you might remember the time i went to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. if you don't, the post i linked isn't TECHNICALLY required reading but it's the post where i settled on the format you'll see in this post and gives additional context that you might find interesting and will more than likely make it more enjoyable.
DO NOTE THAT THIS POST CONTAINS:
DISCUSSIONS OF NAZISM AND IMAGERY ASSOCIATED WITH IT
NON-SEXUAL NUDITY
IF ANY OF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT IN THE HEADSPACE TO LOOK AT OR READ ABOUT, YOU CAN SKIP THIS POST. YOUR MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.
FOREWORD
yes bro i'm putting a foreword in my tumblr post i dont't give a FUCK!!!!!
with that being said, i spend nearly all day in the museum for one very good reason: there was so much art that i honestly considered throwing in the towel on making this post at all since it'd take an absurd amount of time to think of something to say about every piece i took a photo of. and the best part?
there's still MORE than what i took photos of! but you'd have to go see it yourself! either way though: since i considered making a tumblr post to be off the table, i figured i should instead go through my photos and present the works that i actually have things to say about to my friend @gimpyimpy (she's also the reason why i decided to do this despite because she is fucking awesome and cool like that. i'm also stealing some of her commentary because fuck you i don't care i'm evil)
ok now onto the post
IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGE: SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM
i'm by no means a history buff, but the polish were among the people hitler wanted to kill the most. which, of course, means i know a couple things about world war 2. at least i think so. this exhibition (and all the others, save for one) were divided into chapters but i'm not gonna bother with that because it's booboo baby shit and also i think that would just clutter the post even more.
PRZYJAŹŃ (POMNIK PRZYJAŹNI POLSKO-RADZIECKIEJ) by ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW
close friends of mine might know me as a vehement fujoshi. and i'm proud to say i lived up to that title because my first instinct was to think "YAOI YAAAY!!!!" which. it probably isn't. and i think a lot of people would get mad at me for doing this because You Are Literally Polish Why Are You Shipping Your Country With The Soviets. because it's fucking FUN okay.
POUPEE 2 by CLAUDE CAHUN
to me, the notable thing about this is that the use of newspaper almost feels like it's foreshadowing jamie reid's method of collaging bits and pieces of newspaper together in his graphic design. i don't think i have much to say about this, but L'Humanite, which makes up the doll's body, is something to be kept in mind.
LA NUAGE ARTICULATE by WOLFGANG PAALEN
first things first: this is actually a copy! as for how accurate it is i can't tell because i didn't know wolfgang paalen personally. it's good enough for it to catch my eye though. at first i thought it was covered in foam but apparently it's sponges! which, of course, begs the question: why? isn't an umbrella supposed to keep the water? yeah but this isn't for human use so i don't care.
TETE DE L'ANGE DU FOYER by MAX ERNST
what the hell? that's an angel? that doesn't look like an angel at all! that looks like some sort of demon from hell! which makes sense, because if this is any angel, it's one of death and destruction, both of which are things that are generally frowned upon. impy noted that it looks like it's absorbing itself, possibly turning to itself after destroying everything else and still feeling the urge to destroy.
LE BON EUROPEEN by ANDRE MASSON
to me, the title (The Good European) calls to mind when members of marginalized groups call themselves "one of the good ones" when trying to suck up to people in power who more often than not couldn't care less and would revel in killing them.
UNTITLED by ESTEBAN FRANCES
one of the many untitled pieces in this exhibitions, and there's no description either! at first i started out looking for art in order to accumulate a shitton of reference material and inspiration, and while that has mostly taken a backseat in favor of just Experiencing Things, this is a piece that really struck me. wonderful wonderful stuff. i should steal some techniques for when i draw stuff that happens at night.
CABEZA DE CABALLO by PABLO PICASSO
honestly i don't have much to add here. i guess it was refreshing to see something i could recognize as a proper Thing that Exists but also it's Pablo Fucking Picasso. that man is despicable in ways that i don't think i can get into here. so i don't think i can add much else
JOHN BANTING by HUMPHREY SPENDER
i love this picture because if i were to get around to drawing something political it'd probably be something like this. it gives me a hearty laugh. i fuck with all the art of your cart toon characters killing nazis but i think we also need silly stuff like this. or not cause that guy got arrested for doing this!!!!!
