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Summer Delight - Anders Zorn (1886) watercolour (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That looks like a photograph. How do people paint like this damn

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It breaks my brain, I thought it was oil at first glance. Also this is the most expensive Swedish painting ever sold :0

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I had to double take after reading your comment, the fact that this is in watercolour is absolutely mind blowing (I can't for the life of me get good results with watercolours, so I already find most good work with them impressive, but this really is on another level)..

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Watercolour is hard! ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With regard to expensive paintings, sometimes the price is only about money laundering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hehe, indeed. There's plenty of banal shite being sold for millions. Either for vanity or more nefarious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I wish I could be an artist whose artwork was used for money laundering. I could cash in. Maybe if I paint pictures of apes.