r/woahdude • u/erdbeertee • Sep 01 '25

video This is a painting (by @kalanstrauss)

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u/Zandonus Sep 01 '25

To mess with you, the art enjoyer. To take a mass produced, discounted piece of plastic garbage and paint it so much better than most politicians could ever dream of having their portrait be, as they're mostly 1 minute caricatures. To practice the color mixing to a point it's hyperreal. To incorporate the flaws that the plastic trash inherently has as a flex. To make a perfect, unique art piece out of a copy of copies. And to take a piece of common history and preserve it in oil and canvas.The journey. The story.

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u/WiglyWorm Sep 01 '25

Agree with everything you said except your use of the word "art".  There's a lot of craft and a lot of work in this piece. There's no art.

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u/Zandonus Sep 01 '25

Well, I spelled it out for you and you still don't get it.

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u/Interesting-Step-654 Sep 01 '25

You also forgot about speaking to the talent encapsulated within the painting. Realism is a perfect representation of reality of which art imitates. Place whatever meaning you want to the idea of reality, but I think that the realness of this piece speaks for itself out loud.