#fucking love art history

[bowtiepastabitch]

Let's talk costuming: Avaunt!

So I think we can all agree that Aziraphale looks his most traditionally angelic in the Job minisode, no? In fact, all of the angels' costuming increases in drama for this particular episode. This is, obviously, a very deliberate choice on the part of wardrobe, so let's discuss.

On a technical level, the biggest thing that stands out to me about this fabulous robe is the draping. Oh, the draping. It feels like a classic angel 'fit because on a very fundamental level, it is. A lot of what we think of as angelic draws on Renaissance artists' depictions, with flowing robes, fluffy wings, and glimmering halos. In art from this era, there is a strong attention to detail on the natural flow of fabrics that makes Renaissance sculpture so breathtaking, such as here: (The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Bernini, 17th century CE)

It's this ability to make solid marble look like fine silk rippling with movement that leaves such a strong impression in my mind when I look at these kinds of works.

In painting, too, there is a similar effect. Something about the material culture of the Renaissance really lent itself to this style, perhaps fueled by the rise in new textile luxuries that occurred in vaguely the same period. This is seen especially strongly for angels, such as in the sculpture above, and in this painting: (The Annunciation to the Virgin, Botticelli, 15th century CE)

There's a stark contrast between the dress of the two figures. The virgin Mary is no less ornamentally or expensively dressed, but her style is rather minimalistic next to the angel's voluminous robing. It paints a very clear impression of angelic dress, and the designers for Good Omens would have been aware, in at least a small way, of the art history precedence for such a thing.

The poof of the sleeves, the tucks down the front, the little belt with the train tucked in, the gathers, the weight of the fabric, everything about this robe is constructed to carefully recreate the rather fantastical imagery of renaissance art. It's not necessarily an easy texture to nail down, given that the artists themselves had no concerns of gravity, comfort, or the way it would look in actual 3d motion, while our brave costumers were dealing with all three as well as a budget, time constraints, and the constant consideration that white fabric just gets dirty so easy.

Here's some of the other angels as well, so you can see how theirs reflect those same dramatic themes.

And then, of course, when costuming a show you have a second question: What does this mean for our character? Or rather, we know how, but WHY did they make him look so traditionally angelic?

Well, thematically, the Job minisode centers around Aziraphale's struggle with being a good angel and Crowley's struggle with being a good demon. Aziraphale is learning how to be an angel that follows along with heaven as far as we can, and he's so terribly torn up about it. He spends a lot of his time fretting about doing what's expected demanded of him, even if perhaps he doesn't believe it to be the right choice. Natural, then, that he should look the part of the perfect angel whilst sorting out these ethereal woes.

Crowley even draws attention to it himself, giggling a bit at the suggestion that Aziraphale, with his fluffy hair and flowing angelic garb, could possibly become a demon. And it is a rather silly mental image; the garment itself would be comically silly in really ANY other context at all. In the same manner, his performance of angelic archetype borders on excessive:

He's trying so desperately hard here to be the angel he wants to and is supposed to be. He's dressed the part, he's using his big scary angel voice, but deep down he's clinging to an identity that doesn't quite fit.

(You'll notice in this shot the distinct difference between his and Crowley's dress on the level of silhouette as well as color. We see this a lot from the two of them, but with the points I made above it felt worth pointing out in this particular scene)

Here at the end, as he's coming to terms with the cracks in his heaven-given identity, his robe is largely in shadow, blurring out its startling whiteness. We do not see him dressed this way again. (He continues to wear white, obviously, but from here on out his style of dress mimics the human trends of the time rather than that classical angelic imagery)

#good omens analysis #art history #sometimes I am an academic weapon but only when it doesn't count #aziraphale good omens #job minisode #costume design #good omens #good omens costumes #aziraphale #michael sheen #historical clothing #good omens 2 #neil gaiman #also I love the little human touch of that little bend in his fucking sleeve cuff when he says avaunt #like that's a fully real piece of clothing that he's wearing not something animated and sometimes you just have to sit and appreciate it #it just makes me laugh a little #I'm sure someone somewhere agonized over it and wishes they'd fixed it but it just feels so human to me

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Forest Fire – Alexey Denisov-Uralsky // Boreas – The Oh Hellos

#i fucking love this song #fire #forest fire #forest fires #boreas #boreas ep #boreas the oh hellos #the oh hellos #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[kissycore]

Leanne Franson, 2004.

