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Basfi painted the ephemeral quality of light into his pictures, and as we look at them, they seem to flare up again into brightness just as they are on the point of fading into darkness. They are like those faint sounds whose presence makes the silence audible. By delicately differentiating itself from emptiness, painting can fight against its own disappearance. The soft and delicate colors given by the oil on canvas bring out the light with his characteristic shapes