The Art Thread

Seems real.

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Thanks, good to know!

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Yep that’s the ref. Tiki torch white supremacists are Notsees fur shur.

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I prefer to notsee them, too!

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Southern Gothic?

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Checked out some of her other paintings on wiki. Amazing stuff. I never knew. Apparently, her style changed over the years, and the softness/precision/blending (example below) looks as if oil-based pencils were used; no, they weren’t.

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A little dust never hurt anyone—unless, perhaps, you’re trying to date a Vermeer.

Conservation work on Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, the only Vermeer still in private hands, has uncovered a layer of 17th-century air pollution between layers of paint that helped date the rare Old Master picture, according to The Art Newspaper.

Specifically, feldspar particles—byproducts of the booming Delftware ceramics industry in Vermeer’s hometown—were trapped in the composition, likely after it was first set aside. Their presence suggests Vermeer returned to the canvas years later to add the yellow shawl draped over the sitter’s bodice. That final touch may make Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, his last painting. 


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I wondered why it didn’t look familiar.

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thesobsister

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Undated photograph of expatriate Spanish surrealist Maruja Mallo.

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Mallo’s Espantapajaros (Scarecrows) (1930)

The canvas was bought by surrealist fĂŒhrer AndrĂ© Breton, who, despite being, to put it mildly, no great supporter of women artists, reportedly declared it one of the great works of surrealism

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I’d seen it before - prob’ly in art magazines.

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Looking in an upper window and seeing something like this is very Minnesota.

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The risks of glancing rather than looking and thinking – although either interpretation is viable. Turner’s Slave Ship suffered from a different issue, viewers enjoying the aesthetic while missing the horror (looking at it online or in books doesn’t really help either, IRL it is more obvious and dramatic).

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 Some experts remain skeptical of the Caravaggio attribution. Italian art historian Mina Gregori has suggested that Judith and Holofernes could be a work by Artemisia Gentileschi. Gianni Papi, a Caravaggio expert at the University of Florence, considers it to be a second copy of Caravaggio’s original by Louis Finson. 


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Obligatory


Some Kid Holding a Head

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It is a less grand example of tradition and modernity interacting in a painting, but I have always been fond of perhaps the weirdest painting by German genre painter Spitzweg:

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It doesn’t look like a Caravaggio to me. The poses seem too awkward. The three figures don’t feel integrated.

Just my impression.

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Belle and Sebastian include Christian messages in their music? I hadn’t noticed, but now I will be listening out for it. I really only like one of their albums so I’m not much of an expert.

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