William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)
La Loyauté, 1876
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Equality Before Death (1848, oil on canvas) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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desire is suffering
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Dream Reveals in Neon the Great Addictions, Frank Bidart ( @wahabibi ) | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Vestiges, Ángel García | Blasphemia, Eliran Kantor | So We Must Meet Apart, Jennifer S. Cheng ( @yoursoethereal ) | Prigione di Lacrime, Roberto Ferri | Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, November 4th, Simone de Beauvoir ( @theoptia ) | Ludwig Drahosch | War of the Foxes, Richard Siken ( @elfreys )
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I think it's very funny that people have cropped William-Adolphe Bouguereau's "Dante and Virgil" from 1850 for the sexy detail so much that it's possible people think Dante and Virgil ARE these subjects.
When in fact, Dante and Virgil are THESE guys standing to the side looking like a couple of scandalized queens. I love how he's got his robe over his mouth. "Oh my god. They are just Going at it over there."
Anyway this is the full painting!
There is a LOT of great little details in it. It's definitely a huge favourite of mine and not just for the homo eroticism.
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William Bouguereau - The Bather
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Title: The Nymphaeum
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Date: 1878
Genre: Mythological Painting
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Eros and Psyche by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1889.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau “La perle”, 1894
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Grief in art
Grief is an interesting subject for depiction, because it isn't ever really just one feeling. It's a cluster of feelings, an array of very different, sometimes almost contradictory emotional states, which collectively we understand as expressions of that one underlying condition, which is grieving.
So how do you show that? How do you take that and make it visible to an audience? Many, many artists have tried, and their attempts are varied, fascinating, and very occasionally heartbreaking.
Let's take a little non-comprehensive walking tour of grief in art history, from the 1400s to the 2020s, from the religious to the cartoony, and get in our feelings a bit.
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"THE FIRST MOURNING" | 1888
WILLIAM ADOLPHE-BOUGUEREAU
[oil on canvas | 203 x 250 cm.]
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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 - 1905)
The abduction of Psyche, 1895
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Virgin and Child by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1888.
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pull me like an animal out of a hole
every other freckle, alt j | dante and virgil in hell, william-adolphe bouguereau
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Pietà (1876, oil on canvas) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Motherland (1883)
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