The estrangement and despair of human existence is powerfully presented. This painting has a style that is for Tillich profoundly religious. Del Prado Museum, Madrid. This work is strongly symbolic and not naturalistic. Here the artist tries to use some elements of the encountered world in order to go beyond the surface into the depths of the phenomenon of time.
Time is a river without edges.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Tillich says to notice the element of the fantastic. The forms are taken out of the possibility of natural relationships. Level Two is the existential level. We are aware of our finitude, and also of our belonging to the infinite and being excluded from the infinite.