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(1) Louis Aragon, Commune Magazine (May 1935)

John Heartfield is one of those who expressed the strongest doubts about painting, especially its technical aspects.

He is one of those who recognized the historical evanescence of that kind of oil-painting which has only been in existence for a few centuries and seems to us to be painting per se, but which can abdicate at any time to a technique which is new and more in accord with contemporary life, with mankind today.

As we know, Cubism was a reaction of painters to the invention of photography.

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The photograph and the cinema made it seem childish to them to strive for verisimilitude. By means of these new technical accomplishments they created a conception of art which led some to attack naturalism and others to a new definition of reality.

With Leger it led to decorative art, with Mondrian to abstraction, with Picabia to the organization of mundane evening entertainment.

But toward the end