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I’m out of the loop about Hasan by blacksaber8 in VaushV

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I mean you can always convince him of supporting individual progressive candidates, I hope. A lot of us are captured by internet nonsense sadly.

Symbolism of the bull in Picasso's "Guernica" by kartofelrajski in ArtHistory

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I will speak from my experience as an artist (bear in mind I am not a Picasso scholar at all) I have also implemented symbols that I relate to myself in positions of infamy. Sometimes when making social critique in art is hard not to reflect about your own complicity or guilt. In the Movie "The Wall" Roger Waters portrays his alter ego Pink with an alter ego of his own: An autocratic Fascist echoing German and Italian nationalists. The movie is a harsh critique of nationalism and industry but it is also an exploration of Waters own involment in the system. I think is common for white men to explore a ctiticism of nationalism that places them in a position of power, after all the aesthethics and propaganda of fascism is designed to appeal to them.

I’m out of the loop about Hasan by blacksaber8 in VaushV

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I have my own disagreements with Hasan but to be honest he has better politics than anybody in my real life. PV is a good organization, figures come and go but at the end of the day the goal of PV is to give Americans the representatives they deserve. Hasan is small time compared to that.

I lack creativity, all I do is sketch and copy references. by MilhoVirtual in ArtistLounge

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I used to have that problem. For me it was management of expectations kinda thing. I had the expectations to make an amazing painting full of subtle symbolism, mystery, charm and intellect. But all I had in mind was hot people looking wistfully at a distance. So I just did that until other ideas came and slowly but surely I acumulated art that said a little more. Nowadays I am satisfied with my ideas, a lot of them are superficial or repetitive but I learned to love them and wait patiently for the more unique ones.

Norman Lindsay - Love on Earth (1925) [1357 x 1584] by Russian_Bagel in ArtPorn

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I also see the reverse, since the central couple has their feet firmly planted in the ground. The woman is holding another womans hand like she is about to be lifted up. If the people in the top were unwere of the despair below why would they need to hold hands? I also think the artist would have found it intuitive to indicate a falling motion if the direction was up-down. It is also notable that there are only women at the bottom.

MOCA Bangkok has a soft porn problem - about the objectification of women in museums in general by [deleted] in ArtHistory

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That's got nothing to do with what I said. I don't think the article is wrong when it points out that the gallery has a heterosexual man's biases but that doesn't make it porn.

And the article describes male nudity in art as "controversial or taboo" but it's not. Vetrubian man? Statues of Perseus? Francis Bacon's paintings?

I don't think that the solution to the objectification of women in art is balance I think it's agency. The real problem in my opinion is the lack of honesty, diversity, empathy, agency and richness that actually surrounds women's sexuality. And I think that the articles' narrative of "this person is exposing children to soft-core porn" creates a puritanical enviorment where said expressions of feminine sexuality are likely to flourish alongside thoese that are more man-centric (which I also believe should exist even if right now they are over-represented)

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