part 347 dimensions of sight and sound

[aphanon_meme]

and of mind. Do do do do do do do do do do do.

How was your end-of-December-into-January time, meme? Did you make any New Year's resolutions? Or light a candle in your window in the hopes that Himaruya would update again instead of leaving us behind like an 19th century light house keeper's wife whose husband has gone off to sea? ... Did you?

Enjoy part 347!

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[vuri]

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[(Anonymous)]

Do you like

Shakespeare?

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[vuri]

Yes, but to be honest I haven't read Shakespeare since college aha… ha…

I love many of the paintings inspired by Shakespeare though - especially the work of Edwin Austin Abbey!

Are you a big Shakespeare fan, anon? What's your favorite of his plays?

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Oh, what's your favorite painting inspired by Shakespeare?

Not really! I just was thinking about him because someone streamed Romeo + Juliet. I like The Taming of the Shrew, I suppose!

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[vuri]

Ooh, hard question… let's see, probably this painting by E. A. Abbey of a scene from King Lear

And this famous painting of Ophelia by John Millais.

My favorite Shakespeare play is probably Midsummer Night's Dream (I like faerie folklore, which probably influences it). I like The Taming of the Shrew too - and I also love Kiss Me, Kate.

Romeo and Juliet is great (even better with hawaiian shirts, of course), though I remember even as a teenager I was too unromantic to sympathize fully with the star-crossed lovers. The 60s movie had this really pretty song, let me see if I can find it…

ETA: here we go, the song's called What is a Youth.

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Oh, those are both cool! The Ophelia one, especially.

Is it the uhmm... what's it called... I KNOW IT.... I can't remember it. But I can hear it in my head, the "do do do do ... do do do doooooo..."

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[vuri]

Here it is on YT.

Ah, and I forgot J. W. Waterhouse's Ophelia, too! (He actually painted I think three different Ophelias… I feel like Ophelia was the 19th century painters' version of the "sad anime girl in snow" trope. Ophelias, Ophelias, everywhere, all lovely and tragic and occasionally soggy.)

Do you have a favorite artist, anon?

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Yeah, that's the one! I remember liking that particular R&J movie... haven't seen it in ages

I wonder if that's how they were viewed in the day... like "ohh great ANOTHER Ophelia."

I really like portrait paintings, and Thomas Gainsborough is one of my favs!

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[vuri]

Ophelia was so hipster, she was wearing flower crowns and posing moodily in meadows hundreds of years before the rest of us…

Gainsborough is awesome! And I think he's especially amazing because iirc he wasn't able to go study in the city until he was already in his twenties and had been working for a while - and he made a huge amount of progress quickly and relatively later in his career than most other artists.

My favorite portrait artist is a three way tie between John Singer Sargent, Henry Raeburn and Thomas Lawrence right now.