His paintings were aglow with colors 

Alexei von Jawlensky moved to German at the age of 32, in 1896.  A year later, he met Kandinsky at Azbè's painting and drawing school in Munich.   Due to the previous training in St. Petersburg, Jawlensky was more advanced in his artistic skills then Kandinsky.  From the very beginning, his art was demonstrated mainly by colors rather than the quality of the lines, and his works were most emphatically paintings rather than drawings.

While he was in Munich, Jawlensky concentrated exclusively on motifs from his environment - landscapes, portraits and still-life.  He always endeavored to achieve a synthesis in his paintings between the original object and his own feelings.  In 1903, he discovered an artist whose work was a revelation to him.  Later, he wrote" The whole of French Art is a matter of seeing nature as beautiful.  But on the whole, this is not enough.  You have to create your own nature."  Under van Gogh's influence, Jawlensky's colors became even lighter, and he began to juxtapose them in pure, unmixed forms.  

In Paris, he went to see Matisse, whose art afforded him further proof that color could be autonomous, used as a compositional element independently of the object.  "My paintings were aglow with colors,"  Jawlensky commented in retrospect, "and so my soul was contented with them."  In his Still Life with Vase and Jug of 1909, the  simplified forms, the intensively vivid colors and decorative lines show very clearly that Jawlensky followed Matisse with this painting.  The above painting was done with a palette knife by Sanchia Lin at the oil painting workshop with Mr. Lee Kim.   Mr. Lee Kim is a graduate of UCLA, and worked as an industrial and technical artist.  Presently he teaches at El Camino College and Palos Verdes  Art Center.