Category Archives: Art

margaritas

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It’s no known secret that being an adolescent sucks. I’m no stranger to that: My seventh grade school picture prominently displays a middle part (secured with heart-shaped bobby pins from Claire’s) above a big ol’ set of braces.

So it goes without saying that my heart breaks for you too, Infanta Margarita because you were just darling in Las Meninas, and well…here, you are…like me, in seventh grade.

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But, at least you grew out of it? (or did you? Debatable, honestly…). Whatever; if you get the title of Holy Roman Empress, you can look go ahead and just live your life.

Top: Portrait of the Infanta from 1659.
Above: Portrait of the Infanta from 1667.

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lord of light

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If Melisandre knows what’s good for her, she’ll bring Ygritte back too. Pray that to the Lord of Light.

landscapes, two parts

Something you can say to impress your friends. It goes like this: “Guys, did you know there are two different sub-categories of landscape painting?”

“Yeah, one’s called heroic landscape painting. Rich people of the time preferred these, as well as the French Academy. You know what we say today? Boh-ring!”

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“The other one is called rural landscape painting. As you’d think, guys, more generic. It didn’t require the level of ‘finish’ the Academy preferred in its heroic landscapes, but could be a bit rougher. Think, like, yoga pants for chicks.”

corotlandscape

Thank me later when you have everyone clamoring to hang out with you.

 

abt ln…

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Edward Hopper brilliantly captures my Sunday mornings: just swap that book for all the texts I sent last night to people I shouldn’t.

Woops.

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swineherd

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Gauguin painted this monstrosity when he visited Brittany in 1888.

I’d probably be biting down on my closed fist if I had to pose for this clown, too.

One biographer said that Gauguin liked the primitive nature of the Brittany area more than its low cost of living. AREYOUSERIOUS? In the exact same summary, Gauguin wrote his estranged wife something like, “Hey honey, yeah, wow, sorry we didn’t come here sooner. Rent woulda been like, wayyyy cheaper.”

Cheap bastard.

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cheat week

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When you promise to work out this afternoon, but someone mentions tacos, so you wear something fancy to take away from your chin(s). This is by no stretch a hypothetical: I really have done nothing in the way of aerobic activity, but I just really want tacos. And donuts.

plotting

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Caspar David Friedrich (an artist most famously known for his Wanderer work, seen here) presents us with another backside. This time, however, is a woman looking out her window, in what can only be assumed as plotting.

I too carefully observe people, but from the comfort of my bed via Venmo. Oh goodie, you shared beers yesterday? “🎉🚗➡️⚓️😍”?? 

Plotting.

girl w ball

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Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl with Ball can be viewed at MoMa. The work was once owned by its founder, Philip Johnson.

Lichtenstein appropriated the girl from an advertisement, but made her look both more fake and more hot.

Way to go, Roy. That’s just the message we’re trying to send to girls everywhere.

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Monet_BeachatHonfleur

Claude Monet’s Beach at Honfleur is pretty mathematically stellar, to be honest.

The diagonal cut of this rocky terrain splits the composition into two pieces; the stones and sand on the right, with the boats and and water on the left. Add the clouds and the cliffs, and my goodness: Monet does a pretty stellar job drawing the eye into the middle of the canvas.

Turns out though, Monet didn’t complete this work en plein air (“outdoors,” duh) like it seems. Photos of his studio from back then suggest that he worked on it once he returned home from the beach.

Uh, yes! I don’t think I upload a single selfie without at least a Valencia filter these days.

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