#thérèse

[sersh]

Maya Hawke in the music video for Sweet Tooth

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin 🆕️ 🎧🌹 💟

Irène Drésel 🎶 Thérèse

(Rose Fluo)

[iluvrobinbuckley]

imma gatekeep the pics, but y’all can have these adorable lil moments of maya just being a gift to the world ❤️

[flecker-illustrates]

I'm screaming at the top of my lungs this is perfect! Drop what you're doing and go watch this Thérèse edit of ronance right this second. With audio from Rebel Robin no less. It's over for me, I need to watch it a thousand more times and eat it whole

[austinem00n]

Thérèse makes me feel something l I’m e both the song and the painting(s)

Like How at first view it’s just a carefree looking, casual young girl and that’s what I thought instantly, but when I looked into it the painter was sexualizing her in a way and I find it sickening because it really just looks like a relaxed kid but it was painted with the intent to be this terrible ugly, male gazey fantasy.

And the fact that any kid looking at it won’t pick up on anything because they’re kids, and it’s like how as you grow up you start being sexualized when you yourself don’t even understand that. Like you start getting boobs or something and all of a sudden you half to change how you dress but you don’t even understand that because you’re a kid. Your body becomes sexual when you yourself dint even know what sex is.

[violetmagdalene]

Thérèse Dreaming - Balthus (1938) and Maya Hawke’s Blue Hippo

Art and historical context are a hard conversation in the face-value world we live in today. I hope to create a comfortable space for discussion and learning. These posts will discuss various topics that some may find triggering or unpleasant. I will be talking about the following hard topics: Nudity, misogyny, sex, pornography, abuse, and pedophelia (though nothing graphic).

Thérèse Blanchard was a neighbor of the artist. The exact nature of their relationship is unknown, nor her exact age. Though the range is about eleven to fourteen, most sources say eleven. Balthus and Thérèse may have had a strictly artistic relationship. She may have just modeled for him, but the nature of the work depicting Thérèse is undeniably sexual. Did she know the connotations of her pose at such a tender age? A lot has been said and assumed about the young woman. It is extremely possible that she was abused, and it is definite that her body was exploited in the paintings. Maya Hawke’s music video for ‘Blue Hippo’ and the song ‘Thérèse’ shine a new light on her. They are the emancipation of a previously unheard girl in art history. The song had a life. She had interests and memories and feelings - she was a real person. There is a sense of catharsis in setting Thérèse free. Not only for women who have been sexually exploited, but also the inner child and girl at heart., in the video she makes her an artist herself. In giving Thérèse a story: she liberates.

“Thérèse does not belong to you

The horses, cars, and cowboys do,”

- Maya Hawke, Thérèse

Carolyn Gage’s The Crimes Against Thérèse Blanchard is an excellent and harsh takedown of the work, opting to not even include an image of the painting. Thérése’s parents are said to be restaurant workers. One can theorize that her parent’s accepted the form of payment for her modeling - if she was paid at all. Her Parisian neighbor Balthus painted 10 (known) works of her from 1938 to 1940. These range from innocent studies, portraits, and the famous perversions. One source says that Blanchard died at Twenty five. It makes me very emotional to think about how she never got the opportunity to tell her story.

See part 1, 2, coming soon: 3

In the next part I will show visual examples of what Maya writes in the songs. Lots of pictures and things! It might take a little while. I will also be discussing symbolism. will get darker so I apologize for that. Thank you for reading and dealing with my typing errors. Dyslexia will not stop me from talking about art! Cheers xx.

[rainfallsmoonstays]

I need to feel exactly what I felt when I listened to Maya Hawke for the first time.

[uptightcitizensbrigade]

Maya Hawke - Thérèse in Milan on Feb 25th, 2023

(video by  ilashi21)

[antitheticaldreamgirl16]

this might be like such a niche but I am literally obsessed with thérèse by maya hawke. it just feels so important and so relatable and so true (not to mention it’s just such a pretty song and her lyricism is so beautiful) like it’s about the male gaze, and how people sexualize young girls, and somehow that’s viewed as *their* fault (like the call to take the painting down) even when the intent is not sexual, because people will view it like that, and that sexualization just makes it so hard to be a young girl sometimes. like as maya hawke sings, “it’s just thérèse.” it’s not some sort of sexual painting made to cater to the male gaze. it’s just a young girl lost in her own head. it’s just thérèse.

the song is also so much about looking at a piece of art and just getting it and relating to it, which is something that is just so beautiful to me, that we can look at art and make up stories, and emotions, and feel so attached to something that is just paint, or words on paper. also that almost-heartbreak when you feel so attached to a piece of art, other look at it and just don’t see it, at least not in the way you do, and that certain ownership you feel over it. “i guess thérèse was just for me” feels so relatable to me. sometimes it does feel like that. like a piece of art is so much made for you, and you don’t want other people to have it, because they will ruin it.

anyways go listen to maya hawke ❤️ she may be a nepo baby but her music slays

[mads198-9]

Bleeding, bringing in a new year’s mess

Unaware of the stain on her dress 🩸

[sersh]

maya_hawke: MOSS…Thérèse out now.

[comfortablynumb]

Would love a movie where Maya Hawke, Logan Lerman, and Elsie Fisher play siblings because I know all three of them would be able to make me ugly cry in the theatre.

Like imagine these two college kids’ parents die and they have to go back home as their little sister prepares to enter her freshman year of high school.

[emometalhead]

Seeing Maya Hawke have a tit out in the woods was not how I expected my day to go, but I also have no complaints.

[ineffablemaya]

— it's a great day for lesbians

[philoursmars]

Le week-end dernier (les 21 et 22 novembre), l'Atelier du Tigre joua “Les Femmes Savantes” de Molière au Théâtre Municipal de Douai.

Acte III: face-à-face tendu entre les deux pédants Trissotin et Vadius sous les yeux consternés des femmes savantes Philaminte (Audrey), Bélise (thérèse) et Armande (Marion)

Acte IV : Trissotin évoque, auprès de Philaminte, la fin du monde évitée...

Puis une nouvelle prise de bec entre Trissotin et Clitandre (Aurélien), son jeune rival amoureux et intellectuel...

[charliethinks]

thérèse by maya hawke >>>>