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she is so unbelievably real

gaguin is pure evil but im afraid his art bangs 😭

i knowwww his work is beautiful and it pisses me off because he was just such a fundamentally abhorrent person. one of my favourite paintings of all time is amrita sher-gil's self portrait as tahitian (1934) which is a critique of gaugin's depictions of tahitian women and girls (and it was known in europe in his time that he had a pattern of sexually assaulting and abusing women both in europe and in the americas) that acknowledges his artistic influence on her work but is critical of his racism and misogyny as she depicts herself as a brown woman in the self-portrait like the tahitian women gaugin painted, identifying herself with them and turning the colonial white male gaze (nonwhite women's bodies as things to be bought and consumed and traded like cultural objects) back upon itself in the european man's shadow behind her and the east asian panel she stands in front of (chinoiserie and japonisme being popular fads in france in this era)

it reminds me of faith ringgold's later commentary on picasso and his appropriation of african masks in his work isolated from their cultural context / putting black people and their bodies back into the work and placing the masks back into their contexts while acknowledging his influence on her as an artist

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the paintings for reference:

two tahitian women by gaugin (1899) and self portrait as tahitian by amrita sher-gil (1934)

les demoiselles d'avignon by picasso (1907) and picasso's studio by faith ringgold (1991)

deathatitsfinest

levourdalak

This is Lady Pink, one of the only female graffiti artists active in the ’80s. Jenny Holzer, famous for her feminist postmodern “Truisms,” designed this shirt and Lady Pink wore it around NYC.

thethirdromana

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

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balaclava-trismegistus

thewatersofmarch

she is so unbelievably real

unbotheredmuse

redlipstickresurrected

Ozy Worldy (Italian, b. 1998, Matera, Italy) - Agoraphobia, 2026 from Memoirs of a Tormented Soul collection, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas, Personal Collection

kuchipachi

white flag by lucia gallipoli

dogwoodbite

[ID: a white lace curtain with the words "I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN / BUT I CERTAINLY DIDN'T / ASK TO DIE / EXCEPT FOR WHEN I DID / AND I THANK GOD / HE NEVER LISTENS" added with white interfacing just above a flower motif border /End ID]

fictionalgod

souvenirs

spitfaggot

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

clemmington

[ID: an eight-stripe-rainbow queer pride flag, with each stripe labeled with what the color represents here: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, light blue or possibly teal for magic, deep blue for serenity, purple for spirit /end ID]