Snart / His name is Snart
About
His name is snart, also simply known as Snart refers to a particular painting of Jesus by Fernado Botero, which is often photoshopped with other images on Tumblr.
Origin
The original artwork was painted by Fernando Botero and called Madonna with Child[1] It is done his signature style, known as Boterismo [2] which has certain portions of the figures largely exaggerated. It was finished in 1965.
In late 2014, Tumblr user "Hakvryvv" uploaded a cropped image of Jesus from Botero's although the three most popularly reblogged posts have had their source blogs removed, surviving reblogs indicate that the original post gained a total of 170,500 notes in approximately 6 months.[3]
Spread
On February 10th, a single topic tumblr blog was stated called Snart-the-Cult [4] and began uploading Snart photoshops and other things related to Snart.
Various Examples
External References
[1] Wikiart – Madonna with Child
[2] Wikipedia – Fernando Botero
[3] Tumblr – Hakvryvv: His Name is Snart (post has since been deleted)
[4] Tumblr – Snart-the-Cult
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Dralemeres
Dec 24, 2016 at 07:33PM EST
Snesokk
Dec 24, 2016 at 09:34PM EST