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[a7estrellas]

FRIENDSMAS DAY 🥰 | via susie_chuckles

#pedro pascal #robert diament #instagram #pedropascaledit #ppascaledit #look at him!! #king of my heart

[javierpenaispunk]

New picture of Pedro in Margate with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament from @RobertDiament and @talkart Instagram accounts.

#pedro pascal #russell tovey #robert diament

[justzawe]

Zawe and Robert Diament at the Erdem show - Feb 17

Bring her back on the TalkArt podcast! 🙏

#zawe ashton #robert diament #erdem #fashion #pics

[for-a-longlongtime]

On Dieter, Goya's Black Paintings, and Pedro on Talk Art 

Alright y'all, it's Saturday evening, I have nothing better to do (I actually do but I don't feel like it), so welcome to my mini TED Talk about 'how to pay too much fucking attention to the Pedro cinematic universe'. None of this is new, and maybe everybody already knew about this, but I didn't... so here's a nerdy tangent courtesy of googling/wikipedia-ing.

I was reading a Dieter!fic (this one right here by @chaoticgeminate - go read her writing!) earlier today, which refers to the 'Saturn Devouring His Son' painting - that giant mural Dieter is working on in The Bubble:

(his brush isn't even touching the wall tho, ha)

The original 'Saturn' by Goya

The fic mentioned its part of 'The Black Paintings', so I got curious and started googling. I'm no art major or expert, so please allow me to just paraphraze the Wikipedia page. 'Saturn' is part of a group of 14 Goya paintings that are called Pinturas Negras/The Black Paintings. They "portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity" --this was late in Goya's life, and was connected to several illnesses he had experienced (and the fear of relapsing) and political turmoil in Spain at the time (post-Napolean war, changing Spanish government, etc.

Trivia fact 1: Goya actually made these paintings right on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo (so-called Deaf Man's villa) where he was staying -- so I love that Apatow had Dieter also paint right on the walls.

Trivia fact 2: while Goya was living in this villa, he actually became gravely ill (again) - not by a pandemic obviously, but it's hard to not link that loosely to the COVID period. He had never intended for these 'Black Paintings' to become public; "these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art" (the murals were eventually transfered to canvas by other folks once he had moved out of the villa). Switching back to The Bubble -- I love how the tragic influence of Goya's illness(es) and art/things 'made at home away from the world, not intended for an audience' (so obviously, in a bubble) has that connection to the COVID experience and how many folks were suddenly homebound, along with the burden of illness in many ways (lord knows this all did a serious number on our mental health). In the movie, Dieter and the others do not want to go into isolation again, but that solitude is what eventually led him to painting on the walls in his room. This is not a 'grand discovery' of any kind, but I got a kick out of the parellels once I read up on it - and honestly makes me appreciate the movie a bit more, haha.

Not happy about another quarantine period.

Alright, more hyperfocusing after the cut:

Some googling led me to a post from last year by @nicolethered (gifs in this post are hers), and she included screencaps of the walls of Dieter's room (during that drug scene), which I hadn't even noticed while watching the movie. Upon taking a closer look, I noticed they're outtakes from other pieces of Goya's Black Paintings! I thought that was really cool, they sure worked on the details with that set (there's one more that's shown in a different shot but I can't exactly figure out which outtake that is):

First one is a mirror image from Two Old Men Eating Soup and the second one is basically Satan aka 'The Great He-Goat' from the Witches' Sabbath painting. Which IMO makes for fucking hilarious perfection a.k.a. trivia fact 3 -- because we all know about Dieter and his little emotional support goat, LOL. Excellent connection.

*insert sound bit from Hot Ones interview* : "Just let me love you!"

Anywaaay there's more. The Bubble was shot during Feb 22, 2021 to April 16, 2021, right? Pedro has spoken about how his input in shaping Dieter was mostly regarding his outfits (the Crocs, the robe, etc). But then I suddenly remember the Talk Art interview he had done in 2018, and how he namechecks 'The Dog' by Goya - and lo, guess which painting is actually part of the 14 Black Paintings? Yeap - the dog! So I checked the podcast and he was asked, 'if you could be any painting, what painting would you be?' by Russell. Here is the painting, and below it is what he said on Talk Art:

'The Drowning Dog' by Goya

"I think… it's a Goya. Yeah, old school. I think it's called 'Dog Buried in Sand' or something like that. It's so… I remember feeling it was such a visual representation of helplessness, in such a… come on, let's all admit that helplessness is a very recurring feeling for many of us, you know what I mean? When it comes to so many things. I guess… I was in Spain, in Madrid, and I was 20. And I went to the Goya museum. What's interesting about it is that the head of the dog is really quite small and sort of adorable, it looks like a stray mutt, and the painting - if I can remember it correctly - is very rectangular. There's so much above him, like the world just seems so big. It's quite incredible, isn't it? I know it's really sad, and sort of dark, and maybe I really like enjoy perceiving myself like..." (He gets interrupted by Russell, and then continues;) "Yeah, he's certainly not dying, it's sort of - it's a moment", (then interrupts himself with;) "Maybe he's totally dying, there's no way that dog is getting out of that. That dog is SO fucked. Anyway, that's the painting that represents my life". (All three of them burst out into laughing.)

