Emil Jakob Schindler - landscape paintings from various periods.

bain á la grenouillére by claude monet

1869; oil on canvas

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861-1941) • Fauno viejo (Old Faun) • 1911 • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía , Madrid

Girl In A Japanese Costume William Merritt Chase

John Singer Sargent (American-British, 1856-1925) • A Dinner Table at Night • 1884 • De Young Museum, San Francisco

Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, 1914. Childe Hassam. Oil on canvas.

my concept of donut is like, he should be on a 1960s white america boyscouts poster but like, goofy about it. do you get what i mean.

like to me donut was basically cooked up in a lab to be a parody of the Good Ol’ Boy Back When Boys Were Real Boys who played outside all day with friends smacking each other with sticks playing space cowboys and aliens, rubbing dirt in all his cuts and knowing big boys repress all their emotions except Boisterousness, always says his yes maams and yes sirs and never questions authority (but also, y’know, boys will be boys so of course they’re up to Mischief when unsupervised, a bit of chaotic and violent rule-breaking fun is all fine and good as long as they’re respectful to authority and just accept their punishment with an “awwww, man! Shucks!” in the end).

a parody because it plays up how someone genuinely like that probably must be pretty stupid/oblivious/gullible to be so pliable to authority and follow dumb norms of “what is a nice polite young man supposed to act like” without any thought into “wait, what makes this something it’s important or nice to do? are there perhaps other things i could focus on doing that would actually be more important or nice to do? do i actually get or care what being nice and doing good is, or do i just like doing whatever i want without having to think about Ethics and then having a very easy set of rules of How To Be Nice to follow”.

and also a parody because he also is like, extremely gay, and he literally just does what he wants and acts how he wants and it’s simultaneously ^that whole Good Ol’ Boy thing and the most flamboyant stereotypically gay mannerisms and hobbies you’ve seen in your life. and he just fully lacks the interest in doing any reflection that would lead him to conclude anyone might see these as rather contradictory or subverting expectations. he’s exposed both to norms of good behaviour coming from conservative places and from progressive places and doesn’t really think about these perhaps being conflicting ethos, he just grabs this random patchwork of “hey this is something someone told me yayyyy :)”. he can enthusiastically follow the letter of many laws rooted in heteronormativity and toxic masculinity and also the letter of laws coming from Progressive Ideals but he fully does not give a shit to consider whether there might be a bigger spirit to any of those laws. dumbitchitis got him immune to internalized homophobia (no he isn’t actually. but he is quite certain that just Not Thinking About It means any negative emotions don’t exist. this is a foundational truth to donut’s understanding of the universe)

what i’m saying is donut should simultaneously give the impression of walking straight off a cheery WWI Join The Troops poster or 1960s boy scouts ad, but also of being absolutely A Pansy of the same era, but also of being the kind of modern queer who says “be gay do crime” not because they’ve given two seconds of thought to prison abolition but because they find doing crime really fun

Algernon Mayow Talmage (British/English, 1871-1939) • The Mackarel Shawl • 1910 • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England

Everetts Old Mill, Corfe; 1909

By Arthur Ernest Streeton

Portrait of Elizabeth Wharton Drexel | 1905 Giovanni Boldini

Robert Delaunay (French,1885-1941) • Nature morte au perroquet (Still Life with Parrot) • 1907 • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Wishful thinking

Piet Mondrian  (N.L. 1872 - 1944) Village Church  1898  charcoal, gouache, pastel, pencil, watercolor, paper

Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862–1938) • The two sister • 1921 • Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston S.C.

Landscapes by Childe Hassam

Harriet Backer (Norwegian, 1845–1932) • The Library of Thorvald Boeck • 1902 • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo