Phaeton by the canteen 1916

Niko Pirosmani made "Phaeton by the canteen" with oil on oilcloth, but when it was made, well, nobody knows for sure. It's clear that Pirosmani wasn't too fussed about the nitty-gritty details of painting. He's more interested in getting the feeling of the scene down, you know? The paint is laid on real thin, almost like a stain, and the dark colors give everything a somber, kind of haunted vibe. The way he paints those horses is just fantastic. They're these big, blocky shapes, but they're full of this raw energy, their legs planted firmly in the ground. You can practically hear them snorting. And then you have the waiter, looking like he's stepped straight out of a folk tale. It's like he's caught between worlds, offering us something, but we're not quite sure what. Pirosmani, like Henri Rousseau, had this incredible way of seeing the world with fresh eyes, and like both of them, didn't bother too much with conventional technique.