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just a lighthearted painting for a gorgeous spring day... remembered learning about this in school and googled Ernst soldier no hands to find it. Very haunting. Things of course do not end well for the painter
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Oct 8, 2024
Also known as The Angel of Hearth and Home, a beautiful 1937 painting by German surrealist Max Ernst. one of my favourite artists, and this painting is especially close to my heart :)
Mar 5, 2025
This painting is called Kneeling Nun, by Martin Von Meytens, an Austrian painter who happened to be a protestant. The front of the portrait is the one of a seemingly pious nun who seems to be taking up her duties on prayer, with another nun behind her looking very fixated on...what if we turn the portrait and see what she's looking at?...Oh! Good heavens!
Yep. If you actually look at the reverse of this portrait, you'll see a complete image exposing another perspective that suddenly parodies the catholic devotion, having the painting turn into a sapphic tale. As a catholic, I gravitate naturally towards everything that's ironic and this was just too delicious to ignore.
Jan 6, 2025
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Like a slightly sick and twisted pasta fazool (cannot spell this) -- not bad at all!
Mar 19, 2024
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He isn't as smart as me and he doesn't have any thumbs at all. And it's nice to win at something. Although he just bit me. But he didn't break the skin!
Feb 14, 2024
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Unless someone wants to come with me?
Apr 5, 2024