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During his stay in Moscow, Uitz was acquainted with Russian constructivism and old icon art. Like Malevitsch and Tatlin, he studied the esthetics of medieval icon art and tried to rephrase it for himself. The picture is not the analyis of one particular icon, other works of his in this kind are not either, but a subjective expressive-constructive icon transcripion. Three little circles in the upper part of the picture symbolize deity, black-white-brown geometrical forms in the centre of the picture indicate two figures facing each other. The rhythm of the triangle and circles gives the composition dynamy and the density of painted areas gives the brushwork. Material, form, colours, power and areas dominate the transcendental quality of icons. Uitz' activity in Vienna in 1922 was determined by the influence of Rodchenkow.
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