#THIS ONE IS SO FUCKING GOOD #love it #transgender #trans #queer #lgbt #pride #leather pride #fagdyke #dykefag #queer history #lgbt history #bisexual #lesbian #dyke #genderqueer #nonbinary #queer comic #lgbt comic #queer art #ALSO LOOK AT THE SHIRT THE KID IN THE VERY LAST PANEL IS WEARING

[leveragedlibrarians]

AMAZING NEWS BESTIES

#LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO #art history linguist cowboy my love of my life!!!!!!!! #the librarians #jacob stone #the librarians the next chapter #tl:tnc #i called it when they anounced the show okay we been knew

[honeymilkbubbletea]

This is how I imagined that one scene from The Secret History 💀

I know it was meant to be sad and a little dramatic and make us feel bad for Richard

But to me, it was beyond funny

Like okay Richard you stubborn bitch go freeze your ass off no one is stopping you 🤷‍♀️

#digital drawing #digital art #fanart #artists on tumblr #meme #meme art #damn bitch you live like this #the secret history fanart #the secret history donna tartt #the secret history #tsh fanart #tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #richard papen #henry winter #the things Richard does are so fucking funny sometimes #his stubbornness coud literally kill him #he's so stupid #i love him

[londonfoginacup]

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#prefacing this in saying that this isn't directed at anyone reposting these from twit or reblogging them #I need to get this frustration out though #and maybe some other artists will feel seen with this #but like. #AI is a devaluation of everything fandom is built on and i am disgusted by it #the economy of fandom is based on creation made and gifted and created in return #everything AI makes is stolen from what other have created #their fan art or their fic or their manips or their photography #ALL of it is stolen #every bit of it #that has been taken from someone who has made something out of love #AI might create fun images #but ive seen so much ai 'fanart' on twitter today #and i can so CLEARLY name every artist that that 'fanart' has stolen from #its fucking sickening #and we dont have as many manip makers in our fandom right now but we have a rich history of it #and i feel sick thinking about how they will think its useless to even try now #when people can just ~make ai manips~ #BUT ITS NOT THE SAME #with fan art and manips i spend so much time zooming in and looking at details and expressions #knowing those have been created with a purpose #theyre made to be found and admired #ai 'art' has none of that #and im just #so mad #fuck ai fuck ai fuck ai im so MAD #it is a DEVALUATION OF FANDOM I AM SO MAD #not at the people using it as much #because i feel like they havent thought through that #although i hope they will

[viscerism]

king of one thousand restarts

#ultrakill #scythestuff #art #digital art #ultrakill minos #king minos #minos prime #congratulations to my roommate for finally p-ranking this level #three nights of purely brute forcing it until he learned the pattern and figured it all out himself #i am so proud of him and glad i was there through every second because goddamn it was hilarious #i love this dude though his design is so fucking cool. PAIN IN THE ASS TO DRAW THOUGH. #asshole. making me use cool colors. the fuck. #i've had order on loop for three days #it's so good wtf why does this dude have the most kickass ost in the history of the world what

[b4kuch1n]

fuck it sk8 sketches from da sketchbook. get sk8ed idiot

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #sure whatever. tagging ship is probably easier than explaining what the fucks up with these two in my head #hi. I watched sk8 with my friend cosme a while ago. I actually dont care about the allegations that much I just got #blasted with teenage years flashback. and now I need reki to have everything on earth and be well #these have been around for like a week lol Ive just been debating posting them to tumblr. bc like. Im not finishing these lol #hesitant to call sk8 ''therapeutic'' but boy oh boy. does it make me confront some stuff. yes a sport anime leave me alone!!! #its just. I think I was this way about raz too actually. listen I have History with Stuff. I'm allowed ok? I'm totally allowed #u can See it in some of these doodles actually. this fuckign anime got me so unwell #hey. if ur a fellow adhd potentials-havers out there. ur a real one. thanks for still hangin out doin what u love/ur best #if u were an 'if u wanna do art u have to be excellent and high-art at it otherwise it means nothing' kid. I am holding ur hand #I'll be normal now I prommy (lying) #well. what I'll be doing now is taking a nap. maybe. gods my schedule backslid like four hours again #eh whatever. I go to bed anyway. got my portion of the day done and tomorrow I go buy new knife #hope someone come give me a new table top and lower the whole thing a bit soon. so I can stop sitting like Im in a shopping cart #have a good night lads. have fun. its imperative

