i’m not saying this to be snobby bc i’m not expecting everyone to know their art history and i do this too, but i do think it’s genuinely funny that whenever people online see ugly old art they assume it’s medieval art, and whenever people see complicated realistic figures and scenes they assume it’s renaissance art, or less commonly baroque.
people thinking fernando botero’s cat paintings are medieval art is especially funny cause he’s literally still alive
this image (still life with green soup) was created in 1972 and people thought it was from ~400 AD to 1400 AD, like it has a modern doorknob and a modern kettle and everything
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