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Modern Science makes us see the universe, ourselves, our lives in new ways. It widens infinitely. The artist must find form expression for it; art must produce a new style for that age, which is coming. 
[[red underlined]] nov 27 #14 [[/underlined]] scraped, re-oiled w. poppy, I painted it thinly over to correct color values & hues, to model form. No oil. IW; RM; CadII & Or; Cer; Ul; Blox; and I got at least a satisfactory total valeur; smooth; [[underlined]] Observation [[/underlined]]. This adds more oil paint; I intend to finish it with pure spectrum paints while still tackey but having added much IW in white places, other colors will dry quicker hence an uneven slate of dryness. Anyway: [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] since such preparation in true color and values not only favors the correct judgement of final color, of pictorial tones and the exactness of [[underlined]] form [[/underlined]] and its color, in final pure strokes (color-drawing), it seems better to adopt the tempera method for underpainting. 
Naturalistic relative light-imitation by [[underlined]] adding white [[/underlined]] paint to even the pure colors [[underlined]] sacrifices the strength [[/underlined]] of beautiful [[underlined]] paint as true [[/underlined]] color. In overpainting it I will try to use less whitened color and white or whitened pale tints of color between. Spectrum red is quite lifeless if mixed with only a little white or orange. It requires a bluegreen or greenblue sky (vir + cerul). There is 
a) hardness of good color as red-blue and
b) sweetness of good color as red-greenblue.
On [[underlined]] "Individualism" [[/underlined]]. There was non, as we understand it, in former classical times, Greek, Roman, ital Renaiss, Egypt, etc. If a Culturepoche, its artists and its population, rich and poor, [[underlined]] agree [[/underlined]] on the merits and aspirations of the entire social and theoretical fabric, then its expression in art is also agreed on and it is a question 
                         [[in pencil]] (125 [[/in pencil]]

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For the "I" in IW, compared it to the I in "In overpainting..." later in the page to decide it was definitely "I".