Statue of queen Zenobia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Lattakia, Syria

Saffron Goddess, Minoan (Santorini), Akrotiri Frescoes, c. 1600 B.C. 

June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit.” and slammed his hat on his leg.

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I fucking laughed so hard at this all artists are hilarious

I have had this scheduled since december

oh its that day again

This is my favourite painting.

corn flaek

it’s because reality is terrifying and our world’s dying, and our developmental years were spent in a constant state of using increasingly nonsensical humor to cope

It’s called the rise of neo-dadaism and the same thing happened during WWII

well that’s not concerning At All

time out hold up sweetheart let’s get it together before you wanna spread  art historical misinformation

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses​ has a spot on summary of the dada ideology; these artists reacted to the horrors and atrocities of WWI by embracing nonsense in a world that no longer seemed to make sense

but the period we’re in right now is decidedly not neo-dada! you know why? because neo-dada already happened, and not during WWII but during the 60s and 70s, through artists like robert rauschenberg, yves klein, yoko ono, and nam june paik.

what was going on in the 60s and 70s that might involve “terrifying” reality and “increasingly nonsensical” coping methods? the cold war! now the cold war is in much more recent memory,

but if you wanna talk about nonsensical coping methods among millennials? i would say “lol xD so random” culture is probably the best starting point, which is definitely post-cold war (knowyourmeme is giving me 2004 as a good benchmark date).

2004 is only three years after 2001 so this resurgence of dada thinking could easily be seen as initially a reaction to 9/11, and we can then trace the antics of the bush administration, the shift of the overton window, the rise of internet culture, the 2016 election, and the current political moment as developmental factors behind this current dada moment.

so since neo-dada already happened and this is definitely its own thing with its own factors, and since a big part of our dada is the influence of the internet on modernity, i posit that we start calling this e-dada or #dada

tl;dr: neo-dada is already taken, it happened in the 60s/70s, we’re doing our own kind of dada now

e-dada

L’ange du mal/La génie du mal by Joseph Geefs/Guillaume Geefs.

My Art History final! Like last time, I had to make a piece of art inspired by a piece we’ve gone over in class. I love the aesthetic of Greek Black Figure Painting, so I decided to stylize and animate “Achilles and Ajax Playing a Game.“ 

Human skull decorated with a polychromic mosaic • Mixtec-Aztec, Mexico • 1300-1521 A.D. • Tessels of turquoise, hematite and tumbaga gold sheets • H. 14.5 cm • Private collection

Rider on a pale horse

Old Believers’ Apocalypse manuscript, Russia ca. 1801-1825 (Warszawa, BN, Rps akc. 12372, fol. 45v)

Women Rejecting Marriage Proposals In Western Art History

this is perfect, just see the whole post.