Transparency

The lightness is obvious, as if the canvases and colours together with the protagonists of the picture appear lucid and schematic. No tangible contours and outlines, even the dark shades possess transparency. Individual portraits or figures appear on the mostly light background of the pictures like blurred, dynamic-harmonious compositions. This fact, however, does not alter the strong presence of the faces portrayed. Often dark-edged, large eyes convey an expression of the inner life through the gaze and are reminiscent of the well-known Fayum portraits, in which the emphatically large, speaking eyes were depicted as "mirrors of the soul".