yknow i’ve been hearing the whole “there is no war in ba sing se” for literally ten years and still I wasn’t prepared for how sinister the city is!
god i absolutely love what they did here because it just further emphasizes the importance the show places on balance.
the city is the stubborn steadfastness of earth taken to its awful extreme: rules are rigid, social position is unchangeable, authority is absolute. this is what unchecked earth looks like.
it’s the same with the other elements. unchecked, the passion and drive of fire becomes the fire nation’s horrifying forever-war imperialism, the community-focus and adaptability of water becomes Hama’s trauma-driven crusade against the whole fire nation. even the free-flowing nature of air, the way it can find its way around obstacles, becomes Aang’s difficulty with facing his problems and feelings head-on.
none of the elements are bad! the only bad is in locking yourself so much into one kind of thinking that you can’t see the wisdom in others! gosh what a great moral!
“Ice Cave” by Georgia O’Keeffe and a photograph of an ice cave.
yeah Georgia? that’s an ice cave ? that’s a god damn ice cave? that’s the only thing you intended to paint? that’s it? just an ice cave?
all of georgia okeefes art is like this dont act surprised
It Really Is.
Staff seeing this:
i hate to ruin everyone’s fun BUT you guys are so annoying. georgia o’keeffe very specifically stated how much she hated it when people, especially men, sexualized her art. male art critics pushed the interpretation of her artwork as sexual onto her and it upset her VERY deeply:
“When people read erotic symbols into my paintings they’re really talking about their own affairs,” O’Keeffe said. Still, the sexualized misconceptions of her work devastated her. “I almost wept,” she wrote of one review in 1921.
now, because of some immature dudes in the art community, her work has been sexualized forever, and her paintings are now sexual objects. so like…making pussy jokes about her artwork isn’t just annoying, it’s disrespectful to everything she worked for, and it’s like rubbing her legacy in her face.
also “all of her paintings are like that” is just plain wrong. she did a series of extreme close ups of flowers (which is where these paintings come from) but that was just one series of paintings
she also loved painting landscapes, and was particularly inspired by desert landscapes in new mexico:
she also painted bones, particularly skulls. like flowers, she was inspired by the abstract shapes that bones make:
her artwork is extremely cool and she deserves to have a legacy other than “flowers”
Good all these insensitive ass idiots on this post saying “oh but I still think all her paintings are vaginas lol!!!” after the explanation were driving me into a frenzy
Wasn’t it her estranged or ex or something husband who first started the “hehe its a vagina” thing to slander her?
