#rudolf belling

[europeansculpture]

Rudolf Belling (1886-1972) - Masque d'un orateur, 1959

[miamaimania]

"Symbolic Shield" by Rudolf Belling, 1928-1929.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

JETTMAR, Rudolf. “Akustik. — Elektricität.”, half of diptych, plate 100 of Martin Gerlach's “Allegorien Neue Folge. Original Entwürfe von den namhaften modernen Künstlern, mit erläuterndem Text”, 1896. by Halloween HJB Via Flickr: From "Allegories New Series. Original designs by well-known modern artists, with explanatory text" Other half of the work is here: flic.kr/p/2mML4HE

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[fitzrove]

The Nightmare Circus in Elisabeth

Many, if not most, Elisabeth fans know about the satirical, kitschy, sometimes garish circus aesthetic of the sets in the first two Vienna productions. Among other things, we have bumper cars (Apokalypse), funhouse faces (Die Gaffern), a lit-up carousel (Frau Wolf's Salon), spinning mirrors (Sie passt nicht) and chessboard horses (Wir oder sie) on the stage. However, a more easily overlooked way in which the circus theme manifests is in the music and the score of the show: the melodies used and the choice of instruments.

Above, I've categorised the songs in the show into those containing heavy "circus" elements in temrs of melodies, vibe and instruments (turquoise), those containing slight or partial circus elements (light blue), and those containing none or only containing lyrics related to the circus theme (white). Based on when circus elements appear and when they do not, I've come to the following conclusion:

Musically, Elisabeth is a story about the struggle between genuine emotion expressed by the characters (most notably in songs like Wie du, Ich gehör nur mir, Mach auf mein Engel, Mama wo bist du, Nichts nichts gar nichts, and Wenn ich dein Spiegel wär) and the nightmare circus imposed on them by the political system and the structures of power that surround them - the old world, the order of things, however you want to call it. Characters like Elisabeth, Franz Joseph, Rudolf and ultimately Sophie seek genuine connection to others, deeper understanding, and intellectual and physical freedom, but are constantly thwarted in their efforts to reach these good things by agents, confines, traditions and structures of the nightmare circus. The circus stands for everything that is banal, superfluous, ridiculous, conventional, politically conservative and dysfunctional (conservatism here refers to "traditional conservatism", not the emergence of proto-far-right-nationalism), and protocol-abiding. Its agents, in many cases led by Sophie and including members of the court (lords and ladies; the church; military leaders; politicians) and the bourgeoisie (the cast of 'Apokalypse'), are motivated in their actions by a genuine assumption that this system is something worth contributing to and protecting. But the flipside of the system is that it razes over the personal desires, needs, and grievances of the very royalty that gains its power and legitimacy from the system, as well as the needs and desires of the people (see Milch).

The ultimate expressions and points of fulfillment for "the world as a nightmare circus" are Rudolf's death (a grotesque, carnivalised production - a man who was raised into and lived his life in the nightmare circus and failed to find a human connection to hold on to has no choice but to be consumed by its trappings), Am Deck der Sinkenden Welt (a series of macabre circus tricks befalling various Habsburg relatives - the implication being that it's only a matter of time before the next, which will plunge the world into chaos: and naturally the mind wanders to Franz Ferdinand as the next victim), Elisabeth's death (as Lucheni's trick - listen to the melody during Das Attentat), and finally, even Lucheni's death (grotesquely framed by the music). None of these people were able to connect to others in a meaningful way (I would argue that this is also implied for Lucheni, at least in some portrayals like Serkan Kaya), with devastating results for them personally and for the overall political situation and status quo. Without the forging of meaningful, reliable connections between people based on genuine respect and understanding, the nightmare circus of European "belle epoque" society destroys the people who cannot thrive under its conventions and attempt to break free of its confines. And ultimately, it also destroys itself.

