[347] Second World War,^a as an exercise for their military airplanes! The horrors were incredible, the whole little town was destroyed, and the expression of this horror is given in the disruptedness [sic.] of all the elements of the reality which are shown here—inorganic elements, human forces in horror, animals, etc. In one of my utterances, or sometimes in lectures, I have said this is the most Protestant picture-- which does not mean that exhausts Protestantism^b—but when I said that, I meant that the Protestant

attitude, which ALWAYS sees the disruptedness [sic.] and estrangement of reality, is most powerfully expressed in this, and that if there Will be, from now on, POSITIVE Protestant expressions, they should not [be] beautiful reality any more but should show where they—and I will show you that later on, for instance, in Christ pictures, that the disruptedness [sic.] IS REALITY, but is overcome in itself not by a beautifying naturalism, but by an understanding of the depth of the problems. And in this sense this picture has a very profound meaning for the understanding of man’s situation in the world-- it is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is acknowledged now as one of the most important expressions of our world in the modern period.

5) Rouault^c, CIRCUS TRIO--You remember what I said in the very beginning last hour, when we came to the first harlequins in the French opera by Watteau^d, that the unity of joy and tragedy was expressed in them, and that the preference of modern art^e for Pierrots, harlequins and figures like this, is in itself an expression of the tragic feeling especially in those figures which are supposed to express the joie de vivre, the joy of living.