... , which are the main subject matters of this artwork. Painting 1977 shows a pale man with red eyes walking down a path in a harsh environment, the mountains and buildings in the background smothered in scorching red and orange flames. The mysterious man is surrounded by darkness, and the town is shrouded by shadows and smoke. The man walks alone, isolated from society and attempting to retreat ... the disorder of the world. A sense of movement is present within Painting 1977, with the use of swirled lines giving the effect of smoke and darkness drifting aimlessly throughout the disrupted...

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... experiences, he has learned how shallow the use of these words was. Indeed, early in his enlistment, Baumer comprehends that although authority figures taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. But for all that, we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards--they were very free ... him. At once a new warmth flows through me. These voices, these quiet words ... behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which I had been almost destroyed. They are more to me than life these voices, they a...

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