... almost like oil-stained water--and very much like the art of early masters of oil painting who worked in Holland, Flanders and Germany, such as Martin Schongauer, Quentin Massys and Hieronymus Bosch. He also used hundreds of brushes, some of which--because of his obsession with detail--consisted of a ... late middle age, sadly inspecting her reflection in a mirror and mourning the loss of her youthful good looks. This message lay very much at the heart of Ivan Albright's paintings, as it did in the work of early Dutch artists where subjects often focused on the shortness of life of all...

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