It introduced him to the expressive possibilities of modernism.

A restless experimentor, he would throw pots off-centre or upside down, sometimes dropping newly thrown pots on the floor to find in their crushed shapes new expressive possibilities.

And the gradual abandonment of baroque control in the eighteenth century allowed further expressive possibilities to emerge.

He then set about an exploration of the expressive possibilities of the human anatomy.

He worked to release new expressive possibilities from oil colours and in this way further emphasized the luminous power and depth of the picture plane.