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#the phantom of the opera #maria björnson #christine daaé #my art #this one is ink on watercolor paper #and i DO MEAN INK #i used a bottle of the stuff to get the black of his cloak so opaque #do y'all know how stupid it is to get a good dark black with watercolors?!#REAL stupid #so i ruined a paintbrush & just used straight up ink #feels appropriate

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Magical stained glass

mephistopheles

i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE

mephistopheles

me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:

mushroom--soup

first sketch of the new year

#art #my art #sketch #watercolor #painting #hands

wildestbabe

Hanging backstage of the French Opera with the costume-making crew, surrounded by Christian Lacroix’s tutus.

#thanks crickie

ladillados

kontrollsysteme

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

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Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

petermorwood

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

brightwanderer

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

#costumes #costume

calvinandhobbes

i never aimed to give you a talisman!! i had something to say to you!!!!!!!!

ourstrangeduet

“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”

— Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.

behindthemirrorofmusic

Today in 1875 the Paris Opera celebrated its glorious opening inauguration!! This painting by Édouard Detaille was made during the ceremony.

#the Phantom of the Opera

beggars-opera

grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. I see bricks, I see mortar, I see a trowel, I see a cask of wine, I see that asshole Montresor glaring at me over the top of the wall…

iimr3

*hitting you with a stick* no benoit blanc movies should not interact. they should not lead up to something. you need to detox from the marvel/sherlock bbc poisoning. they should be completely independent movies (maybe w some cameos/little references for fun) and go on for as long as there are stories rian johnson wants to tell in this universe. i do not want an overarching plot i do not want a team up i dont want a benoit-focused prequel i want some good old fashioned episodic murder mysteries that have nothing to do with each other!!!!!!!!!!! also rian johnson has literally said he's not gonna do a prequel and he wants the movies to all stand on their own