Modern Day Cleopatra

My name is Mya and I adore all things Egyptian.

[theancientwayoflife]

Relief of Ramses II. Medium: Limestone, paint Possible Place Collected: Abydos, Egypt Dates: ca. 1279-1213 B.C.E. Dynasty: XIX Dynasty Period: New Kingdom

[celebsofcolor]

Big Sean and Zoe Kravitz for Alexander Wang

[silenceformysoul]

Pietro Canonica (1869-1959) -  L'Abisso, 1909

[mmqd]

Don’t say you want me Don’t say you need me If you ain’t ready, turn around

[lionofchaeronea]

Fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall painting showing a woman holding a sistrum (rattle), commonly used in the worship of the goddess Isis.  Artist unknown; ca. 1250-1200 BCE (19th Dynasty, New Kingdom).  Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.  Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

[adini-nikolaevna]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (nee Princess Charlotte of Prussia) portrait detail.

[tanyamushayi]

Artist Fred Martins uses the symbol of the Afro Comb to celebrate activists jailed fighting for freedom and fairness

[bornfreek7]

Oh, how you loved an Icarus before he learned to fly, And when he did you loved him more, And when he fell you loved him better.

does grief make the heart grow fonder? /// k.h.l. (via bornfreek7)

[sollertias]

Saint Catherine Crowned by Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520 (detail)

[wearyvoices]

Lupita Nyong'o photographed by Yu Tsai for Rhapsody Magazine | 2015

[exguyparis]

[enclins-deactivated20190826]

Balade au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle - Paris, juillet 2016.

Sculpture d’Emmanuel Frémiet (1895)

[lookingforanepiphany]

Keith Haring in 1989: “Unfinished Painting”. Haring died few months after and this is his last painting. This is supposed to be a self-portrait. Haring knew he wouldn’t have enough time to finish it. This is one of the saddest but certainly the most powerful thing I’ve ever seen.

[auntbutch]

to clarify: this is a finished self portrait. haring did know that he would be unable to continue to work; this “unfinished” painting refers to that self-consciously as a visualization of how the aids crisis and government neglect robbed him of his life and future career.

i feel like this distinction is important? there are many artists who died due to hiv/aids and left unfinished work, but haring made this specifically to comment on his impending death. i feel like stating that it’s actually unfinished takes away some of his agency as an artist/activist/pwa and the political power of the work. 

[maggierogers]

female awesome meme [1/5] female antagonists - Ava, Ex Machina

“Isn’t it strange? To create something that hates you.”

[lovelovelovecontext]

For my art essentials class, we were assigned to create a museum exhibition over the topic of our choice. I decided to name mine “Female Pharaohs and Feminine Royalty in Egyptian Society” which focused on female royalty in Egyptian society. On Monday, I was the first to present, and I was incredibly nervous since I had spent so much time and effort on my exhibition. I prefer to keep things succinct and to the point, so speaking for five minutes to ten minutes was a challenge for me. As I started to go over the elements I had discussed in my paper it became easier for me to present and make eye contact with others. Some elements I discussed in my paper included: theme, the artifacts on view, color, light, and traffic capabilities. In the paper, the element I had the most trouble talking about was light. I never really noticed how museums lit up certain artworks and at what intensity they would choose to keep the artworks from deteriorating. 

[awesomepharoah-deactivated20240]

Bust of Nefertiti (detail) ca.  1353-1336 B.C.E, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Amarna period *

[snorlaxatives]

“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Malcolm Arakanbe. I’m a straight-A student with nearly perfect SAT scores. I play in a punk band with my friends and I’m a 90s hip hop geek. A bad day for most geeks would be being the butt of jokes but when you live in the Bottoms, a bad day could look like this.” Dope (2015) dir. Rick Famuyiwa