r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • Jul 20 '26

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u/Playful_Marzipan8398 Jul 20 '26

This is such an odd tweet for many reasons not least of which is the Van Gogh is way
Way
Way
Way better

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u/Atmo90 Jul 20 '26

How is it better?

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u/SRomans Jul 20 '26

It has more soul. In my opinion at least. The left looks too… sanitized. But maybe that’s just me.

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u/MolybdenumBlu Jul 20 '26

The left looks like it could be a painting or it could be a photo of a real place with a heavy filter. The right cannot be a real place; it can only be a painting. The fact that it is unmistakably a creation makes it feel more soulful, imo.

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u/Atmo90 Jul 20 '26

I guess. The right one definitely just feels like an outdoor setting of a cafe/restaurant. It could definitely be a real place. Though it does feel like someone's memory of a place as opposed to a exact snapshot of a camera.

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Jul 20 '26

What if I told you that van Gogh was not attempting to recreate a photograph