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Jindujun t1_j25ko84 wrote

Reply to comment by BimbleKitty in TIL that an unknown 19th century Japanese artist painted a parody of the sacred scene of the Buddha's death that is commonly called the "Penis Paranirvana", in which the dying Buddha is replaced by a giant anthropomorphic penis being mourned by women and other penises. by JosephvonEichendorff

Speaking of the Fisherman's Wife. Something I find even weirder than this painting is the fact that Picasso was fascinated with it and painted his own version of that painting, Dona i Pop

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Handpaper t1_j25o8ua wrote

Uh uh. The weirdest thing about Tako to Ama (Octopus and the Pearl Diver) is that it is part of a 90-page epic by legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, who also painted Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, including the iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

It would be like having Monet paint the plates for an illustrated 120 Days of Sodom.

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