Category Archives: Art

Jun 10 2016
Art

keep rolin

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Let me get this straight: Nicholas Rolin, pictured above in this Jan van Eyck work, was said to be part of a triple marriage between his mother, her two sons, and the daughters of the bridegroom.

I’m not afraid to say that I just had to look up the definition of bridegroom (the Google search yielded a bunch of images about a VERY SAD movie…something about love being cut short from a “misstep of the side of a roof.” *700 WIDE-EYED EMOJIS HERE*

This means that the stepsiblings by marriage of Rolin’s mom and this guy were going to be…husbands and wives? Am I right? Here’s actually a time I wouldn’t mind being wrong because…yikes.

That makes Brady Bunch look totally, totally normal.

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Jun 09 2016
Art

Pheebs!

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Google celebrates the 85th birthday of Phoebe Snetsinger, a famous birder. What’s more fascinating about this image is, I learned that she was the daughter of Leo Burnett, the most AMAZING advertising mogul that is EASILY a company I want to work for someday.

Like, today. I’ll send my resume.

Jun 09 2016
Art

charles terrasse

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Charles Terrasse was a French composer, and brother-in-law to painter Pierre Bonnard. This portrait of him was done by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

JUST PAUSE ON THIS, PLEASE. This is my idealized man, realized. Dark features, pensive thinking, no weird Urban Outfitter plaid shirts or rolled khakis. Sign me up.

Jun 08 2016
Art

tombsday

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This is a painted relief from the Tomb of Amenherkhepshef, one of the sons of Ramesses III.

Its translation has something to do with it being early in the week, and someone responding, Ssshhhh….

Other translations include being asked what someone does for fun outside of work, or if I’d be interested in taking advantage of a drinking patio with the warm weather.

Woops. Sorry for the “I” in the last one. Don’t know how that happened.

Jun 08 2016
Art

hold the phone

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HUFFINGTON POST JUST TOLD ME THAT THE ILLUSTRATOR OF SVH TAKES COMMISSIONS.

O.

M.

G.

Jun 07 2016
Art

olive trees

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Did you know that Vincent van Gogh painted at least 18 canvases of olive trees? Most of them were painted while he stayed in the asylum at Saint-Remy.

Eighteen! I mean, I guess I’ve taken 18 selfies today, but I’m not using any oil on canvas or anything…

Jun 07 2016
Art

sebastian

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Saint Sebastian becomes like my soul sister when it’s Monday at 8pm and JoJo starts talking about…anything…on The Bachelorette. Persecution of Christians? Please, I’ll take any and all the arrows instead of another clip of next week’s episode.

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Jun 06 2016
Art

uhh…

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That feeling when a guy lists off the ages of 6 children, and then says, “Just kidding, I only have three.”

I turned off my phone for four hours, and read a book.

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Jun 06 2016
Art

oh, lucie.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Lucie Berard a lot. Like, more than a few portraits of her exist, so I’m guessing she was a family friend or something.

I’m more a fan of this work of her than any other one because her eyes are super dark and really heartless, which, LBH, perfectly describes my relationship with Mondays, period.

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Jun 05 2016
Art

eggs, anyone?

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I’ll have you know that, no, you aren’t witnessing your brunch being prepared from earlier today. Instead, you’re viewing Old Woman Frying Eggs by Diego Velazquez. It dates from around 1618 (when he was like, 19!), and can be seen at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Remember when I wowed all of you with my lessons on Italian styles of painting? Well, here’s my series (here, here, here, and here). This one’s a primo-ream-oh example of chiaroscuro. Impress your friends with all this wealth of knowledge, thank me later.

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