It is
even more
painful when one focuses solely on a particular
aspect of Albania, picking sound bites from the news, taking pictures of a poor neighbourhood, or from crisis of the past century, and claiming to grasp how Albanian society is and how it is to live in Albania.
For Maurer the departure from Paris was
painful, but he continued to increase his mastery of modernism, assimilating
aspects of cubism and
even venturing into abstraction at a time when such developments were anathema to popular opinion in the United States.