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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

It never was that deep

I love this post bc I majored in Art History I was always saying, “Maybe they just liked pears” and shit and my professors were always so mad at me.

Reminds me in college, I took a field trip with my advanced art class to the Art Museum. And I kid you not, there was legit a plank of wood spraypainted black in one of the exhibits. IT WAS JUST AN AVERAGE  PLANK OF WOOD SPRAYPAINTED BLACK. 

And the tour guide asks what they think the meaning behind this ‘piece of art’ is and I had to just walk away and look at different paintings because I wanted to tell him that that was just a piece of wood that someone might have just dropped in. My classmates were too excited to just make up their own symbolism for the piece. To this day the salt inside my heart awakens when I think about that STUPID PIECE OF FRICKEN WOOD. ITS A PLANK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUPEOPLE!?

i wonder what the crazy person who bought my watercolor painting thought I was thinking, cause literally it was only created cause we were one piece short for the art show…

Damn apparently I just need to take up painting instead of writing and bullshit the meanings later. That seems WAY more way and profitable than trying to weave symbolism into character growth and exposition and dialogue.

i should just throw paint by the bucket onto a canvas and call it art