[bkind2me]

[lamignonette]

[fiearth]

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas’s paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as ‘vulgar’”.

[vague-space]

Untitled (2009)

[road0flife]

[hibiscusthirtheen]

mommy2djandtori, October 2008

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"lovely table work", suzie (2006)

[m-elloncollie]

fox (2006)

[henk-heijmans]

Cherry and yew - by Sarah Gillespie, English

[thingsfromthedirt]

[justasavebuttonforthemindseye]

window to the jungle

Greece, June 2020

[nemfrog]

A proper rabbit listens to a dapper fish propose marriage. Le Grelot: journal illustré, politique et satirique. August 19, 1873. Cover detail.

University of Heidelberg

[arksluvr]

lookin' out my window, 2002

[miamaimania]

Cityscape sentinel ➤ Yonge Street, Toronto, 1982, as seen from the rooftop of Sam the Record Man

[forestgreenlesbian]

Shell House by architect Jeff Shelton

[soul-luminnous-eyes]

Inna Shirokova, 1937-2019

Circus kids, ca.2014/15, oil on canvas, 150x 90 cm