Drip painting work of the mid-twentieth-century artists Janet Sobel and Jackson Pollock. Pollock found drip painting to his liking; later using the technique almost exclusively, he would make use of such unconventional tools as sticks, hardened brushes and even basting syringes to create large and energetic abstract works. Pollock used house or industrial paint to create his paintings—Pollock's wife Lee Krasner described his palette as "typically a can or two of … enamel, thinned to the point he wanted it, standing on the floor besides the rolled-out canvas" and that Pollock used Duco or Davoe and Reynolds brands of house paint. House
Themes in Italian Renaissance painting These four famous paintings demonstrate the advent and acceptance of the nude as a subject for the artist in its own right. Paintings of classical mythology were invariably done for the important salons in the houses of private patrons. Botticelli's most famous works are for the Medici, Raphael painted "Galatea" for Agostino Chigi and Bellini's "Feast of the Gods" was, with several works by Titian, in the home of Alfonso I d'Este Themes in Italian Renaissance painting This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it