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"SOYER" STAMP TO HIS ENTIRE OUTPUT. AND THAT IS ONLY NATURAL, FOR SOYER'S WORK MIRRORS THE ARTIST'S IMPRESSIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE PEOPLE HE KNOWS AT FIRST HAND. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE FROM THE REALM OF WHAT SOMBART CALLED "ASPHALT CIVILIZATION" I.E., THE CONGLOMERATE CITY THAT DETERMINES IN DEFINITE AND SPECIFIC WAYS THE PURSUITS, PLEASURES, FASHIONS, FOIBLES, HOME LIFE AND SOCIAL INTERCOURSE OF ITS DENIZENS. A RANDOM LIST OF SOYER'S PAINTINGS CHOSEN FROM VARIOUS PERIODS ILLUSTRATES THE POINT: FAMILY SCENE, SUZAN, ROOMMATES, IN THE BUS, DOCTOR'S OFFICE, FURNISHED ROOM, INTERIOR, CAFETERIA, IN THE STUDIO, DANCERS, STREET SCENE, SHOP GIRLS, RAILWAY WAITING ROOM, FLOWER VENDOR, WINDOW SHOPPERS, OFFICE GIRLS, BOWERY. IT WILL BE NOTED THAT SOYER DOES NOT CHOOSE THE EXTREMES OF WEALTH AND LABOR BUT THE FLUID, INDETERMINATE MASS RANGING BETWEEN THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS AND THE LUMPEN PROLETARIAT. THE SAME PATTERN IS FOLLOWED IN SOYER'S CITYSCAPES: NOT FIFTH AVENUE OR WALL STREET BUT RUTGERS SQUARE, DELANCY STREET, FOURTEENTH STREET. EVEN THE NUDES ([[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] AMONG THE MOST NUMEROUS OF SOYER'S SUBJECTS) ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE SEDENTARY, CONFINED, ARTIFICIAL LIFE UNDER "ASPHALT CIVILIZATION". THE "ETERNAL FEMININE" ENJOYS A BRIEF SPAN OF FRAGILE [[strikethrough]] XXXXXX [[/strikethrough]] CHARM FOLLOWED INEXORABLY BY A CRUEL RE-APPORTIONMENT OF FLESH, FLABBINESS (SUZAN) AND OTHER FORMS OF DETERIORATION. 

ALL THIS, SOYER HAS SEEN AND FELT; AND ALL THIS HE TELLS IN THE LANGUAGE MOST APPROPRIATE TO THE TASK - THE LANGUAGE OF XNXX INTERPRETATIVE REALISM. IMAGINATION PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN HIS METHOD, OF COURSE, - COMPOSITION IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT IT; BUT WHATEVER LIBERTIES HE MAY TAKE WITH NATURAL APPEARANCE, HOWEVER MUCH HE MAY ELIMINATE CERTAIN DETAILS AND REARRANGE OTHERS, THE ULTIMATE 

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