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 | | Petter painted large opulent still lifes for Viennese homes which provided him with a regular income; but it was his small-scale studies of flowers and fruit that established his lasting reputation for their meticulous craftsmanship, compositional clarity, and sense of simplicity and intimacy. |
 | | Void can be seen as the archetype of the Great War landscapes: not a soldier to be seen, abandoned lorries and guns, flooded trenches, a limp corpse among the shells and rifles, smoke and, in the distance a plane, either dropping bombs or falling to the ground, we cannot tell. |
 | | This latter section can be read as a reworking of the Nativity, with a mystical Joseph and the Virgin Mary leaning over a `regenerative' ball of energy or a whirlwind of creation, while the infant Jesus himself tumbles down the steps that cut across the right corner. |
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