#Jacques Amans

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Jacques Amans - Creole in a red headdress (ca. 1840)

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Little Art things I'm obsessed with pt 1

Portraits of absent figures:

David Hockney - A Bigger Splash, 1967

Hockney originally visited California in 1963 and was won over by the sunlight and laid-back lifestyle, especially the luxury and ubiquity of the swimming pool. He described it as his "promised land" The splash is about freezing a moment in time, but it is also empty of human presence but implying a human. The male figure is present in some of David's other works from this time period, especially his muse and then-partner Peter Schlesinger. These paintings are about a hedonistic gay lifestyle, and the swimmers, the divers, are often the subject of voyeurism and desire. But in this painting, we just missed the diver, which makes the object of desire more private and personal. Who was the painter looking at, lusting after, etc. I like the contrast of the incredibly sharp and graphic suburban neighborhood, and the chaotic, organic splash. So again, if the divers represent this homosexual desire, we have this contrast of an orderly heterosexual world, and the queerness that joyfully disrupts it.

And then of course, with the absent figure, there is this massive sense of loss and loneliness. And so much of loneliness is about concealment, hiding in shame. This is a private space, but its also an exposed space, enhancing the loneliness. The figure is isolated, alone, invisible. Its a sadness that contrasts with the setting, the activity, and saturated lighting.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (billboard of an empty bed), 1991

These billboards were exhibited in the streets of Manhattan during the AIDS crisis. This piece was created the same year Felix Gonzalez-Torres's boyfriend Ross died. This portrait is a celebration of love and a memorization of loss and the emotions between intimacy and publicity. In the artist's own words:

“What I’m trying to say is that we cannot give the powers that be what they want, what they are expecting from us. Some homophobic senator is going to have a very hard time trying to explain to his constituency that my work is homoerotic or pornographic, but if I were to do a performance with HIV blood — that’s what he wants, that’s what the rags expect because they can sensationalize that, and that’s what’s disappointing. Some of the work I make is more effective because it’s more dangerous. We both make work that looks like something else but it’s not that. We’re infiltrating that look.“

The work intentionally uses the matching, identical depressions to imply a same-sex couple. The image itself is extremely intimate, but its being displayed in public spaces.

Felix Gonzales-Torres became known for his absent bodies.

And then, a little different, this painting by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (1837) commissioned by Frederick and and Coralie Frey, depicts the three Frey children, with the faint shadow of a figure. There was a legend that there was a fourth figure in this painting. In 2005 a private collector, Jeremy K Simien, purchased the painting and it underwent conservation.

The painting revealed Bélizaire, a fifteen year-old enslaved domestic owned by the children's father. The picture captures the complex relationship between the boy and the children, the family that was keeping him captive. For one thing, the way he is set back from the others. There is this sort of intimacy between them along side the psychological trauma of forced bondage.

Here is a great Tiktok about the painting, to quote "What I'm struck by is what a sensitive portrait this is of this young man who was living in an inhumane society where he, despite being a human being, was bought and sold."

A few years after this painting was created, the three Frey children died, and Bélizaire was the only one who survived into adulthood.

The painting stayed in the Frey family. At some point, likely in the late 19th or 20th century, Bélizaire was intentionally painted over. In 1972, the great-granddaughter of Coralie Frey donated the painting to a Louisiana museum, informing them that a figure was painted over. During the course of the painting's life at the museum, no effort was put into restoring the figure.

Jeremy Simien's, who bought and restored this painting, said on his instagram "Bélizaire, they know your name now. Tell the ancestors to let me sleep for a minute."

And shout out to the picture that make me want to write this, Hyde Park Flowers, London by Tumblr user @kimironside I won't re-post it so check out the link.

[jadeseadragon]

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (French, 1801 - 1888), Portrait of the three Frey children, commissioned by Frederick and Coralie Frey, 1837. (Top) restored after having been painted over in the late 19th or early 20th century. The cleaning "revealed Bélizaire, a fifteen year-old enslaved domestic owned by the children's father."

@jeremy.k.simien

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[portraituresque]

Jacques Guillaume Lucien  Amans (French , 1801 – 1888) - self portrait

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Creole in a Red Headdress (c. 1840) by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (French, 1801-1888) The Frey Children and Bélizaire, ca. 1840

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans was a French neoclassical portrait painter working in New Orleans in the 1840s and 1850s. He is famous for his New Orleans Creole portraits.