[thequeenofthedisneyverse]

Technology from 1870-1899 (For Encanto fic writers)

So, A mutual of mine @miracles-and-butterfliess pointed out that everyone (including me) tends to forget that Encanto was literally made when the triplets were born. Which is literally 1900 or 1901. Regardless, it was the very beginning of the 19th century so let me tell you about the technology/things they would/wouldn’t have. (And please keep in mind that most of these may or may not have been imported into Colombia yet.) 

1870 - 1879

1872—A.M. Ward creates the first mail-order catalog. NO

1873—Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire. NO

1876—Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. NO

1876—Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine. NO

1876—Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper. NO?

1878—Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph (known then as the tin foil phonograph). MAYBE

1878—Eadweard Muybridge invents moving pictures. NO?

1878—Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invents the prototype for a practical electric lightbulb. YES? 

1879—Thomas Edison invented the first commercially viable incandescent electric light bulb. NO?

1880 - 1889

1880—The British Perforated Paper Company debuts toilet paper. YES

1880—English inventor John Milne creates the modern seismograph. NO

1881—David Houston patents camera film in roll format. NO?

1884—Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen. YES

1884—L. A. Thompson built and opened the first roller coaster in the United States at a site on Coney Island, New York. NO

1884—James Ritty invents a functional mechanical cash register. YES?

1884—Charles Parson patents the steam turbine. NO

1885—Karl Benz invented the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. NO (even before Encanto, Alma’s town looked rural so I doubt the automobile reached them yet.)

1885—Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-engine motorcycle. NO

1886—John Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola. NO

1886—Gottlieb Daimler designs and builds the world's first four-wheeled automobile. NO

1887—Heinrich Hertz invents radar. NO

1887—Emile Berliner invented the gramophone. YES

1887—F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invented the first wearable contact lenses. NO

1888—Nikola Tesla invents the alternating current motor and transformer. NO

1890 - 1899

1891—Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. NO

1892—Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine, which he patents six years later. NO

1892—Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar vacuum flask. NO

1893—W.L. Judson invents the zipper. NO (zippers didn’t become popular globally until a little bit later; buttons, ribbons/laces and whatever else were still the norm/in fashion for fastening and tying (which is still the case in some places today)

1895—Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière invent a portable motion-picture camera that doubles as a film-processing unit and projector. The invention is called the Cinematographe and using it, the Lumières project the motion picture for an audience. NO?

1899—J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. NO (if you're running from being killed, the last thing you're going to bring is a vacuum cleaner) 

I remember a post listing the sort of jobs there would be in Encanto but I forgot so I’ll just list the ones I know (let me know if I need to add anything.): 

Seamstress/tailor

Embellisher

Field worker 

Teacher (of any kind; music, dance, art, etc)

Woodworker - wood carver

Toy maker

Construction worker

Joining a Local band/ Orchestra - being apart of a choir 

Carpenter 

Metal worker 

Jeweler (though I’m not sure if Jewelery of the diamond/gem kind is common in Encanto)

bladesmith/ knifemaker 

Inventor? (Inventors should exist in Encanto by now…just one other genius besides Mirabel?)

I know some of these are very obvious but I’m just giving people options okay? 

@miracles-and-butterflies you seem to know a lot more about this kind of stuff so if you have anything to add/take away or me to fix please let me know. I tried to search up “When was X invention imported into Colombia” and literally nothing of use comes up. 

[mosertone]

Symbolic Shield - Rudolf Belling 1928-1929 , has that totalitarian look we all crave, but was considered "degenerate art" and he was banned from working in Germany.

[moonlitmistyforest]

Hans Hoffmann - A Hare in the Forest, c. 1585 oil on panel, 62,2 x 78,4 cm Getty Center

Nibbling on a leaf pulled from a stalk of Lady's Mantle, an alert hare sits at the edge of a pine forest. Unlike the darkness one would expect to find in a forest, Hans Hoffmann painted a theatrically illuminated scene. Each plant and insect--snail, cricket, beetle--is seen in vivid detail. The finely wrought leaves of the thistle, the sprawling fronds of a plantain, and the bright blue flowers of the Hare Bell attest to Hoffmann's meticulous treatment of the subject. In fact, none of these plants could have coexisted in the natural world. Hoffmann imaginatively combined numerous individual nature studies in a single painting.

