oh lord please no

multiple mental health professionals: that was a traumatic event for you

me: ok but that’s a stupid thing to be traumatized by so

Bag, Lakota (Sioux), c.1910, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/47732/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDPRW87sbvI/?igshid

people r so disappointing <3

donald trump look like he fighting death so hard lmao just close your eyes and walk towards the light my guy

Untitled (shepherd and flock of sheep in field with yellow flowers in foreground), Gordon W. Gahan, 1965-1968, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Robinson Size: 3.8 x 3.5 cm (1 ½ x 1 3/8 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/327574

I’m such a fan of low soft lighting like turn off that room light and turn on a lamp bitch

Twilights, Mark Forbes

long live cowgirls

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

Flyer for demonstration against Portuguese imperialism in Africa, November 1971, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Size: H x W (Sheet): 11 × 8 ½ in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm) Medium: ink on paper

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.97.27.38