# Who's the original artist behind these illustrations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398 "2006-11-07T07:04:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![betazilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@betazilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betazilla)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398/21 "2006-11-10T04:30:45Z")

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Thanks for the additional help and recommendations, I’m really appreciating checking out all this great art!

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398/22 "2006-11-10T05:25:04Z")

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I couldn’t open **Tengu** ’s link, but I found three others.  
[One](http://www.imageraptor.com/cabernet/jyerka1.htm)  
[Two](http://www.yerka.pl/Yerka-pic.html)  
[Three](http://www.museummorpheus.com/contemp/yerka/)  
None have E-mail addresses, either.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398/23 "2006-11-10T05:35:06Z")

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Oh, and that would be [Salvador Dali](http://www.dali-gallery.com/) meets [Rene’ Magritte](http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html), [Hieronymus Bosch](http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch.html) and [Pieter Brueghel](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/), according to the biography.

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398/24 "2006-11-10T11:23:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Trunk]  
That’s funny. I was thinking “Escher meets Kinkade”.  
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It is aesthetically impossible for Escher to meet Kinkade.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-original-artist-behind-these-illustrations/379398/25 "2006-11-10T14:05:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Terrifel]  
It is aesthetically impossible for Escher to meet Kinkade.  
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If Escher met Kinkade, he would put a boot up his ass and kick him in the teeth.

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