#combines

[the-cricket-chirps]

Robert Rauschenberg

Rebus

1955

[deejayphoto]

John Deere Green

[4eternal-life]

Robert Rauschenberg  (American, 1925 – 2008)

Turkey,  1965

Silkscreen on paper collage, baseball, Plexiglas, and metal chains, mounted on canvas, in artist's metal frames in three parts 40 1/2 by 36 1/2 by 2 3/4 inches (102.9 x 92.7 x 7 cm)

Contemporary Art Day Auction   (C) Sotheby's

‘Turkey’ is a fine "combine" and is "composed almost entirely in blazing red, collaged imagery and found objects from everyday life" and "envelops the viewer in it impassioned narrative of post-war America."  "The blazing patriotic hues at once capture the optimistic and expansive spirit of the early 1960s and the vibrating energy of the nuclear era. 

Turkey's visual cacophony is typical of the artist, whose compositions are famously untidy, complicated and chock full of unexpected juxtapositions."  

The essay includes the following Rauschenberg quotation: "The use of the familiar is obscure, the use of the exotic is familiar. Neither sacrifices completely its origin but the mind has to travel to follow just as the eye has to change its focus."

https://www.thecityreview.com/f13ckrugier.html

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Shout-out to the bumper sticker I saw the other day that made me feel one second of pure, incandescent rage, which I have replicated in complete accuracy below:

[byjove]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[scientia-rex]

Sometimes when people on the Internet are like "ADULTS CAN NEVER INTERACT WITH MINORS IT'S CREEPY" I remember how, at 12, back in 1997, I was on the Witchvox forums with people ranging from me to people in at least their 50s, and no one there was ever a creep to me, no one ever made me feel uncomfortable or asked for my personal info, and when I finally broke down after a particularly brutal day of bullying at school and posted about it they were the first adults I'd ever met in my entire life who told me the bullies were the problem and it was okay to be angry about it.

Kids need to interact with adults who will listen to them.

[mumblesplash]

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

[wellensittich01]

Dick 9 times out of 10 failing to hide a severe injury from the rest of the batfam because without fail when he’s tired or drugged or generally not firing on all cylinders his native accent comes out as thick as the day he met Bruce.

- - -

Bruce: Dick come down for a check up I saw you take that hit for Tim.

Dick, halfway towards the cave exit and still going, in the quietest voice possible: im fine

Bruce: Say squirrel and you can leave.

Dick:

Bruce:

Jason:

Tim:

Damien:

Dick: …skweeerrehl.

Jason: Get him boys.

[wasyago]

old art for a random au

big text here

[birbyarts]

papyrus and undyne sketch from a while back 🐟🦴

(context: they went to a metal concert on the surface and every single human in their vicinity tried to get their number)

also i made an alignment chart for the bestie duos of ut and dr. because why not. i miss them

[deejayphoto]

Harvest Time

[bobacupcake]

leylines burger

[colorful-horses]

monster high