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Like the one who, from the last hill,
which shows him the entire valley once more -
turns around, stops, and lingers ...
that’s how we live, always in farewell.

Octavia Elegia.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Something is expressed when we recognize beneath what is seen that which moved the material. Expression is the first thing perceived, it comes before the material. Ex-pression, it’s what comes out under pressure, when something presses from within. Pictorial expression is the visible form of a feeling or state that the viewer recognizes when looking at a painting.
Something internal is revealed and …