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Life Imitates Art

In 1854 a man painted villagers fleeing a coming storm. In 1999 another man photographed a mower working as a Serbian oil refinery burns in the background.

Aleksandra Obradović··1 min read
Oil painting of a shepherd and flock fleeing toward trees under a dark, storm-heavy sky, dwarfed by clouds taking up most of the canvas.
Robert Zünd, Storm-Ridden Landscape, 1854. Oil on canvas, 40.4 × 27.6 cm. Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris.
Photograph of a man mowing grass by hand in a green field, with a massive column of black smoke rising from a burning refinery in the distance behind him.
Zoran Jovanović Mačak, “Kosač” (“The Mower”), 4 April 1999. Vojislav Minić mowing grass in Starčevo, near Pančevo, as the Pančevo oil refinery burns in the background.
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