Baby, heaven's in your eyes

todo es una broma cósmica

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Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918)

The Vision of Saint Hubert, 1916

More Schiele

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The dances of death: By Jacques Antony Chovin (1720-1776). Published between 1744 to 1830.

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did we all have a goldfish growing up who we liked to call "friend"? polly jones / margaret preston / vittorio reggianini / elizabeth nourse / henri matisse / janet fish

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Self-portraits by women, 1900-1920:

Hanna Hirsch-Pauli (Swedish, 1864 - 1940)

Marianne von Werefkin (Russian, 1860 - 1938)

Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884 - 1967)

Else Berg (Dutch, 1877 - 1942)

Vera Rockline (Russian / French, 1896 - 1934)

Maria Wiik (Finnish, 1853 - 1928) 

Lucie Cousturier (French, 1870 - 1925) 

Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871 - 1944)

Alice Bailly (Swiss, 1872 - 1938)

Gwen John (Welsh, 1876 - 1939)

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Portrait d'un jeune africain (Portrait of a Young African), Marie-Gabriel Biessy, 1885

Oil on panel 35 x 26.5 cm (13 ¾ x 10 ½ in.)

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Self-portraits by women, 1920-1940:

Jessica Dismorr (English, 1885 - 1939)

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865 - 1938)

Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (German, 1899 - 1940) 

Anita Rée (German, 1885 - 1933) 

Wanda Gág (American, 1893 - 1946)

Emily Carr (Canadian, 1871 - 1945) 

Catherine Denkman Wentworth (American, 1865 - 1948) 

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867 - 1945) 

Amrita Sher-Gil (Indian, 1913 - 1941) 

Pegi Nicol MacLeod (Canadian, 1904 - 1949)

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BK0075, Miho Kajioka, 2011

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rip petőfi sándor he wouldve loved montero (call me by your name) by lil nas x

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Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889, Oil on canvas 🎨

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Sketch of Arbutus, John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond Size: 22.8 x 29.2 cm (9 x 11 ½ in.) Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/310330

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Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees, 1888, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: oil,canvas

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Vivienne Westwood Spring 2015

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Corset from Vivienne Westwood - Spring 1992

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Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 1994.

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vivienne westwood corsets

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kate moss @ a vivienne westwood show // van gogh’s “amandier en fleur”, 1890

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I hate talented, evil/problematic people in such a brokenhearted way. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is such a good look at mental illness and institutionalization but she has  racist personal sentiments hiding among her prose. Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd was a huge part of my childhood, and learning of the absolutely vile rhetoric that its creator espouses was like a slap in the face. My gut sank when I learned that Roald Dahl, the author of the classic anti-abuse children’s book Matilda, was anti-semitic.

But it’s true that bad or cruel or evil people can be talented. Many are. And it’s okay to enjoy their work, but it isn’t okay to pretend that their work is authorless, or to pretend that the author of the work is “dead” in that their life has no bearing on their work. The personal views of these authors bleed through into their writing, and in order to recognize and address them, we need to consider these authors very much alive, to say that yes, this moment in this story is racist, and it is because the author was racist. Saying that a book, show, or movie is authorless simply divorces bigotry from the person who wrote it. Authors need to be held accountable, not swept under the rug.

Quick note: The reason I did not cite Rowling as an example is that I do not consider her talented, even though all of the stuff in the second paragraph about holding her accountable for the problematic aspects of her work still holds true. Thank you for your time.