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“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.
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/59249/
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
i have to reblog this again because ugggh.
THIS is how you do it. this is how break down a people. like the beginning. strip them of their language, along with everything else that makes them who they are.
and then they are yours.
😞
White colonizers are evil
people in america think afrikaans IS the native language
but it’s actually mostly dutch and a little german. that’s why my translator friend picked it up in only a year from his native language, german.
then again, a lot of americans think africa is a country, not a continent, so
For anyone wondering what we mean by “decolonizing” ourselves, this is it. It’s the effort of undoing centuries of beating our own cultures out of us.
Learning our ancestral languages, cultures, and traditions is an important but very difficult thing for us to be able to do.
This is why I refuse to listen to ANYONE that says I must stop speaking my language around them.
God Bless him for remembering what he could.
This reminds me of how my Grandmother whose Nigerian told me that her mother had been an “Idol Worshipper” because she believed in her Native Religion and not the Christianity of British Nigeria. She told me how her mother was criticized and looked down upon for “following an unrighteous path.” She said that she had been taught Christianity in school eventually convinced her mother to find Christ and how much better off her mother was after she gave up “Idol Worshipping”. My grandmother had meant for it to be some kind lesson so that I , an agnostic, would finally find Christ, but all in was disgusted at how my great grandmother was criticized for her beliefs until she was converted to a religion that she didn’t even believe in by her own daughter.
Imperialism and Colonization not only stripped us of our culture, but convinced us that it was wrong and sinful and that they were doing us a favor by taking it from us.