Scenes from everyday life enabled Berni to widen the genre of portrait. The setting surrounding figures allowed him to elaborate interiors as well as external views, where he introduced the genres of cheap taverns and landscape. Frequently, large compositions such as Primeros pasos, Sol de domingo or La siesta, seem to be built through the juxtaposition of harmoniously mounted fragments. This composition system, which derives from the collage that Berni practiced during his surrealist period, makes you feel that every represented element is alien respect everything surrounding it, emphasizing its particular individual existence, in a diaphanous but metaphysically rooted atmosphere, a one learned from Giorgio de Chirico. Quoting of classic painting repeat in Domingo en la chacra –an evident allusion to the Christian subject in The Last Supper– and in other works featuring The Holy Family or La virgen y el niño.