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Four paintings supporting Brooks' precise mode of expression with particular depth are Casper, 1973 which is composed primarily of large bold curved forms of black, white and luminous orange; Mardon, 1973, with large cool grey areas, its transparency developing from the black underpainting over which is a pyramidal white straight line contrasting with a fleeting, gusting, restless calligraphic black line at the top of the painting extending into a white area; Himble, 1973 has very lively interwoven curvilinear red forms against a dark green background with two thrusting black lines and was painted on a dark black-green ground much as the Venetians painted on a red-earth ground using a mixture of tempera white and oil white for glazing; Fonteel, 1974, is a black and white painting worked on a black ground with a haphazard placement of white shapes.  A black wash over the white produces a warm grey and thin white wash of paint over a black area produces a cook grey.  This last painting is a resolute statement.