[fordarkmornings]

Élisabeth Chaplin (French-born Tuscan, 1890–1982) – Due nudi o Doppio autoritratto, 1918. Oil on canvas.

[ec-phrasis]

Florine Stettheimer, Lake Placid, 1919

[georgia-o-keeffe]

Red Cannas, Georgia O'Keeffe

[huariqueje]

Good Cherries  -  Piet Sebens

Dutch,b.1961-

Oil and acrylic on panel 25 x 25 cm.

[adunanane]

I don’t really use this anymore. If there are any mutuals left on this platform you can catch me on twitter @soothsayher ✨💕✨

[lovingpaintings]

Mattia Preti, Saint Veronica with the Veil, 1652-1653 (detail) 🎨

[topcat77]

Lisa Zordan

[seaoflove]

the girls are hanging out!

(pierre boncompain)

[julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated]

Sosa Joseph, Girl Reading to Her Buffaloes, 2019

[julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated]

Memory is exhausting. G sits down on the ground. The man had been his oxygen once. When he left there was no oxygen. But cell death can confer advantages. Differentiation of the fingers and toes occurs in a developing human embryo because cells perish in these places. We all make good use of separate digits in our life but then (so Proust) catch sight of an old glove and burst into tears. G weeps thinking of Proust. The oxen arrive softly around him.

Anne Carson, Red Doc>

[barnsburntdownnow]

The Moon Falls a Thousand Times Naeemeh Naeemaei, 2019 From the series Under the Earth, Over the Moon Acrylic and oil on canvas

[barnsburntdownnow]

Yao Daoist Priest Vest (detail) Vietnamese, circa 1970 Silk satin embroidered with silk floss

[grundoonmgnx]

Christto & Andrew, An Unusual Request, 2015

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Gustave Courbet, The Preparation of the Dead Girl, ca. 1850-54

What is a wife? A dead girl. That is the message - unintentional, mind you - of a painting by French artist Gustave Courbet that belongs to Smith College, a famously feminist all-women’s institution in Northampton, Mass.

The 1850s-era work depicts a young bride surrounded by women who are helping her prepare for her wedding. But for many years, there were questions about it. Why is the bride’s head slightly lopsided? Her arms limp by her side? Why is she slumped in her chair?

An X-ray provided the answer. Mr. Courbet had painted a scene of women preparing a dead body for a funeral. He left it unfinished, however, and after he died his sister asked another artist to make adjustments to create a happier scene so the work would sell. Mr. Courbet’s original title, The Preparation of the Dead Girl, had been changed to The Preparation of the Bride.

The Smith College Museum of Art now uses the before-and-after to help teach students about art history and painting technique, says Louise Laplante, the school’s collections manager - not as a comment on marriage.

But maybe the college should, as it would provoke an interesting discussion about wife and husband identities and the roles they encourage. Once divorced, many people discover, quite surprisingly, that parts of their character re-emerge, even though they weren’t aware they had lost or subsumed them while married. Unwittingly, often, they had let some part of themselves fade.

Sarah Hampson, “Marriage: ticket to identity theft”

[neshamama]

betye saar, “wishing for winter,” 1989, mixed media

[nemfrog]

Bees returning to the hive. Harper’s young people. November 18, 1884.

Internet Archive

[adunanane]

Betye Saar, Bookmarks in the Pages of Life

[polkadotmotmot]

Florence Dussuyer - Varanasi, 2020