Month: January 2019

centuriespast:

[Female Model for the Cover of the Christmas Issue of the Journal, “Le Gaulois” (December, 1903), Paris]

Artist/Maker:
Alphonse Maria Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939)

Culture:
Czech

Place:
Czechoslovakia (Place created)

Date:
negative 1903; print about 1980

Medium:
Gelatin silver print

the getty

books0977:

A Letter of Recommendation (1881). Charles Louis Baugniet (Belgian, 1814-1886). Oil on panel.

Great attention is paid to rendering the meticulous details of the interior from the porcelain cups and saucers to the fine fabrics of the elegant ladies’ dresses. A young woman is being considered for a potential position as a servant. Baugniet subtly juxtaposes the nonchalance and snobbish attitude of the ladies against the quiet demeanor of the girl who nervously awaits their decision.

lonequixote:

Vincent van Gogh

Two Cypresses

(via @lonequixote)

myfairyqueenmercury:

Freddie Mercury live at La Nit, October 8, 1988.

mostlysignssomeportents:

Trump’s multi-trillion-dollar giveaway to the richest Americans and largest US corporations led to a rise in GDP, but it was a short-lived sugar-high: the major effect was a trillion dollars in stock buybacks that padded the bottom lines of super-rich investors who barely touch the real economy (you can only own so many super-yachts and operating costs are funneled through offshore flags-of-convenience anyway).

But investment in “factories, software and new equipment” only rose modestly for a single quarter, and has now fallen again.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/23/buybacks-r-us.html

notjustamumj:

ithinkthereforeiamaswell:

blissful-heartbreak:

yetimati:

catchymemes:

“My mom painted this and said no one would like it. It’s her 2nd painting.”

“I painted somebody’s mom”

“Took a while and not perfect, but i painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom”

“I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom who painted an egret”

“I painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the mom who painted a bird”

“When it sinks in that I stayed up most of the night to paint a meme for internet points…”

…And nobody thought to post other “branchs” of this chain? Yes, it’s ‘branchS’, plural, because apparently we also have these:

Bit wonky, but I painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan.

Bit shitty, but I painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/color_on_a_page who painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted someone’s mom who painted a swan

Oh well, here’s yet another layer

Another branch, starting from the girl with the white background:

Took an hour or so but I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

I didn’t like how reddit treated the iPad guy so I painted the guy that painted the girl that who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom on my iPad.

Continue from OP’s branch:

I haven’t painted in two years and I’m glad for the inspiration!!

A painting of the guy who hasn’t painted in years painting the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the other girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

Same ‘level’ as the one above:

Usually lurking but not today…plaid was a great challenge!

Continue! With a cat!

We painted the guy that painted the other guy who hadn’t painted in 2 years who painted the other guy who painted the girl that painted the guy who painted the girl that painted the guy that painted some guy’s mother who painted a swan whilst making them all an NPC in the process

Honorary mentioned:

Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep!!!

And finally, The Great Family Tree (some branch is not in the picture, pls click the link below for the full list:

This seems necessary…

https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/

Omfg, THIS is why I love the internet.

And they say the internet causes isolation and loneliness 🤩

_<3

This is *amazing.*

It is how art is supposed to work, by communicating and sharing and inspiring.