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Facs
I GROUP
1) a Rustic Couple Dancing (vital ecstasy)
[The Jubilee]
b. The painter's family
2) c French Comedy
(Les comédiens Francais)
(The comedian, later the harlekin, the
play asPierrot expression of vitality, refined [later tragic)]
W: Love in Italian comedy
3) d Breakfeast [sic.] by the River (Chicago)
Les Canotiers à Chatouse
(The union of nature and society: The discovery
of nature as life-power)
4) e Ruins of Egmont (Chicago)
Jacob. Edge of a Wood
(The power of nature itself. The tree and
the power of treehood)
5) f Argenteuil (Chicago)
Claude, Waterloo Bridge, London
(The positivistic stream of natureconsciousness in
the vision of the subject)
6) g Portrait of a Lady
Eleonora de Medici
(The meaning of the portrait. Expression
of the unique individuality)
7)h Mrs. Dyer (Chicago)
Portrait of Henry James
(The approximation to the photographic truth)
8) i St. Lazare (Chicago)
Unloading The cargo
(Technique not only tool but also creation.
Romanticism of technique)
Facs
II GROUP
j: Selfportrait. The end of a period. Tragic personality
9) k Stillife
The cosmic character of the still life in
o. "The metaphysics of the thing")
10) p Stillife
(Reduction to elements, but 2 dimensional
and in this sense symbolic)
11) q Cloud
Le Cidre
(Cosmic by destruction of the surface.
The demonic element, horror and fascination)
12) r Soothsayer's Recompense
Melancholy and mystery
of a street.
(The productions of the unconscious
(surrealistic combination of disrupted pieces of rea- lity
13) s Parallels
No definition, but more connotation
(Phantastic potentialities)
Heredity of
acquired charac- teristics
14) t Clowns
The metaphysics of the harlequin.
[melancholic and even tragic vitality
Circus trio
(continued)
Facs
II GROUP (continued) u
15)v Old Actress
(The problem of the expressionistic por-
trait: Similarity and expression)
16) x Three Musicians
y: The consoler
The question of the divinity of the
human face and its analysis.
17) z Guernica
The Protestant religious picture.
18) aa Geurnica (detail) "
19) ab Bridge
Elements of the technical tool as
cosmic forms
Facs
III GROUP
(Substance and form. But subjective piety
20) ac Pieta
The synthesis in ad.
St. Francis and
the birds
21) ae Birth of St. John
Over stressThe majesty of the human form.
Tribute money.
22) af Baptism of Christ Madonna with and child
The principle of immanence of the
infinite in the finite and the divinity of man
as the microcosm.
23) ag Madonna of the Chair
Colonna
Loss of religious significance in the
human relations.
24) ah Baptism of Christ
Magdalen
The "kitsch" and the modern churches
[25) ai Mannoha, Sacrifice
Intensive subjective piety]
aj: The Christ with the peasants.
Facs
Facs
IV GROUP
28)an Temptation of Saint Anthony
The demonic surrealism used
for the holy legend.
29) aq Saint Martin (Chicago)
The winding up from humanity to
the transcendent: Produced ecstasy.
30) ar Feast in the House of Simon (Chicago)
Christ, driving the traders from the temple
The same in a group. But the huma-
nistic basis remains (barock, counter-Reformation)
as: Daniel's dream, Subjective piety
31) at Prophet
The last supper
The attempt to use ecstatic expressionist forms
for the religious content.
32) aw Last Supper (Chicago) "
33) ay Evangelival Stillife
Symbols in disruption.
34) ba, Cruzifixion " "
bb: On the way to the Church
" Head of Christ.
[Is it as genuine as his harle- quins?]