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This painting is a brilliant example of Varriano’s “Crystalism,” and a penetrating psychological exposé into the interaction between artist and model.

Of great interest is that the connection we feel between the two is not so much a result of the facial expressions or physical interaction of the bodies but the intense interactions of the forms and spaces. One of the profound mysteries of visual art is that science (in this instance psychology), almost exclusively defined within the realm of words, can be penetrated abstractly by this subtle manipulation of form and space.