Notices by Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)

David. Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, 1788.

This fascinating article by The Met NYC is a case study in late empire and personal presentation. They were so much like us. This could be Instagram, and they could be modern celebrities and officials who, though maybe not yet aware that they are about to lose their heads, are scrambling to renovate their image in the press as violent revolution spreads.

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E. L. Kirchner. The Café, 1928.

The Nazis destroyed over 600 of his works as 'decadent,' but luckily we get to see the rest. This was the year his work became markedly more abstract.

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Fortunato Depero. Chair Party, 1927.

This isn't a #painting at all but a huge sewn patchwork called a "cloth inlay." He made many such textile pieces during this decade and there are design elements here which overlap with those in his paintings, wood inlay work, sculpture, marionettes, and commercial, furniture, and stage design.

Clara Peeters. Still Life with Nuts, Candy and Flowers, 1611.

A rare female painter in the Dutch Golden Age, Peeters was overlooked and marginalized. We don't even know anything of her birth and death. But by inserting her reflection over and over into her pronk paintings, she ensured that at least in her own works she could not be ignored indefinitely. It could be seen as a playful sort of signature, or insistent cleverness, or as subversion and reclamation, or even rebellion.

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Hans Runesson's famous photo: The Woman with the Handbag.

I. Am. Furious. And I only have to tone it down for one more day.

The older I get the more suspicious I am of any pre-packaged history. I spent some time today reading up on things I thought I already knew about the Seminole Tribe of Florida, before I wrote any more about it in my novel. Turns out I didn't know jack, had maybe 5% right of what I learned in just a cursory dig. The superficial "made for export" simplified storylines and profiles (physical appearance is one, too) are always presented by people with something to gain. I should know that by now.

Not to seem mysterious about it, here's a few of the surprises: They were not independent of OK Seminoles til 1957, and at the same time largely converted Southern Baptist, led by their first chief Billy Osceola! The signature sunhat-like women's asymmetrical hairstyle was only a 1930s generational fad based on retail womenswear. It only lasted 20 years but it was the 20 years during which the Seminoles of Florida became documented and better known, thanks to the Florida tourism boom. (cont'd)

(cont'd) The dolls, patchwork textiles, and many "traditional" crafts we think of as their culture were in fact in no way traditional until tourists starting coming to FL and money was to be made. They did not exist before that. Lastly (and best imo) alligator wrestling was intentionally cultivated and learned by importing a guy from Louisiana to teach them the moves. I mean, good for them! Make the money to feed their families off American hegemonic exotism. But nothing is as it seems.

Also, the first "Seminole Villages" attractions were 100% outsiders making tourist bait. Later the Seminoles began their own such enterprises, but the boom came from outside and they were hired actors on a payroll. It is a fascinating, surprisingly modern, compelling, beautiful story of a native people - really just a remnant of 200 left to die in the swamp - who took what they had and leveraged themselves into the modern world. They were almost destroyed 3 times, and still, there they are.

Roberto Aizenberg. Abanico, 1979.

The date places this painting just after the unimaginable horrors he endured during the Argentinian dictatorship. As we look ahead without certainty toward Tuesday, it's at least comforting to know that humanity, even art, has survived so much.

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From the wonderful Greg Snyder of Precinct 206 Dems in NC, in his newsletter just now:

"Now would be an excellent time to turn off all cable news, ignore all polls and news analysis, and go do some voter contact. In just a few days, any opportunity to make a difference in this most consequential election will have slipped through your fingers.

We still have a few signs, in case the ones you got a few days ago have already been stolen!

Stay calm and collected..."

He's such a gem.

This is a photo of Al Green holding hands with Ann Peebles in 1971, taken by Bud Lee.

I had never seen it. I've had it for 2 days now and I'm still speechless. Just figure I should at least share. It may be all we ever need.

Gustave Van de Woestyne.

The Sleepers, 1918.

Self-Portrait, ~1900.

Farm Family, ~1912.

The Last Supper, 1927.

He reminds me of Stanley Spencer sometimes, at other times of Holbein the Younger. He intended this exact hermeneutic arc, I think.

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@lionelb yes! And a whole lot of that other side of Europe in general strangely

@lionelb And then there's this. He dug deep sometimes into his influences. I didn't select it in the above group because I thought it would overwhelm his more usual oeuvre.

Matazō Kayama. A Thousand Cranes, 1970.

These are 2 separate large folding screens which pay homage to earlier 16th century works. I find the set really moving, even with as little as I know of its antecedents in Japanese art.

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Van Gogh. Tree Roots, 1890.

It's his last #painting at just 37yo, but you see where he was going - this is nearly pure abstraction. Imagine what his next few years could have held.

This picture got a lot of attention just a short while ago in 2020, after researches identified the exact site near Auvers where it was painted.

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Edward Wadsworth. Bronze Ballet # 1, 1940.

I believe he understood A LOT, and he painted across several genres to prove it. He was one of the main technical Dazzle-Ship painters, for example. Here he is being playful and light, smack in the middle of another World War. They say he could hear bombs falling as he painted this.

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