I heard that Theophilos was an uneducated painter! However, by carefully observing some of his "rural character" paintings, especially focusing on how Theophilos chooses the subject, characterizes it, perceives it, captures it, and works on it in his mind, I can say that this light-shadowed wanderer, the tormented, the madman, as they called him, had a structured thinking and penetrating gaze.