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Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7

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Allan O'Marra (Canadian, b.1947)

"La Baigneuse (The Bather)," 2014

Oil and acrylics on canvas

32 x 32 in

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This does mean im clopening but it's worth it. 1 night shift is like 12 day shifts

Day shift insteas of night shift on sunday because im gods sweetest angel

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Day shift insteas of night shift on sunday because im gods sweetest angel

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whenever i watch these doomed-to-ruin mentor/mentee movies about obsession and ambition i'm always like man i bet it feels good as fuck to be a terrifying authority figure's chosen protege this guy must've been bricked tf up the entire time shame about the ruin though

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Rolf Ohst

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Hammer of Bogardan

Artist: Ron Spencer TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Ppl be serious for 1 second challenge

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Guys be cool pls. Be cool

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Well now i have happy by mitski stuck in my head. Ok

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last week at dinner my friend in grad school for museology without an art history background taking her 5th art history class asked me why her professor shows an artwork she's never seen and expects them to automatically know hyperspecific arguments about it. I explained that art history is so deeply systematic that if you show me the artwork, the arnolfini portrait, I immediately know that panofsky wrote that they were a struggling immigrant couple who were deeply pious, seidel refutes panofsky and suggests that it was a business deal trading a teen girl to her rapist, carroll, also feminist, wrote that it was a legal document certifying the marriage, and harbison as a male says that theyre all wrong and its a funny sex joke about court culture because I read them all, which is what her professor was really asking. we as art historians are expected to immediately look at ANY famous painting and know all the famous arguments around it.

if you say "Argenteuil"

I go right to the boating couple: marxism, tj clark, myths of the bucolic french countryside, and ideas of 19th century french middle class leisure as class analysis because that's exactly how we're all trained to look at how this painting says something. If you say hellenistic, I say contrapposto. If you say african ceremony mask, I say picasso.

If I'm not careful to check myself, for a second, everyone's brain works exactly like this and I need to explain nothing to general audiences, this is survey level information. This is how my pedagogy work constantly teaches ME not to assume art is a priori.

so how do we "fix" it? do we stop assuming everyone has base knowledge of every famous artwork? do we teach kids these complex concepts in visual literacy earlier, like I did in my 3rd grade renaissance class? or do we just rip the whole system down to shreds and stop having art history departments in colleges, like many institutions are doing every year? I don't have any answers.