Primitive Romanticist

"Eilshemius cannot be called a “primitive” although his works show a “self taught” quality – Like the primitives, he cares for an elaborate technique which fortunately, he never achieves. In his paintings, built on a defiant drawing, never a doubt, never fear even bare complete innocence. Out of time, landscapes as well as figures are foreign to any surrounding influence for do they describe the period he lived in – naturalistic in appearance and treatment his conception interprets a purely poe…