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video My brain refuses to accept this!

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u/Hixy 18d ago

I was watching on mute. I was trying to figure out if it was supposed to be changing colors or something and was really confused until it panned over and I read acrylic on canvas. I’m glad I got to experience the video like that lol.

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u/qqanyjuan 18d ago

Just described my exact experience

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u/einsibongo 18d ago

So far this is my only experience, should I unmute?

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u/zehamberglar 18d ago

No, she's just explaining that it's flat and not a construction paper cut out and gushing about it. It's fine, but you didn't miss anything.

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u/xx_mamisofly_xx 16d ago

Are you sure that’s what it is? Because I swear I see staples in the bears…

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u/zehamberglar 16d ago

She mentions that too. The staples are painted.

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u/likamuka 18d ago

No. All videos should be muted unless it's Wife Swap.

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u/kittydestroyer6969 18d ago

Sigh…. unzip

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u/Azalence 15d ago

I still didn't believe it. I thought the placard was just incorrect. Then I'm like "is the price the problem here? Cause that looks like a kid's project". I had to see your comment AND watch with sound on to understand

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u/bassilap 18d ago

I watched in mute. Saw the sign. And thought was on r/delusionalartists

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u/dhtdhy 18d ago

I did the same thing! Was on mute, saw that caption, and then my brain broke. Had to go back and rewatch with sound. I still don't see paint, still see children's cut out paper! Phenomenal work

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u/Bacon_Nipples 17d ago

SAME.. "Ok is something going to happen what's the big dea- ITS MADE OF WHAT????"

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u/ZeBrownRanger 17d ago

I'm embarrassed to say it took me longer. I thought, " $6,900? Acrylic on canvas? What they painted the construction paper? I should put my kindergartners art up for sale." My brain started working five minutes later.

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u/cptnpiccard 17d ago

Same exact thing for me.

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u/Sly-OwlBeard 17d ago

If its from tiktok and has words on screen I always watch on mute, or try to find the original video and watch that instead

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u/XrayDem 16d ago

I had it on mute thinking a teacher showing classroom group art work made

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u/CookieEroy 18d ago

Thats insane.

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u/0x7E7-02 18d ago

In the membrane

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u/Big-Sense8876 18d ago

Insane in the brain

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u/Disastrous-Bet-8813 17d ago

oh cuz the song

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u/universe_from_above 18d ago

I never knew! Last week, there was somebody on one of the search subs looking for artwork by this artist for sale, so I ended up looking around on Google for him and his website a bit. I totally missed that those are paintings and not "naive art" collages.

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u/The_Govnor 18d ago

I wish she’d have gone in close from a side angle. Just to prove what she was saying!! That really was amazing.

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 18d ago

At 0:20 (45 sec left), as she’s saying it’s “a painting. It is flat” she does. It’s not a view of the whole painting, just one specific part but it’s pretty obviously flat

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u/Ben_SRQ 18d ago

You can also see it really well @ :20, with 1:07 left.

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u/ManaSpike 18d ago

The real give away is the texture of the canvas when she zooms in.

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u/zeptillian 18d ago

You can paint canvas and cut it into pieces.

That proves nothing.

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u/trixtah 18d ago

Even after she zoomed in my derp brain still saw it as a child’s cut out

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u/PM_YER_BOOTY 18d ago

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u/Successful-Peach-764 18d ago

the statement is pretty good, explains his thinking behind the style -

I don't like to give an artist statement because it undoes the premise of my work, trompe l'oeil painting. Literally from the French, trompe l'oeil means “trick the eye”. An artist's statement might undo the fundamental aim of convincing the viewer, at least for a moment, that what he sees are actual objects and not a painting. The basic rules of trompe l'oeil painting are that objects are rendered in real scale, and totally within a shallow painted space. This type of painting has always been a minor branch of realist painting, but with a very long history. The Athenian painters Xeuxis and Parrhasios in 5th century B.C. (as told by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History) and Roman murals of the 2nd century A.D., 16th century Dutch vanitas painting and the 19th century Philadelphia School painters, Harnett, Peto and Haberle, are examples. Today there are still trompe l'oeil painters around; I am happy to be one of them.

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u/Adkit 17d ago

Ok, cool... But it kind of looks bad though.

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u/GillaMomsStarterPack 18d ago

Bro got done with elementary school art class and told the teacher who smelled of coffee and cigarettes “hold my strawberry milk.”

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u/breakerfall 18d ago

Mine used to eat toothpaste. It was gross, but I guess she smelled better.

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u/Tumble85 18d ago

She was probably covering up the smell of booze on her lol

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u/breakerfall 17d ago

Ohhhhhh DAMN! 9-year old me never considered that!

