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I feel a similar fixation on my computer screen when my manager seeks out suckers for last-minute tasks before the weekend.

Head down and work, head down and work.

Yale’s Art Gallery hosts a delicious summary of Winslow Homer’s A Game of Croquet. It calls the game “vindictive” and “flirtatious,” which hello, yes.

I LOVE the idea of these women being all pissy about each other’s balls going the wrong way they end up making out in a bathroom. Kidding, how could you even get one hoop skirt in a stall, let alone two?!

I love everything about Hopper’s Rooms for Tourists.

The awnings, the bright light, the soothing light of the front parlor…

I need a bed and breakfast stay like this STAT.

TFW you realize you left read receipt on, but wanted to be coy.

When given the chance to go out and be cultured, like:
– visit a museum,
– go to a foreign film,
– or read a book at a restaurant alone,
– tour a park with friends,

OR

stay inside and fan myself from the comfort of my own home…

…I choose the latter.

Each and every time, the latter.

Sara looks like she’s three beers in on a dog-friendly patio.

/ my life in a painting, for sure.

Mood all day.

When Bazille’s Family Reunion was accepted by the Salon in 1869, he said it was probably admitted “by mistake.”

Yeah, no offense Baz, but SHEESH, this is the most rigid set of family members I have ever seen in a composition.

I will say that I witness a similar scene in just about every room I enter, but not in that “hey, glad you’re here!” kinda way…more like the, “yeah, we’ve been talking ’boutchu” kinda way.

I seriously imagine that this is a pretty common child-rearing situation, where you just want to lay down with your tea in bed and there’s an alert, upright baby in the way.

Claude Monet’s Women in the Garden nearly stopped me in my tracks at the National Gallery this past weekend. Holy moly, this work is sensational on so many levels.

WITG was painted in 1866. All of the women in the work were modeled by his partnere Camille. Monet submitted the work for the 1867 Salon exhibition, where it was rejected. Apparently, Salon critics were SUPER AGAINST its abundance of visible brushstrokes and lack of narrative: One juror even said:

“Too many young people think of nothing but continuing in this abominable direction. It is high time to protect them and save art!”

Reminds me of that moment in SATC:

I get it. Monet was like, 26, at the time… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

With its rejection, Monet turned to his friend Bazille who purchased the work for 2,500 francs (approx. $3M today), to be paid in installments. Scholarship suggests he was inspired by such a large work that he created his own, The Family Reunion, below.

Thoughhhh this work is creepy enough to deserve its own post later this week.