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Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas’s paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as ‘vulgar’”.

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Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day

[iidolomantis]

checked under the sink a bit ago and saw i’ve got an angel infestation. annoying bastards. it explains all the weird dreams and salt pillars and how my neighbor’s dog kept barking in latin the other day, i guess. i’ll have to pick up some more glue traps tomorrow. i’m just hoping my cat doesn’t manage to catch any of them before the traps do; last time, i found a bunch of halos and chewed-up wings, and it was a whole thing with the vet. eight hundred bucks and a vision of the heat death of the universe later, and they tell me not to worry, it happens all the time, and to bring her back if she still has more than two eyes after a week. what a fucking scam.

[toiich]

Peanuts, November 13, 1964

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[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of following mama’s example

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Anna Syperek (British/Canadian b.1950), Afternoon Nap, 2010, Watercolor on paper

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Sergei Chudanov (Russian b.1987), The Sweetness of Doing Nothing, 2022, Oil on canvas

[wisedreamdelusion]

thank you for protecting us from the wolf we know what great job you do we love you

[ymutate]

Choy Moo Kheong (Singaporean, born 1950) "Blue Whispering Day" (2022)

acrylic on canvas (139.7 x 114.3 cm)

Private collection.

[nemfrog]

The bugs' circle dance. Entomology in sport. 1859. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

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Kirsten Beets - A Season of Lights, 2026 - Oil and pencil on board

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by Arete Nani

[bobbole]

Amy Kierstead, The Eye of the Forest

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[pmamtraveller]

A Forest by Gustav Klimt