the_jabberwock:
Turner was a true master of light. His own vision failing may have given rise to this. His son was tasked with both acquiring and mixing the paints. The significance of the painting is that it shows a once glorious wooden ship that had been in the Admiralty for over 40 years was now being towed to its graveyard along the River Thames to Rotherhithe in south-east London. This was the dawn of the Industrial Age, giving way to steam. The painting was accompanied by lines from a Thomas Campbell poem, Ye mariners of England: 'The flag which braved the battle and the breeze, No longer owns her'. Poignant as 2022 gives way to 2023. A great choice to cap the end of the year off @arseniccookie.
arseniccookie:
@the_jabberwock Thank you for enlightening me on the background of the painting. I am more of a enthusiast than a scholar when it comes to paintings.
C.C. Baxter: The mirror... it's broken.
Fran Kubelik: Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.
skisby:
Very cool, love the built-in’s & no yard work!
'Swede' Andersen: Why did you ever go back to him, Kitty?
Kitty Collins: Maybe because I hate him. I'm poison, Swede, to myself and everybody around me! I'd be afraid to go with anyone I love for the harm I do to them! I don't care harming him!
samis:
💐💐
Mary: He's making violent love to me, Mother!
a01020201:
100% translation lol
Sugar: I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.
Joe: Where did he conduct?
Sugar: On the Baltimore and Ohio.
rare:
That's my new set he-he!
Frank Cross: I never liked a girl well enough to give her twelve sharp knives.
Women of Amphissa by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
samis:
Art!! 💖💖