[346] 2) Kadinsky^a: COMPOSITION--I can tell you of myself that long ago, in Western Germany^b where Kandinsky often was, I was sitting in a house which has an original by Kandinsky, and first I had a feeling, ''Now what can I do with this?''(--this should be in colors, by the way--) but slowly something happened to me when I was sitting there, again and again, and looking at it, the same which I said before, namely that out of the possibilities of nature^c, human mind^d discovers elements which as such do not appear, but which give you a new feeling for cosmic reality, for the reality of the universe in terms of lines and colors.

3) BREAKFAST--Leger^e--Leger has a very interesting character and has become more and more known and important in modern art^f. What he actually has done is that he takes the cubes^g and other instruments of modern industrial machine^h production and uses them as the fundamental elements in order to indicate not only inorganic nature but also human beings and other organic nature. In this way a kind of uncanny feeling of man constructed out of elements of the machine comes into the picture, and I will come back to this when, from Thursday on, I will use this modern

art to introduce you to my analysis of our genuine situation with respect to religion and cultureⁱ, without dealing then with a very special subject, just because art^j, on the basis of its expressive^k power, can show us more, perhaps, than external, sociological ^lor historical^m description are able to do. 4) Picassoⁿ, GUERNICA--Here we come to a picture which from the beginning was extremely controversial and which has now become almost a classic. It is Picasso's Guernica, this little village in northern Spain which was bombed by the Fascis^ot countries before the beginning of the