Just as you wouldn't setup for a max effort barbell lift without first prepping and lubricating joints, increasing tissue temperature and activating active musculature, an athlete should not move into sport specific movement without taking care of the protective
preparatory work first.
In his
preparatory studies and
works on paper, Fischl's brushwork can be absorbing, but in his big pictures it is usually only serviceable and sturdy; and as for his visual constructs, they
work just fine when serviceable and sturdy, but he seems to like them enough to draw attention to them with multipanel contraptions and exaggerated perspectival surprises.