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Study for the Last Supper, 1494, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: chalk,paper

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The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1516, Hieronymus Bosch

Medium: oil,panel

https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-1516-6

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Details from the crypt of Nibbia Chapel, in Valletta Malta

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Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

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Antaeus setting down Dante and Virgil in the last circle of hell, 1827, William Blake

Medium: pen,watercolor,paper

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im like a religious art piece. grotesque, haunting, full of melodrama and guilt and unsettlingly horny.

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The following pieces of morbid art are by Nicola Samori, a 35 year old Italian artist. He says “My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.”

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Bathing Men, 1907, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil,canvas

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Chapultepec Castle, Mexico, photo by Helio R. Ponce

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It's weird that everyone has a house to go back to, that we have a place to store out things and sleep. You meet someone and you have to believe that they have a home and when they ask do you want to go back to my place you answer yes, yes of course and just like that you find out a piece of their intimate reality. They live there.

Why can't I just put down my canvas and sleep here, in the middle of Central Park? And yes maybe oil paint won't feed me and it's not very comfortable to use the empty tubes as a pillow, but I really just want to be here right now and be cold and everything would finally make sense.

I just want things to be easy sometimes so stop asking me why I laid down in the middle of the street while we were talking because I have no idea, but maybe it will help.

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One misconception about art is that someone just made a great thing and that's it.

The amazing painting you just saw in the gallery is one among many, many others, is the one the artist chose after years of work, rejection, loath. Most of the time, if not all the time, the best sculpture is not the first they have made, not even the second. That one photograph, the one you keep going back to every once in a while because it's just so beautiful? They took one hundred more just to capture the right light, the right shade, the right angle and that one is the single one they thought highly enough to present the world. That one piece of art you fell in love with and that changed your life might be the one the artist spent their whole life creating, it might be the one they were indecisive about, because it felt just too much of this or too much of that and they did it over and over again because it was never perfect, it never felt real.

Every single piece of art is a work in progress, and it's never easy, it's painful.

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Portrait of Auguste Gabriel Godefroy, Jean Siméon Chardin, 1741

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girl you look like a Mariusz Lewandowski painting (complimentary)

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X: your painting is not really good

Me: yeah I know! It's a bit scratchy right now. Don't worry it's just the firs layer, I will keep working on it

X: I don't like that

Me: it's just for me, you know, to understand where lights and shadows will go later on!

X: is it going to be like that?

Me: just the first layer

X: but-

Me: JUST THE FIRST LAYER, ITS A MAP

X: -..

Me: OH MY GOD I LITERALLY STARTED IT TODAY GIVE IT A LITTLE TIME

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Teacher: this is not really good, it's not for my class isn't it? Ahah..

Me: ...just stop looking at it

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Inside the changing landscape of porn during a pandemic

Check out Matt Lambert's work on Dazed or even his website vitium.love if you are cool with explicit content.

He's an american photographer and film maker focused on portraying LGBTQ+ stories, sometimes extreme, often controversial, his films are a clear example of where the industry is heading.

Not everything is as polarised as it seems.