Names and explanations under the cut as always for those who want them <3
Thank you to @sgtjakes who helped lots 🩷
Alfred Graves:
His was like the third I did, ever, I just never did the others until more recently
Wheatfield with Cypresses - Vincent Van Gogh - “shades of blue” (also I’ve seen it in person and it’s soooo pretty)
The Water Lily Pond - Claude Monet - when I made this one I’d seen it in person like a week before and I adore it
Death (1897) - Janis Rozentāls - reminded of the uniform he has to wear when he goes to try and save the girls in s1e5
Northern Light - Bror Lindh - Blue and it’s an Aurora (and it matches her too)
Still Life with Cherries and Peaches - Paul Cézanne - Cherries with garlic and salt! My favourite little freak <333
The Dog - Francisco Goya - it’s pathetic and so’s he (affectionate)
Among the Waves - Ivan Aivazovsky - Blue innit
Water lilies - Claude Monet - Blue againnnn
Crucifixion - Francis Bacon - Reminded me of when his vision goes black and white when he’s tied up and being tortured
Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh - Surprise surprise, it’s blue
Aurora Luft:
Single penguin in the dark, aurora - David Abbey-Paige - it’s the Aurora Australis (southern lights) and I liked the penguin
Aurora Triumphing over Night - Jean-Honoré Fragonard - She’s called Aurora, it’s on the nose but I don’t care
Almond Blossoms - Vincent Van Gogh - Matches Alfred’s Van Gogh’s and she also wears a fair amount of blue (and is also blue to Alfred)
The two girlfriends - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - is this because I think Aurora and Sabine should have lezzed out? Yeah.
Water lilies, red - Claude Monet - Matches Alfred, but also she wears red lipstick regularly
Clytemnestra - John Collier - that is one vengeful woman, and so’s Aurora (albeit in a different way)
Morning Star - Alphonse Mucha - Aurora (the Roman goddess) isn’t technically the morning star but I still think it fits for Aurora (Luft). Plus I love Mucha
The Frigate “Aurora” - Ivan Aivazovsky - His. Paintings. Are so. Yummy. And it’s called Aurora so.
Birth of Venus - Botticelli - It just vibed honestly
A Cloud Study, Sunset - John Constable - Her name is Aurora Luft, which means air, therefore clouds!
Northern Light - Bror Lindh - Aurora Borealis this time! And matches Alfred!
Neil MacKay:
The Nightmare - John Henry Fuseli - He has those nightmares about the German soldier he killed
Battle of the Standard, Northallerton, 22nd August 1138 - John Gilbert - He mentions his nice is in Northallerton when he’s talking to the bombardier they rescue and it stuck out to me (probably cause I’m Northern™️)
The Dog - Francisco Goya - He matches Alfred, and he does feel quite dog-ish, and it’s brown
Academic Study of a Male Torso - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (yeah that’s a triple hyphenated name) - Neil’s tits. I couldn’t not include some reference to them.
The Meadow - Alfred Sisley - He’s just so meadowful. And I know he was a farm lad as a boy I can Feel It
Figures in a landscape - Francis Bacon - it’s brown, and my Francis bacon weakness strikes again
Birch Forest - Gustav Klimt - He’s very woodsy in general, but also they all spend a lot of time in the woods
Nine Dragons (detail, it’s one of them) - Chen Rong - He was a police officer in Shanghai pre-spying
Water lilies - Claude Monet - It matches Alfred! (And by extension Aurora, but Alfred specifically)
Wheatfield with Crows - Vincent Van Gogh - Matches Alfred’s Wheatfield, and is a bit darker and moodier
Study of poppies - John Constable - poppies are a war thing. That’s about it really.
Harry James:
Gallery of the Louvre - Samuel Morse - Painted by the man who invented Morse code!!
The Railroad bridge in Argenteuil - Claude Monet - he does blow a bridge up in episode one
Joan of Arc - John Everett Millais - he dies fighting for what he believes in
Crocuses (maybe, I couldn’t find a specific name for it, but those are crocuses at any rate) - Karol Klosowski - it’s pretty, and it’s a meadow and I thought it fit him
Tragedy - Gustav Klimt - both him and Tom dying is very tragic so it fit in my mind
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas - Caravaggio - He’s called Thomas and he gets a side wound like Jesus. Yes it’s tenuous, no I don’t care.
The Flame (Goddess of Fire) - Odilon Redon - His whole thing is blowing stuff up, that’s quite flame-ful
Autumn - Alphonse Mucha - mostly just vibes and matches Spring in Tom’s
City on Fire - Olga Rosanova - again, he blows things up a fair amount
Wheatstacks (End of Summer) - Claude Monet - He calms Alfred down with straw/hay (not sure which off the top of my head) and I liked the colours
Field with poppies - Vincent Van Gogh - Poppies again.
