Yeah, it could totally be a Boston album cover.
Right, it's probably quite large to many people.
The site was in French, and while the title was "Raboteurs de parquet," I took the liberty of giving the translation my best effort since Parquet is a word in both French and English. In English it means a design on a floor made with wood. It can also mean a small space. And it seemed like in French it was kinda both of those things (even though they're not making a design, so I probably misunderstood something along the way). I think the title is more of a pun than I was able to convey. Of course, I could've just left it as Parquet, but I wanted it to be accessible to everyone and not require knowledge of such an obscure word.
Anyway, all that is to say: You have every right to be jealous of the size of the apartment with how bad things are for everyone right now - and back in 1875 this "small" apartment was probably much cheaper than it would be today. But no offense was intended, and the artist - while being bourgeois elite, only meant to show the lives of the working class - a common trait among impressionists, expressionists and generally art of the industrial revolution.
This work, though one of Manet's most successful, may in fact be a critique of art at the time.
Manet made no attempt to hide the fact that the artist was painted in the studio, surrounded by props. The guitar is strung for (and emphasized with the fretboard layout) to be for a right-handed player, even though the musician is holding it as if he were left-handed. He also appears to be unfamiliar with the configuration of the strings, as emphasized by his awkward stance and odd finger-placement being a focus of the backlighting. Also, this singer is of no importance, cleverly hidden by the fact that Paris was experiencing a popularity of Spanish culture of the time.
In 1860 new works were being created that were shunned by the traditional art community which valued dull colors, recognizable subjects, and painting indoors among other things. Here, Manet is disguising his distaste of these traditions in such a way that those that valued the old ways enjoyed the work, and those that opposed it were keenly aware of the statement it was making.
It would be 3 years later that the Salon of the Rejected was put on at the behest of Napoleon, where the works of artists like Monet were finally seen by a public ready for something new. This work is uncommonly expressive and an achievement of one of the forebearers of Impressionism.
On behalf of Gnorv, yes. I have made sure multiple times that my NSFW filter is off. I have only seen an occasional NSFW - like One per month, and it's never porn - even when I browse by New.
Please Help.
An aspect of art that's worth considering is composition - how things exist in relation to each other.
The artist must choose how to place things to invite your eye to explore the painting.
For me it was the face, then the titty, then I started noticing the birds. At first thinking the lady was the "bird" to which the title refers.
And all the birds are doing pretty crazy things, but they're only seen if you spend time exploring it. I'm not saying it's bad or good, but something to consider.
Sauce for the wavy key?
Are we still doing "sauce" in Lemmy? It seems a little passe now.
It's not even back two. There's a glitch that reloads your default page because if you refresh it will take you to the correct page.
Not sure I follow your meaning, friend.
So once upon a time, America was a place where anyone could come to get a good job. In fact, if you were walking down the street in the middle of the day, someone would stop you and say, "Come work here, please." Practically begging you to get benefits, a pension, and you could buy a house on your salary.
This is because manufacturing was a huge part of the post-WW2 booming American economy, they needed bodies to run the machines, and you didn't have to know anything or be specially trained, you could just go in and start being productive on day one. Shows like Mad Men, where a bunch of men were sitting around, getting paid to think, that was far more rare than it is today. Most people did something in a factory or warehouse.
Then, international trade became increasingly cheaper. Then countries with poor human rights (ie slaves) were able to undercut companies who were using an American workforce to produce the same product. As execs cut costs to keep up, the workforce became more opinionated, some forming unions, which increased the cost of labor. So beginning in the 60's and 70's, they started moving all the manufacturing overseas to areas with cheaper labor. My parents were from Baltimore, they and their parents and everyone they knew had all worked at Bethlehem Steel at Sparrow's Point (a mill producing steel) almost their entire lives. In the 70's they started decreasing the workforce, then it got sold to a German company, who moved most of the operations overseas, and by the 90's my grandparents were basically forced into retirement with a great pension and health insurance, as guaranteed by their union.
Oddly enough this is exactly what happened with the great recession in 2008: overseas companies started offering less-regulated investment opportunities, this put pressure on our own oversight to deregulate - which they did. Then American businesses started packaging more and more risky home loans (called sub-prime loans), and investors were buying them at prime rates because home loans were such a sure thing.
I remember from my life, in a suburb of DC, when a poor family moved into the neighborhood. They had habits that we were not familiar with, to put it politely, and they kinda stuck out like a sore thumb. They only lasted a few months, then got foreclosed on. Basically what had happened was there was pressure on banks for more home loans, so they started offering loans to people who couldn't normally afford a house, and probably didn't fully understand the implications of a home loan. The bank probably just told them "Free Money!" and they said ok. But then they couldn't pay, and this happened so often everyone probably remembers something like this happening around that time.
So anyway, globalization has caused these small towns that used to house workers for a factory to become frozen. Usually around the time the mill closes or massive layoffs happen, workers will move to greener pastures, businesses that relied on them will close, leaving the town in whatever state it's in. And that's why you see so many towns exactly like what OP is describing.
Have you heard the good word?
I feel this.
I would save so much money if I had enough time to cook.
*$80 for a $10 2-person meal (if you made it yourself probably)