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I'm trying to paint every weekend but i might switch to winter paintings now.
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Fall paintings
I'm trying to paint every weekend but i might switch to winter paintings now.
"Modernity Through Tradition"
Ancient Egyptian Interiors by Hassan Ragab
Sometimes we could all use a reminder. (source)
starting a foundation that gives disadvantaged children one wild ass night at the club
Cinderella
From The New Anecdota Americana, 1944
diversity win! this farmer is poly
The number of people in the notes who forgot/didn’t know that ‘hand’ is short for ‘farmhand’ and just assumed that the farmer for some reason had a sapient detached hand is sending me
It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking "criminals" are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted
For fuck sake.
wapo are excusing war crimes.
Be honest: The IDF left those kids to die. Because they never saw them as human in the first place.
Every Israeli spokesperson on TV these days: “There is absolutely no humanitarian crisis in Gaza”
Because you never saw them as human beings in the first place.
remember when i used to art
hold up is this why no one’s reblogging it? 🤣🤣🤣 it’s a colored pencil drawing lol!
cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces
He also said this about the snake.
All of this is hilarious, but a gorgeous quote from the same interview:
“In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling. It’s a reminder that there’s still so much to learn about our wild world — and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere. On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and right now, one million species are teetering on the edge of oblivion. We have an existential mandate to mend our broken relationship with nature and protect the places that sustain life.”
Derry Girls (2018-2022)
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There is a parallel universe where Tumblr is actually a great functioning site
its exactly as shitty but every other social media site is worse by comparison
It’s true. I started calling “the cloud” offsite storage, and the comprehension that dawns in my customers’ eyes is super gratifying. They understand external hard drives, but many couldn’t wrap their heads around this mystical floating in the air storage–because that’s not how it works at all. You’re just using space on someone else’s hard drive.
[Image is a t-shirt which reads:
There is no cloud It’s just someone else’s computer]
I explain this to eeeevery patron who comes in to ask for tech help etc. I find ways to explain it, because it’s important.
“Oh ‘the cloud’ is just what they decided to call it. What it actually means is that you use the internet to connect to some dedicated computer somewhere where your file is stored, and then you can access that file, which is why it only works with an internet connection. You’re just renting space on a computer the company owns.”
Suddenly everything is less mysterious.
so was no one was gonna tell me that the painting saturn devouring his son was found painted directly onto the walls of the artist’s home after he died and that it may not even be depicting the greek legend, that’s just the most common interpretation??????
hello????
Not only was it painted on the wall of his house, it was painted on the wall of his dinning room.
Like imagine you go over to your boy's house for dinner and that's across from you while you eat. Like would you say something or just
Francisco de Goya's Black Paintings are fucking nuts. Like if you look at Goya's other work, there's plenty of darkness, after all, one of his his other most famous paintings, The Third Of May 1808, depicts a firing squad executing innocent civilians during the Peninsular Wars.
He also did an entire series called The Disasters Of War, which were stark presentations of the brutality of war. Goya understood violence. Understood that deep dark part of us that comes out when we are engaged in battle with a foreign power, or even with our own country. His artwork prior to the Black Paintings contains plenty of dark, powerful imagery... But that wasn't all Goya was great at. He also painted the Maja.
While I'm using La maja vestida because Tumblr will probably have me drawn and quartered if I post La maja desnuda, that one's the important one. It was one of the first Western paintings to depict nudity outside of a religious or mythological context and without negativity. It was an unabashed depiction of the female form without any of the usual artistic justifications of the time. It was also one of the first to depict female pubic hair without negative connotations behind that, since usually pubic hair was only presented in artwork of women seen as "unclean" or "immoral", such as prostitutes. Yes, even back in the day, there was that weird anti-pube thing. Goya just... Painted a nude woman. No justification. Just a nude without any of the usual justification.
He nearly got tried by the Spanish Inquisition over it, albeit in the years their power was waning, but that's a story for another day.
Goya was capable of incredible things. His painting of Manuel Godoy is a brilliant piece of subtle, intricate artistic satire, his painting of Charles IV and his family is flattering without being absurd, still presenting them as people, his fresco Adoration In The Name Of God might just be my favorite religious fresco ever.
Look at this. Holy shit.
And of course there's The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters.
Anyway my point is that Goya's artwork was intensely varied, even to the end of his career. One of the man's latest self-portraits (well, self-caricatures) depicts him as an elderly man, thick beard and head of hair, two canes, long robe, and has a single phrase written above him.
"Aun aprendo". I am still learning.
But the Black Paintings are what people know most about Goya, and yeah. I'm with you, the Black Paintings are nuts. They depict the mental state of a man whose mental state was growing darker and darker over the prior three decades.
You see, Goya went deaf because of an unspecified illness. His artwork's increasing darkness following this is often seen as a reflection of his increasing insular, isolated state, the worsening of symptoms such as tinnitus, loss of balance, all led to him becoming more withdrawn. It might've been Ménière's disease. It might've been lead poisoning. We don't know.
What we do know is that Goya proceeded to paint the Black Paintings directly on the walls of his home, the Quinta del Sordo (The House Of The Deaf Man, named that prior to Goya even owning it) due to a conscious decision to withdraw from the public eye following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and the rejection of the Spanish constitution of 1812, and started to suppress his own works. The Black Paintings weren't meant to be seen. They were the artwork of a man who saw his country start to turn towards the old, bad ways once again, drifting closer to medievalism than it had previously, at the same time he was becoming more and more isolated due to his deafness, his fear of old age and madness creeping up on him, and so he decided to get his despair out through art. Saturn Devouring His Son might be what we all know, but the Black Paintings are 14 paintings, not just one.
And here are a few of my favorites.
The Dog.
Women Laughing.
Fight With Cudgels.
Witches' Sabbath.
The Fates.
I can't post any more images but I hope you enjoyed this dip into Goya's career and I hope you look into it more deeply yourselves, because there is an incredible amount of power in his work. The Disasters Of War is deeply upsetting even to this day. The man had power behind his art and he knew how to wield it.
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The outlet is currently in beef with the Queensland state government after publishing leaks that they are planning to sack the Premier.
that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing