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03 May 12 996 notes cavetocanvas: The Problem We All Live With - Norman Rockwell, 1935 1963/4, not 1935. Rockwell started exploring civil rights themes after his contract with the Saturday Evening Post ended in the early 60s, and many of these works were published under contract with Look. The subject here is Ruby Bridges, who at six years old was the first student to be integrated in New Orleans in 1960, and who viewed the painting with President Obama and Secretary Clinton when it was displayed outside the Oval Office. Kirstie Kleopfer-Craven at the Cincinnati Art Museum did her Master’s thesis on Rockwell’s civil rights period - you can read it here. And here’s another take on just this single painting by Kenneth Laird, including working photographs and studies Rockwell used. (John Steinbeck also wrote about witnessing Bridges’ walk to school and the monstrous reactions from the white crowds who harassed her in Travels with Charley. And don’t miss Ruby Bridges’ memoir Through My Eyes, because it’s beautiful (and great for teaching children about the civil rights era through a very personal and relatable story!).)

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The Problem We All Live With - Norman Rockwell, 1935

1963/4, not 1935. Rockwell started exploring civil rights themes after his contract with the Saturday Evening Post ended in the early 60s, and many of these works were published under contract with Look.

The subject here is Ruby Bridges, who at six years old was the first student to be integrated in New Orleans in 1960, and who viewed the painting with President Obama and Secretary Clinton when it was displayed outside the Oval Office.

Kirstie Kleopfer-Craven at the Cincinnati Art Museum did her Master’s thesis on Rockwell’s civil rights period - you can read it here. And here’s another take on just this single painting by Kenneth Laird, including working photographs and studies Rockwell used. (John Steinbeck also wrote about witnessing Bridges’ walk to school and the monstrous reactions from the white crowds who harassed her in Travels with Charley. And don’t miss Ruby Bridges’ memoir Through My Eyes, because it’s beautiful (and great for teaching children about the civil rights era through a very personal and relatable story!).)

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19 April 12 75 notes suprntrlblack: 潘玉良 (Pan Yuliang), 非洲裸女 (African Nude), 1972, oil on canvas For those of you who have not watched the 1994 film starring Gong Li, or don’t buy into the idea that movies can actually produce accurate biopics, Pan Yuliang was born in 1889 in Yangzhou. At an early age, after the death of her parents, she was sold into prostitution by her uncle. There, she attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua, a customs official, who bought her freedom and wedded her as his second wife. She attended the Shanghai Art Academy in 1921. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1926, she won the Gold Prize at the Roman International Art Exhibition. When she returned to Shanghai in 1929. she brought with her Western painting techniques (oil on canvas) and subject matter (nudes). Although the first female artist in China to use Western painting techniques, the subject matter, as well as her background in prostitution, caused the art community, and society in general, to ostracize her. She returned to Paris in 1937, where she lived until her death in 1977. She did not garner much attention from the Western art community. Considering the explosion of modernist art movements in the twentieth century, it is easy to see how her style, especially in later years, could have been seen as derivative of the Post-Impressionists. However, many of the motifs in her paintings, obscured female form, nudes, flowers, interiors, and heavy makeup were directly influenced from her experience growing up. The rouged cheeks in particular, reference the makeup of prostitutes. Unfortunately, there is still not that much information about her available in English (a lot more research needs to be done on both female artists and international artists, in the ‘world art history’ context). Therefore, I know nothing about this painting (I wish I did). The most immediate question, I think, would be whether there is a difference in the portrayal of a minority woman, when it is painted by a minority woman (albeit of a different race). Does the male gaze, the orientializing gaze, the privileged gaze, still hold?

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潘玉良 (Pan Yuliang), 非洲裸女 (African Nude), 1972, oil on canvas

For those of you who have not watched the 1994 film starring Gong Li, or don’t buy into the idea that movies can actually produce accurate biopics, Pan Yuliang was born in 1889 in Yangzhou. At an early age, after the death of her parents, she was sold into prostitution by her uncle. There, she attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua, a customs official, who bought her freedom and wedded her as his second wife. She attended the Shanghai Art Academy in 1921. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1926, she won the Gold Prize at the Roman International Art Exhibition.

When she returned to Shanghai in 1929. she brought with her Western painting techniques (oil on canvas) and subject matter (nudes). Although the first female artist in China to use Western painting techniques, the subject matter, as well as her background in prostitution, caused the art community, and society in general, to ostracize her. She returned to Paris in 1937, where she lived until her death in 1977.

She did not garner much attention from the Western art community. Considering the explosion of modernist art movements in the twentieth century, it is easy to see how her style, especially in later years, could have been seen as derivative of the Post-Impressionists. However, many of the motifs in her paintings, obscured female form, nudes, flowers, interiors, and heavy makeup were directly influenced from her experience growing up. The rouged cheeks in particular, reference the makeup of prostitutes.

Unfortunately, there is still not that much information about her available in English (a lot more research needs to be done on both female artists and international artists, in the ‘world art history’ context). Therefore, I know nothing about this painting (I wish I did). The most immediate question, I think, would be whether there is a difference in the portrayal of a minority woman, when it is painted by a minority woman (albeit of a different race). Does the male gaze, the orientializing gaze, the privileged gaze, still hold?

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14 April 12 7,342 notes

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Many people go out of their way to avoid using cramped airplane bathrooms, but we just discovered someone who seeks them out for awesomely creative purposes:

To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style:

While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.

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lmao, I applaud her ability to keep a straight face while doing this

THIS IS INCREDIBLE -jamie

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17 February 12 1,636 notes

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Edmonia Lewis (1845-1909) was an African American and Native American sculptor that would find success despite discrimination for her race and gender. She was an art student at Oberlin College and would excel in her courses but would later drop out after being accused of theft and poisoning two classmates; this led to a mob beating her up severely, only to have her acquitted of any wrong doing at trial. She would later move to Boston to further her education in sculpting. Her big break would come in 1864 with a bust she made of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw being widely celebrated and selling many copies; this would supply her with enough money to move to Rome. She would spend most of her adult career in Italy and became a highly paid and internationally respected sculptor. Two of her most notable works are: Forever Free and The Death of Cleopatra.

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13 January 12 497 notes cavetocanvas: Jean-Léon Gérôme, Duel After A Masquerade Ball, 1857 THIS IS MY FAVORITE PIECE OF ART IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. I bought a tiny print at the DAI a million years ago and I looooooooooovvvvvvvvvve it. I wish I could afford to get a proper sized reproduction to hang in the living room. And every other room. Maybe tattoo it on my eyelids, inside and out.

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Duel After A Masquerade Ball, 1857

THIS IS MY FAVORITE PIECE OF ART IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. I bought a tiny print at the DAI a million years ago and I looooooooooovvvvvvvvvve it. I wish I could afford to get a proper sized reproduction to hang in the living room. And every other room. Maybe tattoo it on my eyelids, inside and out.

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28 November 11 37 notes onionjulius: The Riverlands by ~ReneAigner The Riverlands were one of the regions most cruelly savaged during the war of the five kings. Villages, cities and castle would change their owners multiple times during the struggle and be burned each time some new lord claimed them.

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The Riverlands by ~ReneAigner

The Riverlands were one of the regions most cruelly savaged during the war of the five kings. Villages, cities and castle would change their owners multiple times during the struggle and be burned each time some new lord claimed them.

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