#art and culture center

[moodboardmix]

"Saray Aab o Noor" Cultural Center, Isfahan, Iran,

Courtesy: Hamidi.archstudio

[emaadsidiki]

Doha, Qatar. ˚ ༘✶ ⋆｡˚ ⁀➷

[arc-hus]

Shou County Culture and Art Center, China - Studio Zhu-Pei

[galleryofart]

The Song of the Shirt

Artist: Anna Elizabeth Blunden (English, 1829–1915

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Anna Blunden worked as a governess but quit to attend art school after reading the first volume of John Ruskin’s seminal Modern Painters (1843). She became a devotee of Ruskin, who was a trenchant critic of the new industrial capitalism and inspired Victorians as diverse as Cardinal Henry Edward Manning and Oscar Wilde. Blunden echoed Ruskin’s opinions about the dehumanizing effects of modern urbanism in this painting, which dramatizes the plight of workers who came to London seeking employment but found the pollution and poverty of the early Industrial Revolution. It was the first picture Blunden exhibited publicly at the Society of British Artists in 1854, where it was accompanied by a quotation from Thomas Hood’s poem “The Song of the Shirt” that gives voice to a “weary and worn” seamstress as she longs for her youth in the countryside: “For only one short hour / To feel as I used to feel, / Before I knew the woes of want, / And the walk that costs a meal!”

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[artemlegere]

'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Artist: William Artaud (English, 1763–1823) Formerly attributed to George Romney (English, 1734–1802)

Date: 1788 to 1790

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Ode To Mercy by William Collins

STROPHE

O Thou, who sitt'st a smiling bride By Valour's arm'd and awful side, Gentlest of sky-born forms, and best adored; Who oft with songs, divine to hear, Winn'st from his fatal grasp the spear, And hidest in wreaths of flowers his bloodless sword! Thou who, amidst the deathful field, By godlike chiefs alone beheld, Oft with thy bosom bare art found, Pleading for him the youth who sinks to ground: See, Mercy, see, with pure and loaded hands, Before thy shrine my country's genius stands, And decks thy altar still, though pierced with many a wound.

ANTISTROPHE

When he whom even our joys provoke, The fiend of nature join'd his yoke, And rush'd in wrath to make our isle his prey; Thy form, from out thy sweet abode, O'ertook him on his blasted road, And stopp'd his wheels, and look'd his rage away. I see recoil his sable steeds, That bore him swift to salvage deeds, Thy tender melting eyes they own; O maid, for all thy love to Britain shown, Where Justice bars her iron tower, To thee we build a roseate bower; Thou, thou shalt rule our queen, and share our monarch's throne!

[nando161mando]

Pro-Palestine mural spotted at La Chispa Cultural Center in Asunción, Paraguay.

#WeAreAllGaza #Paraguay

[samaspic31]

My growth as an artist was heavily stifled by the dogmatism in the online art community I was subjected to as a teen (aka by rhetoric implying or straight up saying art has to be made a certain way to be valuable, which discouraged me from experimenting and developing for my own methods, customising my artistic process felt illegal) and i will forever be mad about it

Anyways if any young artist follows me : the only good art advice is get weird about it and fuck around a lot. Also be honest

[juliaknz]

RINO LEVI ARQUITETOS ASSOCIADOS FIESP BUILDING, 1979 São Paulo, Brazil Image © Edifício Fiesp

[blueiscoool]

2,600-Year-Old Artifacts Found at Ancient Greek Cult Center

Around 2,600 years ago, the Greek city of Helike was destroyed when a violent earthquake and tsunami struck the region, leaving the city buried.

Archaeologists and researchers have pursued explorations of the city’s remains for decades, and recent excavations have begun uncovering more about Helike’s cult center, according to a news release from Greece’s Ministry of Culture.

Previous excavations of the site revealed an arched temple dating between 710 and 700 B.C., with a brick altar dating to 760 to 750 B.C., officials said. The latest round of excavations, from May 2 until June 23, focused on the remains of two more buildings and more religious remains.

Experts said the first building they explored dates to the eighth century B.C. It had pressed soil floors and an approximately 60- to 65-foot-long wall, and it appears to have been used in three different phases.

The remains of the second building included a temple-shaped stone foundation dating to the seventh7 or sixth century B.C., officials said.

It was filled with light pottery dating to the Archaic era — which lasted from around 800 B.C. until 479 B.C., according to the World History Encyclopedia — as well as clay figurines and a bronze snake head, archaeologists said. A clay wing that belonged to a depiction of a mythological figure was also found during the excavations.

East of the two buildings, researchers unearthed a number of artifacts dating to the eighth and ninth centuries B.C. Experts said these discoveries confirm the use of the space for religious purposes as early as 850 B.C.

Among their finds, archaeologists identified offerings to the sanctuary’s deity — Poseidon— including clay and bronze figurines, clay chariot wheels, bronze buckles and pins, iron weapons and a rare piece of a golden necklace, according to officials. Evidence of a second deity was also found at the site.

The building remains also revealed that the area was subjected to frequent floods, experts said. This finding indicates that its residents felt a connection to the area because rather than relocating, they continued to build and rebuild the site.

Archaeologists said they also found evidence of animal sacrifices, including goats, sheep and pigs, at the site. There was also indications of grape plant remains, pointing to the importance of wine for rituals at the sanctuary.

Helike was on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth, according to the Helike Project. The Gulf of Corinth is about 66 miles northwest of Athens.

By Moira Ritter.

[chilewithcarnage]

For the Culture Product Jacket (2021)- Shaquita Reed (b. 1994) crystals, plastic barrettes, plastic hair ties, metal hair clips, plastic combs, hair beads, pony beads, rubber bands, synthetic hair, shoe laces, hair ribbon and vinyl

[portrait-paintings]

John Eardley Wilmot

Artist: Benjamin West (British-American, 1738–1820)

Date: 1812

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

John Eardley Wilmot

Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC SL (16 August 1709 – 5 February 1792), was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.

[arc-hus]

Swiss National Museum, Zurich - Christ & Gantenbein

[galleryofart]

A Lady Reading, Called Mrs. William Hunt

Artist: William Henry Hunt (English, 1790–1864)

Date: c. 1835

Medium: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

[jbaileyfansite]

Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer will do a panel for Fellow Travelers on August 12 at 7 PM ET. You can buy tickets here

[artemlegere]

Oberon and Titania from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act IV, Scene I

Artist: Thomas Stothard (British, 1755–1834)

Date: 1806

Medium: Oil on paper mounted on board

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

A Midsummer's Night Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed plays.

Act IV, Scene I

Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the donkey's head from Bottom. The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They find the lovers still sleeping in the glade. They wake up the lovers and, since Demetrius no longer loves Hermia, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers at first believe they are still in a dream and cannot recall what has happened. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream, as they walk back to Athens.