WILDER AUFBRUCH and 1945 by HANNAH HOCH
i actually saw 1945 first, and i immediately thought it looked like 2 people trying to rest after something difficult and stressful. i'd like to note the bluish figure assuming a more animalistic form in Savage Outbreak combined with how ready it is to run away from danger. as for hoch herself (AND THIS WILL BE LARGELY UNRELATED TO THE PIECE I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT), despite people (MOSTLY) claiming to vehemently hate the nazis, the way they called artists like her "degenerate" and showed their works to others, talking about how they felt horror and disgust while simultaneously making exhibits for them reminds me of how in modern day you have (had? i don't see this kind of thing anymore) people making entire videos and livings off of just pointing at fetish art and going "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!" as if they're not more than likely the sole reason why their audiences were exposed to these kinds of things.
after seeing a couple more pieces that i don't feel i have enough to say about, i found myself in a wooden room with a view of the city. of course, i wasn't tired yet, so i figured i should just open the door. and on the other side i saw this.
LE DEMI-POUPEE by HANS BELLMER
notably, this is actually based on an earlier work of bellmer's, referred to as The Doll. either way, i didn't know that when i saw it, so all i could really pick up was "oh! that's a commentary on men's subjugation of women!" which is a theme that'll show up in another piece of his. i like the one singular boob, it reminds me of how a young boy who's just getting started drawing his faps would draw breasts. impy noted that the doll's shape kind of reminded her of a penis too, which makes sense. phallic imagery and all that. the way it also represents a fragmented past in the form of a doll with body parts that aren't in the right places kind of reminds me (at the cost of revealing my hand, which is that of an evil ass zoomer) of the backrooms movie.
SANS TITRE (FEMMES CORDES) by HANS BELLMER
i didn't pay much mind to this until i read the plaque next to it and realized what the subject matter was. unfortunately most of my commentary after that came down to "oh so it's kinda like mighty jill off." because i'm autistic like that. with that being said when i started talking about it with impy i quickly realized Oh! It's about women being subjugated by men and being treated as if they were nothing but fuckmeat! Okay!
HERMAPHRODITE by HANS BELLMER
people would have you believe that any form of queerness came about in the 2010s, which'll probably be pushed into the 2020s, 2030s etc etc as time goes on. but it turns out that hans bellmer asked himself the question of "what if a girl had a weewee" all the way in (by my estimation; this piece was not dated) the 1940s! (he definitely asked himself that between his birth in 1902 and his death in 1975, both of which are not very close to the 2010s). i'd also like to note the way the girl almost looks like she has no skin to speak of, only muscles, which i think makes the piece all the more intimate.
WURZELLABIRYNTH by HEINZ TROKES
please god deltarune fans get in on this. it's literally a labirynth made of roots. guys. please. that being said it also kinda looks like lungs, with some of the roots looking like veins and arteries. interesting!
O TANNENBAUM IN DEUTSCHE RAUM, WIE KRUMM SIND DEINE ASTE! by JOHN HEARTFIELD
if i had to assign meaning to this, i'd tell you it's probably about the nazis deciding that religion is an incredibly silly thing that germany doesn't need. they're the ubermensch after all, the overman, the ideal human beings! they don't need some bullshit like GOD.... and while i do have my own thoughts on religion i do need to say they were really fucking stupid about it.
LE MINOTAURE OU LE DICTATEUR by ERWIN BLUMENFELD
i actually thought this was made of 2 works, this one and Grauenfresse (which if tumblr is nice to me i'll go over later). but it isn't! that being said i do enjoy the fact that while the minotaur is menacing, it also does just kind of look like a dumb animal. kinda reflects how people see hitler, and probably how they saw him back then as well. a dipshit who's using his power to destroy everything in sight.
GRAUENFRESSE by ERWIN BLUMENFELD
it's easy to see what blumenfeld meant by this. hitler, having killed so many people, could easily pass as the face of death, and what better way to represent that than to literally make him a skull? that being said something about this reminds me a lot of early internet horror and creepypastas. stuff like dead bart. people loved their skulls back in the day.
THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF SHIT I CAN SHOW BUT !!!!! I HAVE TO GATHER MY THOUGHTS. SO I'LL PROBABLY GET TO IT TOMORROW
My favs are Hermaphrodite and Sans Titre heehee. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING TO ME ABOUT THESEE HEHEHEHE they have been such big inspirations and interesting joys to see!!! Its almost like I went to the museum myself hehehe.
you might remember the time i went to the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. if you don't, the post i linked isn't TECHNICALLY required reading but it's the post where i settled on the format you'll see in this post and gives additional context that you might find interesting and will more than likely make it more enjoyable.
DO NOTE THAT THIS POST CONTAINS:
DISCUSSIONS OF NAZISM AND IMAGERY ASSOCIATED WITH IT
NON-SEXUAL NUDITY
IF ANY OF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT IN THE HEADSPACE TO LOOK AT OR READ ABOUT, YOU CAN SKIP THIS POST. YOUR MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS.
FOREWORD
yes bro i'm putting a foreword in my tumblr post i dont't give a FUCK!!!!!
with that being said, i spend nearly all day in the museum for one very good reason: there was so much art that i honestly considered throwing in the towel on making this post at all since it'd take an absurd amount of time to think of something to say about every piece i took a photo of. and the best part?
there's still MORE than what i took photos of! but you'd have to go see it yourself! either way though: since i considered making a tumblr post to be off the table, i figured i should instead go through my photos and present the works that i actually have things to say about to my friend @gimpyimpy (she's also the reason why i decided to do this despite because she is fucking awesome and cool like that. i'm also stealing some of her commentary because fuck you i don't care i'm evil)
ok now onto the post
IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGE: SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM
i'm by no means a history buff, but the polish were among the people hitler wanted to kill the most. which, of course, means i know a couple things about world war 2. at least i think so. this exhibition (and all the others, save for one) were divided into chapters but i'm not gonna bother with that because it's booboo baby shit and also i think that would just clutter the post even more.
PRZYJAŹŃ (POMNIK PRZYJAŹNI POLSKO-RADZIECKIEJ) by ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW
close friends of mine might know me as a vehement fujoshi. and i'm proud to say i lived up to that title because my first instinct was to think "YAOI YAAAY!!!!" which. it probably isn't. and i think a lot of people would get mad at me for doing this because You Are Literally Polish Why Are You Shipping Your Country With The Soviets. because it's fucking FUN okay.
POUPEE 2 by CLAUDE CAHUN
to me, the notable thing about this is that the use of newspaper almost feels like it's foreshadowing jamie reid's method of collaging bits and pieces of newspaper together in his graphic design. i don't think i have much to say about this, but L'Humanite, which makes up the doll's body, is something to be kept in mind.
LA NUAGE ARTICULATE by WOLFGANG PAALEN
first things first: this is actually a copy! as for how accurate it is i can't tell because i didn't know wolfgang paalen personally. it's good enough for it to catch my eye though. at first i thought it was covered in foam but apparently it's sponges! which, of course, begs the question: why? isn't an umbrella supposed to keep the water? yeah but this isn't for human use so i don't care.
TETE DE L'ANGE DU FOYER by MAX ERNST
what the hell? that's an angel? that doesn't look like an angel at all! that looks like some sort of demon from hell! which makes sense, because if this is any angel, it's one of death and destruction, both of which are things that are generally frowned upon. impy noted that it looks like it's absorbing itself, possibly turning to itself after destroying everything else and still feeling the urge to destroy.
LE BON EUROPEEN by ANDRE MASSON
to me, the title (The Good European) calls to mind when members of marginalized groups call themselves "one of the good ones" when trying to suck up to people in power who more often than not couldn't care less and would revel in killing them.
UNTITLED by ESTEBAN FRANCES
one of the many untitled pieces in this exhibitions, and there's no description either! at first i started out looking for art in order to accumulate a shitton of reference material and inspiration, and while that has mostly taken a backseat in favor of just Experiencing Things, this is a piece that really struck me. wonderful wonderful stuff. i should steal some techniques for when i draw stuff that happens at night.
CABEZA DE CABALLO by PABLO PICASSO
honestly i don't have much to add here. i guess it was refreshing to see something i could recognize as a proper Thing that Exists but also it's Pablo Fucking Picasso. that man is despicable in ways that i don't think i can get into here. so i don't think i can add much else
JOHN BANTING by HUMPHREY SPENDER
i love this picture because if i were to get around to drawing something political it'd probably be something like this. it gives me a hearty laugh. i fuck with all the art of your cart toon characters killing nazis but i think we also need silly stuff like this. or not cause that guy got arrested for doing this!!!!!
