Source: お茶 Ocha (@integral_ashida) - image used with permission

Twitter reacts to painting that got a 2 out of 5 in middle school art class: “It’s genius, so why?!”

Tiwtter user and medical student お茶 Ocha (@integral_ashida) posted a photo of a painting that he did for art class when he was in middle school.

In many Japanese middle schools, assignments are graded on a 5-point scale, with 5 being the highest grade and 1 the lowest. Ocha's painting received a grade of 2, which is relatively poor.

However, when you look at his painting, you may think: "How could this be when his work is so creative?"

Reproduced with permission from お茶 Ocha (@integral_ashida)

The assignment Ocha was given was to draw a centaur, a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.

However, Ocha decided to flip the human to horse ratio and depicted the centaur with the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a human!

Traditional centaurs are depicted with four legs, but Ocha's 'centaur' stands upright with two legs like a human.

The painting elicited numerous comments such as:

"It looks like it belongs on an ancient Egyptian mural..."
"Who knows, this one may fetch quite a handsome price one day."
"This is amazing. It's the same idea as Magritte's Collective Invention. I know that not everyone understands surrealism but I think this deserved full marks."
"If you were to secretly put it in an art museum, I'm sure critics would sing its praises with tears in their eyes..."
"This is so Uma Musume: Pretty Derby lol"

Perhaps with his painting, Ocha was expressing his budding interest in medicine, and he already knew that Hippocrates means "superior in horses."

By - grape Japan editorial staff.