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This is my present experience of Tumblr -- and I think it’s disgusting, revolting. It goes against my sense of aesthetics, of fairness, of decency really.

This is the opposite of an educational experience, of what I understand as a cultured one.

I have several reblogs blogs on Tumblr -- on illustration, on male ballet, etc -- and they all look crooked. I had them for references, but they are now rendered useless.

Seeing works of art banned is just unnacceptable to me. Be it centuries old sculptures, classical painitngs or historical photographies or contemporary illustrations, Tumblr has banned artists and performers for what reason?

I AM NOT appealing for reviewing any posts, not giving this staff any more work, not letting them earn their salaries being bigots.

I’m no child to ask mommy what I can or cannot see.

Because I know what I don’t want to be part of is this putrid censorship, this hypocritical sanitization, and have this broken experience so appalling.

So I am not posting anything anymore, or even reblogging.

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Carlo Dolci (1616-1686),  St.Sebastian

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Jacopo Pontormo (1494 - 1557), detail (said to depict Fertility) of the Lunetta di Vertumnus e Pomona, 1519-21, fresco at the Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Italy     

(slightly enhanced image)

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Emile Fabry (Belgium, 1865–1966), Tentation, 1894, oil on canvas, 250 x 320 cm.

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Emile Fabry (Belgium, 1865 - 1966), The faun’s song, oil on canvas, 131 x 115 cm

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John Macallan Swan (1846–1910), Orpheus, 1896, oil on canvas, 133 x 186 cm, Lady Lever Art Gallery, transferred from Lord Leverhulme’s private collection in 1922

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Benjamin West (1738–1820), Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804, oil on canvas, 68,6 cm x 50,8 cm,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art/LACMA  

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The Discus Thrower

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by @felixdeon

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Ludwig von Hofmann (1861-1945)

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Follower of Parmigianino 1503-1540

Fountain with Two Nude Reclining Youths in a Grotto

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; framing line in pen and brown ink.

The Morgan Library & Museum

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We sometimes mine books about books to get ideas. This watercolor of the minotaur is by Edmund Dulac and was used to illustrate a volume by Nathaniel Hawthorne of adapted Greek myths called Tanglewood Tales. We have a copy of the original 1918 volume in Houghton Library.

From: British Book Illustration Yesterday and Today (1923)

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Seems like I have too much body hair for Tumblr? Or is it because I am exposing my nipples, oh la la...

Anyway, have a single picture of me, taken in Greece years ago, before it gets banned...

If this picture looks so last century – it’s because it is!

After a long time, I’m returning to Greece – and I’ll be on vacations traveling for a whole month. 

I intend to unplug from the internet – though taking my ipad, since I want to keep on writing. But it could be poetry, not necessarily stories.

LoSSS and this blog and replying to any comments will be on hold until then.

Hope to see all of you on my return, and catch up with your blogs.

All the best to everyone!

AZ

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From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis (1892)

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sorry my followers for the reblog spam, but I decided to reblog all my latest posts that have been flagged.

there is only ART here, not nudity @staff