Original artwork description:

This is an original oil painting, on a natural brown canvas stretched onto board, sealed, primed and painted with the highest quality oil paints.

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Materials used:

oil paints (Rembrandt, W&N, Old Holland), Brushes (hogs hair, sable)

Tags:

#seeking light #oil painting #impressionist #alla prima #naked man #symbolism #impressionism art #nude male #symbolic #climbing #vintage frame #nietzsche