Today we want to introduce you to Mathieu Laca  @mathieulaca – a Montreal artist who creates “delightfully terrible” oil paintings that violate the conventions of traditional portraiture. Most of his recent works are devoted to various historical figures in the fields of art, literature, philosophy and science. Whether he paints the face of Vincent van Gogh, Franz Kafka or Frida Kahlo, there are always dense layers of distortion, their heads dissolving into impassive rocks and splashes of paint.