In these earlyworks there is a lyricism, a tenderness of touch, of
surface, and content, while the more recent work of the same subject matter is tougher, sharper, bolder and more imposing materially, thus proposing another kind of youthfulness in older age though the
return to landscape or nature as a thematic seems
to bracket the period of cooler irony of Artschwager's most noted works, emerging in the
era of Pop Art and continuing through the
era of appropriation art.