This Badass Painting You Probably Didn't Even Know About

in #art7 years ago (edited)

Hi Steemit,

Here take a look at this sweet-ass painting of the Biblical Cain and his tribe:

First off, take a look to appreciate how technically amazing this painting is, then take a look at how totally ripped everyone is. Makes sense because according to legend* Cain and his followers totally became vampires .

Listen, don't take my word for how awesome this painting is, just check out some of these deets, that I personally took for you, the Steemit community at the highest resolution available on the internet.

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Look at those muscles! Look at the amazing contrast between the haggardness of the tribe and the tenderness around that young woman! Did you know Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gough studied under the creator of this painting? That's probably because he's a hardcore tour-de-force of technical mastery in figurative art.

in 1924 Cormon was run over by a fucking taxi. That taxi was easily the worst thing to happen to art during that decade. -C

**By legend I mean this crappy 2006 angelfire article I found.

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Did you ever hear of Lilith and her story? Haha perhaps not so far off

I'm writing my thesis on Lilith ;) indeed not so far off ;)