[namari-hime-moved]

Hello there! I’m your doppelganger!

#mels funny art #pokemon #pokemon sv #trainer florian #trainer juliana #body horror #scissors #ask to tag #florian vidal #juliana vidal #two of a kind am i right fellas? #HERE IS JULIANA VIDAL AND HER FUCKED UP DEFINITELY NOT AN AREA ZERO BEAST BROTHER FLORIAN VIDAL #i licherally cannot explain any of my thoughts on these two its just (CAR CRASH) (EXPLOSION) (BABY CRYING) up in my brain #basically oops. time machine malfunction. julianas alternate timeline self florian is running around and has been running around for a whil #he's literally not built to exist in this timeline and accidentally combined with an area zero terra crystal to keep himself alive #top ten guys who realize theyve accidentally been using their loved ones as energy sources for the past. however long #he may be all that but also hes funny and julianas brother and also a parallel to the ai professor and not the protag hes just A Weird Guy #sorry for not really talking about juliana. i swear shes the worlds silliest girl who loves history and her friends and her pokemon #theyre like a rabbit and a hare they made me insane aughhhhh #doomed siblings forever. they cannot exists without each other but one of them is literally NOT meant to exist #THEYRE PARADOXES (get it. get it. like the pokemon) #aughhh these two #poke-mel #eyestrain

[sinfulhares]

I'm so tired of sites self-destructing, PLEASE I am begging there to be just ONE art site that isn't a flaming pile of shit that could go down at any moment

I'm not leaving until the ship goes down, but I would like to hear potential places where people are also posting art

Personally I'm most active on Kofi and Bluesky because these are the only sites that I'm sure won't come crashing down anytime soon but god it's so tiring to have to keep rebuilding because everything turns to shit over the dumbest, most lack-of-common-decency bullshit from people who should never be in power to begin with

#i cant say i understand what happened exactly so look up on your own #but TL;DR from what ive seen so you know what to look for #trans women (especially one specific one?) have been harassed and stalked for years and complaining for tumblr to do something about it #and ofc they were ignored #and now the pissbaby ceo of tumblr decided to ban a bunch of them including anyone who speaks out #and also harassed and possibly doxxed the main person in this on twitter #and now theres whispers of a potential deal with tumblr and midjourney or some ai shit #hasnt gone down yet but artists are not safe here so uhhh #wondering if im gonna end up nuking this account if it does come to pass #which fucking sucks because i love leaving old galleries of art up #but theres no safe place for fuckers who don't have half a braincell #i miss the history of my deviantart gallery but it had to go

[paiawon]

some pictures i took at the national etruscan museum of villa giulia in rome on nov 21st

#it's just me and IV century BCE fish plates against the world #i am in love with this museum. lighting fucking sucks tho #paiawon.txt #archaeoblr #archaeology #art history #etruscan #etruscan archaeology #tagamemnon #national etruscan museum #la chimera #greek pottery #etruscan pottery #apulian pottery #my photos #my pics

[bisupergirl]

something that's funny about kara's character is that she has a lot of consistent traits and interests seemingly by coincidence, if that makes any sense?

like for the most part i think people (who read her comics) can agree that kara is a hot-tempered person, and that her rage is an important character trait. and while a lot of people attribute her anger as being a trait that was introduced during her new 52 run, you can actually go back to her comics in the 70s and 80s and see that she was equally as (if not moreso!) hot-tempered as she is today. she has always had an incredibly strong sense of morality that she's not willing to waver on, as well as a high standard for how she's treated by others. and a lot of the time that has led her to lash out in anger at criminals, her employers/coworkers, her love interests, the police, and even clark.

