#iwtv paintings

[stoneantler]

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn, famously stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[phantasymistart]

they really are the most divorced married couple of all time huh

[holographings]

70s loumandaniel sandwich for @/DarkishGrey302 on twt <3 <3 <3

[r3burials]

kicking these sketches over to u

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

Color coming back into Louis's life.

[loo-nuh-tik]

Interview with the Vampire | 2.06

[queerhoodies]

Interview With The Vampire 2.01 "What Can The Damned Really Say To The Damned"

"The Kiss of Judas" by Jakob Smits

Interview With The Vampire 2.06 "Like The Light By Which God Made The World Before He Made Light"

[letmeinimafairy]

A young man with magnolia, early 1500s, a fresco found in a Venetian villa, has traces of attempted destruction. Painted on a piece of sea pottery. In other words, o u c h

[bishonenvoicedbyadyke]

thinking about the armand painting again and how violent its very existence is. like there's layers to this.....this is a painting that was paid for with your body. in it, along with cattle and dogs, you're pictured worshipping your abuser, kneeling at his feet. your skin is whitened. your features barely recognizable...... and now this painting is in a public museum here for everyone to see. like anyone can come and see your bare, vulnerable throat.

[curehaus]

Armand, Amadeo, Arun

[stoneantler]

Interview with the Vampire Art

So in Louis’s living room in Dubai we can see one the the Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) paintings by Francis Bacon:

While these paintings were intended to join a crucifixion scene, a goal that was never realized. I’m curious to see if Louis has the entire Triptych or just the one painting. Triptychs are traditionally the three painted panels of a Christian altarpiece, though the term is now used for many works of art that contain three parts. If he only has the one painting, there is some symbolism about how his horrible toxic family is gone now, leaving him in isolation and, maybe most importantly, without context. An incomplete Triptych is beautiful and valuable but it is also an altar that cannot close. Some triptychs represent heaven, earth, and hell, others the life of Christ. So in a broader sense, an incomplete triptych is an incomplete story.

However, Bacon isn’t telling a story in these paintings. This work actually draws inspiration from The Oresteia, a series of tragic Greek plays that I cannot hope to fully explain but involve Clytemnestra first killing her husband Agamemnon only for her to then be killed in vengeance by her son, Orestes . Finally, her son is tormented by the Furies for his actions, and order is only restored when Athena puts Orestes on trial. This Triptych is said to be the Furies, but it is possible to interpret the work as representing Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Orestes. If we follow that interpretation some glaring parallels might be drawn between Orestes and the family tragedy we are watching unfold in the show itself. Personally, I think both interpretations can be true at once.

Of course, Bacon isn’t telling a story in these pieces; he’s expressing the feeling of the story, the pain and bloodshed and tragedy. His focus on the mouths here, which a recurring image in his work, is something I’m sure Louis feels strongly about.

These paintings were Bacon’s breakthrough works that put him on the map as an artist. His work often focused on blood, suffering, religion, and the distortion of the human body, all of which I’m sure Louis appreciates. He was also gay, which some of his works do address. 

[kaitcake1289]

Who are you, Louis?

[homosexualhomophobe]

Beloved. My Beloved Boy, you must wake. No, it is not an emergency. No, nothing is on fire. I have something to share with you. I have discovered a new application on the computer, one that I did not put there myself. It is called Microsoft Paint, and within it, I can use an assortment of colors and brushes to create artworks. I have studied each of the tools extensively, and proudly can announce that I have mastered the program. With my newfound skillset, I have Microsoft Painted you as Ganymede, and myself as Zeus. Yes, I am the Eagle. You can tell that it is me by looking at the eyes. I have perfectly matched the saturation and hue variables to that-- Beloved? Daniel. Daniel, please do not go back to sleep, I am not done--

[rrr-mmmm]

iwtv, episode 14 // young man kneeling before god the father by egon schiele

[r3burials]

portrait painter

modeled after Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, c. 1559