#recontextualize

[thebadartteacher]

If you never question where a feeling came from, you’ll live inside someone else’s emotional architecture.

[somnilogical]

i wish my brain could think instead of turning things people say into deep-fried memes in a terrible game of telephone!!!

[lostmyblondevirginity]

love my tumblr dash, its the perfect combination of girlbloggers being way too honest, fuckass meme accounts reblogging posts to put them in another, totally ridiculous context and horny text posts

[pink-being-normal]

[soapdispensersalesman]

Speaking from experience

[eucanthos]

Antoine Masson (1636–1700)

“Portrait of the Guillaume de Brisacier” (1664)

Pocket Utopia’s 2012 debut exhibition in its new location (Lower East Side) is arguably strange, because the art in it is so radically recontextualized.

Engraving is a fiendishly difficult art to master (unlike etching).

17th and 18th-century prints, portraits of artists - members of the French Academy created by master engravers.

Bounded by their social and artistic status, these engravers bored so thoroughly into their technique that, to our eye, they seem to emerge on the other side as virtual abstractionists. Just look at the insane tangle of hair in the “Portrait of the Guillaume de Brisacier”...

The title of the show is “Artists and Other Frenchmen: portrait prints from Nanteuil to Villon (all members of the French Academy). An official aesthetic body anathema to our contemporary conceptions of art — yet their range of expression is surprisingly natural and unstuffy — far more real and affecting than the official portraits of kings and courtiers lining the wall opposite them.

hyperallergic

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Other Means - Coexist Type Specimen

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