Not ornament but a feeling of rhythm, not a new world of feeling but, rather,
an altogether new and direct form of representation of the world of feeling.
The square changes and creates new forms, the elements of which can be classified
in one way or another depending upon the feeling which gave rise to them.
And so there the new nonobjective art stands -- the expression of pure feeling,
seeking no practical values, no ideas, no "promised land"...
Our life is a theater piece, in which the nonobjective feeling
is portrayed by objective imagery.
A bishop is nothing but an actor who seeks with words and gestures,
on an appropriately "dressed" stage, to convey a religious feeling,
or rather the reflection of a feeling in religious form.
The office clerk, the blacksmith, the soldier, the accountant, the general...
these are all characters out of one stage play or another, portrayed by various people,
who become so carried away that they confuse the play and their parts in it with life itself.
We almost never get to see the actual human face and if we ask someone who he is,
he answers, "an engineer", "a farmer", etc., or , in other words,
he gives the title of the role played by him in one or another effective drama.
The title of the role is also set down next to his full name, and certified in his passport,
thus removing any doubt concerning the surprising fact that the owner of the passport
is the engineer Ivan and not the painter Kasimir.
In the last analysis, what each individual knows abut himself is precious little,
because the "actual human face" cannot be discerned behind the mask,
which is mistaken for the "human face".
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