about it i don't think so you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition have. good about and do the german a song this is the tradition in which basel it sees himself as a painter. the fourth george to the accusation of being german you have to see how you cope with that you have to ask what sort of defense you can make as that's what i did was just ask what does german painting look like. and i began where one does begin with doer and chrono in comparison with their contemporaries in italy france or england and here german painting does stand out and it stands out because it is ugly or than the others it is ugly for very definite reasons it doesn't operate on a life size scale things are reduced so there's a particular form of obstruction people are mostly placed in landscapes where they