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‘It’s Time to Remember The Tragic’ t-shirt – $14

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This is a weird trilogy

Logan (2017)

Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish. 

THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS

Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.

Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together. 

Platform nine and three quarters was shut

Quality. Content.

Behind the Scenes of Mary Poppins (x)

i’ve lost count of how many times i’ve reblogged this

doggles

7/21/16 This is an excerpt from a presentation I gave to a group of young art students recently. I had a blast, and I hope they had fun too! I felt a little out of my comfort zone though, because…

I still have no idea what I’m doing!!

So some of these are how I personally view my job right now, and some of these are ideas from other artists. I figured it couldn’t hurt to pass on these little nuggets to the next generation of artists, if they want them. Soon they’ll be giving talks to young artists, too, and they’ll have even more informative things to say. And then they’ll take my job. 

But that’s fine. I’ll happily switch to full-time cat-petting and gardening. Win-win.

Amelia

Music is important.

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Paris during the filming of Charade  (Stanley Donen, 1963)