Dal?s paintings " Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at a distance of 20 meters is transformed into the portrait of Abraham Lincoln ( Homage to Rothko ), " and the original " Lincoln in Dalivision " lithographs produced from these paintings were some of the first examples of the photomosaic artistic approach by a recognized artist . " " The Recognition of Faces, " by Leon Harmon " " ( Scientific American, November 1973 ) " was the first published work on photomosaic concepts.
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This couch gag features a frame-by-frame montage of previous couch gags that pulls back into a photomosaic of the number " 500 " . " The A . V . Club " critic Hayden Childs wrote that the " best thing about the 500th " Simpsons " episode is the opening couch montage, which hits the nostalgia bullseye almost perfectly . " HitFix's Alan Sepinwall praised the couch gag as being " marvelous ", noting that it " actually made me choke up a bit . " Similarly to Sepinwall, Tim Goodman of " The Hollywood Reporter " wrote : " I got a few laughs and that's all I ever look for in " The Simpsons " these days . I just like knowing it's still there . [ . . . ] It doesn't have the spring in the legs quite like it used to.
