ABSTRACT
This chapter examines distortion as a means to approach individual creativity: the apparent randomness of imagination as something new comes into being. Also as means to approach social interaction: how the individual, with his or her creative vision and distinct embodiment, might relate to a social and cultural environment. Stanley Spencer was the star of a brilliant generation of British art students that attended the Slade School of Art, in London, in the early 1900s. In 1932, marking this growing reputation, Spencer had been elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy for Arts, in London. A relatively well-known figure in the national consciousness by now, Spencer's dispute with the Royal Academy reached the newspapers. Stanley imagines the private lives of the nearest couple in Contemplation, from their wedding to their everyday domestic routines: All their life and all the varied moments of their days, he is moved by her, because of his sexual union with her.
