There’s so many things that are wrong with this. “Boycott Starbucks and go back every day” loooooooool
omg
It just goes to show how detatched republicans are that they don’t even know the basics of protesting. Then again they think peaceful protests are riots.
teacher: write a 5 page essay analyzing this
me: it’s not that deep 🏊🏼
I swear to god they’re so dramatic. Even in art history they read into what an apple or fly means like BICH maybe they’re just in the painting chilling. Y DOES IT NEED A MEANING
Yo, makes me laugh that you say this. Because you’re actually right
At the time artists started painting still life (early renaissance), painters didn’t bother with meanings at all. It was a technical exercise. Seeing how good their techniques were
But painting is expensive as fuck and you gotta pay for pigments and shit, so you had to be able to sell your shitty still life, to the people who pay for your pigments and shit. But they didn’t want still life paintings, because it was… just food….. They wanted Jesus and bible scenes and such. Not apples and shit. Because rich people loved religion. And were pretentious as fuck. Why have an apple painting at home when you can have men freaking out over zombie Jesus
So artists were like ok, see, you don’t get it. The apple refers to the original sin, and all the fruits represent your wealth and such. But the skull’s there to remind you that your wealth doesn’t matter, you’ll die someday anyway
Because that was a popular thing at the time, being rich but having symbolic stuff that remind you that you’ll die someday despite being rich. Rich people were weird. And pretentious
So painters BULLSHITTED all that symbolic stuff around the things they put in their still life paintings to make the boring painting exercises appealing to the gullible (and pretentious) rich people that commissioned them. And rich people gobbled it aaaalllllll up
And that’s how we still have still life paintings from most famous renaissance artists today and that they’re in such good condition, because still life paintings became THE shit amongst rich people and they bought them and kept them at home. Instead of remaining stuck in a dusty, shitty painting workshop, to be forgotten beneath tons of other stuff and rot
And there was this whole lexicon and symbolism dictionary created around still life paintings at the time, like each object was meant to represent something and there began to be conventions and stuff
But they only ever were technical painting exercises
Hello there! Like it says on the laziest banner ever (listen I’m not gonna spend four hours in photoshop for the banner, gotta grind some lootboxes myself) - this is a Winter Wonderland/Holiday Lootbox giveaway! ‘tis the season and whatnot (..even if I don’t celebrate Christmas myself. Still.)
so!
PRIZES
1ST PLACE - 50 holiday loot boxes!
2ND PLACE - 24 holiday loot boxes!
3RD PLACE - 11 holiday loot boxes!
Pretty simple.
and onto the rules -
RULES
- You don’t have to follow me, but, it’d be appreciated.
- One like, one reblog each. (Psst - there’s no point in reblogging more than once, anyways! Tumblr only ever shows one reblog from you. It doesn’t change your odds.)
- RNG decides who wins, not me. Don’t be mean to whoever wins if you don’t.
- You have to have your ask or your IMs open so I can contact you should you win.
- Gotta be willing to give me your email address so I can email you the gift card codes.
- You have 24 hours to respond to my message, if you don’t, I’ll pick someone else.
This will be running from December 13th-December 26th.
