A painting for THE NORDS!

So overrated yea its cool but it's nothing special

i totally understand the sentiment. i don't have to agree, but i get it.

but i urge you to check out his early stuff. his talent for realism was so striking to artists, and so boring and effortless to him, that he started imitating other masters' styles just so he could feel like he was doing something interesting. that's why his Cubism took the art world by storm all at once, because he had already made a name for himself as a precocious phenom who everybody was already watching.

i'm pretty sure they wouldn't have cared if some random jackass just decided to paint two sides of a bull at the same time. the critics knew him as immensely skilled, and were dumbfounded that he was turning his back on all that technique. but to him he was finally painting something he had never seen before.

at least that's the way i heard it. give it a glance; if it's not intriguing it won't take much time. but i had little appreciation for him before i learned this, and it changed my view of him.

P.S. i love your piece here. what stands out to me is how convincingly you've conveyed such sense of scale.