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Sade Olutola
AnasAbdin

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@theartofmadeline
Misplaced Lens Cap

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if i look back, i am lost
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
KIROKAZE
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Monterey Bay Aquarium

Janaina Medeiros

Love Begins
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JBB: An Artblog!

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@spect-actor
what if i was a tiny animal and i went to bed in an empty tin of sardines. what then
inner peace
frankly I think a lot more people would be open to postmodern art if we all stopped pretending you had to be very smart to understand it and start acknowledging that the starting point for deriving meaning from it is frequently ‘this is stupid bullshit’
To clarify- it’s not just ‘this is stupid’ and then you’re done, finding the meaning in something that seems meaningless can usually be found by starting with that base feeling, ‘This sucks.’ Okay- why does it suck, specifically?
‘This is just a vaccuum cleaner, it doesn’t belong in a museum’. Okay, follow that thread- why is that weird? Is it the elevation of normal commercial products to be put on a pedestal? Does that sentiment remind you of anything? How does that make you feel?
“This is just splatters, anyone could do this.” Anyone could, couldn’t they? Anyone can create things, anyone can make these movements and gestures. Dancing does the same thing, doesn’t it? How do the splatters imply the artist’s movements? What does it say about them?
“This person made a mobile out of twine, flower pots, and pictures of cats. How is this art?” What mediums do you define as ‘art’? Paint? Marble sculpture? Photos? Why are you so sure that this is what art is? Doesn’t this remind you of the kind of crafts a child would make, or maybe a first-time DIYer? Is that intentional? Does the construction or material evoke any other emotions?
This isn’t an end-all be-all, of course- among many other things, there’s postmodern art that’s just for a show of mastery, there’s art that’s commenting on a very certain time in history or about something within the art community you may not be privy to, and there’s art that’s simply about creating and the creative process. It’s hard to approach a full narrative with just a single sentiment. This can’t cover every single topic, obviously.
That being said, it’s just as important to note that in many cases, there’s no wrong answers in art or interpretation. If your takeaway is completely different from the artist, as long as you don’t try to insist that the artist has no real say over their work’s meaning, that’s totally fine. A large part of non-representational art is reliant on emotions, and emotions are informed by your experience as a human being. Your interpretation is just as right as anyone else’s. And you don’t even have to LIKE everything- I hate Jeff Koons and his stupid balloon dogs! Cremaster makes me incredibly uncomfortable and even if that’s the point it’s still uncomfortable enough that it makes me not like it! You can just not like certain art, it’s not all-or-nothing it’s good or it’s not.
TL;DR- if you have a hard time ‘getting’ art, try listening to your base reaction to what you’re looking at, and then ask yourself why it makes you feel that way, and why it’s constructed the way it is.
What’s the difference between the US Capitol and Mordor?
One does not simply walk into Mordor
change your fucking url jeff
being in your 20s is just going to the store
its also about feeling very sad. at the store
notice how “girls mature faster” is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.
• The Astral Man | Original piece by Sascha Schneider in 1903. • Yvonne | Origina piece by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1896. Touched by Clayshaper
Friendly reminder that bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and aromantic people do not experience “straight passing privilege”.
Identity erasure is not a privilege, it is oppression.
‘you are treated as ‘normal’ provided you never speak about or acnowlege your identity’
neither, importantly, do “passing” trans people. or anyone else.
“You are treated as ‘normal’ provided you never speak about or acknowlege your identity.”
Auguste Leroux - Ballerina (detail)
The Good Place (2016-2020)
brah
The Good Place’s take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because we’re all people and we all matter.
Ryan & Shane reunited in person after months of quarantine, get drunk and read ghost stories
bonus:
I’m as anti american as the next angry gay who has to live here but I think perhaps stanning the soviet union.. Isn’t the solution?
Like hot take but I don’t think that was. Good
I feel like the whole subculture of like, 14 year old communists on here is one of the most Bat Shit Insane examples of tumblr’s problem with black and white thinking
Why don’t you guys stan democratic socialism instead?
“My favorite genre of twitter is straight men reacting to Oscar Isaac”
How many more men would be bi if we let them
platonic hand-holding is very good and nice and feels happy we should all do it a lot more instead of making it an almost-exclusively romantic thing send post