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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.
Nothing but vibes.
But when I strip naked inside a shisha bar…
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
What is going on with the onlookers?! Why are they there?
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.
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.
This is sad. It’s basically a figure study in 4 parts. Go back and slap whomever you paid for your degree.
Thank you for your response!
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.
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.
Man I wanna be chill like that
1898
“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…
Can we get a NSFW tag for these please? I don’t want people thinking that I jackoff to 1800s oil paintings of naked women.
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
If you’re cis white male, this behaviour is severely frowned upon. The police will just ask you all to do better, and then arrest the brown guy for watching a muckbang vid
No but you can get some culture if you let go of your backwards ass hyperconservative mindset.
Pornography is not suddenly a great and important piece of culture just because it was nicely painted with a brush a long time ago. It is still pornography.
What do you mean by “getting some culture”? You mean perhaps studying art history? Because I guarantee countless artists, art historians and critics would deny this painting has much cultural value. The whole style has been heavily and justifiably derired. If anything, what is conservative here is the painting’s view of women (painted according to the sexual tastes of rich European men) and stereotypical treatment of foreign culture.
LOL, k.
