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#aesthetics #vintage #universe #space #aesthetic #stars #texture

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Vintage Photos of Minorities in the Queer Community

Because we aren't all able-bodied gay white guys!!

#lgbt activism #lgbtqia #diversity #disability #disability history

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Sunset and Moonrise

I had started this with the intention of more cloud petticoats but somehow it evolved into ocean waves, so I just went with the flow~

HD files, art videos, and PSD files on my Patreon.com/Yuumei

#art #painting #stars #magical #ocean #dress #LOOK AT THIS SHIT #THIS IS RIDICULOUS #DAVINCI WISHES HE COULD THINK OF SHIT THIS COOL #I WANNA HANG THIS IN MY HOUSE #moon #sunset

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#the owl house #i love this #willow #hunter #toh #so cute #fan comic

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Lost in the Pages

Between Two Tomes

#art #painting #books #ocean #stars #magical #LOOK AT THIS SHIT #THIS IS LEGITIMATELY SOME OF THE COOLEST SHIT I'VE EVER SEEN #I WOULD HANG THIS IN MY HOUSE NO QUESTION #WHY DOESN'T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES #SOMEONE GIVE THIS ARTIST A MEDAL YOU COWARDS

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#TAKE THE DEAL COWARDS #rotmmt #funny

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all sorts of echoes in these caverns

#shower thoughts #paleontology #cool

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Literally this was perfectly incapsulated by the "Who's Afraid of Red Yellow And Blue III" incident.

Before:

After:

[Source: "Roller Controversy in Amsterdam: The Restoration of Modern Art." The New York Times]

"When a man with a grudge against abstract art attacked a canvas by the late American painter Barnett Newman in Amsterdam five years ago, he left long slashes a work entitled "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III?"

The assailant spent six months in jail.The painting went to a restorer in New York. Now, it is back in its place at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where it is the focus of a heated debate among experts, many of whom disagree strongly with the way it was repaired.

According to the critics, the restorer, Daniel Goldreyer, merely covered the painting with red paint usinga roller. The canvas, 2.5 by 5.5 meters (about 8 by 17 feet),is red rectangle flanked by thin stripes of blue and yellow.The restoration cost 800,000 guilders (nearly $400,000), and some of the critics say any amateur could have done as well with a few hours' work and a pot of paint.....

.....One Dutch expert, Ijsbrand Hummelen, a member of a commission that examined the painting after the attack, said that Goldreyer, without consulting the museum, had overlaid acrylic paint onto Newman's original oils. He said the restoration had destroyed a shimmering, silky effect that the artist had achieved by the subtle juxtaposition of magenta and sienna, turningthe painting into a mere monochrome.

He also said the repair had violated the first rule of restoration in that it is not reversible and was not confined only to the damaged parts"

Basically a man who thought abstract art was worthless pretentious and dumb slashed huge long knife marks into this piece, because he thought it was worthless.

But when the restoration process was being addressed, it turned out that Barnett Newman, the original artist, had created his own completely unique pigment using egg whites and a special blend of pigments, that he was very secretive about. And he applied them using a unique brush technique that left no visible strokes. And this created incredibly subtle nuances and a silky effect to the painting that the restorer didn't even try to replicate.

He just patched the canvas and slapped a generic red paint over the whole thing and called it a day. Then he ghosted the art museum that commissioned him.

The value and depth and nuance of the red was completely lost and the acrylic paint used to paint over it might be completely irreversible.

This sparked a greater debate about the technique and creativity required to execute abstract art, and the general value it has.

Abstract art comes from somewhere and someone put time and thought into making it. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean that it doesn't have value and subtlely and beauty.

(Jacob Geller has a great video about this and he does a better job of explaining it than me )

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

#abstract art #whos afraid of red yellow and blue III #barnett newman #art #art debate #Youtube

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Did you know that there is a Toaster Museum????

#cuisine #deco #vintage tech #vintage toasters

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A hundred years ago this month, Buster Keaton pushed the magic of cinema to peaks it had not reached before with one of his greatest and most unmissable masterpieces, Sherlock Jr. (1924)

#buster keaton #sherlock jr #vintage meta #film history

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So many summer fields

An ode to the passage of time.

“Running into the sun, but I’m running behind.”

- prints ! -

#art #illustration #color theory #lighting design

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Spring is the fucking greatest

#spring #its fucking spring baby

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#relatable condent #conditioning

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Arthouse Muppets

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

#funny #muppets #parody #i love this

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For all my fellow name nerds out there, I am very pleased to present the second annual "Gloyd Roberson Memorial List of Actual Human Children Who Wrote Letters to Santa in 1920s/30s Oklahoma".

These aren’t all necessarily “weirder than Gloyd” but fall into three rough categories which I’ve dubbed: “that’s got a nice ring to it”, “if I used this in a novel it would be considered too unrealistic” and “you’ve got 5 seconds to name a character that lives in 1920s Oklahoma, GO!”:

Selvyn Atteberry

Dyer Banfield

Bert Baxter

Hilda Bender

Imogene Berry

Heloise Blakely

Burl Boyer

Clyda Pearl Boyington

Okal Brooks

Vada Jo Bricker

Deverett Brumley

Lee Roy Buck

Vivian May Burdue

Donnie Buster

Elmarie Button

Junior Buzzard

Melchor Caldex

Tycene Calhoun

Tiny Bell Callison

Dapalene Caywood

Edney Clopton

Buster Combs

Georgia Countryman

Vantruba Crockett

Alto Day

Buddie DeWayne

Violet Divine

Elwanda Downing

Cletys Durham

Thurlo Epps

Apple Fields

Floyd Fleetwood

Metherine Franklin

Ula Fay French

Wanda Jo Fronterhouse

Irline Fuller

Jack Gritzmaker

J. D. Grizzle

Billie Jean Gulley

Joline Hardcastle

Kaloolah Herrill

Thelias Hatfield

Elva Heavins

Coleman Hewlett

Helen Hillhouse

Virgil Holderby

Katymae Houston

Myree Huffstutlar

Estelline Hurrypack

Blondie Huhm

Lila Lou Jackson

Denver Jones

Vernell Lambert

Sonny Boy Lockart

Dinkey Long (autocorrect really wanted this to be Donkey Kong)

Bamma Lynn

Rep Madden

Standford Mann

Jack Mattingly

Goldia McGee

Madge Messinger

Mauzell Mullins

Jeffie Wayne Muskrat

Archibald Neighbors

Hazel Nickerson

Eulah Oakley

Lyle Oyler

Milburn Partain

Jackson Payne

Montana Phillips

Bobbie Dean Phoenix

Toots Putman

Madonna Mae Rickey

Cyprine Robertson

Juanelle Schneeberger

Billie Jean Sparks

Texanna Smith

Pansy Stetson

Patsy Ruth Stubblefield

Eldon Sweezy

Hoy Trotter

Pearl Vandorien

Leland Weems

Joe Bob West

Wayness Whitely

Buster Wyatt

John Ira Youngblood

Domby Zinn

#1930s #oklahoma #dnd #names #weird names #feel free to use for any western themed dnd campaigns #or dust bowl romance novels you may be writing

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Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

#history #1790s #yesterday I came across a 'Pleasant Cowmeadow' which I really wanted to include but it's handwritten in not the most legible handwriting #names

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Art by Clément Blum

#Clément Blum #illustration #digital art #painting #background design #landscapes