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Title: Ballet Scene

Artist: Edgar Degas

Date: 1834 - 1917

Style: Impressionism

Genre: Genre Painting

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Jesus Walks on Water, 1863

Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817-1900

#freaking gorgeous #romantic painting #ivan aivazovsky #armenien #jesus #delicate #russian #ukrainian #art #traditional art #romanticism #dark acadamia aesthetic #i guess #late 1800s #realism #oil painting #history #painting

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i know this tumblr is mostly for reblogs and shitposting BUT i did want to share a little bit of charity work I'm doing.

My dad was an executive at Warner Bros. Records in the 90s and while he was there, an up and coming band called XERO gave an exhibition concert and passed out a couple demo tapes in hopes of getting signed to the label. Eventually, they did get signed but under a different name that for legal reasons I can't say but would take you two seconds to google.

Also uhhh it turns out that there's a lost track on the tape that no one even knew EXISTED until late 2020. And this tape was just. Sitting in my dad's tape collection in perfect condition. So I decided to auction the tape off for charity. I picked the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a charity that routinely scores well among charity watch dog groups, in honor of my father. You can also donate directly to the charity from that link if you'd rather do that than bid on the tape.

That's all, please reblog this if you feel up to it.

#this is so cool!! #signal boost #xero #mike shinoda #linkin park #they were before hybrid theory and linkin park #with mike shinoda #i thought this was about a different australian band from the 80s lol #but it's linkin park! #thank you op #music #music history #demo music #hybrid theory #cool #interesting

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Illustration for the Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, 1907 by Alberto Martini (Italian, 1876–1954)

#this is beautiful #i wonder if it's a relief...

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Hōitsu Sakai The Moon and Plum Tree Color on Silk Edo Period, 19th Century Yamatane Museum

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Chinese fashion 1957

I haven’t drawn anything in a while but my new obsession with the 1950s forced me to open Procreate again😅 This look is inspired by the outfit worn by fellow architect Comrade Meilan in the 1957 mainland movie 青春的脚步. Her character isn’t really a great person but her wardrobe is fabulous. The outfit consists of a typical 1950s short sleeved blouse, and a gathered swing skirt with horizontal stripes, again a very popular design in the 1950s. She accessorized with a small black bow at the collar and a wide belt at the waist. I forgot what shoes she wore in the movie with this outfit, so I put her in black pumps, which were very common for office working women. Her hair is short and middle parted, styled with a standard curl.

Reference:

Shot from the movie.

I like this drawing a lot it is now my new avatar :D

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#river don't give a drop #about geography #it flows the way it wants to

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Merry Christmas everyone!!

Or a wonderful happy holidays!!!

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He Jiaying (何家英), The Ballet. 2006. 

Born in 1957 in the province of Tianjin, He Jiaying studied traditional Chinese painting at the Tianjin Institute of Art and went on to become a council member of the Chinese Artists Association and a lecturer at his alma mater. He’s style combines the precision and realism of gongbi painting with European subject matter such as the art of ballet, and female figures. In The Ballet, He depicts with sharp technique and muted colors the behind-the-scenes of three ballet dancers who are occupied not with dancing, but rather sewing pointe shoes and sipping loose-leaf tea.  

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Romeo and Juliet - 1884 - Frank Bernard Dicksee

#wild how not too long ago #paintings used to look like this

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#YES #there's some that are kinda fun to watch #but otherwise it can come off as pretentious #imo #the cat chasing a mouse in the dark is interesting #it catches you off guard XD

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This is on the level of Maurizio Cattelan mischief, but even greater XD

#andy warhol #mschf #art #history #weird #wth #maurizio cattelan #cattelan is known for the long horse legs #and golden toilet

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Ancient Google Answers page 2021

I was trying to figure out a character title and came across this. It was through my search engine, didn't click on anything else but it was quite interesting.

The closest thing I've seen to that format would've been Yahoo answers... I wonder what the "list price" means and how does a question "expire"... hmm

#hmm #google answers #old internet #early 2000s #strange #nostalgic #pricing #clan leader #weird #questions

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I wonder if there's a job out there for finding weird pieces of media... hmm...

#maybe an archivist? #i wish i had more to post on here #XD #haven't been able to do much research #or interest in trying to find anything #where's my mystery gang when i need them? XD

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Fun history lesson on: Modern Art

Gotta use this knowledge somewhere :p

Short: Art's biggest changes made people question the definition of "art" so if you're wondering why there's a snooty air around art, it's the ones who think they got it.

Long boi beneath this bad boi

Art in the early stages is drastically different from our current day not just in the style but in thought. History was recorded in paintings or sculptures to remember certain people like historical figures or religious figures or even events. Hence why there's a lot of Biblical imagery, philosophers, and leaders in all forms of art.

These artists didn't have creative freedom that we have today in terms of what they wanted to make vs what they were told to make. It was a job to be hired by someone noble or royal to be able to depict them or someone else usually. Granted this doesn't apply to all artists back then but it was common.

Overtime, artists began to spread their abilities to making art that means things to them. This especially picked up in the 1800s (19th century) when Impressionism became a hit with artists who didn't want to follow the norm of classical art.

These were more personal to the artist and their lives because it was either the world around them or the world within them. It expresses a lot of emotion that's not always seen in previous art. Not to say that there's not a lot of heart and soul put in previous works, it's more so not about important days or events, it's the opposite: the everyday life.

World Wars changed this mentality however, and this leads into what we know as Modern Art today.

These three images are famous art pieces post 1950s, so past the World Wars.

The war really screwed up with people's mentality, especially in the art world where many thought art was defined by a certain measurement but these guys ask "what is that boundary?". What defines "art", "human", "brush"? It can be a golden toilet, "The Zip" (the line between God and humans, it's literally a line on a canvas), or wearing a sign saying "Wet Paint" in the 60s in public to make people uncomfortable [it was a statement against the racism, Adrien Piper is a lovely individual].

Some of these people have a specific way of thinking of what art is and it leads into the snooty people we assume artists today. But ironically, some of these artists, like the last picture, it's to mock the fact that they are so serious about art.

Art is an expression of a person. You can make as many rules as you want in your work but it's all your work and your ideas.

I feel like the reason why people are snooty about art sometimes is because we have an idea of what art can be. Even though I find anything as art, there's some where I'm like "excuse me that's art?? Nah that can't be". It's a very non-literal subject in the end. And I'm not saying that only the people in the 50s had a specific idea of art no it's throughout generations dating back to the beginning of life. What the 50s and up did was break all conformities of what art was: canvas, pottery, or some sort of material. It can be anything you want.

If anything, we've broken the "definition" of art so much, that all forms of creating something from an idea is considered art. And it's completely okay to dislike art or like art for that reason.

Credits:

This has been more of a rant rather than actual research. I studied in art at college but I'm no means an expert... so I'll credit the original artists in order of appearance. Even though I found them online through a search.

David Statue (Michelangelo) - Michelangelo

God healing the Leprosy Man Illumination - unknown

Justinian Byzantine Mosaic - unknown

Farmers Working in the Field - Vincent Van Gogh

Canotage à Bougival - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Sick Child - Edvard Munch

HERE IT IS - Lawrence Weiner

unknown - Alighiero Boetti

The Golden Toilet - Maurizio Cattelan

#art history #i spent too much time on this lmao #vincent van gogh #pierre auguste renoir #edvard munch #illuminations #art #i hope this is decent #in terms of rant #education #museum