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There's a Greatness of Dash, a piece you can look at and say "ah, I could have done a credible job of the subject--but not in a single damn brush stroke". Sargent, of course.
There's a Greatness of Life, a long life, youth to age, given to a single task, and the inevitable changes we can see in it, provides something separate from and elevating to the works itself, as in Titian
"Poop Emoji with Rubens", digital photography, 2022. Speaking of Rubens, check out a detail. I imagine this is unfinished, but either way, it gives a sense of how efficiently his workshop (had to) work
Looking at some of the work I did during my last year or so there. Portrait, still-life, figure. The material out of which a painting curriculum is made, I suppose.
A SERMON (Florence, 1503): "the righteous will gain great rewards in heaven"
MICHAELANGELO BUONAROTTI (sitting in the back of the church): "gains in heaven, huh??"
The Pope: hey, can you paint my first predecessor in the holy office
Michaelangelo, snorting uncut creatine: I gotchu fam