An essay about modern art criticism, criticizing intellectuals who promote "the ugliness, the nullity, the stupidity of modern painting" at the expense of "serious, clear, virile, powerful painting"; asserting that these critics champion "pseudo-painting" in order to "mask and camouflage their own inability" because "they are afraid of the appearance of a painting that, to be observed, admired, estimated, and bought does not need the help of anyone's speech, of pseudo-intelligent chatter, of all that empty, pretentious, hysterical, and most of all, immensely stupid, in certain cases even phony and hypocritically lyric, passionate and sentimental rhetoric"; and decrying critics' obsession with "primitives."