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Art and Book blog:) Second account is chaoticslimytortilla

[slimy-tortilla]

Hi there!

This is a page for art and book fun facts.

Here’s a few things to know about me:

-I’m a minor so please no nsfw interactions

-I am by no means a professional. I don’t create art, or study it. This is my hobby so I may get some things wrong.

- Lgbt+ friendly page, welcome to all! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

-No MAPS

This is just a light hearted page meant to share my interests with others so please enjoy!

[realmofvenus]

Psyche Before the Throne of Venus - Henrietta Rae, English (1859-1928).

[neptunesdesire]

Details: Anguish, August Friedrich Schenck - 1876/1880

[scheidungsgrund]

Undine rising from the waters, Marble statue by Chauncey Bradley Ives [1810-1894]

[dreamcusp]

Psyche Weeping, Kinuko Y. Craft

[aqua-regia009]

Desdémone (1871) by Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)

[vida-imensa]

Stacy

[darkagelibrary]

And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[slimy-tortilla]

[ID: Self Portrait of Joseph Ducreux pointing and laughing at the viewer. End ID]

Joseph Ducreux

If you’ve ever seen an art meme you’ve probably seen the self portrait of Joseph Ducreux who was an aristocrat, who disregarded the general and classical style of portrait. Ducreux expressed in his works unusual expressions of the body, face and demeanor. His works often conveyed a study called Physiognomy, a pseudoscience and study of the systematic correspondence of psychological characteristics to facial features or body structure. Joseph Ducreux was also the last person to portrait Louis XVI before the King was beheaded.

[ID: Two Self Portraits of Joseph Ducreux. One of him shushing the viewer and the other seemingly surprised. End ID]

[darkestcinema]

baroque in the 21st century

[soft-lovely]

lovers

[slimy-tortilla]

TW: Suicide

Evelyn Mchale- “The most beautiful suicide”

(I am not going to be showing the original photograph, due to disturbing imagery and out if respect)

Evelyn Mchale, a 23 year old bookkeeper, lept from the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. During a time when mental health was immensely stigmatized, Evelyn Hale landed on top of a parked car after leaving a note wishing her family not to see her body. However, these events attracted the attention of a photography student who was stunned by how beautiful Mchale looked in death. Since that day the image has become sensationalized and is referenced across many medias.

[ID: Drew Barrymore in a Neiman Marcus ad, laying on the hood of a damaged purple car. End ID]

[ID: an image from Taylor Swift’s music video ‘Bad Blood’ if her laying on top of a damaged light blue car. End ID]

[ID: Image taken from David Bowies music video titled ‘They say Jump’ while laying on a damaged black car. End ID]

[slimy-tortilla]

[ID: A self-portrait of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun hold paint brushes and a palette. End ID]

Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun

La Brun, a portrait painter grew up with little formal training from her father, who passed away when she turned 12. However, by the late 18th century, Le Brun began painting Queen Mari Antoinette. She painted over 30 portraits for the queen.

When she married and the French revolution began rearing, she quickly fled from France, without her husband who was a gambler. She moved to Italy where she had a relatively successful career and raised her child as a single mother. Le Brun died at the age of 86.

[ID: A portrait if Mari Antoinette holding a pink rose. End ID]

[queenmoriarty]

from hidden places

beyond the walls

a melodious voice

like the voice of an angel

spoke to her

[soft-lovely]

lovers in the garden

[soft-lovely]

books and ball gowns

[catoptrophobick]