#LAYING IT ON THICK

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Doing some very fun fic planning for you guys... I think you're gonna like what's coming after Vampire Alex is published next week 😏

[madewithonerib]

When art historian Maxwell L. Anderson, chief operating officer of LMI Group, first laid eyes on the painting, he was “struck by what [he] saw,” as he tells the Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Crow. “Was I all in? No,” he adds. “But I was super intrigued.”

At the garage sale, the collector had been intrigued by the painting’s impasto, a technique involving thickly laid paint. The 18-inch-tall portrait depicts a white-bearded man by the sea who is smoking a pipe and repairing a fishing net. His downcast eyes betray contemplation, and his face is marked by ruddy coloring and deep smile lines. In the work’s bottom right corner is a signature: the word “Elimar.”

Though the piece lacked van Gogh’s famously vivid colors, Anderson saw “telltale signs of a deft painter at play,” per the Wall Street Journal. He also noticed a hair embedded in the brushwork.

In its analysis of Elimar, LMI Group combined science and technology with “traditional tools of connoisseurship, historical context, formal analysis and provenance research,” as chairman, president and CEO Lawrence M. Shindell says in a statement.

The company hired Jennifer Mass, president of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, to analyze the canvas’ fibers and pigments. One particular red—geranium lake, or PR-50—introduced doubts. Van Gogh died by suicide in 1890, and researchers have always thought geranium lake was first patented around 1905. Vincent van Gogh [1853-03-30 to 1890-07-29]

Mass brought in patent lawyer Ben Appleton to search for an earlier patent. After a month of research, his firm found an 1883 patent for PR-50—a “find-within-a-find for conservators, who can now date and authenticate works containing this red pigment to the late 19th century,” writes the Wall Street Journal.

A genetic analysis of the hair embedded in the painting revealed that it had belonged to s/o with red or red-brown hair. As van Gogh’s 35 self-portraits illustrate, the artist had ginger locks. Additionally, researchers found that the letters in the painting’s “Elimar” inscription—particularly the Es, Ms and As—match those in an 1885 van Gogh painting.

Van Gogh regularly neglected to sign his paintings, but why mark this one “Elimar”?

According to LMI Group, Elimar is the name of a character in the 1848 Danish novel The Two Baronesses by Hans Christian Andersen—one of van Gogh’s favorite authors.

According to the report, van Gogh painted Elimar in 1889, during his first year at the sanitarium in southern France. Experts think Elimar is a so-called translation of Danish artist Michael Ancher’s portrait of fisherman Niels Gaihede, “a subject to which both [painter Paul] Gauguin and van Gogh were drawn,” per the statement.

“As soon as we saw the Ancher, I knew we were right,” art historian and LMI Group researcher William Havlicek tells the Wall Street Journal.

The analysis has provided “fresh insight into the oeuvre of van Gogh, particularly as it relates to his practice of reinterpreting works by other artists,” Anderson says in the statement. He thinks Elimar is “a form of spiritual self-portrait, allowing viewers to see the painter as he wished to be remembered.”

LMI Group will soon begin showing Elimar to major van Gogh scholars and dealers. They think the artwork is worth at least $15 million. Still, the painting’s authorship is not yet widely accepted, and art experts are generally hesitant to draw conclusions about newly discovered works’ authenticity.

“People love it when things fall through the cracks, and it would be wonderful if they found a van Gogh,” Richard Polsky, an art authenticator who wasn’t involved in the project, tells the Wall Street Journal. “But they’ve got to pin everything down & get a scholar at Van Gogh Museum [in Amsterdam] to sign off on it.”

The Van Gogh Museum has seen the painting before.

The anonymous buyer submitted it to the museum in 2019, and experts ruled that it wasn’t the real deal. However, the museum hasn’t yet responded to the new report.

“At the end of the day, the most important thing is what the experts in Van Gogh think of the artwork,” Robert Snell, co-owner and fine arts specialist at Revere Auctions in St. Paul, tells KARE’s Kent Erdahl.

Snell is particularly interested in the painting’s provenance. “Trying to figure out how that piece ended up at a garage sale in Minneapolis is really the $15 million mystery,” he adds.

Sonja Anderson is a writer and reporter based in Chicago.

I hope it becomes another movie, like the one they made for the Aunt Adele, the Woman in Gold [2015]. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. encore to artist spotlights

I don't think this new painting could ever be a VVG, the lines are too clean & precise or straight, as though this artist was not creating this under duress which VVG would have been in his final year.

[majunju]

magic trick

[atangledfate]

He felt his fists clench at the reminder that those two were calling themselves Diamond Cutters. He wasn't even sure why it pissed him off so much but it did. There was a time when he was part of that team, helped build it up and even took part in the naming. He didn't exactly WANT to kill them! they just refused to listen to reason! but to have that upstart sheep and Lemur go around with that name? they didn't even have proper masks. Some long lost part of him took offense at it! but he was quick to stifle his rage behind the smiling cat!

