the museum groupie

history of art | 1820s to 2020s | london, uk 

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This blog fell off the moment I started my MA program 😩😭 I am returning but now with a preference for ✨art memes✨ because now that I only ever focus on art I just want a little giggle!!

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Flora, 1894

Evelyn De Morgan

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French art nouveau fan by artist Tutin

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Night by Edward Okuń (1903)

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Gold and opal necklace attributed to the Artificer’s Guild, c. 1900 (via).

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Illustration from Shakespeare’s Hamlet by John Austen (1922)

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Youth - Arthur F. Mathews (1917)

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Ismenia, 1908 John William Godward

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The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton tapestry, detail / Tree of Life by William Morris tapestry, detail

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Selene by Albert Aublet (1880)

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Patterns by William Morris

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Human Specimens - Michael Mapes

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The victory of faith, 1891 Saint George Hare

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Kehinde Wiley, The Lamentation, 2016, oil on canvas, unknown location.

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Image I: Charles Gesmar, Barbette Poster, 1926, printed ink on paper, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (source).

Image II: Man Ray, Barbette Dressing, 1926, gelatin silver print, The Met, New York (source).

Groupie Fact: American performer Vander Clyde was more widely known as his drag cabaret and trapeze act persona "Barbette." Clyde began working as a circus acrobat in his teens before becoming a vaudeville star in his early 20s. While Barbette was a star among the European entertainment circuit - appearing at venues such as the Moulin Rouge -, she was also a muse to surrealist artists Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Cocteau allegedly fell in love with Clyde's Barbette persona but the relationship did not last. Barbette is immortalized in the intimate photographic portraits Cocteau commissioned Man Ray to take, such as the one seen here.

To learn more about Barbette, click here.

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Nazeer Sabree, Monée, 2022, mural, Wilmer Garden, Philadelphia.

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Francis Edwin Hodge, Tired, 1920s, oil on canvas, Bewdley Museum, Bewdley.

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