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   Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:18:27 JST Tarnport

   Gustave Van de Woestyne.

   The Sleepers, 1918.

   Self-Portrait, ~1900.

   Farm Family, ~1912.

   The Last Supper, 1927.

   He reminds me of Stanley Spencer sometimes, at other times of Holbein the Younger. He intended this exact hermeneutic arc, I think.

   #painting

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     LionelB (lionelb@expressional.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:18:24 JST LionelB

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     Instagramming existed long before Instagram. As you suggest, a very knowing approach.

     Bill repeated this.
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     Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:18:24 JST Tarnport

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     • LionelB

     @lionelb And then there's this. He dug deep sometimes into his influences. I didn't select it in the above group because I thought it would overwhelm his more usual oeuvre.

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     Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:18:25 JST Tarnport

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     • LionelB

     @lionelb yes! And a whole lot of that other side of Europe in general strangely

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     LionelB (lionelb@expressional.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 02:18:26 JST LionelB

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     A touch of Schiele in the last.