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the spirit of the New Reich coming out of the box for the goggle-eyed
caricature of his friend.
The painting "looks like" the Quattrocento, but one
will
search in
vain for an internal vitality such as the Italian masters produced through-
out their struggle with the shapes of their new expression. You have
found no need for any attack
in
this direction. You have half-digested
the old aesthetic devices, and that is all you think necessary. It is not
strange, therefore, that your painting should be plastically dumb; that
what it says could have been put more succinctly into a written para-
graph. Perhaps it was your aim to express the essence of the fascist
corpse; but this is being done as blatantly today in every academy in
the world.
GEORGE
L. K.
MORRIS
