Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

The Swing, oil on canvas, Edouard Bisson (1856-1939)

Santa Cruz understood the importance of being able to see oneself in their culture and the value of identity. Through her work, she was not only able to disavow the way that Blackness was seen, but she redefined Blackness. She refused to accept the position that Peru and the broader American society continuously forced Black individuals into and, by writing and producing plays, allowed others to reject those roles. [x]

hi and hello.

i finished up my art history degree last spring and am aiming to begin my master's degree next year. i reblog lots of different things here, of all periods and genres and cultures — generally, anything can be art and my reblogs will reflect that.

i've got a pretty eclectic taste in art, and this blog will reflect that. i try to only reblog things that has an artist name or a specific period (ancient art where there is no known artist, for example) attached to it.

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i'm also deeply interested in post-colonialism within the museum (as an entity) and how the museum was built up on unethical, racist premises. i might not post much about it here, as i write about this mostly in norwegian, but when researching i might share a cool book or article on these topics.

enjoy!

Annu Vertanen, Candidate, 1989 (https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/object/415487)

tiddles the church cat

Dog sculptures turned golden from tourists petting them throughout the years

Amore Kidnapped

— by Daniele Accossato

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) • Summer Night by the Beach • 1902-03

Louis Frederick Grell (American, 1887-1960) • Fredericka (Portrait of the artist’s wife on their wedding day) • 1923

Image courtesy of the Louis Grell Foundation

They didn't make it onto the fashion plates; they were the fashion plates

Lovely Victorian women of color dressed in elegant style.

Details: La belle Dame Sans Merci, Walter T. Crane - 1865

The Uninvited Guest, 1906, and The Deceitfullness of Riches, 1901, by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945)

Recursos: Macondo visto por Leo Matiz

Elizabeth Okie Paxton (American, 1877-1971) • The Breakfast Tray • c. 1910 • Private collection

Elizabeth Okie Paxton was married to William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941).

Albert Anker (Swiss, 1831-1910) • Still life: coffee and potatoes • 1897