Executed on an exterior wall at street level and featuring twice-life-size figures, the mural was intended to be temporary, but its commanding composition and skillful depiction prompted renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros who was then the head of Mexico's department for the protection and restoration of murals to advocate that it be preserved.
The naive elements in his style are belied by strong compositions and skillful drawing.
"Gebo" doesn't aim for the transcendent shock that concludes "A Talking Picture" or the mischievous coup de cinéma in "The Strange Case of Angelica". It is quieter, more compact and less thematically ambitious than those — an intriguing minor composition by a shrewd and skillful master of the art.
High professionalism, delicate coloration, and a skillful narrative instinct are apparent in this sweeping composition.
They helped spur the composition of his "Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve," a skillful and attractive choral setting of traditional Friday-night prayers in a florid, polyphonic style.
In addition there are integral elements of the later, more developed Pskovian icon style: a classical monumentality, a skillful use of intense colour, and a strong rhythmic quality of composition, all of which distinguish it from Novgorod's more prosaic, anecdotal art.
Seen as a whole, her compositions are impressive for the obvious application of highly skillful techniques, but then something peculiar happens: Portions of the artwork start to produce different recognisable forms, which then might fade as other previously unseen images emerge.
However, a problem also arises that well-trained skillful developers are always needed and the development cost increases for component reorganization and composition.
In his woozily distorted Cubist portraits and collages, made by assembling scores of snapshots into one faceted composition, he seems desperate to show he can be more than just a skillful realist: he can be an adventurously versatile modernist.
