Uri Zvi Greenberg said, after a visit to the exhibition, that Zaritsky's work encompasses a different kind of painting which does not reflect " the literality of illustrative art toward the literary subject, " the exotic imagery of the Land of Israel, " which drags Arabs from the shuk and their donkeys, by the ears, to the olive press . " The atmosphere in the painting Greenberg described as " the stillness of colors " and " the holding of one's breath . " Even the red curtain, " Greenberg writes, " which in his paintings reminds us of the abstraction of Kandinsky, even this red is restrained, and its judgment as red becomes just a matter of a wintry sunset ."
