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Trippin' Through Time

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your expertise, Dr Boob

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What, yours aren’t?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

She's just Netflix and Chillin.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, are you going to smoke shisha with your top on ?

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Tits out for Harambe.

[–] shplane@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

I wish I looked that good

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For a hot second, I thought something was really wrong with her left leg

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Turned into hair 😔

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Her posture says, "Bonjour", but her face is so blank, it's eerie. She needs to put on pajamas and go touch grass, but she doesn't care enough.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the painting is called "femme au narguile", or "woman with a hookah"... so shes likely stoned out of her mind.

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Haven't smoked hookah in years and seeing this made my mouth water

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Relaxed, tits totally calm, in my lane.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's a nice painting. Anyone knows the author?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Author?

I believe it's "Netflix and chill" by Leonardo de Michaelangelo.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was a world before that and that painting is part of it.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That world is gone and so will ours in time.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Well, death is the guaranteed thing.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

You get this painting when you connect the dots in Pollocks Number 18

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was probably the porn of that era.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're gonna get downvotes, but based on going down a wikipedia rabbit hole and branching out from there a bit, it looks like you're not entirely off base. It's Femme Au Narguile ("Woman with Hookah") from 1878 by Fernand Cormon. Especially early on, he was known for sensationalism in his state-sponsored works, including many bloody battles. After, he seems to have gone deep into "French Orientalism" which, 60+ years on from Napoleon, was gaining a reputation for being kind of emptily erotic. He did a lot of paintings of titillating ladies, often topless, some of them just straight-up harem scenes. Femme Au Narguile seems to exist mostly as a print for artsy stoners to buy, LOL.

Cormon was fairly well known in his day, but his work never made a huge impact on its own, and it looks like his legacy is more as a teacher than anything else. Whatever source Wiki pulled from was fuckin' brutal about his death as an old man: "[H]e was almost forgotten by 1924 when he was run over by a taxi outside his studio, and is barely remembered today save as the teacher of pupils more illustrious than himself."

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

You probably had to be quite determined to get run over by a taxi in 1924.

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago
[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's Edina Monsoon. She'd been out shopping with Patsy on the Bolly & Stoli all day