#the music lesson

[aduckwithears]

Aziraphale: Music Tyooter 🎵🎶

insp below:

Saw the Music Tyooter thing in the Demon's Guide to Angelic Beings. Saw the painting. I had no choice but to draw this.

The Music Lesson 

Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629) (style of)

[mewsart]

Another Holland for yall

[contremineur]

There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.

Katharine Weber, from The music lesson (Crown 1998)

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Arthur Tress

Arthur Tress (nascido em 24 de novembro de 1940) é um fotógrafo americano . Ele é conhecido por seu surrealismo encenado e exposição do corpo humano.

Início da vida e educação

Tress vem de uma origem judaica ; seus pais imigraram da Europa. Ele nasceu no Brooklyn , Nova York. O mais novo de quatro filhos em uma família divorciada, ele passou um tempo em sua juventude com seu pai, que se casou novamente e viveu em um bairro de classe alta, e sua mãe, que permaneceu solteira após o divórcio. Sua irmã era a advogada e defensora dos direitos gays Madeleine Tress .

Aos 12 anos, ele começou a fotografar aberrações de circo e prédios dilapidados ao redor de Coney Island , na cidade de Nova York , onde cresceu. Tress disse que “crescer como um homem gay na década de 1950 não foi fácil, especialmente na escola”. 

Tress estudou na Abraham Lincoln High School em Coney Island. Estudou pintura no Bard College em Annandale-on-Hudson, Nova York , obtendo o título de Bacharel em Belas Artes em 1962. Após a formatura, mudou-se para Paris para cursar a escola de cinema, mas logo desistiu.

Carreira

Enquanto vivia na França, ele viajou para o Japão, África, México e por toda a Europa. Ele observou muitas tribos e culturas isoladas e ficou fascinado pelos papéis desempenhados pelo xamã dos diferentes grupos de pessoas. As culturas às quais ele foi apresentado desempenhariam um papel em seu trabalho posterior. Tress passou a primavera e o verão de 1964 em São Francisco , documentando a Convenção Nacional Republicana de 1964 que nomeou Barry Goldwater , manifestações pelos direitos civis em concessionárias de automóveis segregadas na Van Ness Avenue e a turnê mundial dos Beatles em 1964. Tress tirou mais de 900 fotografias que foram posteriormente arquivadas até 2009, quando ele redescobriu uma pilha de gravuras vintage enquanto organizava o espólio de sua irmã após sua morte.  O trabalho foi posteriormente exibido no Museu de Young de São Francisco . 

No final da década de 1960, ele fez uma série de fotografias surreais sobre os sonhos das crianças, usando cenários encenados. 

Tress residiu em Cambria, Califórnia , por 25 anos e agora mora em São Francisco.

For Behold, I bring you tidings of Great Joy

Arthur Tress, "The Music Lesson," 1970s.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Yiling Band Tour!

[cutehomeart]

The Music Lesson is an exceptional example of Vermeer's storytelling prowess. Unlike many of his contemporaries who chose grand landscapes or mythological scenes as their subjects, Vermeer chose an intimate scene of a music lesson in a well-to-do Dutch household. The setting is modest and domestic, yet it is within this simplicity that Vermeer weaves a complex narrative.

At first glance, The Music Lesson appears as a straightforward depiction of a young woman learning to play the virginal, a keyboard instrument popular in the 17th century. She is attended by a gentleman, presumably her tutor, who looks on as she plays. However, as we look closer, the layers begin to unfold, revealing the richness and depth of Vermeer's artistry.

[saydesole]

Black Southern Blues Singers

Happy Black History ✊🏿

Marvin Sease 1946-2011

Betty Wright 1953-2020

Johnnie Taylor 1934-2000

Denise Lasalle 1934-2018

Z.Z Hill 1935-1984

Ms. Jody 1957- Living

Mel Waiters 1956-2015

Tyrone Davis 1938-2005

[wolfienation]

when you really really think about it, the elphie who sings for good is the elphie who might have stayed and the glinda who sings for good is the glinda who might have gotten on the broom and they will both spend the rest of their lives missing each other and mourning what could have been all the while knowing there is no world in which they make different decisions because they are who they are and in the moment of defying gravity neither of them have been trialed by the world as harshly as they have been by for good

and isn't that just the fucking tragedy of it all. that the harsh hand of destiny said "you will be a revolutionary, a martyr of your cause" and "you will be the pride of your people" and together they'll have nothing more than one short day for a lifetime of fun to hold onto for the rest of their lives

[donaviolet]

Words cannot explain how in love I am with Will Wood's new song titles

[mewsart]

Holland with his first born, Wally!! :)

Background halo by @gingerhaole

[contremineur]

The Dutch painters of the seventeenth century were not afraid of the wind. Think of those skies filling the canvas; think of those towering dark clouds, those windlashed trees. At Ardnageeha, I imagine Jacob van Ruisdael beside me, working with his characteristic probity, painting the wind's portrait.

Katharine Weber, from The music lesson (Crown 1998)

[blogalahezy]

[kittenscookie]

Listen listen!

Odysseus finding a baby Percy, why he alive no one knows maybe Hades doesn’t want to deal with him and he takes one look at the baby realizes Poseidon is a dead beat and said mine

Percy is now badass for being trained by the warrior of the mind and Athena loves him because that means he is her grand baby and she approves of him for annabeth

Ody adopting baby Percy implies that Sally is dead and I can work with that.

Zeus finds out about Percy's existence a whole 11 years earlier and sends a hurricane and monsters to kill him. When the dust settles Sally is dead and Zeus assumes he got the baby too and under normal circumstances he would. But these aren't normal circumstances—these are Odysseus of Ithaca circumstances. Sally and Odysseus had been friends for a couple months at that point (Ody having never found the right time to tell her who he was/used to be if he's been reincarnated) and he could not leave his friend's baby to die.

Now Poseidon knew Percy had survived—he didn't know how but he wasn't about to question a miracle. He didn't question it for a whole 11 years until Percy was right before him giving him the vilest stink eye imaginable. And as he was questioning that specifically he was sucker punched, pinned to the ground and trident ripped out of his hands as he summoned it. Then he saw his attackers face and his ichor ran cold.

Poseidon: You...

Odysseus: Me.

Ody is ripped off him before he can start stabbing. And 3,000-year-old beef is reignited, though they both try to keep it to a minimum for Percy's sake.

[cutehomeart]

Intriguingly, Vermeer often employed instruments not just for their musical attributes, but for their symbolic significance as well. The lute, for instance, is an object of recurring interest in his works, seen in paintings like "The Music Lesson" and "Woman Playing a Lute Near a Window." Traditionally, the lute has been associated with love and courtship, and in Vermeer's expert hands, it becomes a potent symbol of romance and sensual pleasure.

On the other hand, the viola da gamba that we observe in "The Music Lesson" or "Lady Seated at a Virginal" represents a more cultured, refined appreciation of music. The presence of this instrument suggests a desire for harmony and balance—much like the harmonious compositions of Vermeer’s paintings themselves.

[saydesole]

Black Disco Musicians

Happy Black History Is Everyday✊🏿

Donna Summer 1948-2012

Sylvester 1947-1988

Gloria Gaynor Living

Slave band 1975-1996(Band and Disband)

Loleatta Holloway 1946-2011

Hamilton Bohannon 1942-2020

Chic group 1972

Ashford and Ashely (Nick Ashford 1974-2011) Val is still living

[delphic-oracle-cat]

Genuinely ancient doodle from the dawn of time (6 months ago) that I thought was funny