And he’s found between the velvet lies he’s found a truth as hard as steel

And yes, it’s literally called History Painting

you can view it in even more detail here : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Jean-Léon_Gérôme_-_Le_charmeur_de_serpents.jpg

I had to size it down for this post so it wouldn’t break lemmy

I notice you post a lot of Bellotto’s, is he an artist whose work you particularly enjoy?

He’s an artist whose works I have collected a large amount of, but sadly i only have a couple of them left to post.

artists would have to make public a timelapse of their paintings as a security measure, but that’s the only idea i have

looks like a car parked on the edge and a few people walking around it

the post title has been updated^^

I live in mortal fear of this copypasta

at first, I thought this was a sketch about a pedophile

Then I checked out SNL’s greatest hits

I love this. What I like about collages is how they can sometimes overload your senses with the sheer amount of detail, not to mention the way they’re arranged and how you can shift your attention back and forth across the myriad of elements in the canvas.

(by the way, feel free to add an [OC] tag in the title if you wish)

whoops, fixed

That looks great.

Feel free to add the [OC] tag to the title if you want to.

can be corrected yourselfly for clarificarity.

*yourself *clarificatory

I always preferred the work of his predecessor, JD Leyendecker, and his predecessor, Alfonse Mucha.

Isn’t it J. C. Leyendecker?

Oh that makes sense. Let me update the title

I think it’s water color, but not sure.

Don’t let your memes be dreams

Done

I will update the post if you can find a high resolution variation of the full painting