should examine themselves and consider how these mediums are affecting their lives.
"I want people to ask themselves if they are being isolated, depersonalized, hypnotized...and, in fact, in they are committing willing idealogical [ideological] suicide through this mass coercion and mass seduction. The cinematic-televisionary influence in the United States is a tangible and people must realize this...or have their minds and sould molded by a fantasy machine or late show."
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