Hoffmann's golden-brown hare is based on Albrecht Dürer's famous and influential watercolor which, much like his Stag Beetle, shows a hare against a plain ground. Hoffmann had seen Dürer's hare while in Nuremburg. Later, when he went to work in the court of Emperor Rudolf II, he helped the Emperor acquire the watercolor for his Kunstkammer. Hoffmann's hare differs from Dürer's, however, appearing amid a striking arrangement of elegant plants and insects. At the time it was painted, this arrangement of nearly life-size subjects was entirely unique, not only within Hoffmann's body of work, but also within the tradition of German nature study.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Many of the most beloved Christmas songs were written by Jewish composers who shaped Americans’ conception of the holiday. From White Christmas to Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer to Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Jews created much of the soundtrack of the holiday.

Why are so many of the most beloved Christmas songs Jewish creations?

Dutch Jewish composer Stephen Emmer (who’s written his own Christmas song, Sleep for England) posits that: “It is in the DNA of Jews to write melancholy music, and also to ingratiate themselves in a world in which they are outsiders, at a time of the year when people are feeling especially patriotic and rooted in the idea of home.”

For many of the Jewish composers mentioned below, it seems that writing Christmas music was a way of fitting into a non-Jewish American idea. They didn’t write about Jesus or religious aspects of the holiday. Instead, their songs invoke an idealized American life that was denied to them and their families.

“The Christmas songs that are popular are not about Jesus, but they’re about sleigh bells and Santa and the trappings of Christmas,” explains Jewish American singer Michael Feinstein, who has recorded Christmas music himself. “They’re not religious songs.” Perhaps writing comforting, largely secular-sounding Christmas songs was a way for these composers to allow Jews to take part in the season.

Jewish American composer Rob Kapilow believes these composers reinvented Christmas as a largely secular holiday and a time to invoke an idealized America.

They created some beautiful music that brought joy to millions of people – but perhaps in doing so, they lost something precious of themselves, as well.

The story of the Jewish songwriters who shaped Christmas music “is…really a story about pogroms, prejudice, poverty, immigration, assimilation, and the powerful creative imaginations of an extraordinary group of songwriters who are trying to find their way into an American culture,” Kapilow notes, pointing out that older and European Christmas music used to be much more religious in nature. That changed in the 1940s, he believes, with the Jewish-written song White Christmas. “You know…lots of roads into American culture were blocked for these Jews, but they wanted to become part of that American world. And so what they did was they looked around, they listened around and they created the soundtrack of a secular Christmas.”

The composers listed below aren’t known for songs celebrating Hanukkah or other Jewish festivals. (Though Irving Berlin did write a song called Israel after the founding of the State of Israel.) They created some beautiful music that brought joy to millions of people – but perhaps in doing so, they lost something precious of themselves, as well.

[europeansculpture]

Rudolf Belling (1886-1972)

1921

Acajou

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

[pupsmailbox]

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[monkeyssalad-blog]

JETTMAR, Rudolf. “Akustik. — Elektricität.”, half of diptych, plate 100 of Martin Gerlach's “Allegorien Neue Folge. Original Entwürfe von den namhaften modernen Künstlern, mit erläuterndem Text”, 1896. by Halloween HJB Via Flickr: From "Allegories New Series. Original designs by well-known modern artists, with explanatory text" Other half of the work is here: flic.kr/p/2mXSSnF

[abyssal-forge-bah]

is it possible to get a character from fnaf — with all info (including the character itself) being completely up to the creator, and like.. go absolutely wild with it :3,

The deep sea answers your call! In the reflection of the water, you see...

