cavetocanvas: Piet Mondrian, Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune, 1942 (Submitted by Zach)

cavetocanvas:

Piet Mondrian, Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune, 1942

(Submitted by Zach)

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Tilly Losch’s ex-husband’s dog’s pawprint carpet

(he decided to make a carpet for the dog because it was “more faithful” than his ex-wife!)

Tilly Losch’s footprint carpet

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Oooh, Tilly Losch! Her first marriage was to this super wealthy guy and one day when she got out of the bath, she left wet footprints across the carpet. He thought it was so beautiful that he had a special rug make that had her “wet footprints” woven into it and carpeted their house with it because he loved her so much.

…Though after their divorce he did the same thing with the dog’s pawprints.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes: Orson Welles It breaks my heart that most people today only remember him as he was towards the end of his life and might only recognize that gorgeous voice from Paul Masson wine ads. It’s a tragedy the many don’t know the Orson of what he called his “hot youth”-a fiery,passionate,brilliant young actor,producer,director and author. Even until the end of his life he was unfailingly entertaining. Orson led such an unusual life that I never tire of reading about him. But besides that he had dark, lovely eyes, a boyish round face, hair that never stayed where it was supposed to and,most importantly, a voice like God. Okay, I’m done. I’m feeling rather swoonish now…

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Orson Welles

It breaks my heart that most people today only remember him as he was towards the end of his life and might only recognize that gorgeous voice from Paul Masson wine ads.

It’s a tragedy the many don’t know the Orson of what he called his “hot youth”-a fiery,passionate,brilliant young actor,producer,director and author. Even until the end of his life he was unfailingly entertaining. Orson led such an unusual life that I never tire of reading about him.

But besides that he had dark, lovely eyes, a boyish round face, hair that never stayed where it was supposed to and,most importantly, a voice like God.

Okay, I’m done. I’m feeling rather swoonish now…

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Maaike’s Mini-Biography by Andi

You were raised in the wild by unicorns but never felt you belonged, so, one day you set out to find the truth about your parents, etc. Through forests, over mountains and into cyber-space you made your way, meeting all manner of fabulous creatures, magical and non-magical alike. You eventually found that your parents were a silent movie reel and a piece of early twentieth century art (of an indeterminate movement) and spent some time living with them in their art deco cinema-cum-art gallery developing your awesome taste in everything. You are still alive, today, living in Tumblr, being generally fantastic, and using a lot of capital letters. That is all…for now.

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effyeaharthistory: Seated female figure, artist unknown (Çatalhöyük settlement), c. 6000 BCE, baked clay, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.   Time to take feminist art history back to the stone age! Let’s get critical.The Neolithic Europeans made some brilliant sculptures of fat ladies, but this fact doesn’t automatically mean that they were living in feminist utopian bliss. Personally I suspect the “Old European” hunter gatherers may have had it together a little more in gender equality terms than the proto-Indo-Europeans - but all I mean is that both genders lived lives that were nasty, brutish and short. It’s unlikely that some sort of Neolithic Mother-Goddess was dethroned by an incoming Indo-European patriarchy. This is mostly because it’s unlikely that she ever ruled supreme to begin with. Sure, there are plenty of figurines from sites like Çatalhöyük showing chubby female forms. But there are lots of other figurines too; only 3% of the figurines at Çatalhöyük are unambiguously female. It’d make more sense to say that these people worshipped androgynes!Besides, saying that “female representations = worship of women” is a little like saying that the women appearing on pornos and magazine covers today display our society’s respect and reverence for the sacred female form. Hmmm. NEVERTHELESS: the ancient-ancients knew how to portray a kick-ass lady, regardless of why they chose to. Exhibit A, the leopard-lady from Çatalhöyük. Is she a goddess? Nobody knows. Is she a bad-ass mofo? Definitely - c’mon, she has leopards! And if you look closely, some people have suggested that she’s quite calmly giving birth while seated. seriously this tumblr is so damn great

effyeaharthistory:

Seated female figure, artist unknown (Çatalhöyük settlement), c. 6000 BCE, baked clay, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.  

Time to take feminist art history back to the stone age! Let’s get critical.

The Neolithic Europeans made some brilliant sculptures of fat ladies, but this fact doesn’t automatically mean that they were living in feminist utopian bliss. Personally I suspect the “Old European” hunter gatherers may have had it together a little more in gender equality terms than the proto-Indo-Europeans - but all I mean is that both genders lived lives that were nasty, brutish and short.

It’s unlikely that some sort of Neolithic Mother-Goddess was dethroned by an incoming Indo-European patriarchy. This is mostly because it’s unlikely that she ever ruled supreme to begin with. Sure, there are plenty of figurines from sites like Çatalhöyük showing chubby female forms. But there are lots of other figurines too; only 3% of the figurines at Çatalhöyük are unambiguously female. It’d make more sense to say that these people worshipped androgynes!

Besides, saying that “female representations = worship of women” is a little like saying that the women appearing on pornos and magazine covers today display our society’s respect and reverence for the sacred female form. Hmmm.

NEVERTHELESS: the ancient-ancients knew how to portray a kick-ass lady, regardless of why they chose to. Exhibit A, the leopard-lady from Çatalhöyük. Is she a goddess? Nobody knows. Is she a bad-ass mofo? Definitely - c’mon, she has leopards! And if you look closely, some people have suggested that she’s quite calmly giving birth while seated.

seriously this tumblr is so damn great

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crackly: fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: Tried to avoid the “R” word. True story though… DON’T TRY TO AVOID THE “R” WORD YOU CAN SAY IT THOMAS JEFFERSON RAPED HIS SLAVES WE ALL NEED TO START TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO RAPE PEOPLE AND STOP PRETENDING THAT IT’S WORSE TO CALL SOMEONE A RAPIST THAN IT IS TO RAPE

crackly:

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

Tried to avoid the “R” word. True story though…

DON’T TRY TO AVOID THE “R” WORD YOU CAN SAY IT THOMAS JEFFERSON RAPED HIS SLAVES WE ALL NEED TO START TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO RAPE PEOPLE AND STOP PRETENDING THAT IT’S WORSE TO CALL SOMEONE A RAPIST THAN IT IS TO RAPE

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awesomeshitwomendid: Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger) YES OMFG I LOVE HER SO MUCH SO MUCH the scene this cap is from blew my MIND omfg all the little fragmented ripples of reflection in the water that CONSTANTLY MOVED i mean you have to see that shit to believe it. by the end of the movie i was basically crying on the floor 

awesomeshitwomendid:

Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger)

YES OMFG I LOVE HER SO MUCH

SO

MUCH

the scene this cap is from blew my MIND omfg all the little fragmented ripples of reflection in the water that CONSTANTLY MOVED i mean you have to see that shit to believe it. by the end of the movie i was basically crying on the floor 

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fyeahqueervintage: Gustave Courbet, Sleep , 1866  submitted by atheneckm28 omg i was seriously talking to someone yesterday about how i secretly kind of wish i could hang a poster of courbet’s origine du monde/origin of the world in my room. except then i could never have family visit ever again.

fyeahqueervintage:

Gustave Courbet, Sleep , 1866
 

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omg i was seriously talking to someone yesterday about how i secretly kind of wish i could hang a poster of courbet’s origine du monde/origin of the world in my room. except then i could never have family visit ever again.

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