#contemporary classic

[arthaic]

First contemporary classic piece my biggest influencer in enjoying music ever introduced to me.

Posting this in honor of the one full year of his passing and one of the innumerable influence he had on me growing up.

Miss you, Dad 🤍

#Spotify #music #contemporary classic #ludovico einaudi #i giorni

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[fanopeia]

#contemporary classic #Spotify

[abconcerns]

Closet - Flat Panel Mid-sized trendy gender-neutral porcelain tile walk-in closet photo with flat-panel cabinets and dark wood cabinets

#playroom #createyourspace #amberth #contemporary classic #walnut #design #marble floor

[butwheredoyougetyourprotein]

Sydney Exterior Example of a mid-sized beach style gray two-story painted brick and shingle exterior home design with a tile roof and a gray roof

#exterior #contemporary classic #californian bungalow #painted brick #outdoor room

[constanzarte]

Ferederic Leighton - Crenaia, the nymph of the Dargle; 1880

#classic art #traditional art #art history #traditional painting #oil painting #19th century art #art detail #art #art details #classical art #arte #1800s art #20th century art #academic art #art nouveau #contemporary art #fine art #modern art #mithology #lord frederic leighton #frederic leighton

[elixir]

A historicist silver mounted nautilus cup. Pseudo marks, probably Hanau, ca. 1900. Height 42 cm, weight 937 g.

#photography #artefact #art #history #archeology #contemporary art #abstract #sculpture #sculptures #artifacts #classical art #20th century art #art detail #curators #curators on tumblr

[rosieandthemoon]

By Michelle Avery Konczyk

#painting #oil painting #whimsigoth #witchy #moodyvibes #whimsicore #esoteric #dreamcore #dark fairy #dream aesthetic #fantasy #witchy art #goth art #goth fairy #whimsigoth art #Whimsicore painting #moody painting #goth witch #whimiscal #romanticism #classical art #eyes #contemporary art #moody vibes #moody aesthetic #moody tones #esoteric painting

[v-thinks-on]

Today on Doctor Who... The Beatles!

#v thinks #Classic Who #First Doctor #Vicki #Ian Chesterton #Barbara Wright #The Beatles #Ticket to Ride #this is in fact contemporary; their latest and greatest hit at the time #and all before the Beatles were really considered revolutionary #for context Vicki is from the future so I guess she knew the Beatles would make history before even the writers did!

[israelcastillophoto]

How would you caption this shot?

Israel Castillo Photography

Instagram

#baller dancer #ballerina #new york city #new york #original photographers #astor place new york #cooper union #photographers on tumblr #landscape #cityscape #artists on tumblr #landscape photography #city scape #ballet feel #contemporary art #contemporary ballet #classical ballet #black and grey #black and white #monochromatic #monochrome #american ballet theatre #today on tumblr #israel castillo photography #izzy zi #120mm film #35 mm film #film photography

[astromechapunk]

Melancholy by Constance Marie Charpentier 1801

#arte evangelion #classic art #contemporary art #rei ayanami #neon genesis evangelion

[romanceyourdemons]

we need more formally recognized genres like space western. imagine the possibilities. we could have post-apocalyptic xianxia. undersea sword and sorcery. generation ship gothic. if we all work together we can do this

#sci-fi noir is already relatively codified as a genre #i mean alphaville (1965) is almost contemporary with classic film noir lmao #but once again. we can broaden our horizons. #ryddles

[vintagehomecollection]

Jack Adams, ASID, Adams Design, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii.

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #home decor #living room #Atlanta #columns #cathedral ceiling #condominium #classic #furniture #contemporary #style #home #architecture #house plants

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from Andrew Lang’s The Olive Fairy Book by Kate Baylay (2012)

#kate baylay #art #illustration #modern art #2010s #2010s art #contemporary art #english artist #british artist #books #book illustration #childrens books #fairy tale #fairy tales #fairytale art #andrew lang #art deco #classic art

[camoooh]

"yeah no I just can't stand the stuff on the radio, it's not real music, you wouldn't even know the stuff I listen to it's so underground-"

I am begging you please go and touch some grass. It's not that deep. Who gives a shit. Headbang to screamy screamy then go do a little jig to lizzo. Fuck it, then go and freestyle yodel to some mountain folk shit. Who cares man. Just bop. You're not superior because you only listen to one genre. Let people enjoy things

#alt music #metal music #pop punk #indie pop #pop music #midwest emo #emo music #70s rock #post punk #punk #contemporary classical

[sofipitch]

I will say, I don't understand the compulsion to claim anytime a writer used to write fanfic that they repurposed their fanfic. Like read like 3 things by the same author and you'll realize authors have their things, characters and plotlines they like, words or metaphors they prefer. It can often be an intimate experience where you start to get the sense of what is haunting that author. Yes their works may look similar but they are in fact written by the same person, enjoy getting to know them. And furthermore I hate the culture of artists having to pretend art doesn't inspire other art without fearing accusations of plagiarism

#also it means that authors like stephanie meyer and poppy z brite claim to have never read anne rice #and i a) just don't believe that and b) if they were influenced it would be so interesting to ask what they liked #vs maybe what they wanted to challenge/do differently #but you can't have those convos about inspiration bc of litigiousness #i mean look up most contemporary authors and they'll mostly list classics authors as their inspiration #i always wondered how much is due to not wanting to be accused of copying if they admit inspiration by a contemporary #i'm not saying it can't be genuine that they love dickens but it really just rarely is someone more recent