paintings
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Tumblr is dying
And these images are why Tumblr is still broken, dying 6 weeks later AND the appeals process is bullshit. Some of you might know about Tumblr’s laughable attempt to expunge adult contentfrom their system using AI. That I moved the really ‘adult’ and pron-tastic ‘Retire To The Parlour’ blog to this server as a result.
I appealed all these laughable ‘adult’ tags and they are STILL not sorted. According to Tumblr’s own new TOS, drawings, artworks and illustrations of nudity are fine. Doesn’t stop them still flagging my life drawings as ‘porn’ though.Even in the one photographhere, there is NO genitalia shown, apart from one that you’d need a magnifying glass to see anything!. It’s a photo of a male sauna, so any ‘obscenity’ is in the eye of the beholder, there is no sex happening there.
Really, Tumblr is full of shit.
They promised the bot would get ‘better’ on our dime as WE taught our censor masters as the test dataset of our work. Originally the system flagged a completely dressed man in a bowler hat and a close-up of a Holbein painting. Arbeit macht frei, indeed. Fuck off Tumblr, your censor bot is a mistake. It still doesn’t work, and your appeal system still leaves perfectly fine artworks and photos on the chopping block.
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Male Nude Against a Summer Lakeside Panorama
Love this amazing painting from Eduard Stiefel, 1919. “Herrenakt vor sommerlicher Seekulisse” (Male Nude Against a Summer Lakeside Panorama).”
At first glance I thought the muted palette was watercolour, but no, I think it’s oils. Wow. (via Academic Nudes of the 19th Century blog) -
Max Slevogt in the garden
If you said there was something very Cezanne or Manet about this painting, you’d be correct at least in the latter case, he was influenced by Manet.
Max Slevogt, Self-Portrait in the garden at Godramstein, 1910. More info here.
In later life his style became much more loose, more stucco. Like my favourite print of his: -
Max Slevogt bowler self-portrait
Returning more to the blog’s main theme, here’s a self-portrait from German impressionist painter Max Slevogt, 1913 ‘Selbstbildnis Mit Schwarzem Hut’ which roughly translated is ‘Self-portrait with black hat’ – of course a bowler.
Doesn’t look like he’s that fond of the city? More info here. -
Another academic nude, this time a painting. No info.
If I ever write a novel, this would be the perfect cover!
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An old photo of a formless ghost I reblogged is being flagged! This is madness.
Oh… and a painting of hands
-a photograph of some woods
-a Rossetti painting
-a Gericault painting of a fully clothed painter
– a picture of a living room,
-George IV riding a horse
-an illustration from Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge
-a midshipman’s uniform
-a window
I’ll add these have been flagged on this very blog:
– A fully clothed picture of a Victorian man in a top hat
– Two Holbein portraits. He only did clothed people and faces!
– A photo of Matisse drawing a naked male abstract greek statue, a Kouros. Not sexual at all.
– Two men wrestling in shorts – that was an illustration too
– A drawing of Nietzsche naked but no genitalia shown
– A life drawing of a man but again no genitalia shown
– Nicoletto da Modena etching of a Triton (again, not even a human bottom half so no genitalia)
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Portrait of a Man with a Moor’s Head on His Signet Ring by Conrad Faber von Creuznach, European Paintings
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1912
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Portrait of a Man with a Black-Plumed Hat by Corneille de Lyon, European Paintings
The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Second portrait of Pietro Aretino by Tiziano (1545)
Pitti Palace, Florence
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Codpiece
ab. 1546 Attr. to Hans Eworth – Portrait of an unknown man in red
Nice codpiece, very subtle and elegant