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Deep Water Prompt #3208
We are nearly apprehended, attempting to steal a living painting from the world’s most famous gallery. We have no choice but to enter it, safely hidden, but at the mercy of the world inside.
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kirbykendrick · 1 year
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“The Frame” (1938), Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is considered to be the first surrealist painter and was the first Mexican woman artist to be represented in a major European institution, The Louvre, Paris. This was the painting they acquired in 1939!
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fallensapphires · 7 months
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Places: Art Galleries
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Lee Krasner lost husband Jackson Pollock in a car crash. The next year, she finished “The Seasons” and said: “The question came up whether one would continue painting at all, and I guess this was my answer.”
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imaginebetterfutures · 4 months
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Support artists in your community!
Last year I started taking a sculpture class at a community college in Oakland (which is why you now are seeing me post sculptures on here), and it has radically changed the way I experience art museums. I now have this new experience of seeing work that engages with ideas that my classmates are, frankly, doing better with far fewer resources.
This isn't a ground breaking observation obviously. I have known, intellectually, for a long time that art is a game of connections and who you know and resources. But it hits different when you see it in real time, played out across very expensive and fancy museum floors.
It must be extra frustrating for teachers at these colleges, constantly seeing students come through who are doing amazing, original work and getting zero recognition or access to the spaces in which "success" in the art world happens.
I have no illusions that I am going to be able to dismantle the fucked up power structures of the art world, but what I can do is support and encourage the artists in my community and you probably can too. I guarantee that many artists around you are arranging their own shows in garage spaces, or warehouses, or community centers. Go see them! Buy their work! Share their stuff on Instagram or Tumblr or whatever!
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bts-trans · 2 years
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220924 RM’s Instagram Post
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Picture Translation:
Most art museums today exhibit a minor number of artworks in a restricted indoor space, which means that they are restricted to people who find these places. But I don't agree with this. People, no matter who, should all be able to enjoy art naturally, in their daily lives.
(T/N: Said by artist Moon Shin.)
Trans cr; Aditi @ bts-trans © TAKE OUT WITH FULL CREDITS
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aisalynn · 2 months
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So my conference is over and I have hours before I have to be at the airport for my flight, so I decided to head to the city's art museum.
Man, I really need to just start going to art museums on my own.
Yes, it is nice to do things with people, but this is such a wonderful experience.
I do not have to worry about someone else wanting to look at something else, or spending too much time on one piece and them getting impatient, and while it is great to hear someone else's takeaways about an art piece, it is also nice for it to be just you and the art and the artist and your impressions and emotions.
I am so glad I decided to do this rather than just wait around for the flight.
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muttball · 9 months
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The Last Supper
Museo de Bellas Artes, Sevilla. Author: Alonso Vazquez, 1588
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bleakhouseindeed · 2 months
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stoicmike · 4 months
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Art museums are great places for people watching. Also you can look at the art. -- Michael Lipsey
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siriuslydandy · 11 months
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Love, like art, must always be free
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jellogram · 2 years
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(old photo of me from the Portland Museum of Art, January 2022, taken by my friend)
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sophisoph · 7 months
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>> me! ᶻ𝗓 𐰁ᶻ 𝗓 ʚɞ ⁺˖ ⸝⸝ ⋆ ˚。⋆୨୧˚ << σ(≧ε≦σ) ♡
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emmabirb8 · 11 months
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K, so a couple weeks ago I went on a lovely bus trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, and being the WWDITS hyperfixed and Nandor obsessed little nerd that I am, I was on the lookout for anything Persian related AND anything that felt like "Nandorcore" to me. :P
And I found a few things!!
The first pieces of pottery are actual Persian artifacts adorned with some interesting designs and illustrations and even some writing. (It's too bad they don't have translations for those poems though.) They are, judging by the info cards, a bit before Nandor's time, but they definitely still fit into the aesthetic I was hunting for (esp those two with horse illustrations!)
The last piece, a South Asian vase from Nepal, is NOT Persian, but the jewels and shiny copper covering give such an overall regal/royal vibe that came across as very Nandor-esque to me, so I included it in this set.
So anyway! Yeah! Just Nandor things.
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evermore34 · 2 years
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I saw The Fighting Temeraire today and thought I should share. It’s really a beautiful painting.
I think in the film it’s in front of the bench, but in real life it’s actually more to the side. I sat on the bench in the right place anyway :)
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jijigarden · 1 month
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