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2 underlined subordinate to form and that lines are means of expression to a certain extent. He shows his ability to strike a cord in colors, whose originality is unquestionable.I only wish to mention “The Crucifixion” where he has in beautiful lines and touching simplicity painted the well known story of Christ from Gethsemane to the entombment. It is a masterpiece , which brings back to you the odor of religions poetry and purity. It enforces that claim to admiration which is so difficult to express in words. The physiological atmosphere, wherein his figures are moving; maybe the element of melancholy . Let us look for instance at the great triptychon “Misery”where the composition entirely depends on lines fo color.The results are sorrow and gloom. The artist points distinctly out how every phase in life every little change on its surface, a fleeting shadow,a pure line, gives him sensation from hidden sources. The same can be said about the creation. Every thought which such a work imparts, belongs to the work and is one of its merits. And the nature so the art can only show us what we are able to apprehend with our spiritual insight. Everything comes in a certain respect from ourselves.The artist possessing the creative power shows us as in a looking glass the works of his genius reflecting life itself, but translated from his standpoint. Our own conception of any special art depends upon the standpoint of our own conception, and he applies it on his paintings as well as in his etchings. His works are works of poetry, sometimes melancholy always grand. He digs deep in life, but shows it always in poetical garments.