I found this ghastling art on twitter I liked and I asked if I could use it as long as a credit them and they said yes art made by @lodddd__ on twitter
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People like you and Accidental_Kills98 are perfect examples of “Read first”. You are always getting new pictures.
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awww so cute!!! 
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Is that… Kasane Teto on there? (Some Miku-style vocaloid mascot, I don’t know much else other than she exists.)
Regardless, perfect. Adorable. Amazing. Your vibe. 
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You know, just now I was so tempted to use that image as a profile pic, but because Teto’s head is just so heckin BIG in that image, it draws the eye way more when it’s a teeny tiny image, so it would look way more like I’ve changed my brand to Teto-lover intead of chicken-lover. 
Ah well!
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Easy become both
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Maybe become a restaurant.
You already know what I’m talking about, but in case you don’t:
It’s a nice one, don’t you think?
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@The_Elite_Institute what have you done…?
Jokes aside, I never thought you would open hand of your profile picture that made it to the game. The FCs batches were my first contact with the HMF.
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That profile image actually happened because of the FCs! @v1deost knocked it up for my batch, and then I put it as my avatar image. This is the one I had since I joined:
This new one is only going to be temporary since I think the Agent 47 mash-up fit better on the HMF. However, I’m happy with a new piece of artwork that @v1deost did for me that I had to show it off
Here’s the full image:
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Didn’t know @v1deost did arts for other people too! I might request some myself…
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She did my current and last avatars for HMF. I’m really happy with them, and would happily recommend her as well.
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I did! I’m very excited now
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I want to commission her again, too. She did a great job with my bear boi a couple of years ago.
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Blue Poles (Number 11,1952) - Jackson Pollock
Blue Poles Beyond The Black Stump - The Politically Charged History of the Blue Poles
No country has a greater need than Australia, remote as we are from the great galleries of the world, to acquire works of art from other nations and civilisations … Overseas galleries have always recognised that the function of any gallery other than the most provincial is to offer a comprehensive view of world culture. - Gough Whitlam, Former Prime Minister
Right I am going to be honest with you, a lot of things have gotten in the way of me writing my customary write up so I am just going to spare you the florid words and be brief.
Whitlam was and will forever be Australia’s most progressive and forward thinking prime minister and in a collaboration with the National Gallery embarked on what you can call a spending spree buying up pieces of art and acquiring more vernacular pieces of art from Indigenous tribes in order to foster a world class art institute in the hopes that we could put ourselves on the cutting edge of culture and reverse our image of a parochial nation isolated on a watery nowhere.
The sort of keystone, flagship artpiece of this scheme to foster some taste in this nation was the 1.3 million dollar acquisition of this work by Pollock from a collector of his work in New York using money that came directly from the Prime Minister’s authorisation since the Gallery couldn’t sign off on it. The cost was prohibitive at the time, we are talking about a piece of work that had to be moved by popping out the penthouse windows of the owners apartment.
It was incredibly divisive, on the one hand you had people who understood the assignment and the need there was for world class galleries in the nation and then you had a contingent of people who thought spending what is now 11 million AUD for a painting was wasteful and a sign of the Whitlam administration’s chronic monetary issues (even though it was the fucking Seventies and every nation was doing it tough.) and others simply didn’t like the painting not helped by the fact that the Liberal leader at the time was a member of a classicist and figurative painting appreciation society.
Anyway Whitlam might have been removed from power thanks to the backstabbing Liberals but this painting still remains in the NGA for all to see having appreciated in value to the point that the painting is now worth in excess of 300 million AUD and surviving everything from attempts to sell it for farmer relief funds (a National Party idea, AKA a bad one) to a complete restoration during the COVID years.
If you want a more substantitive history on this piece including interpretations of the piece, a breakdown of Pollock’s process in the making of the work and various further materials on the reactions to the work and its now storied acquisitions history here is the NGA’s site for the work.
You may need to click on the page to dismiss the land acknowledgement that pops up. And here is the NMA (National Museum of Australia) that serves as a good primer for the contemporary reactions to the painting.
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June is still going to be de Lempicka as the combined Pride and Art Deco centennial celebration, Canada won that poll so thanks for engaging. It will probably be something from the Group of Seven, a nice treatise on modern art and the development of national pride in Canada.
The only thing they celebrate in August that is remotely interesting is the Feast of the Transfiguration but there is no art of that event in the modern day that interests me. August is most likely going to be a free space unless somebody has a recommendation they would like to make.
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Not even close resemblance. After 45 days I decided to put a grim reaper because I have this thing with Grim Reapers.
It’s different enough but still i have to say: Not to be confused with @Grim47
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