Though many artists work hard to
master pictorial composition and even harder to learn to represent the world's outward appearances, this effort is for naught, Friedrich believes, unless it is guided by one's «spiritual eye.»
By this time, Vigas had created such signature early pictures as Composición IV (
Composition IV, oil on cardboard, 1944), with its melding of abstract forms, layered Cubist
pictorial space and a palette recalling that of Old
Master canvases.