personally my favourite piece of lando lore will forever be that he was velcored into his karts by his team because they thought he’d fly out because he was so small 😭
When Van Gogh found Ukiyo-e in Paris, it broke his brain.
Europe was obsessed with realistic depth.
Japanese woodblocks brought flat, vivid colors, and radical compositions.
For Vincent, this was total liberation.
He threw out the rules, using the "floating world" style to unlock raw emotion.
You can see it from Almond Blossom to The Starry Night.
Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Art Nouveau...
Without Ukiyo-e, modern art simply doesn't happen.
Monet painted The Magpie when he was 28. No one knew him.
He had just become a father and was living in extreme poverty.
He presented it at the Paris Salon and they laughed at him. They told him it was unfinished.