Actually several profile pictures in the HMF tricked me, so it’s probably some Forum curse.
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A Peaceful Retreat - “Thomas Kinkade”
Bestselling, Most Galleries, Better Than Hitler and Other Middling Forms of Compliments: On The "Painter of Light"
(DON’T LOOK AT YOUR DATE!) So Thomas Kinkade is going to be this months artist. I know I said I would doing Corita Kent but I also thought the pope was going to die so here we are. (DON’T LOOK AT YOUR DATE) This was originally going to be a whole thing but who fucking cares about the very garish pseudo-luminist dreck this man produced? Only grandmas and your weird conservative relatives you only see at the worst possible family gatherings.
We are talking about an artist in service to God so long as you don’t harbour too high an opinion on the word “artist” and in so much as an alcoholic, lecherous adulterer who once pissed on Disneyland to “assert his dominance over Disney” is as a man of God as you are.
We are talking about an artist who didn’t paint people in his works until 2009 because he most likely had difficulty in painting them, even Hitler occasionally painted a person in his works (He wasn’t good at it either). We are talking about a guy whose studio operates like a cross between Subway and a TV home shopping channel but for crappy art instead of Japanese kitchen knives, convection ovens and smokeless ashtrays.
A lot of people have wasted their precious time in trying to understand this man and his work and why anybody would even like them but nobody will ever know why your 99 year old aunt Ida gets Setndhal Syndrome from seeing these pastel mishmashes of light, sentimentality and pastels.
And yes he trademarked his nickname of “Painter of Light” despite the fact that other American artists had been doing it centuries before he even picked up a brush.
Merry April Fool’s you guys.
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Cool painting of the Freelancer safehouse. ;jk
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Do you have one profile picture per month?
I try but sometimes it will just not change it for a while. Technically there will be two this month and this will be an April Fool’s. My real PFP for April will come on the third.
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Make it on the fifth.
Why the fifth? I am only doing this as a joke, I want to change ASAP.
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Because it’s my birthday
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Man you deserve all the best on my birthday but I am not keeping my PFP as a fucking Tom Kinkade painting for that long.
I have to have standards, you know?
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I know, just joking. Do what you gotta do.
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that they may have life - Sis. Fraces “Corita” Kent
To See God In Everything: Corita Kent and Catholic Pop Art
“O sublime humility! O humble sublimity! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble himself like this and hide under the form of a little bread, for our salvation.” - St Francis of Assisi
So this very Andy Warhol like piece must be a surprise to see given it comes from a woman who spent a good portion of her early and mature period of her career as a nun in a convent. Kent’s work is, in terms of the theology I know little about, from a time around the Vatican II as well as the believe that perhaps maybe this nearly 2000 year old institution might actually have been liberalising a bit.
Kent’s work mostly dealing in reproductions of logos and slogans you see in the supermarket, collages taken from current periodicals on the leading humanitarians of her day and large text-only pieces based around observations on humanity by people associated with social justice and/or the Catholic faith. This piece was just before she had left her convent in Los Angeles due to backlash against her work in Christmas cards and for personal reasons.
But enough about the Church we have more important matters to discuss like the specifics of this work.
So the first and most immediate though in your head if you are an American is “Wow this looks almost like the packaging for Wonder Bread” and you would be correct. So now that we have established we are talking about bread we can obviously make a big connection between the piece and the artists.
The white circular dots draw a link between Wonder Bread and communion wafers, thin slices of bread that are given out in Catholic Mass as an approximation of the Transubstantiation of Jesus (when he Dr. Manhattaned himself into bread and wine before dying for our sins). And thus we can also understand that the broad and wide distribution of white bread something unheard of in the time of Christ is compared to a sort of global communion that we are all taking part in. A universalisation of a very sacred and revered act.
Naturally the big block letter that reads “Enriched Bread” also help in proving my point, so too is Wonder Bread “enriched” by the miracles of modern food preservatives and baking techniques so too is the communion wafer as it is blessed by the higher powers. We see the very secular occurrence of sliced white bread contrasted with the wafers used in holy communion.
However the actual text articles you can see in the bottom corner paint a different story, the story of those who hunger and thirst even as we are surrounded by plenty.
The first bit of text is a quote from a miner’s wife in Kentucky “It’s bad you don’t know what to do when you’ve got five children standing around crying for something to eat and you don’t know where to get it, and you don’t know which way to start to get it. I just get nervous or something” and the other is a quote from Gandhi stating “There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
So yeah again we can see a connection between the spiritual importance and necessity of communion while also being a sobering remind about people who want in a time of surfeit.
I mean this is a very simple and easy to understand piece which is good because I don’t have to do a lot of intellectually heavy lifting, you get exactly what you see.
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So May is still going to be the Blue Poles unless the election pisses me off so much I do something else or throw myself into the Torrens with a brick tied to each leg.
June is going to be both Pride Month and a celebration of two centuries of Art Deco with a covering of Tamara de Lempicka’s work in automotive painting.
Also if you are an American please spare a thought for you local museum and/or library, the Orangutan in Chief has basically gutted the ministry responsible for both institutions (because lord knows cutting the three million dollar budget of a branch of government that earns fifty billion back is good business) and has seen fit to launch attacks on institutions such as the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. Donate, visit or do whatever you like because actually going out and learning things is how you best combat the sort on intellectual paucity and rabid ignorance that gets morons like the Munted Mango in office.
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Right so July has three national days and I want you to pick who to represent.
- Do an American because I haven’t had enough Americans as it is.
- Do a French artist because everybody loves the French.
- Do a Canadian because I like making your life difficult.
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Just tagging @Codename-24 and @LandirtHome in case they want to revisit for the poll.
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Do a Canadian because they’re the ones making the most sense right now.
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New picture with an image of a face divided in two half. On the left side, Adam Jensen and on the right side Agent 47.
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Oh my God… They have a profile picture… HMF is changed forever
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I remember, only briefly and vaguely, when you had a “face,” @Gates57. Welcome back.
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Never thought i would see @Lewisnic1 with a new profile picture
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I saw that picture of 47 from Blood Money pop on my social media so I thought I’m having that! 
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