Philosophers Party Hard.
N.B., do not drink Hemlock.
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Daniel Macedo by Martin Traynor
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Any of you motherfuckers wants to date me?
Fuck. I’m terribly frustrated.
Gustav Klimt (via art of the beautiful-grotesque - Home)
he was on acid when he paint this!
LOL but one of my favorites!^^^
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Enric and Joan Puigross
Art’s great nudes have gone skinny
Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.
Is it just me, or did they look fine before?
The point of the piece is to show how beauty is socially constructed. She took paintings of beautiful women from the Italian Renaissance and put our standards of beauty on them. It is to show that women in art/media are getting smaller.
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Resurrection Erection
Continuing with the Jesus-themed, Easter weekend posts is the much-anticipated Resurrection Erection. Today, we return to another important type of painting dealing with Christ’s humanity, aka sexuality (aka his sex/genitals) à la Leo Steinberg. If the dead Christ returns to an embryonic state pre-gender formation, then the resurrected Christ is fully human and totally erect. The images I’ve chosen are of a type known as the Man of Sorrows, so to be honest Christ is not really resurrected but caught somewhere between death and resurrection (so go with it, it’s Easter after all). According to Steinberg, “The humanation of God entails, along with mortality, his assumption of sexuality.” Enjoy the works by Martin van Heemskerck and Ludwig Krug (yes, the drapery could just be bunched up like drapery does, but it could also be bulging from an erection… it is rather conspicuously placed). Get into it, get over it, or get erect!
Sitting Erect (left to right): Maerten van Heemskerck, Man of Sorrows, c. 1550, oil on panel. Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina; Ludwig Krug, Man of Sorrows, 1510-1532, engraving. British Museum, London
