The findings help us understand one of our more mysterious senses. (sciencenews.org)
Like another partially nude figure with his face covered by the T - shirt he's raising over his shoulders, this reclining figure implicates the viewer in a voyeuristic role complicated by the figures» mysterious sense of psychological distance and removal. (artsatl.com)
That is to say, expressionism had the power to communicate forcefully the images and the feeling of the artist; therefore, the great German expressionists, such as Emil Nolde, whose «Head of a Prophet» is one of the most powerful statements of the haunting and mysterious sense for Christ of modern art, evoke in us a response that is not the response of immediate and instant recognition. (religion-online.org)