if you hated pink and/or blue as a kid because of the forced implication of rigid gendering of things that you knew you didn’t want to be a part of and as a kid you took it out on the colour but were able to embrace the colour(s) divorced from the bullshit as you grew up and were able to make your own choices about colour and now feel much more free to like pink and/or blue clap your hands
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Cat by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907, Guggenheim Museum
Size: 6.8x15.8 cm
Medium: WoodcutThe Hilla von Rebay Foundation, On extended loan to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529–1592), Portrait of a Lady with a Dog, between 1565 and 1569, Galleria dei dipinti antichi della Fondazione e della Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena, source
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[Self-Portrait with Wife and Two Daughters] by John Adams Whipple, The Met’s Photography Department
Medium: DaguerreotypeGilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Children with a mousetrap by Domenicus van Tol, Museum of the Netherlands
Kinderen met een muizenval. In een stenen venster met gordijn houdt een jongetje in zijn linkerhand een muizenval omhoog, met zijn rechterarm houdt hij een kat vast. Naast hem een meisje die naar de val wijst, achter haar een huilende jongen. Voor het venster een plant in een pot.
Lobster, 1495, Albrecht Durer
Medium: watercolor, paper
Old 19th century books with marbled page edges
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In ballet dressing room (Big ballerinas), 1922, Zinaida Serebriakova
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There Came to my Window, Illustration by Henriette Villebeek Le Mair
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Evening reverie (nocturnal slumber), 1898, Alphonse Mucha
Night and Evening from the The Four Times of the Day decorative poster series.
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
Here’s my collection of the most interesting vintage monkeys I’ve encountered through the course of my research.
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Medieval hats and hairstyles from Ruth Turner Wilcox’s The Mode in Hats and Headdress: A Historical Survey with 198 Plates.
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