The term Creole was first used on the Gulf Coast to refer to the first generation of French or Spanish people who were born in the colonies.

In 1837 New Orleans, the Frey family lived in an elegant three-story townhouse in the French Quarter on the current site of the Carousel Bar in the Monteleone Hotel.

In this painting, a Black teenager stands beside a trio of White children. A recent historical discovery found that the young New Orleanian was an enslaved household servant named Bélizaire.

[bohemian-nights]

If George R. R. Martin ever wrote a short novel about Nettles📖

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Mademoiselle Suzanne Poirson – John Singer Sargent // Portrait of Marquise de Caumont La Force – François-Hubert Drouais // Portrait of a Woman – Albert Gräfle // Creole Woman in a Red Headdress – Jacques Amans // Flora Priestley (Lamplight Study) – John Singer Sargent // Portrait of a Young Woman – Jean-Baptiste Greuze // Portrait of Cornelia Vetterlein – Joseph Karl Stieler // Madame Bergeret – François Boucher // Portrait of Mademoiselle S’Nabou – Adolphe Yvon // Portrait of Anna Szaniawska – unknown artist // Marie Müller, The Artist's Sister – Leopold Carl Müller // Bertha Müller, the Artist’s Sister – Leopold Carl Müller // Is It Over Now? – Taylor Swift

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His Name Was Bélizaire

The names and histories of black people, especially enslaved people, are really hard to find in traditional documentation. The work made by Jeremy K. Simien when acquiring this painting and then have it restored and researched is incredible, since he got to not only have it attributed to the French artist Jacques Amans but finding the name of the formerly erased enslaved teenager in the painting: Bélizaire.

It was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this fall will be on view in Gallery 756 of the American Wing.

"Bélizaire and the Frey Children", ca. 1837, Jacques Aman (attributed). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You can read more about this painting here:

"An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met", Artnet, August 15 2023.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Important Painting Attributed to Jacques Amans, Met Museum, August 14 2023.

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Leí el El amante, de Marguerite Duras, y tengo cosas que decir.

Por varias razones, he leído con mucho interés y atención El amante de Marguerite Duras. Hacía tiempo que quería acercarme a esta autora y la casualidad quiso que me topara con un ejemplar de esta novela en una librería de segunda mano abierta en un festivo. Al pagar, el librero me preguntó si había encontrado lo que iba buscando. También por varias razones, le contesté, muy convencida, que sí.

Premio Goncourt en 1984 –el galardón literario de más prestigio en Francia, y cuya recompensa económica es ni más ni menos que 10 euros–, El amante retrata la relación sexoafectiva entre una joven de 15 años y el hijo de un comerciante chino de 26 en la Indochina francesa de los años 30. Subrayo lo de sexoafectiva (hay de lo primero y de lo segundo), porque en muchas sinopsis se habla incorrectamente de una historia de amor.

Lo primero que hay que decir de El amante es que es, en principio, una obra autobiográfica: la autora plasma ahí una historia basada en una experiencia vital propia. Trasladar a ella consideraciones que puedan hacerse a obras con premisas remotamente parecidas (pienso en Lolita) está fuera de lugar: Duras es consciente cuando escribe de lo problemática que es esa relación —no solo por la edad sino, sobre todo y en su contexto, por la cuestión racial— pero elige contarla igualmente desde una madurez que desconocemos si es proyectada o si estuvo ahí todo el tiempo. En cualquier caso, esos conflictos y su (desigual) impacto en los protagonistas son parte de la novela, en la que el erotismo es un medio de expresión de muchas y distintas obsesiones. La relación es sofocante, arrolladora y lacerante para ambos. Por qué empieza y por qué sigue es algo que se desarrolla en márgenes de la intuición que solo es posible iluminar con el lenguaje. Eso es lo que Duras hace extraordinariamente bien y es por lo que recomendaría esta obra a alguien que sepa que va a leer una novela sobre una pasión, en el sentido estricto del término, atravesada por el trauma, la pobreza y la pulsión de autodescubrimiento que suele ser punta de lanza en las inteligencias precoces.

