im not even joking rn this fucking painting made me start uncontrollably sobbing. Do you know how long it took to paint? How expensive it was? The cat was content for hours and so loved that the girl held him there and paid for him to be painted with her. Imagine having such a bond… imagine being so loved and loving so much back…
Apparently this is almost a genre of painting. Its human nature to love and cradle cats …. And the bond these cats and their people have. To sit together for hours to get a painting to attempt to immortalize the love you two shared
Let me show you these charming paintings by a French artist Léon Comerre! I like to think these ladies were like “me and my kitty look so cute together, we must get a portrait made of us so that everyone knows how we love each other” 💕
(Also, having matching ribbons with your cat is the loveliest idea ever 🎀)
I saw someone compare my recent art to Alphonse Mucha and it hit me that for a lot of people he is the only slavic artist they know about, so I thought I’d use this opportunity to talk a bit about my actual inspirations : D
Lately I’ve been greatly inspired by Kazimierz Sichulski, Jan Rembowski and Stanisław Wyspiański, to the point of occasional imitation I admit.
Their art in order: Die Huzulische Madonna by Sichulski, Pochód Górali by Rembowski, Macierzyństwo by Wyspiański
Occasionally you may see me reference Ivan Bilibin’s art, although it’s mostly when I want some particular piece to be instantly recognized as slavic by general audience :P
Another painter I look up to is Adam Styka, I’m not so much influenced by his art style but I adore the way he portrays comfortable interactions between people
And lastly, I also enjoy looking at the art of Aleksander Augustynowicz or Wojciech Kossak, just to get a general understanding of “this is how artists handle painting people at rest, or people interacting with each other”
adrienne rich, of women born: motherhood as experience and institution / alexandra levasseur - body of land collection, 2015 / ana teresa barboza - bordados collection, 2004 / margaret atwood, “europe on $5 a day” / tracey emin - it was all too much, 2018 / clarice lispector, a breath of life / gérard lartigue- femme bougie, 2018 / jenefer schute, life-size / louise bourgeois - i DISTANCE myself from myself, 2010 / wayne koestenbaum, “figure” / henrik uldalen - caries and surge, 2017 / andrés cerpa, “the vault” / jennifer’s body (2009) / enrico robusti- food, sex, & irony collection, 2014 / sylvia plath, the bell jar
how much do u have to hate art & human experience to insist that explicit sexual content can’t have any meaning or importance in a narrative than “getting people off”
pulls out a megaphone and deafens you with my yelling: art is a tool to understand the whole of the human experience and you do not get to decide that a part of that experience is not worth exploring
At the same time, art that soley exists to get people off and has no other function is not any less worthwhile than any other kind of art. A lot of art exists purely to elicit a very specific emotion and arousal is just as valid to experience as any other. Sex does not need to be more than something to get people off to be valid in art.
i think anne magills paintings and Edward hoppers are like .. exact opposites. hoppers has the distinct clarity to it, a sharpness in the lines and the angles that contributes to an overwhelming sense of loneliness in almost every one of his paintings. even in his paintings that dont portray isolation there is a feeling of separation
loneliness vs. aloneness
magill, on the other hand, has this haziness to her paintings that emanates a warmth even when the subjects in her paintings are alone.
both paintings feel so comforting, and even in the second one where the girl is alone she is still in the presence of the visceral world around her - there’s a familiarity in magills painting that she captures nicely.
i guess i just think it’s interesting because hopper and magill are two of my favorite artists and they paint similar scenes with very different tones -
I’ve always thought that hoppers paintings are a snapshot of urban loneliness - the distinctness of it, the use of cool colors, the stark contrast between the people and their settings - whereas magills paintings seem almost like memories - their use of haziness and blurriness is exactly how someone wild remember something, indistinct, full of feeling and lacking detail
