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作画1日目。 Robespierre's nightmare #Caravaggio#JudithBeheadingHolofernes https://www.instagram.com/p/B2AuEg5hqQi/?igshid=ejqncd6l5c6c

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[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristofano_Allori ] allori's judith is the protypical 'holofernes as self portrait' which brings an annoyingly sexist tone to the story where the male painter identifies with the tyrant and not the revolutionary, and recasts a biblical folk hero as his ex girlfriend in a hilarious display of castration anxiety. he copied the conceit from caravaggio's david, which was either a double self portrait as david and goliath depicting his own adult failings (he killed a guy in a street brawl and fled town, total ezio move), or a homoerotic portrait of his lover. anyways allori does a nice painting but i hate it. #cristofanoallori #paintings #coolstorybro #judithbeheadingholofernes #judithandtheheadofholofernes https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSlsvInxaK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y9aw8uvkvaua

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[ HEADS WILL ROLL ] [ http://laerapunk.tumblr.com/post/54186079491/heads-will-roll-judith-beheading-holofernes ] #judithbeheadingholofernes #rapeculture #resistance #believewomen https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQvR_inCA1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=82m8y7xjjjxf

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and let's not forget kehinde wiley's fantastic judiths, which are a pretty obvious visual inversion of american racial power dynamics that a lot of white ppl still managed to take personally, which tells you a lot more abt the racial politics he was commenting on than the paintings themselves. see also, the renewed controversy when obama.picked wiley to paint his official presidential portrait, and white conservatives found about abt wiley's judiths and LOST THEIR SHIT. #kehindewiley #paintings #judithbeheadingholofernes #antiblackness #resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSyEwannNm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11jzcgb9eblvy

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klimt's two judith's (+ stuck's 'the sin' w/eve) i like aesthetically but i don't entirely trust to be doing more than turning judith into a femme fatale and not a revolutionary, someone who weaponizes sex for her own pleasure instead of justice. [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_and_the_Head_of_Holofernes ] #klimt #paintings #judithbeheadingholofernes #judithandtheheadofholofernes https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSZSm8nI5o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7182hl1blskh

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caravaggio's judith is often praised for exact reason i don't care for it, her hesitance to commit to the rrvolutionary act. [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_(Caravaggio) ] #judithbeheadingholofernes #caravaggio #paintings https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSXht4n1c4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ftmv8dqmucek

[susan-1991]

GUSTAV KLIMT – “THE KISS” (1907–1908)

They say the gold leaf is real because they traded their names for it. The embrace hasn’t ended since 1908; the paint just keeps them there. Every century one of them blinks. Tourists think it’s a trick of the light. It’s not. It’s the other remembering they once had a mouth that could say “I’m tired.”

[susan-1991]

He didn’t mean to eat the first one. Hunger has a way of sounding like prophecy. By the third child he convinced himself it was love — the only way to keep them inside him forever. The walls still remember. If you press your ear to the plaster in the Quinta del Sordo after midnight, you can hear him chewing slower now, trying to make the last son last.