The picture above is a great infographic called “Who Invented the Avant Garde” by Ward Shelley, showing the evolution of Romanticism, Neo-classicism, Realism, and far more.  What you may not realize, tho, is that this is not your typical infographic:  This one is an oil painting.

My paintings/drawings are attempts to use real information to depict our understandings of how things evolve and relate to one another, and how this develops over time. More to the point, they are about how we form these understandings in our minds and if they can have, in our culture, some kind of shape.

Visit her site for more amazing graphics, all done by expert hand in oil paints.

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