What is going on with the onlookers?! Why are they there?
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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In a word: orientalism. This art movement was predicated on the exoticism and “othering” of subject matter and the bystanders serve as a proxy for the audience of the art itself.
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Welcome! I should have linked the wiki but here you go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
Edward Said’s Orientalism is a real slog to read, but definitely the foundational academic work on this, if your interest is piqued.
Orientalism wasn't an art movement, the picture is in "academic" style.
IMO your interpretation can be put in a more straightforward/blunt way: the painting is basically pornography built upon cheap cultural stereotypes. (And it really is bizarre that this sort of garbage art gets upvoted to much, simply because it has an air of refinement around itself that excuses its clearly pornographic character.)
And it really is bizarre that this sort of garbage art gets upvoted to much, simply because it has an air of refinement around itself that excuses its clearly pornographic character.
Maybe we're just upvoting it because we enjoy pornography...lol.
Well, I guess that would be fair, as long as we don't confuse sexual appeal with artistic value. (Saying this in particular due to a poster guy ITT who said an another poster critical of the painting should "get some culture".) But the fact that it is posted on an art sublemmy and not some NSFW sublemmy, suggests that the confusion has occurred.
But the fact that it is posted on an art sublemmy and not some NSFW sublemmy, suggests that the confusion has occurred.
Lol. Great point.
Now I find myself contemplating how long one could theoretically go with a daily cross-post that technically fit the rules of both this and at least one NSFW community...I wonder if they would ever run out of eligible art pieces...
This is sad. It's basically a figure study in 4 parts. Go back and slap whomever you paid for your degree.
It’s basically a figure study in 4 parts.
Maybe you should slap your ophthalmologist instead. You're acting as if the picture does not represent what it literally represents, or as if it does not have the effect that it clearly does have and which it also intended to have. I won't argue any further against denial of reality.
The onlookers look like attendants of the guests.
Once the hookah is lit, they hold little panels with a note based on how well she did. The note count towards her global performance evaluation.
Nothing but vibes.
Man I wanna be chill like that
1898
But when I strip naked inside a shisha bar...
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
And yet I STILL don't have a frosty to dip my penis in!
"Description: Erroneous visions of the Eastern/oriental woman, historically seen only as a sexual object by the white man"
Ah yes. It was exclusively white men that saw women as sexual objects.
In the orientalism movement, lead by Europeans, wich this art is from, yes.
Sorry for you, I do not make the history.
If you are unease with arts and the story behinds, don't go to museums...
Why is she hunched over the thing in an awkward position? Why not simply hold the mouthpiece in your hand like you're supposed to?
She's blowing at the embers to get them to catch.