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Is This Painting Portrait Bizarre or Weird or What?
You decide.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. — Henri Matisse
This is a painting of an imaginary tech guy.
When did bizarre become a word?
The name Bizarre Creations came about in 1994 when the then nameless company needed a temporary name and chose “Weird Concepts.”
A staff member later used Microsoft Word’s Thesaurus on the name, which came up with “Bizarre Creations.”
Is bizarre the same as weird?
Bizarre, fantastic, grotesque, weird share a sense of deviation from what is normal or expected.
Bizarre means are markedly unusual or extraordinarily strange, sometimes whimsically.
What is whimsical?
It's something playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.
“a whimsical sense of humor”
It's something fanciful, waggish, playful, quaint, fantastic, mischievous.
