Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision of the older generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind of high - seriousness and
obdurate self - belief often found with other painters working «after the fall.»
These give us some insight into the crises of the
self which make the person's psychic dynamic secretive and
obdurate and lead him into the actual decision to evil.
adamant, adamantine, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, inflexible, mulish,
obdurate, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid,
self - willed, stubborn, unbending, unyielding;