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Susanna and the Elders, Restored - X-Ray

1998

[X-Ray by Kathleen Gilje / original by Artemisia Gentileschi]

Artemisia Gentileschi is considered an icon of feminist art, both because of her personal travails and the themes of her artwork. Gilje’s installation (at the National Museum of Women in the Arts) comprises a meticulous copy of Gentileschi’s 1610 painting Susanna and The Elders alongside an x-ray of the underpainting, a common practice in Gentileschi’s time of painting over sections of the canvas to make changes. Gilje created her underpainting to highlight how closely Gentileschi’s own story mirrors that of her chosen subject. Both the biblical character and the artist were subjected to unwanted attention from older men.

Susanna and The Elders was painted near the time that a charge of rape was brought to court by Gentileschi’s father, also a painter, on her behalf. The seven-month trial produced evidence of sexual harassment and rape of the 19-year-old artist by her teacher, Agostino Tassi, a member of her father’s artistic circle. Similarly, in the bible story, Susanna declines the sexual advances of two elder men in her community. Shamed by her refusal, they determine to ruin her reputation rather than their own. In the end, conflicting court testimony by the men proves her innocence.

Gentileschi’s Susanna and the Elders is an unusually sympathetic portrayal of a young woman defensive before her aggressors. It contrasts with treatments of the subject by male artists of the time, who most often portrayed Susanna as voluptuous and participating in the elders’ desire. What the x-ray reveals in Gilje’s Susanna and The Elders, Restored is an anguished but defiant Susanna, wielding a knife against her assailants. The knife, Gentileschi’s court-reported weapon of self-defense, transforms Susanna from victim to avenger. Gilje’s additions to the underpainting, motivated by biographical and historical information, seek the psychological reality behind the work.

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(…) I had this dream, this whole thought when I was making the project, about how we are computers, how our brains are CPUs. How we are uploading, we are downloading, we are processing, we are transmitting information back and forth. And some of us are told that the way we were created hold these bugs and these viruses, these things that make us unique. Whether it’s our sexuality, whether it’s because we’re black, whether it’s because we’re women, whether it’s because we’re poor. You know, I’m just naming a few of these marginalized groups, but some people say that those are bugs, those are viruses, and ‘Dirty Computer’ is saying, “No, those are our attributes, those are feautures. You know, this helps make the world better.”

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Two fair men lie in water warm and slow,

As brothers are they joinēd heart to heart;

But Cupid hath not struck them with his bow;

Lest that be thought, they sit five feet apart.

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not to be harry potter on main but i honestly think the fantastic beasts series would have been so much more interesting if it was just about the beasts. i don’t give a fuck about grindelwald, just give me a movie about an eccentric wizard travelling the world looking for magical animals and teaching us the power of friendship

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date a girl who says “fight me” to everything, including inanimate objects

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i only type in lowercase because i hate capitalism

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Lara Jean Covey + Fashion 

“Early on I made the producers and director mood boards of Lara Jean’s style. I wanted them to understand that even though To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a contemporary realistic story and not Harry Potter or Hunger Games, her style is crucial to understanding the character. In my notes, I wrote, “It might not be what a teenaged guy would find sexy, but it’s what she feels pretty in, and for an introverted girl, it’s a way for her to express herself. Just like her bedroom.” It’s 60s meets 90s meets Asian streetwear. She is a girl that looks at Korean fashion blogs, goes to vintage shops, scours the internet for the perfect thing.” Jenny Han

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my only three moods :

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a great look is the mama mia the movie look…like carefree girls and women of all ages living on a scenic beach shore with their friends and family and its always sunny and everybodys always in some state of partial undress w a bathing suit on and theres only 2 men on the island and one of them is colin firth

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

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Me: I’m having such a hard time, can y’all please go easy on me?

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Why did it have to be me? Mamma Mia! Here we go again

like or reblog if you like/save/use

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The last five months of 2018 are going to be filled with financial independence, true love, healing, and answered prayers 

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Which Greek Goddess are you? - Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, sex, and beauty.  In one of the most famous images of the goddess, we see her emerge from the sea, a reference to her origin story.

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