Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur - Joseph Ducreux (1793)
Portrait de l'artiste sous les traits d'un moqueur - Joseph Ducreux (1793)
Not often you see an accomplished artist make such an direct and confronting self portrait.
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Imagine being told "an image of you will be the base of a joke that gets hundreds of thousands of people to laugh in just over 200 years".
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I have this same shot on my cellphone from my trip to the Louvre. It was such a strange experience looking up and seeing a meme on the gallery wall!
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The feeling of , Oh this exists in real life! I got that from The Birth of Venus (actually huge too!)
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Still my very favorite meme.
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Same
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I read about him some in the past when this image was used as a meme template. I firmly believe he would love seeing his work used in that way.
Totally I agree :)