#allegory

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #sculpture #memento mori #german school #skeleton #das Todlein #Elfenbein #allegory #grim reaper #skull art

[hopsof]

Lamb to the slaughter

#Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mithrun #fanart #spoiler #my art #the canaries #digital illustration #procreate #digital art #fantasy #goat demon #symbolism #painting #allegory #the flower is a dried up white rose. it represents death but white roses also signify purity. it's pretty but #like young mithrun it's rotten #it is covering the demon's eye because the demon took mithruns eye specifically because it was his pride and joy #there's other symbols but i think theyre more obvious

[the-evil-clergyman]

Evening Mood by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882)

#william-adolphe bouguereau #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #allegory #evening #classic art

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Conradyn Cunaeus (Dutch, 1828–1895), "Allegorical Depiction of Loyalty and Love" (detail)

#Conradyn Cunaeus #art #painting #dutch art #19th century art #animal painting #animals in art #birds #bird painting #birds in art #art detail #allegory #allegorical art #pigeons #pigeon #loyalty #love #aesthetic #art history #19th century

[lionofchaeronea]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

#art #art history #Mary L. Macomber #female artists #allegory #allegorical art #American art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Smithsonian American Art Museum

[prokopetz]

Like, I'm not gonna say that the X-Men and their various imitators are anything like a perfect allegory, but "it's a bad allegory because super powers really are dangerous" has never held water for me. Like, are we really just gonna uncritically accept the implicit assumption lurking in that argument that bigotry is only wrong to the extent that its targets lack the ability to threaten the status quo? Hand-wringing over whether certain minorities are inherently dangerous is – and, critically, always has been – a smoke-screen for the real conversation about who has the right to possess the capacity for violence, and you can't engage with that conversation if your opening move is to concede that the only legitimate victim is a powerless one.

#media #tropes #allegory #comics #x-men #politics #violence mention

[eirene]

L’aurore William Bouguereau

#William Bouguereau #realism #academicism #art #painting #art history #portrait #1800s #aurora #allegory

[iwanderthroughthesenights]

Something that stood out to me a lot from this album is the intentional de-personalization of extremely personal feelings and stories. She seems to have decided for this project that in order to be free to be completely honest in her art (which tbf she always has been but never as much as this album), she needs to visualize herself, and thus her stories, as a third party, an external entity on which she's conducting a post-mortem examination. Her 2016 self and the hate train she suffered after Snakegate is reimagined as Cassandra, a character from Greek mythology who had visions in her dreams but no one believed her and instead she was punished. Her anxiety of holding her lover's career back is instead described as The Albatross, this girl who everyone has been warned to stay away from bc she causes problems and is a liability. Her sweet, innocent childhood self is depicted as a robin, a feisty little bird full of life, dreams, and potential who has yet no clue of the cruelty of the world.

Consequently, the characters in her life are, too, bestowed upon fictional characters from stories that have been told before and/or are familiar in some way to the listener (aIMee the girl from this allegorical high school which is actually Kim Kardashian, Peter the boy who never grew up and stayed forever in Neverland who actually is her long-term ex partner, both her and her lover's separate romantic involvements imagined as Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, her real life therapist referred to as The Professor etc). By using the representation of well-known characters from widely popular stories and myths with names and all, she creates an even deeper line of emotional connection with the listener. Then, the 4th wall is delightfully broken in Clara Bow, where she refers to Clara Bow and Stevie Nicks as the inherent precedents to Taylor Swift. But what's even more brilliant about this is that in this way, she is making Taylor Swift into a character in and of itself. She is actually attempting to externalize Taylor Swift from Taylor the real-life woman. By narrating her stories through tangible entities presented as completely external to herself, she is inhibited by the safety of this fictional/allegorical lense through which she's allowing her stories to be consumed, and as a result, she has unlimited freedom to be more personal than she has ever been in her art before.

#this gives protection to not only her privacy and her right to a personal life but also the privacy of the real ppl in her life #without her needing to restrain from telling stories that real life ppl are inevitably a part of #it's also just a genuis move as an artist and creator #ttpd #taylor swift #allegory #clara bow #peter pan #robin #The Albatross #thanK you aIMee

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #painting #oil on canvas #allegory #german art #Deutsche Kunst #war #battlefield #krieg #Der reitende Tod über dem Schlachtfeld 1880 #werner wilhelm gustav schuch

[robreyart]

Cassini Spacecraft Oil, 18 x 24 in, 2018 In our pursuit to understand the solar system we find ourselves in, we sent an explorer on a billion mile journey to the Saturnian system. The Cassini Spacecraft sent back amazing new data and images of Saturn and it's 62 known moons, 46 of which were unknown when Cassini left. We learned that the moon, Enceladus, may have everything it needs to support life deep in it's global ocean, Titan has a liquid methane sea, and so much more.

In 2017, low on fuel after twenty years in space and so much information gained, Cassini took several dives between Saturn and it's rings to learn a little more before it's mission came to an end. To avoid possible microbial contamination of any of Saturn's moons, Cassini dove and burned up in Saturn's atmosphere, while sending back it's final data. Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

#cassinisaturn #cassinispacecraft #allegory #figurative painting

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Nature unveiling herself, Ernest Barrias, 1899, marble and onyx, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

#sculpture #decorative arts #allegory #art history #traditional art #official art #marble #onyx

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Grasshopper by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1872)

#jules-joseph lefebvre #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #allegory #grasshopper #classic art

[thatshowthingstarted]

"The Release from Deception,"

Carved from a single block of marble, it depicts a fisherman being released from netting by an angel, allegorical to the man being liberated from his sins.

So intricate was the work that 18th-century philosopher Giangiuseppe Origlia described it as “the last and most trying test to which sculpture in marble can aspire.”

Queirolo worked alone on his magnum opus, without an assistant or even a workshop. Even other sculptors refused to touch the delicate net in case it broke into pieces in their hands.

The masterpiece is housed at the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, with several other miracles of marble. Namely, "The Veiled Christ" (1753) by Giuseppe Sanmartino and "The Veiled Truth" (1750) by Antonio Corradini.

Francesco Queirolo (1752-1759)

Credit: @Culture_Crit

#art #history #style #sculpture #marble #hand carved #sins #net #masterpiece #italy #naple #francesco queirolo #17th century #18th century #fisherman #allegory #angel #Culture_Crit

[thinkingimages]

Un Chien Andalou (1929) Directed by Luis Buñuel

#Un Chien Andalou #1929 #Luis Buñuel #gif #gifs #insects #death's-head moth #moth #moths #Symbols #Allegory #Motifs

[lionofchaeronea]

Allegory of Night, Léon Frédéric, 1891

#art #art history #Léon Frédéric #night #allegory #allegorical art #Symbolism #Symbolist art #Belgian art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

[prokopetz]

"It can't be an allegory for X because the protagonist is textually X" like, you've gotta understand that these two things are not mutually exclusive. For example, Madeline Celeste is canonically trans, but that does not render the plot of Celeste non-allegorical. Most people's gender transition does not involve being chased up and down a mountain by ghosts.

#gaming #video games #writing #allegory #celeste #celeste spoilers #spoilers