Guernica - Pablo Picasso - it’s war, and it’s one of the most famous paintings of bombings, and Harry blows a lot of stuff up
Tom Cummings:
Spring - Alphonse Mucha - I don’t really have any explanations other than vibes (and it matches Autumn in Harry’s)
The Death of Icarus - Alexandre Cabanel - he does fall to his death on a beach. Sorry.
Portrait of Djordje Milićević - Will Barnet - Tom’s thing is photography, or at least I associate it with him
Landscape - Paul Cézanne - Again, they’re in a forest a lot, and that is where his final stand takes place
Poppies - John Singer Sargent - oh look, poppies again.
Tree and Undergrowth - Vincent Van Gogh - Forest!
The Sundog Painting - Jacob Heinrich Elbfas - it’s kind of like his hair colour, and he just feels very beige
Tragedy - Gustav Klimt - it’s all so bloody tragic, especially him and Harry dying
Football Player - J. C. Leyendecker - it looks like Tom.
Dark Forest - Ivan Shishkin - Oh look a forest again
Rocky Cliff Woth Stormy Sea, Cornwall - William Trost Richards - he does fall off a cliff. Sorry.
Franz Faber:
Untitled (helmeted soldier) - Zdzisław Beksiński - it’s creepy as hell and a soldier
Illustration from Un Autre Monde - Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (at the very least he’s the author) - It’s sugar beets being beaten up by sugarcane and that is both hilarious to me and there’s his monologue to Alfred about them
Couple descending the stairs/Advertisement for the arrow collar man - J. C. Leyendecker - That’s so young Franz and Sabine look at it
The Japanese Bridge or The Lily Pond - Claude Monet - it matches Sabine’s, but darker
Pyramid of Skulls - Paul Cézanne - I think he does the most killing out of everyone (and also the skull on his uniform hat)
Figure with Meat - Francis Bacon - it’s creepy, and sort matches Crucifixion in Alfred’s because I have some kind of Emotion about the fact Alfred only has flashback-type-things to his torture when he sees Faber getting beaten. not sure what that emotion is, but I have it, therefore they get to have matching Francis Bacons.
Skull - Vincent Van Gogh - see above re: pyramid of skulls
War - Ken Currie - It’s pretty unnerving and it’s war themed
Field with poppies - Vincent Van Gogh - yeah he gets poppies too
Untitled (they’re all untitled. All of his paintings are untitled)(the blue death with a cradle one) - Zdzisław Beksiński - it’s death and a baby, but creepier than Sabine’s.
Separation - Edvard Munch - it reminded me of when Sabine pulls away from him after Ulli’s death
Sabine Faber:
Death (1897) - Janis Rozentāls - she wears white a lot, but also that’s death and a baby. Yeah.
Meadow, 1879 - Claude Monet - reminded me of when she goes and joins the resistance at the end <33
Portrait of Madame X - John Singer Sargent - she’s not that scandalous, but I do think she’s that fashionable and I love her for it
Geese in the Creek - Claude Monet - it’s pretty and like the meadow at the end when she joins the resistance
The two friends - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Again, is this because I want Aurora and Sabine to lezz out? Yeah.
Couple descending the stairs/Advertisement for the arrow collar man - J. C. Leyendecker - That’s so young Franz and Sabine look at it, part two!
Two Women Kissing in Nature - Georges Rochegrosse - see previous about wanting Sabine and Aurora to lezz out
Dancers - Franz Von Stuck - I debated this for ages and decided that sod it, it’s going in. It’s just vibes honestly
Garden with Weeping Willow - Vincent Van Gogh - pretty and vibeful and also she should have got to cry (weeping) more to be honest. It makes sense to me okay
Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Rose - Claude Monet - I liked it and it matches a different water-lily one in Franz’s
Lily - Alphonse Mucha - I thought it looked a bit like her and also Vibes
Thank you for reading this far, if you have I love you <33
so I've been rewatching x company, as one does, and I've come to the conclusion that i was right the first two times i warched the show: the story would have been more compelling if aurora and sabine had fucked. im sorry i don't make the rules it's just how it is.
like the conversation in the train with franz at the end of season two? she's more than a friend to me? she deserves every good thing in the world? HOW DO YOU THINK SHE'S BEEN SPENDING HER TIME? I let you into my home, for the first time in so long i thought i had a friend but i was just a target. giving the necklace back and forth, running away together, if Sabine can't go with her husband then Helene is her best substitute? hello?!
But everything you do will affect this fight. The people you see, The people you don't. The people you save...The people you don't. And the people that do. The people who remember you will be the people who fought by your side. They'll carry your stories. They'll never forget.
