Patrick Piccinelli is a big fan of Franz Schubert; especially his work "Die Winterreise". Going through winter is like a journey for the painter. It's a harsh season but also sublime with its lights and its shades of blue and gray. Piccinelli worked a lot on this canvas; (see the video showing the multiple stages of the process) and it was only at the last moment that he put this orange trace heralding spring!"My work is the product of my intelligence and my pain" used to say Franz Schubert. Sorrows which were the source of 605 lieder whose communicative force resided in the narrative and in this "true climate of the soul" that is the Stimmung. Schubert in these lieder illustrated the words of the poem less than he absorbed them; increasing their intense expressiveness. The Winter Journey is the last great cycle of lieder composed; a year before his death; by Franz Schubert on 24 poems by Wilhelm Muller.