“Girl, he’s only five seven. And he says that in his profile. Like, he doesn’t even lie and say six foot. FIVE. SEVEN.”
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
mlk day
Love is the most enduring thing in the world. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
the agony
How in God’s name does Paul Gauguin still top the list of the most expensive paintings? I’m legitimately trying to understand this. Is there nothing we can do? Christie’s, I am begging you. I can’t take another moment of this smug bastard.
Continue reading posts of my general disdain here.
fuzzy feelings.
How absolutely rad are these puffballs of apologies? God, I love things like this; they remind me of the backhanded questions my grandma asks me like, “Are you going to stop talking, or should I put my hearing aids in to hear you?”
in case you didn’t know.
And lots of other cutesy, artistically-rendered facts available here. Mike Lowery, you are real talented. I like your work and your quips as much as your nervous Napoleon.
but like, this is me.
Edith Schiele and I are actual soul sisters. I mean, HELLO!, look at this collar! The stripes?! If this was a bit more Miss Frizzle solar system-y, it’d be all me. Don’t be fooled, though: I have much, much better eyebrows.
symphony in white
John James Whistler worked on “The White Girl” religiously, and was known for getting up early to finish the work. (First of all, I can barely make Soul Survivor and that crap’s at nearly ten in the morning.)
Whistler, most famous for his mother, was twenty-seven at the time of painting “The White Girl.” Once submitting the work, he went to the Royal Academy of Arts (London’s equivalent of the French Salon) to see where it had been installed…and he found it, laying gently in a stack of rejects.
Misery loves company, apparently, because girlfriend ended up being rejected by the French Salon itself! It ended up being exhibited with other castoffs, including Manet’s NSFW Déjeuner sur L’Herbe.
Last note: Whistler opted for “Symphony in White” as its new title to draw attention to the “true” subject — the paint. Personally, I would’ve tied in the bearskin rug or her frizzy hair to the whole symphony thing. Just a thought.
marigold > chartreuse
In case anyone was curious…Michelle definitely wore the yellowish hue better.
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