Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 🪶 As your resident Kanienʼkehá꞉ka girl, I'll be accepting love, compliments, gifts, food and cash. I'm not picky. Well, actually, I am 😂 And in the spirit of keeping things historically appropriate.... FUCK COLUMBUS 🖕🏽

They Wanted to Burn Down Museums. Then They Fell in Love with Fascism. Imagine an art movement so obsessed with the future that it wanted to destroy the past, abolish tradition, glorify war, and replace centuries of artistic achievement.

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He Painted a God Eating His Own Child. The Real Monsters Were Human. Francisco Goya spent his final years creating some of the most disturbing paintings in Western art.

Picasso Broke Art. Braque Helped Hide the Body. What happens when artists decide that 500 years of perspective, proportion, and pictorial tradition are no longer enough? They tear reality apart and put it back together in ways the world has never seen.

They Died. Their Hair Became Jewellery. Their Grief Became an Industry. Imagine wearing your dead lover’s hair against your skin, carrying their painted eye close to your heart or commissioning a miniature portrait of yourself weeping beside their grave.

The Witches Were Imaginary. The Mutilated Bodies Were Not. For centuries, humanity imagined monsters lurking in the darkness. Witches, demons, devils, and creatures supposedly capable of unspeakable cruelty.

You Spend Your Life Collecting Things. Death Collects You. You are going to die. So am I. So is everyone you love. And for thousands of years, artists have been trying to make us confront that uncomfortable little fact.

They Cut Off Her Breasts. They Peeled Off His Skin. They Put Their Bones on Display. Then They Called It Holy. Flayed alive. Beheaded. Burned. Crucified upside down. Their bones collected, their wounds revered, and their suffering transformed into some of the most extraordinary works.

They Painted a Woman Green. Paris Lost Its Damn Mind. In 1905, Henri Matisse painted his wife's face green, and Paris practically lost its mind. But that was only the beginning.

The Head Is Coming Off. You’re Going to Watch. A sword cuts through a throat. Blood sprays across white sheets. A severed head screams from a shield. A saint looks down and realizes an arrow has entered her chest. Another woman twists desperately away from the men who have cornered her.

Everyone Was Naked. Freud Was Watching. The Empire Was Dying. Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century was glittering, anxious, erotic, antisemitic, intellectually explosive, and coming apart at the seams.

Someone Buried This to Stop a Witch People buried bottles filled with pins beneath their homes. They carried charms against witches, poison, disease, and the evil eye.

She Aged. She Had Sex. She Knew Things. Clearly, a Witch. Before Europe could hunt the witch, it had to invent her. Around 1500, artists began giving witchcraft a face and, overwhelmingly, that face was female.

They Designed the Damn Door Handles Art Nouveau did not want to hang politely on the wall. It wanted the entire damn room.

The Bird Eating People Is Not the Weirdest Part Hieronymus Bosch did not simply paint Hell. He created entire worlds where paradise becomes unsettling, pleasure becomes dangerous, and everything familiar can suddenly turn against you.

The Sphinx Wants You Dead. The Vampire Wants You. Munch Is Screaming. Welcome to Symbolism. Symbolism is what happened when artists stopped looking for monsters in Hell and started looking inside the human mind.

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The Corpse Is You Death did not care if you were a pope, a king, a bishop, a merchant, a peasant, or a child. After the Black Death tore through Europe, artists made mortality impossible to ignore.