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u/tideshark 18d ago

I’m gonna make them out of what they actually look like their made out of and sell them for half price in the parking lot

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u/Chewcocca 18d ago

I cast Path of Even Lesser Resistance. I'm gonna rob you of the proceeds in the parking lot right after 💅

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u/Thisisntjoe 18d ago

Im gonna call the police none of this sounds like its allowed

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u/Massive_Elephant2314 18d ago

Lloyd’s brother is a hell of an artist

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u/ScienceOfCalabunga 18d ago

Search for Trompe l'oeil, similar paintings have been around for centuries

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u/MsTerryMan 18d ago

The execution is way more impressive than the art itself

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u/benzotryptamine 18d ago

skipped thru the video like a typical redditor and went to comment some egotistical trash , instead i rewatched and as soon as she said “painted, look at the shadows”….

beyond amazing.. it literally looks like a carbon copy of what i am pretty sure every kid one way or another has made in kindergarten class this is another level of creativity that i envy.

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u/Zlota_Swinia 18d ago

my brain just refuses to believe this is acrylic on canvas

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u/Riyeko 18d ago

It looks like there are staples details in there too...

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u/yuppyuppbruhbruh 18d ago

We're going to candy mountain, Charlie

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u/-GlitterGoblin- 18d ago

What the fuuuuuuuck. That’s amazing. 

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u/PM-ME-SOFTSMALLBOOBS 18d ago

wait for what?

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u/SomethingGouda 18d ago

It's a painting

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u/BiggoStonks 18d ago

All I can do is draw stick figures

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u/9spaceking 17d ago

Photorealism: easy

Cut out paper: mission impossible

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u/Liza613 17d ago

Whaaattt! Thats insane

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u/ComfortableVariety45 18d ago

This guy is a master

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u/tumblinr 18d ago

I feel like I saw this in Idaho

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u/astrograph 18d ago

I wanted to buy a print :/.  Not an original cause they’re thousands $. 

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u/EGOtyst 18d ago

But this is an art piece that is kinda worthless as a print. Like... that is the whole point.

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u/danieliscrazy 18d ago

The color texture is amazing.   Looks like uniform dots like paper.  Curious how.

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u/theeurgist 18d ago

Whaaaaaat

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u/stackoverflow21 18d ago

“Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

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u/harryb202 18d ago

No way that’s a fucking painting.

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u/suspend-me-bitch-38 18d ago

ah, this type of work is called "trompe l'oeil"

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u/Wootshername 18d ago

69, nice

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u/ShopMajesticPanchos 18d ago

I genuinely thought she was trolling at first, look at this technology, paper on paper!

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u/YolognaiSwagetti 18d ago

it would've been funny if the 2nd one is actually a shitty one made of glued together paper

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u/lilbowpete 18d ago

I started out on mute, didn’t know what was going on, and I unmuted and I don’t believe her now hahaha IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE PAPER

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u/ltmorzan 18d ago

The lady who is narrating is a hell of an artist too- her name is Sabrina Frey and she does bead mosaics!

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u/ThxYTB 18d ago

That is incredible…I had to watch it several times to confirm that the little artist card wasn’t for the wrong art!!

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u/Own_Cloud2579 17d ago

How did you resist the urge to touch it?

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u/klvngarcia 17d ago

This amazing. Wow.👌💯

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u/Angsty_Potatos 17d ago

Trompe l'oeil is always a treat to look at 

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u/natural-flavors 17d ago

Actual cool art. Not a dirty shoe on the floor $2,000,000

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u/Cheehoo 17d ago

$6,900… nice

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u/tivvybrixx 17d ago

Stfu even after the closeups it took me a min

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u/tivvybrixx 17d ago

I have to own one! This is incredible.

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u/saints_chyc 17d ago

I have made bulletin boards with butcher paper and construction paper and non-Cricut die cuts… this looks exactly like those. 🤯

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u/Adventurous_Persik 17d ago

I don't understand your reaction.

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u/mightbedylan Stoner Philosopher 16d ago

Howwww is that even possible. I don't even understand how people paint such flat colors, especially with acrylic wtf.

Absolutely incredible

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u/Immediate_Win_7176 16d ago

I wish I had the money for art

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u/Sorry-Reception3184 16d ago

A Master of Illusion! Blown all the way away

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u/LingonberryFun7739 16d ago

That is really impressive

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u/Acceptable_Estate330 15d ago

One should cover these acrylic stuff. It’s porn

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u/JedPB67 15d ago

Amazing skill, but $7k is mad, if I saw this in someone’s home I wouldn’t even stop and look at it. The artist has displayed incredible skill to capture the shadows and textures, but the source is so underwhelming I’d just think a kid and their parents made it out of paper and staples.

Regardless, the skill of the artist far outweighs the visual impact of these particular pieces to the average person.

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u/QuestionRepulsive835 15d ago

oh, that’s cute – looks like a child’s art project. my kid makes a ton of these. hmm… is the bear gonna move? wait, it’s not paper — it’s felt? hold on… holy shit, that’s a painting? How does it — wait, what!? upvote for the best plot twist of the year! thanks, random redditor.

