#medium: oil

[about-suffering]

Bathers at San Niccolò, 1600 Domenico Passignano [Domenico Cresti] (1559-1638)

[jeida-chi]

GUESS WHO JUST SAW THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES

(if you like my art pls reblog I’m fighting for my life out here)

[spocks-kaathyra]

first time using oil pastels here's julian :))

[jodeeeart]

B&W oil studies

Oil on Paper - various sizes.

[shmreduplication]

my only issue with the Rothko On Paper exhibit is the curators did not talk about paper

like the fact that these Rothkos are On Paper is significant enough to be included in the title. A lot of the plaques mentioned that Rothko thought very highly of his works On Paper (he would gift them to friends and display them in his own house, and made some commissioned pieces on paper too)

there definitely is an idear in museamy art that paper=practice=not as important and on the one hand it pisses me right off due to papercraft being my primary medium (i'm a generalist but if I had to pick just one I'd go with paper) but on the other hand I get it because paper is cheaper than canvas and Museams Are Full Of Canvasses From The Old Masters. See also: the Cezanne Drawing exhibit at the NYC MoMA in 2021, a lot of those were legit sketchbook/practice/unfinished pieces unlike the Rothko On Paper pieces which were all (except for four) finished pieces

I legitimately don't think this is from my bias as a papercraft or science person, I do think this is an oversight on the curators that they didn't talk about the paper. The plaques would say wove paper water color paper or just like not mention the type of paper. The paints were tempura or oil or water color or ink and all of those sit on top or soak into different kinds of paper in different ways

idk I just think that the material that the art is on is part of the art, it's more than just a holder for the art. and I think that's especially true for Rothko's technique of diluting and layering paints. There's a clear disconnect that the works being on paper is important enough to be part of the title of the exhibit but not important enough to be talked about within the exhibit.

the selection of the pieces was great, the order that the pieces were presented in was great, the quotes from Rothko and his personal history that was included on the plaques were great but like why even call it Rothko On Paper if you're only going to talk only about Rothko and nothing about paper. Like ok he thought there was no hierarchy between paper and canvas but WHY? what are the differences between paper and canvas?

[camellcat]

some doctor who cyanotypes I made for my photography class that I just realized I never shared

[starfieldcanvas-art]

An illustration for my favorite moment in Melime’s Gault/Lucienne fic Lost and Found 💜 The book is the Complete Works of Sappho, which of course exists in the Library of the Dreaming! 📚

[leopard-shark]

Guess who discovered oil pastels

[pretty-haunted]

He's a little mean but I love him anyway

[about-suffering]

The Rehearsal [La Répétition], 1936 Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)

I recently got to see an exhibition of Laurencin's work, and while I loved it, photography really doesn't do it justice--the delicacy and the nuance of the colors is often lost in photography. This piece wasn't in the exhibition but it was in the exhibition catalogue, and I really wanted to share it. While Laurencin is often cited as a Cubist artist (which she was) it's her later School of Paris work that I find most exciting.

[onedragonaday]

1/4/24 Reshiram from pokemon

[haliaiii]

ghost (oil on paper)

[thebestbatz]

Brian painting I made in my art class (ft tikitaka)

[tentacledwizard]

what time is it

[cardbored-box]

Haven’t posted in a hot second whoops here’s a bunch of stuff from media experimentation class

[boywonderloverr]

me talking about a 44 year old white man with a dirt stache, crackhead complexion and the greasiest hair you've ever seen: my sweet baby. my pookie. my beautiful wife. my gorgeous boy. my sweetie angel pie. my honey bunches of oats. little scrungle bungle scrimbly scrumpo oingo boingo bingle bongle 🥰