Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk that was remarkably outspoken for the judgements it delivered on various schools of modern painting criticism, Shahn stated that the value of man resides in his conscious mastery of life, in intellect and humanity at its highest peak. He felt symbolism went too far in the direction of automaticism where the artist loses control to his subconscious and amorphous mind...
Shahn was more interested in the conscious ideas of the artist and in what he was trying to express; the love of people and things in Van Gogh's work for example, rather than the artist's insanity...
...tracing his own development as an artist Shahn revealed his struggle to make his art not only "professional looking" but also identified with his inner self. He indicated that he worked through socially conscious art, which was his first real identification with his inner self, to a deeper source of meaning in art that was less transient. This was personal realism, as he called...
...Obin was concerned with a simple environment and was not very articuate or self conscious about his art. This led Rodman back to the U.S. and Ben Shahn whom he felt in his work answered the questions "How can the popular artist be reconciled with the long history of art? And how can the knowing modernist achieve the primitive's rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell...
...Vino. In Manhattan, after a prosecution expert argued that the two defendants could not each have downed the equivalent of two fifths of whisky in 18 hours and remained conscious, 260-lb. Defense Lawyer Edward Bobick boozed through two fifths of Scotch in 15 hr. 53 min., stood unassisted in court less than an hour later, solemnly introduced the empties as evidence...