#1920s still life

[random-brushstrokes]

Kathryn Cherry - Fish, Fruits, and Flowers (ca. 1923)

#women painters #kathryn cherry #american art #still life #1920s

[pintoras]

Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865-938): Flowers in a blue vase (1922) (via Sotheby’s)

#Suzanne Valadon #women artists #women painters #art #painting #twentieth century #1920s #french painters #still life #flowers

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Clara Estelle Sipprell (1885-1975) ~ Floating Rose, ca. 1920. Gelatin silver print. | src Freeman's Auction # 4692

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#clara sipprell #clara e. sipprell #pictorialism #still life #stillleben #nature morte #1920s #rose #flower #flora #blumen

[kafkasapartment]

Shell, 1927. Edward Weston, 1886-1958. Gelatin silver.

#edward weston #Black and White #sensuality #photography #photographie #foto #fotografia #fotografie #vintage #fotografia #1920s #still life #design #nature #science

[collectionstilllife]

Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900-1988) • Still Life with Blue Vase and Fruit • c. 1924 • Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA.

#still life #art #painting #fine art #art of the still life blog #art history #oil painting #luigi lucioni #artist #american artist #1920s art #20th century american art #artwork #art of the still life art blog #art blogs on tumblr #art lovers on tumblr #realism

[eirene]

Girl with a Jug, 1921

Stanley Cursiter

#Stanley Cursiter #scottish art #1920s #art #painting #art history #fashion #portrait #representational #still life #pink

[weimar-arts]

Ernst Thoms, Dachboden, 1926. Oil on canvas.

#neue sachlichkeit #Weimar Republic #attic #ernst thoms #still life #magic realism #modern painting #modern art #new objectivity #1920s germany #Babylon Berlin #painting

[desimonewayland]

The Green Vase of Gladioli

Studio DeSimoneWayland

#desimonewayland #wall plates #ceramics #blue and white #delftblue #1920s #collage #flowers #still life #interior design

[semioticapocalypse]

Jaromir Funke. Still life with glass bottle. 1924

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Jaromir Funke #Still life #glass bottle #1924 #1920s #20s #still life

[jojojooo33]

Rotating trans girl Al in my brain some more

#'invent' might mean different things depending on what the state of hrt is in the amestris universe and but y'know #introducing/popularizing it in the FMA 03 multiverse version of 1920s germany earlier than in real life perhaps #alphonse elric #alphonsine? #i guess? i still haven't decided a name for her #fullmetal alchemist #fma 03

[random-brushstrokes]

Wilhelm Claudius - Bouquet of flowers (1923)

#Wilhelm Claudius #german art #still life #1920s

[pintoras]

Olga Boznańska (Polish, 1865-1940): Anemones (1920) (via Bonhams)

#Olga Boznańska #Olga Boznanska #women artists #women painters #art #painting #twentieth century #1920s #still life #flowers #anemones #polish painters

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Still-life and flower studies ca. 1925

Ervin Kankowszky or Rudolf Balogh (attr. to) ~ Plums in a Plate, Hungary, ca. 1925. Vintage silver print with Kankowszky press agency stamp | src 150cent View on WordPress

Ervin Kankowszky or Rudolf Balogh (attr. to) ~ Wild Plant Study Hungary, ca. 1925 & Three Flowers, Hungary, ca. 1925. Vintage silver print with Kankowszky press agency stamp | src Senigallia

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#Rudolf Balogh #botanicals #still life #daisies #Ervin Kankowszky #flowers #plum #plums #fleurs #Stillleben #flora #nature morte #1920s #botanical #press photos #naturaleza muerta #flores #fiori #natura morta

[vintage-ukraine]

Still-Life by Ivan Padalka, 1920s

#Still-Life #Ivan Padalka #1920s #ukrainian art

[collectionstilllife]

Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian, 1880–1928) • Still Life • 1926-27

#art #painting #fine art #art history #still life #artist #nikolai astrup #norwegian artist #norwegian art #tablescape #modernism #european modernism #oil painting #1920s artwork #20th century european art #art of the still life blog

[symbioticsimplicity]

I have a theory that someone else has probably already put out but I haven't seen it so here we go.

I don't think Alastor is actually all that powerful.

Propaganda under the cut.

There are a lot of things that make me think this but we'll start with the first and frankly most obvious to me.

His methodology. Alastor's main thing is making contracts and deals. When we're first introduced to him in the pilot, its with a warning to never make a deal with him. While plenty of other Overlords obviously wheel and deal, I think Alastor's are different. They're more binding and more dangerous because they're his modus operandi.