Over all his plan worked brilliantly! The stupid girl kicked the rack and knocked herself stupid. The wisps Were all distracted helping her, or hiding from the chaos! he slid over to the Box and was ready to break it open when he noticed the Lock--- shit! she wasn't fooling with that lock was she? he could maybe break it BUT it would take time! Time he really didn't have! he could blow the lock but that would blow his cover.

He grabbed the lock thinking of various ways to break it but he could already hear the girl standing up! one of the wisps was fluttering close so he made a quick judgement to abandon the box for now and keep his cover intact. He snatched the first aid box and turned around toward the wisps with the first aid kit in hand.

" Hold on Belle! i got the first Aid kit! oh are you ok? gee! your very tough! i'd think my head would be leaking out after a hit like that... "

He offered a hand to help Belle to a seat

" You really shouldn't be standing come over here and sit down... let me have a look! "

How disgusting! acting this way really he hated it, but a Job was a Job and he was a professional. If this is what it took then he'd suck it up and do what he had to in order to see it through. He reminded himself that in the end--- he'd get Whisper and that fool lemur!

as for the lock---he'd need a slicer to break it open and no way he could pull that off with this girl and the wisps watching him. this plan was a bust, but at least he could try to reinforce his persona!

" Sorry... i ...i think i stepped on your tail and... well this is all my fault--- and now i hurt you. Starting to think coming here was a big mistake..."

"Don't worry about it. You should've seen me on my first day here. Cause way more problems than just knocking over a simple tool box." Belle was surprised they still let her in the workshop, though it helps she's adjusted well enough to the environment here. Now the tinkerer felt like a regular here seeing as she even has her own work station. She still misses her home in the country side, though felt like this was her home too.

"You aren't the first to have trouble fitting in. If I recall all the Diamond Cutters had a hard time getting used to working here at first, even more so when they formed and went on their first mission. I'm sure it'll take some time, though soon enough you'll start feeling more comfortable withe everyone. I'm sure of it." Belle was sure Duo just need some time to completely adjust.

"Sure, that sounds-" Belle was cut off as her tail was stepped on causing it to be pulled. Thankfully for the tinkerer she was far more used to it and had some reflex to try and limit the damage. That said she still hit the rack hard enough to knock somethings off. One being a rather heave wrench which landed right on her had. Dazing the puppet as she sat one the ground her head spinning.

"Gears and starters, my head," Belle said as she began rubbing her head. The tinkerer knew it was best not to try and move until everything stopped spinning. The puppet really needed to have some sort of safety installed to prevent that from happening when in the workshop. Should Duo have a chance to get to the box the lock was clearly high grade. Maybe even rivaling Tail's work.

[britney-rosberg06]

the Reason Clarisse is so mad about her spear being broken is NOT because some shit head little kid on his second day broke it it’s because some shit head little kid on his second day broke something her dad gave her

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the duality of woman

[raddestrose]

I saw this on Twitter and had the chance to do this



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Ghost always found the Scottish accent attractive. But when he met Soap and heard it his mind went blank and he immediately turned to hostility. Months later Ghost still pretends he hates Soap’s accent and Scottish slang, and he’s not sure how much longer he can keep up the act.

[cchipollo]

hi

[ingravinoveritas]

David Tennant and Alex Hassell in a new ad for Burberry.

Also the above quote is extracted from an accompanying article and is...interesting. Michael Sheen on Bluesky, you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever right now...

[b-has-a-fro]

Cherokee D Azz! #Bootyful #SwimmingPool #LayingOut 😎👙☀️🏊🏽‍♀️💦🍑👀

[gardenofearthlydelightss]

Jackie making out with Shauna while absolutely shitfaced at a party and both of them pretending to not remember it the day after (!!)

[prettyboykatsuki]

nagi would be criminally easy to seduce however i would still lay it on so insanely thick

[thankstothe]

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[ovenproofowl]

I'm Not Done:

So also also while watching the Unleashed for 73 Yards, they talk about how this episode was actually filmed first all the way back in 2022. (Filming overlap with Ncuti shooting the final Sex Education season meant they had to start with a DoctorLite ep)

But that got me thinking about the TV show theory that's going around and also how everyone's been talking about the episodes feeling oddly out of order, like how Ruby and the Doctor had apparently been travelling for months by Boom in terms of the timeline but she somehow hadn't yet stepped foot on an alien planet?

RTD is taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall if this means something but what if just how the season was filmed out of order, so too are Ruby and the Doctor's adventures? Because they've been trapped in a TV show!