In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades. (Posts tagged art)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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hazeldomain: “ theclockworkzombie: “ toastoat: “ newwavenova: “ secretlesbians: “ Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866. Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the...
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Gustave Courbet, Le Sommeil,1866.

Le Sommeil [The Sleepers], which depicts two women entwined in a post-coital embrace, caused a stir when it was first shown in the 1870s. The police were called in, and the painting was not shown again until the 1980s. But its brief showing had an influence on a number of contemporary artists, and helped challenge the taboos associated with lesbian relationships. For modern audiences it’s a good reminder that people in the 19th century were not ignorant of lesbian relationships, as we tend to believe. And it’s pretty damn sexy, don’t you think?

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They called the police on this lesbian painting.

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The best part is, the lesbian embrace isn’t even the biggest thing that made the painting so controversial, it was the art style. People in the artistic community at the time were wholly familiar with sapphic relationships being portrayed in art, but were used to these scenes being portrayed in the ‘academic art’ style, which consisted of smooth, simplistic, idealised versions of the nude female form. This often went hand in hand with the depiction of Roman & Greek allegories to illustrate certain ideals (think Cabanel’s Birth of Venus). Courbet’s journey into realism was met by heavy critique from the academic movement, as the women he painted were, well, more realistic. Leaving in details such as the rolls of fat around the ribs acted as a blunt reminder to the audience that these were not euphoric goddesses caressing in ecstasy, but ordinary women having a nap together after making love. Other realist paintings suffered the same controversy, Manet’s Olympia is a perfect example, where the problem was not that the painting depicted a nude woman in an erotic pose, but the fact that she was just an ordinary courtesan, given an identity & portrayed in a place of power & control. Realism humanized the female form in art, & removed it from its previous role as a representation of the ideal.

So what disgusted people about the painting wasn’t so much that Le Sommeil depicted two women, but rather that it depicted two ‘real’ women.

hazeldomain

Artist: So I painted a couple of lesbians in bed. 

Men: Niiiiiiiiiice

Artist: They have cellulite

Men: I AM CALLING THE POLICE

i mean it all checks out doesn't it? art nsfw sort of
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thedailywhat: “ Art Project of the Day: For his latest project, WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS, graphic designer Alex Varanese imagined what it might look like if one were to grab a bunch of modern gizmos, travel back to the 1970s, and remanufacture said...
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thedailywhat:

Art Project of the Day: For his latest project, WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS, graphic designer Alex Varanese imagined what it might look like if one were to grab a bunch of modern gizmos, travel back to the 1970s, and remanufacture said gizmos with the bell-bottomed consumer in mind.

I’ve learned that there is no greater design element than the anachronism. I’ve learned that the strongest contrast isn’t spatial or tonal but historical. I’ve learned that there’s retro, and then there’s time travel.

The irony is that all post-modern, smugly self-referential retro porn aside, I’d gladly trade in my immaculately designed 21st century gadgets for these hideously clunky, faux-wood-paneled pieces of über-kitsch. Sorry, Apple.

Make sure to check out the entire line of redesigned faux-tech here.

[behance.]

there’s nothing ironic about my love for faux-wood. or giant headphones, actually.

awesome art