“In technique, integral art approaches perfection. Figures no longer are portrayed frontally. Statues come to life. The means of execution remain moderate but are used to marvelous effect. Though visual in form, the art continues, in the ideational tradition, to ignore the vulgar, the debasing, the ugly, the immoral, the eccentric. If something base appears in a work, it does so only to serve as a contrast to exalted ideals. Commonplace people, landscapes, and scenery, the petty events of daily life are relegated to the background, if they are included at all” (B.G. Brander, Staring Into Chaos, p. 270).
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