Never look uneducated at a Renaissance gathering again:
“If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it’s El Greco.”
Tags: art, artists, renaissance, true stories
Never look uneducated at a Renaissance gathering again:
“If everything is highly-contrasted and sharp, sort of bluish, and everyone has gaunt bearded faces, it’s El Greco.”
Tags: art, artists, renaissance, true stories
“If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck.” hahahahahahahaa
Hahaha I actually have that exact one copied and ready to paste ’cause I was coming over here to post it. I cracked up!
It is so, so true, which is what’s so remarkable.
I think we need a story of Putin figuring out time travel and secretly traveling back to the Netherlands to inspire van Eyck. Must include cross-dressing.
13th Doctor?
The Bosch one could be abbreviated to: “If the paintings have lots of little people in them but also have a ton of crazy bullshit, it’s Bosch.” The little people are superfluous to the weird animal monster hybrids.
“Excel sheet with colored squares, it’s Mondrian.”
…*colors everything at work*
YER AN ARTIST!
omg I just imagined you as a tiny, beautiful, Vietnamese-American Hagrid (same beard tho)
hehehe, thanks! Actually, that could be a really hilarious Halloween costume for this year..
ETA: after refreshing my memory of Key Hagrid Visuals, I think people would be confused and unsure if I was being Hagrid or a dwarf from LotR/the Hobbit.
make your husband dress as Harry
omg, biggest Harry Potter ever!
If the women look like burly dudes with grapefruits stapled to their chests, it’s Michelangelo.
I think we need a story of Putin figuring out time travel and secretly traveling back to the Netherlands to inspire van Eyck. Must include cross-dressing.
This would have been so handy when I was studying for my AP art history exam.
Hahahaha The Putin one is so painfully true!
Uuuuhn. El Greco’s figures are all like hot basketball players with colloidal silver poisoning.