“The early 1950s was a time of transition in Baziotes’ life…Rothko, Gottlieb, Pollock and Motherwell ventured far from Baziotes aesthetically, choosing gesture and surface manipulation to create expressive form, while Baziotes continued to employ concrete images as a point of departure…he saw dioramas, specimens and illustrations of a myriad of prehistoric sea creatures. In his imagination, he understood the essential energy of nature in its primordial form. ”