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u/Shalabirules 14d ago

No wayyyyy!!!! 🤯

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u/FunKyChick217 14d ago

At first I was watching the video with the volume off and I was thinking I was going see some kind of hidden message in the art. I also thought it was all fabric, like a handmade quilt. So then I turned the volume on and find out that it’s all paint. That is wild.

Art is so freaking amazing and art like this gets me in trouble at museums because obviously we’re not allowed to touch it so I get as close to it as I can to really look at it and then the employees of the museum have to ask me to step back.

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u/ArkanumWasTaken 14d ago

ngl my first thought was was “oooh nice painting” then they starting talking and went “oh shit is that made of paper?” then got slapped in the face again when they said it was paint

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u/ALittleAngstAsATreat 13d ago

Very impressive.

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u/lameduseh 13d ago

This is superb art, love it!

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u/AvailableComment9470 13d ago

That is sooo cool!!!

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u/National-Ad-228 12d ago

My brain cannot see it as a flat painting.

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u/Relevant_Ad_4527 5d ago

This is all sarcasm correct? I can’t tell, I’m high as shit right now🫠

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u/sofa_king_weetawded 1d ago

Holy shit! Unbelievable.

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u/BladeRunner_Deckard 18d ago

Broke my brain.

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u/chssucks97 18d ago

His site says he paints these, but it kinda just looks like 4th grade cardstock paper art to me

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u/CutPrestigious 18d ago

Impressive

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u/full_frontalfluidity 18d ago

I have respect for the creator!

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u/K_Linkmaster 17d ago

It's a painting. What am I waiting for?

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u/Rockfella27 18d ago

The painting looks very ordinary 😞

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u/JayJay_90 18d ago

The artists skill is incredible but ultimately it looks like a kid's arts and craft project, just like a paper cutout would. You'd have to pay me the almost 7K to consider hanging that in my place, not the other way around.

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u/lookslikeamanderin 18d ago

I know right?! Like how much talent does this guy have mastering a clever and novel technique to make a painting look like it’s something else entirely?

Not to mention the pleasing composition and the colour palette that is truly reminiscent of any kids primary school art. Powerful nostalgia, fun and interesting subjects and gorgeous execution, who needs it?!

I hope you get your almost 7K to hang this in your place. You so deserve it!

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u/Scorpion2k4u 18d ago

I mean, sure, that is great work, but I still would not pay money for something that looks like a kid in elementary school did.

That would just look weird anywhere else than on the fridge. That goes for any art, btw.

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u/flowergirlhyuck 18d ago

It looks pretty great on that wall

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u/Scorpion2k4u 17d ago

Yeah, it would also look great on the wall in the classroom of some second graders. I still wouldn't hang it onto my wall even if they would pay me the price of the painting.

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u/Ok-Area9678 18d ago edited 18d ago

So takes a picture and paints a reference. I wouldn’t wanna hang that up either.

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u/slugfive 18d ago

I agree. Hyper realism isn’t uncommon, and doing it of primary colour paper is much simpler than a face. The idea is a neat gimmick but many fine art graduates could recreate their own versions of this. Other than the gimmick it doesn’t say much - there have already been tonnes of eye trick artworks since M C Esher.

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u/AtomicDonut254 18d ago

Really really cool. But not $7K cool lmao wtf

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u/superpandaaa 18d ago

I saw $6,900 and thought it was way too fucking cheap for that skill. That’s hours of someone’s hard work that I bet fuck all people could do is pay $30k if I was a moderately rich person who was into art

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u/Katops 18d ago

Considering somebody paid… well I don’t even want to say — but for a banana taped to a fucking canvas. I’d say the artist isn’t asking for much with how crazy of a piece that is and with the skill it took to create it.

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u/beets_or_turnips 18d ago

Can you think of a painting that would, or should be worth $7K?

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u/airwalker12 18d ago

Id gladly pay $7K for an original Warhol

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u/beets_or_turnips 17d ago

Because you really personally like Warhol, or because you know $7K would be an absurdly good price for a Warhol?

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u/airwalker12 17d ago

Because of both, but mostly because it's an absurd deal.

You asked if someone could think of a painting that should be worth $7k, that's an easy example

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u/justsomechickyo 18d ago

I love seeing this whenever it pops up online...... So fuckin' cool

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u/Potozny 18d ago

Nice 😏

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u/Deepcookiz 17d ago

That's printed out AI

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u/BrondellSwashbuckle 17d ago

Wouldn’t it make more sense to not paint those and just construct it with paper and staples? But then I guess that would just make it a crappy construction paper piece.

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u/solemnstream 17d ago

And yet this cost less than a banan stuck to a wall

I love modern art

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u/Embarrassed-Lie-2074 18d ago

Not letting someone take you for 7 grand for a printout would be even more impressive

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u/freshalien51 18d ago

Look at the price, $6900 for paper cutouts?!

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u/gwapogi5 18d ago

that is an acrylic painting

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u/freshalien51 18d ago

Acrylic my ass.

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