reflects a move away from religious art in its purest form to embrace a celebration of life and cultivate a sense of belonging to a community, with close ties and traditions. The line of movement plays an important role. Dance, theater and carnival are important themes in the suite 'ode to life'. Special influences in this discovery phase are Maurice Béjart and Jeanne Brabants, contacts with the operas in Paris and London. The 'Lutander'-series: 2000 years of history, here the artist makes one think about very contemporary themes. Man and his beast and his god; his angel and his devil, his selfishness and need, his desire for renewal and self-affirmation, his life through destruction and his destruction through multiplication. These are all themes which reflect inner struggles, coming terms with the past, embracing new identities and new power relationships in a society that is changing at an almost breathless pace. Power, greed for money, environment, people are destroying themselves. His quest for new things, for renewal, but mainly the fact that through the way of life one destroys oneself. 'Petruliër'-series or the individual awareness which follows the Enlightenment: a series of paintings that translate themes from antiquity into the modern context. The male-female relationship is presented as an unstable relationship in contrast with the more traditional relationships of the past. Gender relations are depicted as power relations as part of a coercive hierarchy. The paintings depict a more enlightened vision of the woman, moving away from powerless innocent figures (quiet, obedient, accommodating) to more powerful figures. 'Decorith'-series is an indictment of the power struggle of the emancipation movement, which is interwoven throughout this series. Gender roles which tend to perpetuate the power inequalities that they are based on are transformed in this series. Gender shapes how the artist understands the concept of power relationships, and his works represent the struggle to supplant hierarchical and traditional power relationships which he inherently sees as reflecting a male bias. "Licrobert-Hil-Climi" suite, from emancipation to liberation; his work displays a degree of individualism in women, centered on the ability of women to demonstrate and maintain their equality through their own actions and choices. In addition to the tempera technique, fresco was his favourite technique. Many subjects such as the lace workers, landscapes, animals and intimate subjects were developed using this technique. In his final period, Luc-Peter Crombé would work through the drawings that had