Piccinelli began the composition of this work on paper by positioning the black square and the orange rectangle. A bit like a jazz band first defining the basic rhythm of the piece they are about to play. The black trace is made with a brush and India ink. This improvised sign connects the left and the right of the composition. Piccinelli likes to evoke the notions of closure and openness; security and creative adventure; interior and exterior..."...The massive forms; drawn to the right by an area saturated with black; contrast with the lightness and rapidity of the gesture whose spontaneity; paradoxically well-honed; as if attenuated by repetition (the first Elegies date from 1948 ); is betrayed by the splatter. Motherwell constantly seeks a balance between accident and control; between emotion and self-control; between fluidity and structure."

Robert Motherwell

Elegy Study A; 1977