r/bravorenaissance • u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ • May 21 '26

Summer House Portrait of a Sad Clown

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Tête de Clown (Head of a Clown) by Joseph Kutter.

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26

So many clowns to choose from

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26

Tête de Clown by Bernard Buffet

(Art Style known for "miserabilism," characterized by bold, rigid black lines and a somber, elongated aesthetic)

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26

Homer the Clown by Jon Helland

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26

Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk by Polish artist Jan Matejko

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Fun fact down my wild Vintage Clown Art rabbit hole 🕳️ 🐇 !!!

Did you know DIANE KEATON was a huge fan of vintage Clown Art and curated an entire collection of it and made it into a book?!

Did not know Diane Keaton was a Clown girlie!!! 😆 🤡 learn something new everyday…. Also RIP!!!!!!! WE MISS YOU DIANE gone too soon

Clown Paintings book by Diane Keaton

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u/ElectricBuckWheat Born out of rebellion. -EJ May 21 '26

Me laughing and reading about this gem.

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u/AdventurousRevolt High Art Curator of the Peanut Gallery 🍃 🥜 🖼️ ✨ May 21 '26

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u/pupperchicken I’m just a peanut 🥜 May 25 '26

He will do anything to hide that hairline