Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918) • The Family • 1918 • Belvedere Gallery, Vienna.
This painting remained unfinished. Schiele died from the Spanish flu. Sadly, his wife, Edith, who was six months pregnant, died three days before him.
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Fashions of the Early 1830s: Large Hats and Leg-o-Mutton Sleeves
I was obsessed with Victorian era fashion for way too long! Let's jump back a few years and take a look at what royals and high-society women were wearing from 1830 to about 1836.
Vincente López Portaña (Spanish, 1772–1850) • Maria Cristina de Bourbon, Queen of Spain (fourth wife of Fernando VII) • 1830 • Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
The style of the blue gown above is in keeping with Romantic era fashion, with its elbow-length puff sleeves with lace trim and pleated bodice. For formal attire, long gloves were worn.
The Maria Cristina de Bourbon portrait is of a royal subject, therefore the jewel-studded headpiece is especially grand, as is the bodice ornament and earrings. The feather was characteristic of the times – very large hats with feathers were in vogue, as well as large bonnets. The Spanish queen is wearing a lace mantila with her headpiece, which I assume is a symbol of her Spanish heritage.
The fabric of the queen's dress is extraordinarily elaborate, with all-over silver thread embroidery. The bodice on this and many early to mid 1830s dresses was called a bodice à la Sevigne, which was made up of a central boned band divided into horizontal folds of fabric.
Belts and wide ribbons around the waist were often featured on dresses of the early to mid 1830s.
The fashion from circa 1830 to 1835 was one of over-porportioned extravagance. Sleeves larger than were ever seen or since been, width at the shoulders, and dramatic hats and headpieces.
Hair too was over-the-top. Notice the perponderance of elaborate braids, coils, and curls in these images.
1830-34 • British • Printed Cotton Day Dress • Victoria and Albert Museum
One such dramatic feature of 1830s fashion was the pelerine, a lace covering that was worn over the shoulders. The cut of the neckline was already exagerated to emphasize width at the shoulders; adding a pelerine only added to that width as well further acting as more ornamentation to the outfit.
François-Joseph Navez (Belgian, 1787-1869) • Théodore Joseph Jonet and his two daughters • 1832 • Private collection
Sleeve style quickly evolved from simply puffy to Gigot or leg-o-mutton sleeves – a huge, billowy sheer sleeve over a smaller one, continuing with a tight-fitting long sleeve.
This flamboyance in sleeves was to suddenly come to an end around 1836. More about that in a future post, as I continue to flit willy-nilly along the fashion timeline!
References:
• Fashion History Timeline: 1830-1839
• Wikipedia: 1830s in Western Fashion
• Wikipedia: Pelerene
• Mimi Mathews: The 1830s in Fashionable Gowns: A Visual Guide to the Decade
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Gibbons generally live in family groups consisting of a paired male and female and their offspring. Siamang heterosexual pairs may be more closely bonded then those of White-handed Gibbons.
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
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LOOKING FOR PEOPLE FOR A NSO+ FAMILY GROUP
Hello people!
I've been in a NSO + Expansion family group for 2 years.
The group is composed of 4 USD users and 4 Euro users, so the payments aren't the easiest, but we did find ways to pay.
Now, 2 of my friends want to join the group, and they're both Euro users, so I'm looking for 2 or 3 Euro users and 4 USD users to join us to create 2 separate groups, one using USD and one using Euro.
If you're interested please comment! The inscription will renew on November 11 so I need you asap :D
*2 or 3 Euro users because one of us is still pending
The price will be $/€10 for one year of NSO + Expansion, the expansion includes:
- exclusive emulators: n64, Sega Genesis/MD, GBA
- DLCs for Mario kart 8D, Animal Crossing NH, Splatoon
- all the features of NSO: tetris 99, pacman 99, fZero 99, Nes, Snes, GameBoy, Cloud saving, and online.
I can say spending a bit more for the expansion is worth it because the n64 and gba games are so valid as multiplayer party games, I often play mario party 1 and 2 (And now Party 3 is coming too!) and I've recently played the newly added Kirby on gba with a friend!
Extra, for LU people:
I'm thinking about redoing my acnh island to recreate Kakariko from A Link Between Worlds! You might have read time ago on the server that I was making HyruleTown from Minish cap but as much as I love Four and that game, sadly I can't recreate it perfectly as much as I'm trying, so I'll switch to Kakariko!
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MWW Artwork of the Day (11/16/22)
Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986)
Family Group (1949)
Bronze sculpture, 154 x 118 x 70 cm.
The Tate Gallery, London
This bronze sculpture depicts an almost life-size man and woman seated on a low bench, holding a child between them. The woman sits to the right of the man and holds the child over her lap with both her arms. The man’s left arm support’s the child’s legs while his right hand rests on the woman’s left shoulder. The title, "Family Group," indicates that the man and the woman are the parents of the small child. The sculpture is derived from one of a number of maquettes that Moore made for a sculpture for Impington Village College in Cambridgeshire.
For a selection of Moore's work, see this MWW Special Collection:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=TheMuseumWithoutWalls&set=a.371960352909340
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just had an absolutely sickening conversation with a 20 year old I work with wherein I had to impress upon her that her and her friends need to be extremely cautious going to the gay clubs right now with increasing attacks happening. make sure any very young, very newly adult queer people in your life know that we're a family and community and part of that is being willing to fight for your siblings lives if they're under attack. even if it's a person you despise, you stick up for your family and they will stick up for you. we are all we have. the cops refuse to help, and so do most people outside the community. we cannot survive without each other
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