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Hodgkins was familiar with the ideas behind Surrealism and Cubism from her many visits to France. While Cubism in its various forms experimented with the depiction of forms in space, Surrealism focused in part on a search for a language that gives form to an inner life that can only be evoked, never described. Hodgkins creates similar effects in Pastorale -the buildings loom above a stream, which also seems to rise upright, in an organic form.