Another thing is his seeming lack of territory. Every Overlord has actual terf that we see them in, except for Alastor. This could be from lack of interest, or due to having been gone so long, or what have you but it seemed like a strange thing to have not mentioned. In addition, Carmilla, who was leading a meeting on the property and interests of all the represented Overlords and how to protect it, was utterly dismissive of his sudden return. Which to me implies that whatever he controls is likely minimal at best. Meaning him being there is pretty inconsequential to the larger picture. Dude was able to disappear for seven years and it was mostly fine? So what does he actually have?? (My only thought honestly is that maybe the air is his space since radio waves and all. That would honestly be broke as hell but there's no real evidence for this, is would just be really cool.) As much as Vox as making a dig at him, he did have a good point that the reach of radio has certainly died down over the years. While that alone doesn't mean Alastor's power has waned, its not really a *good* sign for him. He still has speakers all over but that and one really rundown store front with a single radio are really the only traces we see of him outside of the hotel.

This bit is conjecture, but when talking about his past, not only does no one ever mention HOW he killed so many powerful Overlords, they don't go into detail about much at all. There's every chance that he could have contracted them the same way he did with Husk and either forced or waited for them to break their end of their deals and THEN used them as fodder to terrorize the masses. Most of his power comes from fear and word of mouth. Most people don't even bother fucking with him because they've heard the stories, or the broadcast.

Which brings me to my next point: The Broadcasts. There are a LOT of ways that Alastor and Vox parallel each other and I can't help but wonder if using their medium to deceive people isn't one of them. So far a lot of the magic we see Alastor use is largely illusionary. Phantoms and shadows and temporary changes of environment. So what if his broadcasts are the same? What if he DOESN'T kill the Overlords he claims to have and instead used his broadcast to simulate it instead. Like War of the Worlds, but on purpose. Honestly it would be smart of him, especially if he's NOT as strong as he seems. This is also conjecture but if he made deals with those Overlords instead, he could still have them stashed away somewhere and just be calling on them and their power as needed. (Also: Husk. This man is a constant pain in the ass and usually disrespectful at best. The only time he pops off on him about it though is when Husk mentions his deal which is really just a big No-No. But he still only *threatens him* which to me implies that he actually does need him. If not for his services, even if only for the power granted by his contract. In the same way that Val doesn't actually kill Angel or anything because he can't REALLY afford to, so he controls him in other ways. If Al isn't this super strong demon, he can't really afford to just go wasting the contracts hes got due to momentary irritation when he can bring them back to heel with some light terror.)

The next thing that makes me think he's probably not super powerful is his fight with Adam. Not because he lost (I firmly believe he only actually lost because he was fucking around most of the time/ wasn't fighting for loved ones) but because of the form he took to do it. He was in a life or death fight with an ostensibly high ranking angel, and yet he didn't pull out anything more than he would have used to fight other sinners. Sure, that could be him being prideful, but I just don't think so. Home boy was being recorded and presumably knew that, if he was being prideful shouldn't he have gone balls to the wall??

In relation to that, he also made a deal himself. Not that we know what it was for or who its with, but would someone as control oriented as Alastor really make a deal if he didn't HAVE to? Overlords don't just DO that, there had to have been a compelling reason and honestly assuming Alastor isn't as strong as he makes himself out to be gives a very good opening for it.

Smaller detail, but it still matters, the smiling. He very clearly uses it as both a shield and a tool to help him maintain control of a situation. Thats not really the kind of thing you think of and commit to if you're the strongest person in the room. Covering up weaknesses obsessively is the sort of thing someone who's fronting does so their secret stays exactly that.

In the same vein, the way he reacted to Lucifer. He was threatened, which is understandable given that Luci is leagues above even the strongest Overlords, but I think it was slightly more than that. Having Lucifer around would make it drastically obvious very quickly that Al isn't as strong as he claims. So of course he tries to unbalance the situation and put focus somewhere else, the same as he always does. (Its actually the same thing he does in his duet with Vox. I'm almost certain Vox IS actually stronger than Alastor but hes so wrapped up in Al's head games he might never notice.)

It's honestly unclear if this has always been the case with him, or if its a result of his deal or his time away or something else entirely, but to me it seems incredibly likely. Alastor mostly keeps order and power through fear, not through enormous shows of power. And even those when he does them are strategic and mostly against opponents he knows are weaker than him. He's clever as all fuck, and still very dangerous for it but I don't think hes actually all that physically powerful.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #the radio demon #i love him I really do but this has been bothering me since the pilot #hes a mover and a shaker and I'm pretty sure hes hustling all of hell #which is frankly fucking impressive #what i wouldn't give for his backstory to show his daddy being a conman #mama is respectable but black in 1920 something #and daddy is a pos conman #alastor the gentleman con artist just FEELS right #especially ESPECIALLY if he was a white passing mixed race man #like actually that would be amazing #and then he just kept up old habits when he died and learned he could FINALLY have the power he never had in life #except its still all a lie #I'd be fucking foaming at the mouth I'm telling you #also i didn't mention this but hommie is a fucking DEER #hes a PREY ANIMAL #that alone seems pRETTY FUCKING TELLING