Me he rasgado las vestiduras cuando he leído en algún análisis que se trata de la historia de amor de dos personas que se aman por encima de las convenciones sociales, una idea que imagino que ha apuntalado la versión cinematográfica dirigida por Jean-Jacques Anaud (donde, por cierto, creo que aumentaron en un par de años la edad de la protagonista por razones evidentes). Dejando a un lado la cuestión del consentimiento y los debates sobre las relaciones asimétricas, lo cierto es que no es verdad: El amante es una historia sobre el deseo, el afecto, el sexo y los puentes que cruzan todos esos conceptos y sus relaciones con el de poder. La forma en la que la protagonista media con su deseo me ha recordado a cómo se maneja ese tema en El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood. La diferencia entre una mujer oprimida y una mujer que manipula a su favor las estructuras clave de esa opresión no es tanta como predican algunos, pero sí es sensible y, de nuevo, la diferencia en ser capaz de expresarla bien o no es lo que determina el éxito literario de una historia como El amante. La forma narrativa de la novela, más bien episódica, lo favorece. Hay algunos pasajes en primera persona; otros, en tercera. No hay desarrollo lineal, ni se echa en falta. Nunca dejarán de sorprenderme los autores que se apartan sin complejos de la forma tradicional de hacer las cosas y saben, con una seguridad palpable en el texto, que les va a salir bien.

El otro gran tema de El amante es el del trauma familiar. Las relaciones de familia son seguramente más difíciles que las amorosas (gracias por la lección, León Tolstoi) y esta novela ofrece una buena explicación de por qué: primero, porque lo que ocurre en la infancia no tiene una cura fácil (gracias por la lección, Sigmund Freud); segundo, porque incluso si se cura la cicatriz que deja es, hasta cierto punto, indistinguible del carácter de uno mismo. La protagonista es quien es por el extrañamiento, el abuso, el miedo y la miseria que vive en casa y que la persigue más allá de ella, también cuando regresa a Francia. Eso explica, tal vez, su búsqueda de parcelas de libertad, incluso a costa de caer en otras contradicciones. Creo que la locura de la madre de Duras y su relación, más bien tortuosa, está presente en varias de sus obras. Me gustó particularmente este pasaje, con el que me despido por hoy.

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& is strictly platonic, / can be platonic or romantic. bolded are my favourites. if there's a rarepair you don't see on here, feel free to ask!! i'm a multishipper and i like exploring different character dynamics :)

fandoms are in the same order as on the fandoms list, with the exception of genshin being last bc there are so many lol

bungou stray dogs:

chuuya/dazai

atsushi/akutagawa/lucy or any combination

jouno/tecchou

chuuya & dazai & atsushi & akutagawa or any combination

sigma/dazai

sigma/fyodor/nikolai or any combination

dazai/fyodor

ranpo/poe/mushitarou or any combination

ranpo/yosano

dazai/yosano

kenji & chuuya

kenji & atsushi

kenji & junichirou

junichirou/atsushi

atsushi & kyouka

gin/higuchi/tachihara

gin/tachihara

gin & akutagawa

oda & dazai

mushitarou/yokomizo

hunter x hunter:

killua/gon

leorio/kurapika

killua & gon & leorio & kurapika & alluka or any combination

amane/canary

pitou & youpi & pouf & meruem or any combination

kurapika/chrollo

fullmetal alchemist:

roy/riza

ed/ling

ling & lan fan

ed & al & roy or any combination

fruits basket:

tohru/yuki/kyo or any combination

yuki/haru

yuki/kakeru

kyo & momiji & haru or any combination

tohru & momiji

tohru/rin

haru/rin

ayame/shigure/hatori or any combination

tohru/uotani/hanajima or any combination

my hero academia:

bakugou/izuku/todoroki or any combination

toga/ochako

aizawa/yamada

momo/jirou

jirou/kaminari

izuku/shinsou/kaminari or any combination

p much any class 1-a pairing lol

dabi/hawks

dabi/shigaraki

sk8 the infinity:

reki/langa

joe/cherry

reki & langa & miya or any combination

the case study of vanitas:

noe/vanitas

domi/jeanne

noe & domi & louis or any combination

vanitas & mikhail

noe/jean-jacques

dante/johann/riche or any combination

roland/olivier

trigun:

