The priest's cross depicts the crucified Christ, whether in painted form as an icon, or in relief.
The lights can seem to add insult to injury, turning each painted form into a kind of pedestal, while also suggesting strange alarm boxes or other industrial elements.
Several more recent pictures unite painted forms and objects in what could be Minimalist "combines."
The 1968 February issue of Evergreen Review, featured Che's image in a painted form by Paul Davis.
Lockwood also documents that Sheraton enjoyed using a painted form of the lyre on furniture elements as decoration.
He believes that the eye can become distracted by the detail one might include in a sculpted or painted form.
There are other painted forms of ominousness as well: a broken chain-link fence or, in the center of one plate, a drain.
Whether or not it implies the outstretched arms of a pianist, the collage serves to animate and unify the painted forms.
In effect, this is suffering in painted form, which was a novelty - previously only noble deaths were painted.
He continued to draw inspiration from music and attempted to capture works of great composers such as Beethoven in painted form.