His surrealistic artistic experience makes him brother to Paul Klee and Victor Brauner. But his images are symbolic their naivete has a genuine popular essence expressed in a subtly metamorphosed conventionalized style. Briss''s choice and use of colors are remarkable. As inventive as it is nuanced and captivating, it evokes the tones of enamels, bisque-fired pottery, and the sober luminosity of the primitives. Briss''s painting is one of myth and memory rooted in the web of time - in other words, in universal "childhood".