If you're still reading this - I am impressed with your dedication to my silly little post, haha. Anyway, I just thought it was so striking that there basically is a straight line from the painting he mentioned in Talk Art to what Dieter is painting in the Bubble. Makes me wonder if perhaps he - or even Russell/Robert - had any input in that part of Dieter's backstory.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk on artistic analysis of Dieter Bravo during COVID, we now resume your regularly scheduled program for Saturday night. 🤪

(Have I been smoking because a local dispensary actually had 'Mando' bud? I sure as fuck have and I blame that for this post.)

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[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament (Talk Art Podcast) at the Serpentine Gallery Summer Party 2023 (in London).

The Angels In America reunion ❤️

#andrew garfield #russell tovey #robert diament #talk art podcast #he's so handsome and cute #the serpentine gallery summer party 2023 #green suit #peter parker #spider man #the amazing spider man #tasm #tasm peter parker #tasm peter #andrew peter parker #andrew peter #the angels in america reunion #sincericida

[aiqingdemeimiao]

ben with robert @ london fashion week

#ben whishaw #robert diament #london fashion week #sorry for spamming hopefully this is the last one #he never leaves the house then suddenly there's 387583753 pics in a row

[thegaysciences]

Ben at the TalkArt 5th anniversary party

#ben whishaw #talk art #Robert diament #Russel Tovey #Kadiff was there too #I cut the others out so I don’t have to tag them

[pedropascal24-7]

#pedro pascal #talk art #russell tovey #Robert diament

[luckylulu82]

Pedro always believes in the little guy!

#pedro pascal #Robert diament #pedro pascal fandom

[morallyinept]

NEW Courtesy of Robert Diament's IG

Pedro's episode is the most listened to podcast for Talk Art on Spotify. You can listen to it below if you haven't already.🖤

#pedro pascal #talk art #pedro pascal talk art #Spotify

[happysunnyyellowlove]

I love it when worlds collide. 😉

Caitriona with Robert Diament, Russell Tovey’s partner. The Russell Tovey in ‘Love Again’ with Mr. Sam Heughan. (Sorry, I am not sure who the gentleman in the middle is, but he is very dapper).

Why do I have the feeling they have known each other for a while? 😊

[thewaythisis]

Pedro reunited with some old friends Russel Tovey and Robert Diament from Talk Art podcast

#pedro pascal #pedropascaledit #ppascaledit #ppedit

[sovietpostcards]

On the beach. Photo by Robert Diament (1950s).

#ussr #1950s #beach

[sgiandubh]

Interesting. So Sam was at the Talk Art party, a celebration for the podcast his friend Russell Tovey does. Caitriona's dear friend Aisling Bea is also friends with Russell and Robert and was there and celebrating too. And it struck me again how this kind of thing is exactly up Cait's alley, and she knows Aisling and Russell and she's super into art and clearly loves to talk about art/creativity etc. and it always strikes again me how odd it is that SC are not allowed to be seen in public together. They're just "friends" right? Know the same people. Don't friends go to and perhaps hang out at the same events? 🤔

Dear Talk Art Anon,

I suppose you mean yesterday's 5 year celebration of Russell Tovey and Robert Diament's Talk Art podcast, which happened yesterday at the Toklas Restaurant in London (just across the street from King's College, actually). FYI, I think the venue is named after Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's mustachioed lover. The woman even wrote a cookbook (hashish fudge, anyone?), from which I did try to cook myself, with mixed results.

This should give you an idea of the festive vibe and also the type of crowd in attendance: London glitterati with a marked LGBTQ+ flair and an interesting mix& match (spotted James Corden, too):

I know, I know what the Disgruntled Tumblrettes will say - they still have no clue about the ways of this world and automatically think it's a segregated affair. Not really my fault if their parochial brains are stuck in the Fifties.

You are correct: C's friend, Aisling Bea, was, indeed, there. Such a small world, eh? Always. 😉

And this should immediately fuel further speculation ('who's that girl?'), both chez *urv and Marple. I don't know who the woman is and I honestly think it actually doesn't matter:

And to offer you another question, instead of an answer: over all these years, how come we have seen half a battalion of S&C common friends/acquaintances, but next to 0 of Tait's entourage, which seems to be just about C old friends, many of whom are also friends with S, anyways?

Things that don't even make you go 🤔 anymore.

Very interesting news, indeed. Thank you, Anon. Drop by anytime!

[Later edit, because something crossed my mind right now]: last Tuesday, we did have, as you might know, the third National Day Reception, right at the embassy. My own mum looked on the official FB page and told me she was disappointed I wasn't on any picture. Except I was, half blocked by someone, and she did not see me. Believe what you want, as always.

#shitshow

[dekaohtoura]

Robert Diament is the author of Pedro's new book story who also had a radio talk show with Russell Tovey about gay art.

#pedro pascal #russell tovey #luke evans

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament (Talk Art Podcast) at the Serpentine Gallery Summer Party 2023 (in London).

#andrew garfield #russell tovey #robert diament #talk art podcast #my beautiful baby #green suit #the serpentine gallery summer party 2023 #peter parker #spider man #the amazing spider man #tasm #tasm peter parker #tasm peter #andrew peter parker #andrew peter #the angels in america reunion #sincericida