socially malfunctioning in public

but getting by somehow.tags are entirely for my own dumb comments.

[si-national-museum-of-african-ar]

Plaque, Mid-16th to 17th century, Smithsonian: National Museum of African Art

Size: H x W x D: 47 x 34.2 x 8.2 cm (18 ½ x 13 7/16 x 3 ¼ in.) Medium: Copper alloy

https://africa.si.edu/collections/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:8957

[st-just]

Another subject I should really read a whole book about at some point, because I had legitimately never heard of any of this before.

[moma-paintings]

Assia, Charles Despiau, 1938, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Size: 6’ ¾" (184.8 cm) high, at base 17 x 17" (43.2 x 43.2 cm) Medium: Bronze

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81365

[godsofcosplay]

Morrigan Aensland Cosplay Photographies by Mengjie Luan Cosplay by Yan

[harvard-art-museums-calligraphy]

May God give you glory in both worlds, 19th century, Harvard Art Museums: Calligraphy

This is an example of a rarefied and extremely painstaking genre of calligraphy in which a dried leaf was used for the support. In this case, the leaf appears to be from a horse chestnut tree. Written in a majestic thuluth, the Arabic inscription is be… Size: 21.5 x 10.7 cm (8 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.) Medium: Composition on horse chestnut leaf

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57662

[aic-american]

Toy plate, Artist unknown, 1850, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

The Mrs. Maurice H. Mandelbaum Collection Size: Diam. 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.) Medium: Pressed glass

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83521/

[artist-harry-clarke]

The Year’s at the Spring, 1920, Harry Clarke

[sharlockart]

[moma-paintings]

Broken Blossom, Gandy Brodie, 1960, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Purchase and exchange Size: 25 5/8 x 36 3/8" (65.1 x 92.3 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78825

[thecollectibles]

Art by tobi 泳

[lacetulle]

Schiaparelli | Fall/Winter 2021 Couture

[slam-modern]

Three Women in the Studio, Max Beckmann, 1908, Saint Louis Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13422/

[tarsila-do-amaral]

The Egg, 1928, Tarsila do Amaral

[nudityandnerdery]

Happy Pride, monsterfuckers.

[queer-folk-abroad]

The tentacle looks curved to massage the prostate, lol.

[soulvomit]

Considerate of the monster.

[slovak-national-gallery]

Jaskyňa, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1870, Slovak National Gallery

http://www.webumenia.sk/dielo/SVK:SNG.K_4307-a-b

[aic-modern]

Fleeing Ghost, Paul Klee, 1929, Art Institute of Chicago: Modern Art

Paul Klee’s artistic skills were diverse: he was a painter, printmaker, critic, and theoretician. He taught at the Bauhaus for most of the famed school’s existence; initially head of the bookbinding department, he also supervised the glass-painting workshop. His greatest influence, however, was as a lecturer for the basic design course on the theory of form in art. In lectures, Klee developed his ideas about the “polyphony” of painting, which was based on his interest in simultaneous sensational effects that could be created by various layered formal elements. He believed that this type of creative experimentation could “issue forth a transformed beholder of art” and thus pave the way for total abstraction. Bequest of Claire Zeisler Size: 35 ¼ x 25 in. (89.5 x 63.5 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111664/

[soulvomit]

I have to say…

The cultural context in which mid-century (in which I count the 80s as the tail end of the zeitgeist) “Stalking Is Love” tropes exist, is absolutely as different from today as the cultural context in “Baby, it’s Cold Outside” is from today, and it felt like we were encouraged to want the RIGHT stalker to show up. (Unfortunately, this did send the wrong message to so many dudes, and so many older people, such as the relationships I got pressured into because the guy acted like an 80s rom-com character.) It really seemed like there was a context in fiction where an over-the-top suitor freed up the female character to reciprocate in a cultural context where women are barely supposed to show interest at all and only under the right circumstances.  There is a lot of quasi-traditionalist stuff about the girl’s side of the equation and the same cultural context also insisted on, “girls don’t call boys, ever” and “let him chase you until you catch him.”  Also, I consider “Twilight” the tail end of a certain generational mood of 20th century romantic fiction, not the beginning of YA. Lots about it makes a lot more sense if you read it as an early 20th century story trapped in the body of a 21st century story.