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Related: About this forumA 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 Goghs 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 museums 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)
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GeorgeGist
(25,570 posts)1. Tiny ...

unblock
(56,071 posts)2. interesting idea, embedding an alarm system in the artwork itself!
van gogh was way ahead of his time!
Botany
(76,686 posts)3. is it still alive? do we need to start a go fund me page for its care?
and does it have info on HRC's emails and uranium 1?
