As he elaborates on their similarities and differences in accordance with his rejection
of residual European influences in favor
of the new application
of fabricated objects and industrial products, we realize that his argument is part
of his greater advocacy for the works
of the artists
of his generation (
similar to what Clement Greenberg wrote a decade earlier in 1956, in his equally significant essay, «American -
Type Painting»), and further deriving from his own artistic output at the time.
The dynamic asymetry with the figures in the foreground all staring fixedly at a point out
of our sight recalls his other great
painting The Men
of the South, which displayed
similar types and stances.