Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just spread it on a piece of bread...
Prague, abustle with material reconstruction and cultural renaissance, was a mirror of the nation. Life was still conditioned by shortages-in everything from bread to books. But Prague, like most of the country, had escaped with relatively light war damage. It was heady with vitality...
...just did not care what became of Massaua's flea-bitten port, or of sun-baked Leros, or of Venezia Giulia's ragged purple mountains, or of dusty Kalgan, or of the fog-soaked Kurils. What the people did care about was tomorrow's bread or hunger, day-after-tomorrow's peace...
Good-humoredly he describes why he "had to" paint his first abstraction. He set out to make a picture of two house painters in white overalls eating white-bread sandwiches next to cans of white paint against a white wall. "The thing that spoiled it was the natural color of the [painters'] hands and faces." he writes. "When I ... painted the hands and faces white also, that was even more disturbing." His final solution "was to leave out the hands and faces, and the painters, and there I was-abstract as hell...
...last morning, as they gathered for Communion at a bare table, a loaf of bread was passed around for each to break, an earthen Communion cup for all to drink from. The final prayer of the "hungry men" of Kirkridge: that they might achieve "a new, hardbitten, humble dedication to neglected but crucial tasks...