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long time I was always struck by the kinds of games that children always play. Jumping rope is of course an old form of play but these negro girls seemed to have a real talent for creating all kinds of styles of rope jumping. It presented two things (among others), one, an aspect of the life [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] style and, [[strikethrough]] second [[/strikethrough]] also the rather dramatic and repetitive movement which was dynamic at the same time. Movement has always appealed to me - you can see that in the "Amistad" murals. Movement has been the one aspect of painting that I've always been interested in.

[[strikethrough]] Q. Would you say that movement [[/strikethrough]]

Q. [[strikethrough]] How [[/strikethrough]] Would you say that movement was a major characteristic of the "Atlanta School"? This of course assumes that you would call it a school.

A. Well, some persons have designated it as the "Atlanta School" because there was a number of us working very seriously at the time - I don't know if you know this, but they called it the "Outhouse School" because in those days we went out to paint landscapes in the Georgia hills [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] and the landscape was dotted with outhouses and we incorporated these in our paintings.

Q. I notice that people like Wilmer Jennings, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Fred Flemister and John Howard employed a certain kind of "approach" to landscape which reflected on the kind of work that you did...

A. This is quite possible. There were, however, two artists who should be mentioned - El Greco and Cezanne. The power and vitality of the painting of these two was very forceful and I was impressed by them. One cannot avoid influencing others - students influence each other, as you know. So it was inevitable that our work would reflect a similar approach to subject matter because we worked so closely together.

Q. Was there a difference in the use of elements between your work and that of Cezanne and El Greco? I'm thinking of things like, say, color.