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EMOTIONAL ELEMENTS IN MODERN ART. (Charles R. Hulbeck) There is a marked contrast between the symbolism in modern art and in older works of art. Modern paintings symbolize feelings of rage, hostility, strife, loneliness, and the element of ugliness and desolation. Older paintings symbolize feelings of love, tenderness, and affection. These changes reflect changes in the culture, changes in the artist's attitude toward the culture, and changes in the cultural attitude toward the artist.
Each painting also symbolizes the artist's own attitudes toward his individual conflicts and toward his conflicts with the environment. We see reflected in his work solutions of conflict within himself, and we may even see changes in these solutions from time to time.
SELF HATE AND HUMAN RELATIONS. (Karen Horney) We have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves when we fail to aspire to or do not achieve our potentialities as a human being. Healthy dissatisfaction leads to constructive action. However, when our claims for ourselves are irrational, we have contempt for our real achievements and succumb to destructive