Flach, Victor H. Jr2023-05-292023-05-291957-01https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2832726 pagesI take my motivation for the M.F.A. degree to be the Opportunity it provides rather than the M. or the F.A.: the Opportunity to pursue my personal Growing by continuing the original studies and development of the particular Programming begun about six years ago in collaboration with my professor and adviser Mr. Jack Wilkinson. In taking the consequences of such Programming, there is a natural and necessary manifestation or Expression of itself by the individual persons in some meaningful and communicating Form; "I merely apply the System”---Georges Seurat. I find myself situated in the uniquely Temporal Culture of the 20th Century with an aptitude for the two particularly temporal media—the instantaneous Visual and the simultaneous Mnemonic: which convention calls Painting and Writing. My Wholehearted Involvement in this situation does not in any way preclude preliminary or periodic Expression thru both these media in terms of their maximum Differentiation as the means for determining basic Potentials and Appropriatenesses of Expression; but the natural disposition to Synthesis tends in the longrun to produce a new Expression which is much more Comprehensive in intent and interest, including as it does, not only both visual and literary insights, but also tactile and kinetic factors to compose s whole world complete in its context where nothing is left out.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USBethel District, North Barger DriveClear Lake Elementary SchoolThesis / Dissertation