General stuff:

1. Name: Roxanne, Roxy, Anne, Wolf, Arnulf, Boris, Conall, Gela, Lovell, Ludolf, Lycus, Rudolf, Shaw, Velvel, Rudy, Faylen, Alora, Beauty, Blossom, Alexandra, Anais, Angelica, Belle, Milena, Orla, Bowie, Nirvana, Crue

2. Pronouns: she/her, they/them, it/its, glam/rock, rox/roxy, 80/80s, claw/claws, fang/fangs, fur/furs, wolf/wolfs, sil/silver, bark/barks, slash/slashes, ly/lyc, howl/howls, pup/pups, bi/bite, terr/terror, horr/horror, rob/robot, ai/ais, err/error, cy/cyb, mech/mecha, gui/guitar, pia/piano, riff/riffs, loud/louds, brr/brrs, musi/music

3. Species: animatronic, furry, wolf, robot, android, human

4. Source: Five Night at Freddy's: Security Breach

5. Gender identity / sex: transneutral, neutrois, cottoncandysmellic, fizzygender, colorightidolic, wolfgender, clawzin, digiwolf, animatronicgender, 80scoric, checkeraesic, aiwarix, beyondfuturistic, rockgender, elegui

6. Sexual / romantic attraction: ambiamorous, aroace

7. Gender expression: androgynous fem leaning

8. Role: resolver, escutcheon, memory holder, spoon generator

9. Sign-off: ✨, 🤘, 🐺, 🐾, ⚡, 🎸, 🎀

10. Face claim:

🚫_🚫_🚫

Additional stuff:

11. Aesthetic: glam rock, scene, vaporwave, webcore

Be aware that headmate could form differently than described!

[barbwritesstuff]

What's the creepiest Christmas carol?

Like, which one would you least want to hear emanating from the basement of an old mansion you're sheltering from a snow storm in?

Disclaimer: I am not Christian and never have been. If it's weird to imagine creepy versions of these songs, I'm sorry.

[oldinterneticons]

Jingle Bells, Shotgun shells, Santa Claus is dead. Rudolf got a .22 and shot him in the head

[viir-tanadhal]

What we know so far about PSB15 (aka the next album):

Burning the Heather was originally going to be saved and used as the guiding framework for the next album but was released instead on Hotspot

Produced by James Ford, who notably recently produced Jessie Ware's two albums, Depeche Mode's Memento Mori, and Blur's The Ballad of Darren. Neil also has been an outspoken fan of his group The Last Shadow Puppets

Two albums worth of songs were written over quarantine, including a song about Rudolf Nureyev, and a song about the pandemic titled "Living in a lonely time". Additionally, there are several songs written from the Super era that have not yet been released

Neil bought a keyboard and learned how to use GarageBand to write songs himself

Neil stated in Classic Pop that the next album would be "...very tuneful, less super-electronic sounding. Strings will be returning. It's more autobiographical, looking back."

They started work on the album in March 14, 2023 and posted a photo likely of James Ford's studio. The photo showcases a xylophone, bell pepper shaker, multiple keyboards and synthesizers, reel-to-reel tape machines, a guitar, a hammered dulcimer, and others

In April 2023, strings and brass were recorded at The Church Recording studio in London

Recording for the album likely ended before they went back on tour at the end of May 2023

Neil supposedly told a fan that the album would be out in Spring, possibly April 2024

Things that might influence the album:

Over quarantine, Neil watched a lot of 1940s film noir

Their BBC Radio Takeover in 2021 and song selections - Chris usually is the one who decides on their albums' directions, so his choices might hint at that

Lost EP saw the release of four songs from the Super era that had previously been unreleased. Given they were released as an EP and not saved for the next album might hint that they wouldn't have fit the musical or thematic style of the next album (too electronic?)

During quarantine, Neil started a project of digitizing his diaries, which might explain why the next album might be more autobiographical