Human movement holds an important place in Ernie Barnes' work. With his bravura technique, his artistic finesse, his elongation and distortion, his fine disregard for the confinements of anatomy, his dismissal of classical spatial relationships, he allows those who take audience to his paintings to have a lived experience. His use of the "analyzed moment," which is essentially a study in delayed motion, suggest and even demands a future form. With his masterly command of line and composition, Barnes portrays the human body with a dimension of palpability unknown in the art world of the last century.