ratak-monodosico:

Sir Edward John Poynter, Catapult, 1868

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Tom Ellis. The Dogs, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 264 x 374 cm.

cavetocanvas:

Painting - Willem de Kooning, 1948

From MoMA:

De Kooning used oil and enamel sign paint to make this work. With tracing paper he transferred segments of figurative drawings to the canvas, then applied layers of paint. “Even abstract shapes must have a likeness,” he said, and these black forms bounded by white vaguely resemble human figures and inanimate objects. The paint drips, bleeds, congeals, and dissolves into delicate streaks, resulting in a densely packed painting composed with a great economy of means.