vash/wolfwood/meryl or any combination

vash & knives

milly/meryl

jujutsu kaisen:

gojo/geto

yuuji/nobara/megumi or any combination

megumi & gojo & yuuji & nobara or any combination

nobara/maki

yuuta/inumaki

yuuta/maki

choso & yuuji

gojo/utahime

utahime/shoko

gojo & geto & shoko or any combination

chainsaw man:

aki/angel

denji & aki & power or any combination

denji/yoshida

power/kobeni

denji/asa

buddy daddies:

kazuki/rei

attack on titan:

levi/hange

eren/mikasa/armin or any combination

ymir/historia

sasha/mikasa

jean/armin

jean/eren

jean/connie/sasha or any combination

pieck/porco

pieck/hange

annie/armin

annie/mikasa

reiner & annie & bertholdt or any combination

annie/hitch

demon slayer:

tanjirou/inosuke

tanjirou & nezuko

mitsuri/shinobu

shinobu/giyuu

genya/muichirou

akaza/douma

mitsuri/obanai

heaven official's blessing:

shi qingxuan/he xuan

hua cheng/xie lian/yin yu or any combination

hua cheng/xie lian/feng xin/mu qing or any combination

yin yu/quan yizhen

qi rong & xie lian

south park:

tweek/craig/kenny or any combination

stan/kyle/kenny or any combination

kenny/butters

spiderverse:

miles/gwen

miles & gwen & hobie & pav or any combination

miles & peter b

six of crows:

kaz/inej/nina/wylan/jesper or any combination

nina/matthias

the raven cycle:

ronan/gansey/adam/noah/blue or any combination

henry/gansey/blue or any combination

breath of the wild/tears of the kingdom:

link/revali

link/zelda

link/sidon

mipha/zelda

daruk & urbosa & mipha & revali & link & zelda or any combination

link & tulin

honkai star rail:

stelle/march 7th/dan heng

bronya/seele

jing yuan & yanqing

firefly/stelle

aventurine/dr ratio

gallagher & misha

dan heng/jing yuan

boothill/robin

boothill/argenti

dan heng/boothill

kafka/himeko

kafka/blade

stelle/kafka

blade/dan heng

sampo/gepard

sampo/stelle

acheron/black swan

serval & gepard & lynx

arlan & asta

lynx/pela

ace attorney:

apollo/klavier

phoenix/edgeworth

apollo & trucy

franziska & edgeworth

franziska/maya

maya & phoenix

nahyuta/blackquill

apollo & athena

athena/blackquill

franziska/adrian

dead plate:

rody/vincent

the magnus archives:

jon/martin/tim/sasha or any combination

jon & georgie

georgie/melanie

basira/daisy

gerry/michael

genshin impact:

kaeya & diluc

chongyun/xingqiu/gaming or any combination

aether/xiao

ei/yae miko

cyno/tighnari/albedo or any combination

childe/scaramouche

aether/scaramouche

cyno/tighnari/alhaitham/kaveh or any combination

lyney & lynette & freminet or any combination

furina/neuvillette

arlecchino/furina

lyney/aether

scaramouche/albedo

scaramouche/lyney

kaeya/albedo/aether or any combination

fischl/razor/bennett or any combination

barbara/noelle

barbara & jean

diluc/venti

aether/venti

jean/lisa

mika/noelle

rosaria/kaeya

xiao/venti

beidou/ningguang

chongyun & xiangling & xingqiu or any combination

hu tao/yanfei

yanfei/yelan

hu tao/xiao

xinyan/xiangling

zhongli/venti

zhongli/childe

gorou & kokomi

kokomi/sara

ayaka/thoma

ayaka/lumine

shinobu & itto

kazuha/tomo

kazuha/aether

kazuha/scaramouche/heizou or any combination

ayaka/chevreuse

candace/dehya

dehya/nilou

nahida & scaramouche

navia/clorinde

navia/furina

chlorinde/wriothesley

furina/lumine

childe/kaeya

childe/diluc

shinobu/heizou

ayaka/chiori

chiori/chevreuse

[jadeseadragon]

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (French, 1801 - 1888), Creole in a Red Headdress, c. 1840, oil on canvas, 28¾ × 23⅝ inches; Historic New Orleans Collection.