WILDER AUFBRUCH and 1945 by HANNAH HOCH
i actually saw 1945 first, and i immediately thought it looked like 2 people trying to rest after something difficult and stressful. i'd like to note the bluish figure assuming a more animalistic form in Savage Outbreak combined with how ready it is to run away from danger. as for hoch herself (AND THIS WILL BE LARGELY UNRELATED TO THE PIECE I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT), despite people (MOSTLY) claiming to vehemently hate the nazis, the way they called artists like her "degenerate" and showed their works to others, talking about how they felt horror and disgust while simultaneously making exhibits for them reminds me of how in modern day you have (had? i don't see this kind of thing anymore) people making entire videos and livings off of just pointing at fetish art and going "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!" as if they're not more than likely the sole reason why their audiences were exposed to these kinds of things.
after seeing a couple more pieces that i don't feel i have enough to say about, i found myself in a wooden room with a view of the city. of course, i wasn't tired yet, so i figured i should just open the door. and on the other side i saw this.
LE DEMI-POUPEE by HANS BELLMER
notably, this is actually based on an earlier work of bellmer's, referred to as The Doll. either way, i didn't know that when i saw it, so all i could really pick up was "oh! that's a commentary on men's subjugation of women!" which is a theme that'll show up in another piece of his. i like the one singular boob, it reminds me of how a young boy who's just getting started drawing his faps would draw breasts. impy noted that the doll's shape kind of reminded her of a penis too, which makes sense. phallic imagery and all that. the way it also represents a fragmented past in the form of a doll with body parts that aren't in the right places kind of reminds me (at the cost of revealing my hand, which is that of an evil ass zoomer) of the backrooms movie.
SANS TITRE (FEMMES CORDES) by HANS BELLMER
i didn't pay much mind to this until i read the plaque next to it and realized what the subject matter was. unfortunately most of my commentary after that came down to "oh so it's kinda like mighty jill off." because i'm autistic like that. with that being said when i started talking about it with impy i quickly realized Oh! It's about women being subjugated by men and being treated as if they were nothing but fuckmeat! Okay!
HERMAPHRODITE by HANS BELLMER
people would have you believe that any form of queerness came about in the 2010s, which'll probably be pushed into the 2020s, 2030s etc etc as time goes on. but it turns out that hans bellmer asked himself the question of "what if a girl had a weewee" all the way in (by my estimation; this piece was not dated) the 1940s! (he definitely asked himself that between his birth in 1902 and his death in 1975, both of which are not very close to the 2010s). i'd also like to note the way the girl almost looks like she has no skin to speak of, only muscles, which i think makes the piece all the more intimate.
WURZELLABIRYNTH by HEINZ TROKES
please god deltarune fans get in on this. it's literally a labirynth made of roots. guys. please. that being said it also kinda looks like lungs, with some of the roots looking like veins and arteries. interesting!
O TANNENBAUM IN DEUTSCHE RAUM, WIE KRUMM SIND DEINE ASTE! by JOHN HEARTFIELD
if i had to assign meaning to this, i'd tell you it's probably about the nazis deciding that religion is an incredibly silly thing that germany doesn't need. they're the ubermensch after all, the overman, the ideal human beings! they don't need some bullshit like GOD.... and while i do have my own thoughts on religion i do need to say they were really fucking stupid about it.
LE MINOTAURE OU LE DICTATEUR by ERWIN BLUMENFELD
i actually thought this was made of 2 works, this one and Grauenfresse (which if tumblr is nice to me i'll go over later). but it isn't! that being said i do enjoy the fact that while the minotaur is menacing, it also does just kind of look like a dumb animal. kinda reflects how people see hitler, and probably how they saw him back then as well. a dipshit who's using his power to destroy everything in sight.
GRAUENFRESSE by ERWIN BLUMENFELD
it's easy to see what blumenfeld meant by this. hitler, having killed so many people, could easily pass as the face of death, and what better way to represent that than to literally make him a skull? that being said something about this reminds me a lot of early internet horror and creepypastas. stuff like dead bart. people loved their skulls back in the day.
THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF SHIT I CAN SHOW BUT !!!!! I HAVE TO GATHER MY THOUGHTS. SO I'LL PROBABLY GET TO IT TOMORROW
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