#bluething

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Some art I recently did for people on Discord!

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:HISBIRTHDAY:

[cuntstable]

also i still firmly think that if we go with the miquella plot of the dlc the final boss should have been godwyn but tje funny thing is the more i think about im pretty sure miquella also would agree with that

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Birdenbire gelişen flortlesme ve utandığın için sürekli gülümseyip durmak 😻

Ben alakasız ncjcdmmxmx

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This video inspired by Eric Carle's famous children's story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" features the colors blue, orange, yellow, red, purple and green, as well as the animals fish, crabs, seahorses, lobsters, dolphins and turtles

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Hollow Knight OC ahhhhhh

This buddy is named Blueth, a damselfly who runs the trams through Hallownest. In the early days of Hallownest's prime, Blueth moonlighted as a smuggler to earn extra geo, transporting weapons and illegal cargo through the City of Tears. Eventually, when the infection hit, Blueth began to smuggle bugs and supplies in and out of Hallownest, through Stag Station tunnels to reach the edges of the kingdom. When the City of Tears was sealed, Blueth's services were no longer required, most residents either infected or dead. He remains at his post outside of King's Station, should any last remaining survivor wish to flee Hallownest.

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whos the little bluething hanging out with cath? looks like an intresting critter

I don’t have a name for them yet, but they’re little spirit creatures created from the souls Cath purifies after the Soul Catcher gathers them. Cath removes corruption from souls that refuse to move on and turns them into stable living beings until they are ready to dissipate. They come in a wide range of colors and emit a calming aura.

[misterparsnip]

we have discovered mount bluething

i will conquer mount bluething

but not today

it is too big an scary

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Modernism & Fascism

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III 1967-1968 This painting is circling my Twitter FYP page in a meme about human-created art vs AI art.

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue

The artist, Barnett Newman (1905-1970), is one of the foremost color field painters. Newman saw his work as a reaction to the horrors of World War II. “For Newman, figuring out what an artist could do after witnessing events such as the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki required ignoring all of art history, quote, “to start from scratch, to paint as if painting never existed before.”

In 1967 Newman finished his largest painting, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III. It shocked audiences at the time, who wrote letters to express their disgust and dismay. In the 1980s, a disgruntled painter named Gerard Jan van Bladeren slashed the painting with a box cutter. One of the main arguments the lawyer made in his defense was that the painting was a kind of cultural provocation, which called for a reaction. He was sentenced five months in prison, and people sent letters to the museum praising him, one even saying “this so-called vandal should be made the director of modern museums.”

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue After the Attack (2006) Thomas Raat

“Anybody Can Do That”

The museum tried to restore the painting, but no one would take them up on the job. Eventually, Daniel Goldreyer said he could repair the painting. Four and a half years later the painting was revealed. It seems like it would be easy to repair the red part of the piece, but when it was revealed people immediately noticed the red paint looked different. Previously there had been a shimmering quality to the red that gave it a sense of depth, but the restoration had a flat-looking paint that, according to critics of the restoration, robbed it of its original power.

The biggest challenge to repairing Red, Yellow, and Blue III was the simplicity of the art. Regardless of how you feel about this painting, there is an undeniable truth about the craftsmanship. Usually, texture and brushwork can mask repair work, but Newman’s work is a swath of uniform color. No visible brush strokes, no uneven texture. Anyone who has worked with paint, especially oil paint, knows how particularly difficult this is to do The recreation tried, and failed, to recreate the delicate techniques of the original.

The painting was sent to a forensic lab, and it was revealed the paint Goldreyer used would be impossible to remove. The painting was destroyed a second time.

Cathedra (1951) Barnett Newman

In 1997, Bladeren returned to the museum in search of the botched restoration. When he couldn’t find Red, Yellow and Blue III, he found another painting by Newman titled Cathedra, and attacked it with a box cutter. He also scattered a packet of pamphlets to the floor that contained incoherent writing. At his second trial, Bladeren was declared mentally unfit and sent to a psychiatric institution.

You don’t have to like Newman, but this work has incredible technical skill.

 But as Jacob Geller says in the youtube video essay “Who’s Afraid of Modern art” says, the debate around whether or not the art requires technical skill misses the point.  “Reducing art to a linear connection between ‘skill’ and ‘value’ fundamentally just turns art into a commodity.”

