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@bobbole’s amazing “You Don’t Remember the Somme?” art reminded me of Jeremy Deller’s art “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which I actually had the privilege of stumbling across in person when I was in Manchester in July 2016.

It’s Remembrance Weekend here so I thought I’d go down memory lane a little… (none of the photos are mine btw)

The ‘art’ included about 1,600 male volunteers, all dressed in the uniforms worn by the British army in the First World War. Each man represented a named individual who had been killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1st July 1916). When approached by the public, the men would hand out a card bearing the name, battalion and, often, the age of the man they represented. In Deller’s words, these cards were “like small tombstones”.

Every so often, the men would sing “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which was put to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

I still get chills just remembering.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE 😭

Oh wow, those are my tags in the wild (bizarre). We really were incredibly lucky to hear about the project in such detail, and I’ve got a few more facts if anyone’s interested:

  • The weaving alone took three months and in the end they used 11,500 metres of fabric
  • There were 30 costume supervisors based at hubs around the country
  • The SAS designed a workout the volunteers could do while wearing the uniform that would help break it in and make it look natural
  • I basically spent the afternoon crying like a baby after the talk finished

I read about this at the time and was blown away by the concept. The key thing is that none of the men talked. If they had spoken, even in character, they’d have been historical reenactors. Instead they were a haunting.

mind horses

This Twitter thread was going around the past couple of days and I am obsessed with it. Please click through to find some of the greatest GREATEST intentionally bad horse art you will ever see.

Seriously, I’ve been laughing at it for like two days now, help me

Fields of flowers, some being picked but mostly being left alone. American, Impressionist school. John Ottis Adams, artist. Living from 1851 to 1927, he was a member of the Hoosier Group of landscape artists. Studied at the South Kensington School of Art in London.

Oh these are so lovely.

Toes in a Very Different Sand:

“In Poppyland.” No date. Signed on the lower right. In the public domain due to age. via https://scontent.fnyc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/10265542_559172784203537_8292228860334475991_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=90dphuBNlfUAX_GdWj9&_nc_ht=scontent.fnyc1-1.fna&_nc_tp=7&oh=81fbba1b1510d291056e7fb000a45f9e&oe=5F2A0D61

Painting with red flowers. Undated. Signed on the lower left. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Ottis_Adams_002_(39098022245).jpg

Garden. Undated. Signed on the lower right. Source: youtube.com. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 80 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Ottis_Adams_007_(25125385257).jpg

“Black-eyed Susans.” Undated. Signed on the lower left. Private collection. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.oceansbridge.com/shop/uncategorized/black-eyed-susans

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Francis Edmonds, “Devotion” (1857). Does anyone know the story, explanation, history, analysis of this? It’s one of my favorite paintings, but I want to make sure I understand it correctly and like it for the right reasons — Making Histolines

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Francis Edmonds, “Devotion” (1857). Does anyone know the story, explanation, history, analysis of this? It’s one of my favorite paintings, but I want to make sure I understand it correctly and like it for the right reasons — Making Histolines

Hmmm. Somehow I doubt devotion was really what it was.