Turner Okay, people would totally watch that today.
Canvas painting of butt code#
The equivalent today might be people watching a livestream of a server farm deploying code for a video game patch. A final alteration like that actually would be quite exciting, compared to the more usual alternative, which involved just covering canvases in varnish and changing nothing. Turner flicking a sudden splash of red to his painting to add a buoy to the water. Most retrospectives on Varnishing Day mention one famous incident from 1832, which led one artist to say a rival had “ been here and fired a gun.” No one really fired a gun that was a dramatic description of the artist J.M.W. It’s hard to relate to this today, both because “watching paint dry” is the proverbial most boring thing ever and because “varnishing” doesn’t sound very attractive either - we want the unvarnished truth, darnit. On Varnishing Day, painters would add that final layer of varnish, and people flocked in to watch this ritual.
Once a museum hung paintings in a gallery, the pieces were complete, except for a protective layer of varnish. It was called Varnishing Day.īeazy/Unsplash No, not vanishing day. In the 1800s, however, these exhibitions came with an extra bit of ceremony, one that’s now forgotten. People toured collections of art back in the days of Rome, and people tour art museums today. When we quickly mentioned some art forms 13 seconds ago, we could, of course, have mentioned paintings. Sympathize with these people who turned to these lamer pastimes. They also came up with some hobbies that didn’t quite survive till today.
They were listless (they had no listicles), they hungered for recreation, and it was because of them that we wound up with Shakespeare, the Olympics and so very many sexual positions. Mostly, they were too busy standing still to avoid starving to death to concern themselves with such luxuries as “fun.” Go back a few centuries, and many people never were bored, despite having few entertainment options.
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