Dead grasshopper stuck to Van Gogh's "Olive Trees" painting for 128 years unnoticed

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@euansmith

You wouldn’t believe the weird shit I found when cleaning some paintings by Richard Upton Pickman.

You don’t even want to have to clean a Pricasso (NSFW) also youtube safer video but still NSFW

@euansmith

an attempt to “prove” that the artist was Jack the Ripper; partially by extracting DNA from the semen in the paint to compare it with DNA from the crime scenes.

sounds like an early founder of the art form.

[sockdoll]

Hey, even the FDA allows a certain amount of insect fragments in food items, and nobody’s going to eat that Van Gogh - unless it’s more insects.

The Food Defect Action Levels

[anon61221983]

[RickMycroft]

If I ever become famous, they’ve have no trouble authenticating my keyboard.

[GulliverFoyle]

@Melizmatic

And never mind the fact that the author acknowledges that the bits and pieces of the grasshopper were basically camouflaged with paint.

It doesn’t look like a grasshopper in impasto oil paints so much as a satellite image of some alien planet with the ancient remains of Sandworm larvae. I doubt even art counterfeiters go for that level of detail.

[peregrinus_bis]

His paintings are made of such huge wallops of paint that a grasshopper would be pretty damn hard to see.

I think this is great !