A beautifully blued, silvered, and gilt elbow Gauntlet,
Length: 21.5 in/54.6 cm
Germany, late 16th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A beautifully blued, silvered, and gilt elbow Gauntlet,
Length: 21.5 in/54.6 cm
Germany, late 16th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I have multiple dead horses that I beat regularly
Feige Waterfall (Feigefossen), Lysterfjord, Norway
1848
Johan Christian Clausen Dahl
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
William Moore Davis
Dandelions, 1859
the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this
Susan Sontag, Death Kit (originally published 1967)
You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
Kill the censor in your head.
In particular—as part of learning about the craft of writing involves learning about the different ways people think (and thought)—it becomes vital to read and view things made outside your own period. Thus is because every time has its own blind spots. To read or watch only one period’s works is to confine yourself inside a bubble where you will be forever unconscious of where your own time’s blindnesses lie, and will be condemning yourself to keep condoning/committing them.
Look outside. Learn other times’ habits, other times’ errors of thought. It’s a good way to keep from accidentally reinventing and committing them yourself. (Because some ideas and behaviors are, under the surface, depressingly cyclic. They just change their clothes.)
And something else to think about: A time will come when the writers / artmakers of the not-too-distant future will look back at our “modern” day and shake their heads and say, “wow, look at the way they were, could they even see/hear themselves? WTF.” Don’t assume that just because you’re working in a time when you’re trying to get things more right than in the theoretically less-moral past, that your time has it right either. Human beings, and the art they make, are by definition works in process. Keep your eyes open for the ways in which your work may need not only to surpass the errors of the past, but avoid and correct those of the popular present.
Disturbed
1908
Henry Keller
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo
1851
Ary Scheffer
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Cottage by the River with Washerwomen
1835
Camille Flers
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Durham, Connecticut
1858
George Inness
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
haha yeah it's fine [that broke my heart a little]
Mildred Anne Butler (Irish, 1858-1941), “Shades of Evening” (1904)
Source: National Gallery of Ireland
Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things
Passion Flower. Temple of Flora. 1812. Robert John Thornton.
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Flowers in a Vase
circa 1669
Simon Verelst
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.