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elleng

(131,159 posts) Wed Nov 8, 2017, 02:58 PM Nov 2017

A Grasshopper Has Been Stuck in This van Gogh Painting for 128 Years.

'More than a century ago, a grasshopper found its way to art immortality.

The insect was discovered embedded in Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting “Olive Trees” by an official at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., the museum announced Monday.

As part of a research project to examine 104 paintings, Mary Schafer, the museum’s paintings conservator, noticed under magnification that there was an insect in the “lower foreground of the landscape” of “Olive Trees” that was not visible to the naked eye.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/arts/design/grasshopper-vincent-van-gogh-painting.html?

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A Grasshopper Has Been Stuck in This van Gogh Painting for 128 Years. (Original Post) elleng Nov 2017 OP
Tiny ... GeorgeGist Nov 2017 #1
interesting idea, embedding an alarm system in the artwork itself! unblock Nov 2017 #2
is it still alive? do we need to start a go fund me page for its care? Botany Nov 2017 #3

unblock

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2. interesting idea, embedding an alarm system in the artwork itself!
Reply to elleng (Original post)
Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:03 PM
Nov 2017

van gogh was way ahead of his time!

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3. is it still alive? do we need to start a go fund me page for its care?
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Wed Nov 8, 2017, 03:13 PM
Nov 2017

and does it have info on HRC's emails and uranium 1?

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