and my point being that while you can trace kara's anger back to pre crisis continuity, i don't think the writers of her new 52 series were reading 70s adventure comics issues and the superman family series from the 70s/80s to inform their personal characterization of kara. in modern comics her rage is specifically tied to the destruction of krypton, whereas pre crisis kara was just Like That. she was occasionally allowed to feel sad and lonely about what happened to krypton/argo city, but her anger didn't really stem from that.

anyway! i was just thinking about this because kara's been in three separate bar fights and i thought that was funny.

#kara zor el #also kara having a passion for theatrical arts in pre crisis vs her being interested in art and almost joining the art guild in post crisis #though if u told me sterling gates read the superman family and other relevant pre crisis comics i'd believe you #kara—throughout history—has had a passion for the arts and also going to bars and beating people up #i do love that no matter how many times she gets rebooted her writers will always look at her origin— #—and say ''yeah she would be fucking pissed''

[spittinwatches]

robin and ramy in their culture's traditional clothing

#i love drawing clothes #i also dont love drawing clothes #these are two statements that can coexist #hanfu is not historically accurate for robin but uhhh fuck you #babel or the necessity of violence #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel #art #my art #fanart

[semiotomatics]

think i found a fake georgia o'keeffe painting lol

#this has been an original post #personal spewage #like. not a real painting someone is trying to pass off as a georgia o'keeffe #just. an image online that is being credited as by her #but not only do i suspect it's not. i don't even know where it _is_ from #like i think it might've been created just to be attributed to her? or something? #like this might be one of those things where it made the leap from physical sources to digital and lost its citations along the way or w/e #but uhhhh. i don't think so #the earliest reference to it i could find was in 2007 on a random art history site (not affiliated w any actual organization/museum/etc) #after that it's all. freaking. pinterest/instagram/tumblr #anyway i emailed the georgia o'keeffe museum abt it. hopefully they get back to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #this matters to me okay! i love her work! #i hate that when everyone sees one of her pieces all they think is “hur dur that looks like a vag” #a) that was not her intention and b) jesus christ can you think with something other than your reproductive organs for five fucking minutes #yes some things in nature are going to look phallic and/or yonic #you can have a good chuckle over it but then _move on_ #not everything is about sex/sexuality/the human body #sometimes ppl just want to paint pretty flowers #-sigh- #anyway #that's been my crusade today

[vulpinesaint]

staring dumbstruck at these tags on one of my little saint sebastian posts. what kind of life are other people living

#'who is out here lusting after saints' you've met someone who was fr about saints and NOT lusting after them????? #i don't think you do love catholics on the internet if you haven't talked enough with one of them to hear them be a freak about a saint #to be fair i am asexual and i don't give a fuck about sex really so 'lusting' to me means any number of things #fixating on saint sebastian. joan of arc gender moments. religious ecstasy of any kind you know how it is #or maybe you don't know how it is. probably the point of it dkfjghs #extra silly though because the whole phenomenon of lusting after saint sebastian is actually extremely well-documented in art history. #maybe my post just jumped to the wrong side of tumblr for people to be generally aware of that though haha #anyway i feel like anyone who believes in saints or is even just strongly connected to the concept of saints #has to be a fucking freak about them SOMEHOW. like i don't think you exist like that without being Weird about it #whatevvvsies anyway haha #valentine notes

[thou-babbling-brook]

A moment of peace during war 🇺🇸🦅

#assassin’s creed #turn: washington's spies #connor kenway #ratonhnhaké:ton #benjamin tallmadge #ac3 #art #my art #fan art #assassin’s creed fanart #turn: washington’s spies fanart #yes I am fixated on both #I love American history sm #I’ll forever be mad that they made Benjamin Tallmadge so fucking UGLY in ac3 #I made him based on Seth Numrich’s version in this #love these two #my baby girls #also a brief return to traditional art bc I missed it #please ignore the weird doodles with sharpie that was from some other shit