I mean, Wallace Shawn does look a bit like a baby.
Winging it
Submitted 1 month ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are a lot of babies who look like old men and vice versa
Dr_Box@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Both of my kids looked just like that when they were born
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reminded me of this old gem, original source sadly lost to the sands of the web.
klemptor@startrek.website 1 month ago
Oh my god I forgot all about Mallory Ortberg’s interpretations of monk paintings! I used to love these.
Unrelated but she once wrote something like “everyone knows that to properly make a bed, you need to circle it like a shark” and the truth of that has stuck with me ever since. Why is my brain like this haha
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
Video game designers still do the same for the child NPC’s
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
“Mother, I require sustenance.”
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ever seen fingers before?
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
those are the carrot looking things that grow out of people’s hands right?
Stomata@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I am seeing zero down votes for the first time
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 month ago
That is the face of a human who is tired of this childrearing bullshit. Get this person some coffee, stat!
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know who we should use as a Jesus model? Jeff in accounting.
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh god I’m having flashbacks to The Rehearsal season 2
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 1 month ago
Fun fact: Those weird paintings of Jesus as an “adult baby” are actually intentional. This was an attempt at representing that in the interpretation of the time, Jesus entered this world already fully perfected/divine, without having to have gone through an “imperfect” phase.
yesman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, the visages were of real men. Often the patrons of the painter or someone else to be honored.
MBM@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Just like Renesmee!
Baby Renesmee from Twilight
klemptor@startrek.website 1 month ago
Imagine giving birth to that.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Counterpoint: look at those hands. Maybe they just weren’t great at some things.
I’d believe they mastered lighting and painting techniques over accurate physical representation more than “Jesus was a perfect middle aged nippleless man with fucked up hands and that’s represented perfectly here”
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can’t think of a single baby oil painting that looks like a baby but maybe I’m remembering wrong or they were all jesus idk
MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 1 month ago
Huh, I didn’t know people anyone even painted with baby oil.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
During the Renaissance, there were certainly a lot of the weirdly adult baby Jesus paintings, but there were also realistic examples from the time (that one is Raphael, one of the great masters).
lautre@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Look at painting of cherubims.