my favorite part of impressionism is when artists just hung out and painted each other painting. 

oil paint isnt cheap, but john singer sargent wanted to paint his homie claude havin a nice day. thats sweet.

and heres gaugin’s painting of van gogh painting the sunflowers. damn he knew it would be #iconic and he memorialized the event. what a good friend

my favorite part of impressionism is when artists just hung out and painted each other painting. 

oil paint isnt cheap, but john singer sargent wanted to paint his homie claude havin a nice day. thats sweet.

and heres gaugin’s painting of van gogh painting the sunflowers. damn he knew it would be #iconic and he memorialized the event. what a good friend

one thing me n my art loving gf would do is visit galleries and play a game called “root, loot or boot” 

the gist is that you would look at a group of paintings in a room and decide which figure in the painting you’d root (fuck, in Australian slang), which painting you’d loot (steal and put on your wall at home) and which painting you’d boot (punt into the garbage because it’s shit and Not Art)

a couple of things about my experiences:

1. this game is a lot more fun if you’re attracted to women because there’s so many Hot Gals to choose from 

2. if you are attracted to men, you will spend a lot of time going “well, looks like I’ll have to pick jesus again” as my bi gf did

3. it gets more complicated in modern art museums and you find yourself having saying, “I’d fuck the rhombus” “you CAN’T fuck the rhombus” “then I’ll fuck that blue squiggle thing. what’s it called?” “creeping existential dread in blue” “then does that mean I’m fucking the squiggle or am I getting fucked by the existential dread it represents?” “aren’t we all already getting fucked by existential dread?”

4. if you play this with an art history nerd, they may decide to kill you over one of your “boot” choices

5. you will get Disapproving Looks from other patrons who overhear your heated debates

6. it’s also the best fun you’ll ever have in an art gallery

hey friends! just a little PSA. i’ve been seeing people share this painting:

and i just want to make sure everyone was aware that this painting is entitled “saturn devouring his son” (emphasis added). the painting represents a greek myth in which the greek god cronus/saturn devours one of his own offspring! in other words, this is a painting of familial cannibalism! if saturn were devouring his wife or other romantic partner I wouldn’t be making this post - romantic cannibalism is healthy and good! - but he is devouring his son. please stay safe and remember that cannibalism should only be practiced between romantic partners!

my favorite part of impressionism is when artists just hung out and painted each other painting. 

oil paint isnt cheap, but john singer sargent wanted to paint his homie claude havin a nice day. thats sweet.

and heres gaugin’s painting of van gogh painting the sunflowers. damn he knew it would be #iconic and he memorialized the event. what a good friend

my favorite part of impressionism is when artists just hung out and painted each other painting. 

oil paint isnt cheap, but john singer sargent wanted to paint his homie claude havin a nice day. thats sweet.

and heres gaugin’s painting of van gogh painting the sunflowers. damn he knew it would be #iconic and he memorialized the event. what a good friend