#singerie

[valentineua]

Monkey allgory: Monkey's guardroom / Guardroom with monkeys (c.1633) - David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)

[grandtourbore]

The Monkey Room at Kirtlington Park (Oxfordshire), where the ceiling was painted in 1760 with singerie hunt scenes by Andien de Clermont

[napoleonyaoi]

Edwin Landseer, The Monkey Who Had Seen the World (1827)

“French for “monkey trick,” Singerie refers to art that swaps human subjects with primates, dressing them in human clothing or performing human actions. Rooted in fables, the genre emerged in the 1600s and peaked during the Rococo period two centuries later [...] Singerie imagery was popular with the upper class, who saw the motifs as mild parody and a charming celebration of their own follies and decadent escapades.” artnet

[valentineua]

The Experts (1837) - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

[highspeedcollisiongirl]

Not only are love and contempt not antithetical but certain loves seem to be necessarily intermingled with contempt. What is the judgment that some persons or animals are cute but a judgment of their endearing subordinance and unthreateningness?

William Ian Miller Anatomy of Disgust//1998

First Image: GlobalP, 15 day old roe deer fawn lying down isolated on white stock photo, 2009. edited by unknown

Second Image: Yoshitomo Nara, Untitled, 1995.

Third Image: Zacharie Noterman, School of manners, 1890.

[aldanaconarte]

Singerie: el por qué de las monadas en el arte. 🐒

Los monos fueron un recurso iconográfico muy frecuentado en el arte con muchos y variados disparadores simbólicos. A punto tal, que en determinado momento constituyen un género llamado "singeries" (monadas, monerías, macacadas). Estas escenas servirán para la reflexión ya no solo de nuestra condiciones humana sino del propio arte.

[taxi-davis]

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