#they like their art

[thelibrarian1895]

Gotham Museums

I'm going to claim that Gotham, with all of its dramatic architecture and general theatricality, has a very strong art scene. In an effort to curb the doctorate students from going off the deep end, Gotham invests pretty heavily into the arts. It backfires a bit because Mad Hatter but it was a worthy attempt.

That being said, there are a lot of rich people in Gotham, rich people who might be willing to patronize Gotham based artists. And among artists, a common exercise to develop their artistic skills would be to copy the great masters that came before them. Of course the students don't go out of their way to make their copies into real forgeries. That would be wrong. But sometimes you just have to try painting Starry Night using the same sort of paint that would have been used by Van Gogh, you know? And it's surprisingly easy to find poplar wood, lead based paint, badger fur paint brushes, and other period appropriate materials to use in the various art stores in Gotham.

However, this is Gotham.

Every art museum in Gotham contains, at minimum, one forgery of some famous piece of art. The Mona Lisa briefly went missing from the Louvre and it popped up in a Gotham museum.

And it was also found in a second Gotham museum.

And a third.

And then the Mona Lisa was suddenly back on the wall in the Louvre as though it had never been moved.

Only one of the Mona Lisas found in Gotham was proven to be a forgery because the art student who created it incorporated their signature into the work. That student received a significant number of commissions after they were questioned by various authorities. The museums in Gotham still maintain that they have the real Mona Lisa in their possession.

The same thing has happened to nearly every major work of art in the world and many minor ones as well. What is perceived to be the original will briefly disappear from its location. Then a copy or multiple copies and something that might be the original all pop up in various museums in Gotham. The stolen piece of art will then suddenly reappear either in the museum it was stolen from or in an equally prestigious museum in the work of art's country of origin.

It's become very trendy in Gotham to have at least one replica painting or piece of jewelry, or pottery, or whatever made by the artist who had their copy featured among the other versions of the work of art.

Who is the one who does this? No one knows. Art historians, art experts, every government in the world, and museum curators are going nuts. Artists are making bank. And there is a museum in Gotham that boasts the Mona Lisa, the Declaration of Independence, the phoenix crown, kusanagi, Elgin marbles, and several thought to be lost Fabergé eggs. This museum insists that every piece is completely authentic and no they aren't going to give them back.

[asoftspotforangels]

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

[pterygoidwalk]

sometimes i wonder what my cat named me

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[cordspaghetti]

really factual recounting with no embellishments whatsoever

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[jammboe]

Pangaea miku

[malwarechips]

yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

[relina-ruj]

His arms and legs

[theboxfort]

Peace and love

[alleesaur]

casual blue crab miku doodle

[bianc0re]

Take a slice

[unsung-idiot]

some quick drawings of little Soos I made a while ago

[spooksier]

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

[frenchublog]

kosovo miku