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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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