In the 1960s he began employing brighter colors and scraping down entire canvases rather than working on top of previous attempts, thus beginning the entire image afresh at each session and often spending months or years on a single painting. (getty.edu)
Contorted, distorted, and fantastic bodies appear alone or with others in surreal environments and confrontational situations; nudes lay exposed while others appear in costume; faces haunt entire canvases and bodies exist compressed in tight spaces. (michaelrosenfeldart.com)
Things improved during the 16th century, as Joachim Patenier (Journey Into the Underworld 1522), Albrecht Altdorfer (Landscape with Footbridge 1520), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Hunters in the Snow 1565) and others, began to devote entire canvases to landscape scenes. (visual-arts-cork.com)