Rejection of Modern Art is a form of Fascism

Newman was a Jewish artist, and Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III was struck and spat upon in Germany because the attacker said it bore a mocking resemblance to the German flag. In 2018, another sculpture by Newman, Broken Obelisk, was vandalized by white supremacists. White paint was poured into the reflective pool, and scattered around were posters with the phrase "it's ok to be white." It was vandalized similarly before, with swastikas spray-painted across it.

Broken Obelisk (1963-1967) Barnett Newman

You’re not a bad person if you hate modern art, or any art created after 1800. Art is a subjective experience.

Part of the problem is also how modern art museums display artwork. When art gallery patrons are given more detailed descriptions of art, they experience more positive and fewer negative emotions.

But there is a pursuit of fascism to make everything of a specific aesthetic through rigid, culturally appropriate standards. As a nation’s mythology is built on its art, the subsequent art begins to feed into this narrative by continuously referencing this mythology. The result of this self-referential loop is a hierarchy that rejects anything new or divergent from the aesthetic. Thus, when art deviates from the established norms, it doesn’t feed into that nation’s mythology, eliciting criticism. This is because it doesn’t “contribute” to that society, but challenges it." (source)

The Nazi party seized 15,000 pieces of artwork, and in 1937 selected 640 of these pieces to be displayed in a derisive exhibition called "Degenerate Art." They wanted to invite public displays of anger and protest. This art was hung crookedly under mocking slogans like "nature as seen by sick minds.” Others were displayed with the extravagant price the original work sold for, to invite mockery and derision.

This pushed the Nazi's paradigm of what constituted good vs bad art.The argument made against this artwork was that these pieces showed no sign of craft that 'real art' does, so to celebrate them is an offense to the German people and their culture. 

The fact that these pieces were held in high regard was seen by Nazis as proof of the insidious plots of the left. The art held critiques of sexual norms and norms of the family values that were important to Nazi respectability. Modern art, they said ,was made for “eradication of the last vestiges of racial consciousness.” New and transgressive styles by black and Jewish artists were indicative of their ‘degenerate intellectualism.” This is eugenics through the systematic devaluation of art. (paraphrased from here)

"Modern Art" is still used as a catch-all term to denigrate any work that ignores or rejects traditional Western standards of art and beauty, and the criticisms against modern and contemporary art are not dissimilar to the arguments made by Nazis against degenerate artwork.

"What “modern art” does, directly or indirectly, is question what constitutes ‘proper art’. The idea that Rembrandt and Shakespeare are the only valid forms of artistic expression lies directly in those artists being Christian, western Europeans. By widening the frame, by hanging a Picasso, Newman, or a Van Gogh under the same roof as a Friedrich, you visualize the idea that certain ideas are not superior. The privileges of aristocratic, white Europeans are directly threatened by the mere existence of “modern art”, which makes it a target." (source)

Here is a really fantastic article about the artist as cultural worker.  Culture needs to be maintained. And art that doesn’t fit into a cultural narrative becomes a target. The rejection of non-traditional art is often a rejection of oppressed people.

Fascists didn’t vandalize “Broken Obelisk” because of its simplicity, they did it to assert power and control. The criticisms of the art are just a way to assert their own “superiority” by dehumanizing the other.

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You have been chosen for the next ghost hunt. 🫵

- The blueth babyeth (Not tagging myself wvhidigcfv9)

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Untitled

the weight of her head was heavy on her bony shoulders.

her hair felt like a million mice set loose on her scalp.

it burnt.

like it was going to trepanate her skull with its legion of nails and rip her brain into ribbioned shreds.

she collapsed on the sidewalk, her body a mold of marble and lead and all heavy things.

her eyes turned upwards......

blue...blue...blue

she thought of water and of the relief that it could give to her.

smiling now and not so heavy, she tried to reach for the sky.....for the blueth beauty of it.

but she was so light now.

her limbs were made of dust

her bones forged from vespertine breeze.

she smiled.

blue....blue....

and her brains, in long soft rivoulets, leaked from her orfices.

crawling out her nose and her eyes and her ears like baby snakes leaving their nests.

Blue....blue....red?

[shinyevie]

follow my bluethings

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There are so many cute blue things!

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I felt silly /pos

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