[1moremilgram-enjoyer]

Intro post time!

Hello members of the jury! I am 1moremilgram-enjoyer (nickname: FF), and I’m your

Local Amane Momose Apologist!*

*(Her character is nuanced and cannot be reduced to “a pure soul who’s done nothing wrong.” Understand I am aware of this fact and I am only calling myself an apologist in a hyperbolic sense. With that established, I voted her inno because she’s a pure soul who’s done nothing wrong)

This is a Milgram sideblog because it has consumed my brain. My main blog is 1moreff-creator, which is where my nickname comes from. If you want to talk to me about anything non-Milgram related, you might want to go there.

Planning to post analysis of all MVs and covers. Eventually.

Currently Voting:

-Mikoto: Innocent

-Kotoko: Guilty

New to Milgram? Check this post out!

Master List of analysis and theory posts under the cut.

All Prisoners:

>Everyone is Dead Theory [Long]

>Milgram references in Milgram videos [Short]

000 - Es:

>Hibana Cover Thoughts [Short]

001 - Haruka:

>Two Breaths Walking Cover Thoughts [Short]

>Some Thoughts on his Parallels with Yuno (+0910 parallels) [Medium]

002 - Yuno:

>Sticky Bug Cover Thoughts [Short]

>Some Thoughts on her Parallels with Haruka (+0910 parallels) [Medium]

>Hachiko Statue in Umbilical [Short]

003 - Fuuta:

>Mozaik Role Cover Thoughts [Short]

>Background Characters in Bring it On: the Five Man Band trope, user icons and graffiti patterns. [Long]

>Observation on Fiction v Reality [Short]

>Fire and water paralles between him and Amane [Short]

004 - Muu:

>Otome Dissection Cover Thoughts [Short - Medium]

005 - Shidou:

>Liar Dance Cover Thoughts [Short]

>Small Theory on Shidou's "scientific purposes" Note: I misread the VD, it actually says “selfish purposes” so please ignore the science thing. Shidou was, if anything, killing to save people not from his own family before his wife entered a come or whatever happened. (and some words on another theory) [Short]

>Of German and Triage Tags [Short]

006 - Mahiru:

>Psychogram Cover Thoughts [Short]

>Couch Symbolism [Short]

007 - Kazui:

>Lyric Placement and Background Shapes in Cat. [Long]

008- Amane :D

>Purge March Analysis [Long]

>Positive Parade Cover Thoughts [Medium - Short]

>Fire and water parallels between her and Fuuta [Short]

>Magic credits, Katakana vs Hiragana [Short]

009 - Mikoto:

Disclaimer, a few of these talk about Trikoto, but honestly I'm not sure how much I believe that theory now, so take them with a grain of salt

>Full Theory on the Murders [Long]

>Some Thoughts on his Parallels with Kotoko (+0102 parallels) [Medium]

>MeMe and Control over One's Own Destiny [Medium-Long] (Slightly outdated)

>The Wheel of Fortune in Double and the MeMe spreads [Long] (Slightly outdated)

>Dominant Hands in Mikoto’s videos: Part 1 - Part 2 + Accirax explains why maybe it’s not important [Medium] (Outdated please ignore this)

010 - Kotoko:

>HARROW Analysis [Extremely long]

>On the Jacques Roulet cap [Short]

>Kotoko's Clothes in HARROW. [Short-Medium]

>Some Thoughts on her Parallels with Mikoto (+0102 parallels) [Medium]

Others:

>Explaining how voting percentages (generally) work, with Amane's case as an example. [Short] The voting predictions aged not-great as expected, but the main idea stands.

[aarchval]

Jacques Amans, Bélizaire and the Frey Children, c. 1837.

[andronetalks]

Painting that covered up enslaved boy restored, set to hang in Met

New York Post By Alex Mitchell August 21, 2023 2:46pm Updated A 19th-century family portrait that was altered to cover an enslaved teenager has been restored to its original version. The painting, initially etched on canvas, is now set to hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall after half a century in hiding. The Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans attributed work from 1837, titled “Bélizaire…

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Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucein Amans,Bélizaire and the Frey Children (ca. 1837) Before and after