It was definitely not agrarian, but it was often chosen because it provided greater family stability than did the grinding work and
unceasing uncertainty of subsistence agriculture.
He gains a sense of inherent classicism and security from using familiar symbols, yet only with
unceasing concentration and focus can a painter's style be used as a tool to give form to abstract reflection, and that still requiring a callous inhibition of ever ‐ present, hovering
uncertainty.