The Lesser Of Two Weevils

26 • He/Him • taken • tend to take extended breaks from this place on a regular basis • Former History Major and Museum Studies Minor • Occasionally wear old clothes and talk to people about it • Field Musician • Great War Sapper • Nemo ex Merito • Illegitimis non carborundum • Always choose the lesser of two weevils

[rthwrms]

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

[weepingwidar]

John Stark (British, 1979) - Watermelon on a Forest Floor (2025)

[ltwilliammowett]

First Chilean Navy Squadron, by Thomas J. Somerscales, dated 1914(?)

[frostedmagnolias]

Woman's Dress

c. 1876

aubergine silk satin with green, peach, brown, and white silk and silk chenille machine embroidery in satin and basket stitches, peach glass beads, metal beads

unknown maker, United States

Philadelphia Museum of Art

[chick-it-out]

Visit Original Link

see him sing

now see him thrushin

[chick-it-out]

u can hear the sparkles ✨️🐤

[brehaaorgana]

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

[brehaaorgana]

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.

[thelesseroftwo-weevils]

Ended up seeing ships today, lots of them.

[clove-pinks]

'Quarter Master General or Adjutant General. Assistant Quarter Master General or Assistant Adjutant General. Soldiers of the Royal Staff Corps. 1812'

Aquatint by J C Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, 1812.

[inspirationpainting]

William Etty (English, 1787-1849) portrait of Kitty, the artist's niece

[rosieandthemoon]

Edward Burne-Jones for "The Wood Beyond the World" (1894)

[witch-breaker]

This 300-500,000 year old handaxe from Chelles, France was deliberately knapped to highlight an embedded fossil shell. An early display of aesthetic awareness beyond pure function, among the earliest hints of artistic intent in human history.

[oldpagesclub]

Frantisek Vrobel illustration for 1941 "Kvikova Rodina" (Kvik's Family)

(book from my private collection)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Max Nonnenbruch (German, 1857–1922) Evening at the lake, ca. 1900 Galerie Der Panther, Freising

[scrapironflotilla]

There's a kind of WW1 enthusiast who's going to really appreciate these excerpts.

Tagging @my-darling-boy for no particular reason

From the memoir of private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion AIF.

[scrapironflotilla]

Many ladies who were in the camp to see the last of their husband, brothers, etc., remained and had dinner with us. They were somewhat melancholy company, so at 9.30, the night being a fine one and we having recieved no orders as to the time we should move, a piper was produced and we all danced reels, and finished up with a game of rugby football with a pillow.

4th October 1914 - Diary of Lieutenant William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders.

[bulljumpingfresco]

Minoan octopus fresco

[henk-heijmans]

Appalachia, Tenessee - by Clemens Kalischer (1921 - 2018), German/American