2023-06-26 at 5:58 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
„ The Irish girl [Rose] was a puzzle, for she was precocious in some ways and not in others. Sometimes she had a surprising understanding of adult attitudes: at the next moment she was once more completely a child. She had a pretty way of making herself engaging, even coquettish, but could also be rather solemn. 'I don't know what to make of her', Ruskin confessed. '...She wears her round hat in the sauciest way possible—and is a firm—fiery little thing.'”
2023-06-26 at 6:28 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
„I In a recently discovered sketch, Rose La Touche, the 24-year-old lover of John Ruskin, lies on her death bed. Her hair is spread out on the pillow like some latter-day Medusa; her eyes stare at the artist - her fitfully requited inamorata - from a gaunt, pale face. This startling drawing, more redolent of Egon Schiele than some sentimental Victorian picture, vividly records the young woman's demise in 1875, probably from anorexia. It is difficult to reconcile this image with the fresh-faced young girl whom Ruskin first met when she was 10 years old and he was 39. The distance between the two lovers - the two Roses - seems an impossible divide. Yet it is one that symbolises Ruskin's extraordinary journey, from stern Victorian critic, social reformer and shaper of the pre-Raphaelite aesthetic, to spiritualist, visionary and, eventually, madman”
2023-06-26 at 6:30 AM UTC
if you're gonna use art to justify being a nonce there are actual people that painted 16 year olds legally, you should do that. Become a real ARTEAST
2023-06-26 at 6:46 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
PInting 16 yr old nudes posing?
