This painting in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was made by Pieter de Hooch in 1658. It is the famous "Man with iPhone taking photo of girl with selfie stick".
the subject or the artist? The subject is bens brother, Joel! But he looked like ben when he was younger!
I was gunna say you don't know what your missing but that is stupid as if you've not been obviously you don't...
We'd better have some Dali: "Geopoliticus Child watching the birth of new man" - In the style of a nightmare Botticelli.. Painted on a visit to the USA and showing this new man "hatching" out north America on the globe and crumpling Great Britain with its fist it's assumed to be a comment on the birth of the age of superpower America and the end of the old imperial world. Personally, I think seen as a none too subtle meditation on the destructiveness of modern man, it would apply whichever part of the globe this creature was shown bursting from. And an example of why he's been called an old master. Wasn't all weirdness. His brushwork was the stuff of genius.
I was at the Picasso museum recently in Barcelona, his early work was amazing with his studied portraits of his family members. As there were so many of them I wondered if that's what made him change his style? I couldn't imagine him being troubled by the endless knock on the door with the more modern interpretations of his portraits
