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Like the watermelon https://images.app.goo.gl/8miHX48hfcHZ3rGQ7 https://images.app.goo.gl/8miHX48hfcHZ3rGQ7 Or the chicken https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/
by readthenotes1 4y ago
Like the watermelon
https://images.app.goo.gl/8miHX48hfcHZ3rGQ7 https://images.app.goo.gl/8miHX48hfcHZ3rGQ7
Or the chicken
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breeding-farming-boilers-giant https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breedi...
- throwawaymaths 4y agoNah, that's just a watermelon at a different stage of ripeness. (I eat like five or six watermelons a year) I've gotten one like that, it's rare because we know how to pick em these days.
- markdown 4y agoThe seeds are dark brown/black, so it's ripe. And you won't find a watermelon these days with swirls in it.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoYou can if you buy seeded watermelons? Here is a modern picture of a modern watermelon with slightly less dramatic swirls. If you had bought it a few weeks earlier the swirls would be more prominent: http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639/2015/12/watermelon.png http://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/wp-content/uploads/sites/29639...
- throwawaymaths 4y agoYou can also see the swirls come out dramatically if you take a seeded watermelon and leave it in (a very cold, to avoid mold) fridge for a few weeks!
- zdragnar 4y agoNonsense. It isn't just a matter of ripeness, but also how many times the flower was pollinated. I got one from a friend's garden much like it last year.
- Buttons840 4y agoWouldn't that be like me painting a bowl of fruit (a common thing to practice painting) full of green oranges and green bananas? Why did this renaissance painter decide to paint an unripened fruit cut and prepared for eating?
- thfuran 4y agoI don't know, why did Dali paint melted clocks?
- Buttons840 4y agoFair enough. But are we certain that renaissance watermelon were more like current watermelon than this picture portrays? How do we know? (I don't know the answer, but if someone wants to continue the thread, I'd be interested to read more.)
- boomboomsubban 4y agoAnother Renaissance watermelon painting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A_still_life_of_a_watermelon,_cherries,_peaches,_apricots,_plums,_pomegranates_and_figs,_with_lilies,_roses,_morning_glory_and_other_flowers_on_an_acanthus_stone_relief.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Brueghel_-_A... Some people disagree with this, but for more information look at https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv https://imgur.com/a/zN8Kv
- zdragnar 4y agoThe surrealist movement grew out of Dada, which was a reaction to WW1 and the introduction of machine guns and mustard gas. "If this is what the pinnacle of science and reason has gotten us, we must undo it" Clock faces are always flat surfaces- wall clocks, wrist watches, sun dials, etc. The gears and hands require rigid, flat surfaces. If you're going to put a normal item in a surrealist painting, and choose a clock, making it a melting clock is essentially an obvious choice.
- AngryData 4y ago
- markdown 4y agoWatermelon is grown from seed, so there can be variation with every single generation. Grapes are clones, grown with cuttings.
- derbOac 4y agoThere have been changes in watermelons but that watermelon in the painting is in part an example of starring, which happens today: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-renaissance-painting-can-tell-us-about-modern-watermelons-180956155/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-renaissance-p...
- soperj 4y agoThat's when they're not getting enough water... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8w7lke/i_guess_its_that_time_again_to_remind_people_that/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8w7lke/i_guess_its_th...