#image decription

Left: Girl with cats in a summer landscape 1891 by Elin Danielson-Gambogi

Description: painting showing a young woman sits in a field of white flowers holding one kitten in one hand and reaching toward a second kitten with the other hand, the kitten is looking to her. In the background is a field and further in the background buildings.

No Propaganda has been submitted.

Girl with cats in a summer landscape 1891 by Elin Danielson-Gambogi. Oil on Canvas. The art is 110 x 137 cm. The art was accessed through UPM-Kymmene Cultural Foundation (link here). The art was photographed by Matias Uusikylä.

Middle: Pond Water Crowfoot 1895 by Eero Järnefelt

Description: painting showing water as it ripples softly, wetting the stones of the shore. Crowfoot, a small, white flower, blooms on the surface. Though the water partly reflects the blue sky, the red bottom of the pond can be seen through it, with its rocks and plants.

Propaganda: I have a lot of good memories of swimming in forest lakes, and this painting evokes such a strong sensory memory in me. I can feel the coolness of the water, smell its sweet scent, hear the gentle waves lapping at the shore. The painting might not look like much, mostly brown water with one tiny plant, but I think it perfectly represents the peace and beauty that can be found everywhere if you just pause to look.

Pond Water Crowfoot 1895 by Eero Järnefelt. Oil on canvas. The art is 39 × 28 cm. The art is in the Finnish National Gallery (link here). The art was photographed by Yehia Eweis.

Right: The Garden of Death 1896 by Hugo Simberg

Description: A mostly yellow painting shows three skeletons, clad in black robes, tending to a garden. The skeleton closest to the viewer is watering the plants; the skeleton in the middle of the painting hugs a flower to its chest; the last skeleton is turned away from the viewer.

Propaganda: I love this painting. It's one of my favourite art pieces ever, and I adore it for much the same reason I love the Deaths from Discworld and Sandman. The Garden of Death personifies death not as something scary, but as gentle, peaceful, nurturing.

Propaganda 2: what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man? - Reaper Man, Discworld, by Terry Prattchet.

Propaganda 3: It look so incredible tender and warm, with the golden light that is most of the art (beside the white bones and black robes), I specially love the skeleton holding (hugging!) the blue flower. There is also a fresco version in the Tampere Cathedral, which is a less bright golden color and more muted with more contrast with the green grass in the background.

Aziraphale should’ve planned this better...but hey at the end it all went well so that's good Part 2 of 2.

(Part 1 [link])

(Crowley later that day asks Aziraphale to do the  whole romantic speech anyways because Aziraphale spend a lot of time memorising it and also he is a even bigger sap than his angel. Aziraphale is happy to oblige)

(What he is not happy to oblige is Crowley’s suggestion of having a duck as the ring bearer at their wedding) 

[Image description: A 8 page comic of Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens. 

Page 1: Aziraphale abruptly stands up from the bench and with a forced smile."My dear please will you wait a second here? I need to care of something real quick."I'll be back in a jiffy dearest, don't worry" he continues as he begins his fast walk towards the fence.Crowley stares at him confused by the whole exchange.  

Page 2: Aziraphale stands at the fence looking at the duck with a smile. "Excuse me my dear fellow, but would you kindly give that back?" he asks gently while the duck stares at him still holding the ring on his beak. "It's very important to me and as soon as you give it back I'll be out of your feathers-"Aziraphale continues but stops with a loud annoyed gasp seeing the duck run away from him. "Get back here you-you rude creature!" he screams at the duck as he climbs the fence to follow the duck. In the background Crowley is staring at this whole thing getting more confused by the second, standing up when he sees Aziraphale climb the fence.

Page 3: Aziraphale chases the duck as it continues its running towards the lake, in the middle of this chase being screamed at by an angry brown duck. "Aziraphale what the hell??!"Crowley, already at the fence, asks loudly and looking at this happen confused.  

Page 4: The duck enters the lake without a care in the world."Ugh...oof...My corporation wasn't made for that much running..." Aziraphale says trailing behind it out of breath and trying to compose himself."Now will you please give that ring back? I still need to get back to my love and continue the rest of the speech I had prepared" he ask gently "And i really don't want to dirty these clothes by trying to follow you into the water-"."Aziraphale!!"loudly calls Crowley, interrupting Aziraphale.

Page 5: "What in hell was all that about???" Crowley asks, walking towards Aziraphale, who is internally panicking."Ah!-Um I-I just felt like interacting with the um...local fauna for a bit, m-my dearest!" he nervously explains as he turns around with a forced smile"Nothing more to see here!!! Please go back to our bench I-I'll be back in a second". Behind him there's the duck, staring at them still with the ring on its beak and white arrow pointing at it. "Oh..." Crowley softly, blushing,  says as he figures what's going on."OOOH!!" He exclaims again, but with a wide delighted grin.  

Page 6: "C-Crowley? Why are you smiling that way?" Aziraphale nervously asks before turning around at hearing the duck quack loudly, startle when the ring disappears from its beak with the snap of Crowley's hand. Aziraphale's confusion last a second before Crowley jumps at him and gives him a loud kiss."You just couldn't miracle it back, uh? You stubborn bastard I love you so much!!" Crowley leans back laughing, the ring now on his hand."Crowley!!" complaints Aziraphale, blushing.    

Page 7: "Of course I couldn't do that!! Magic tricks are more fun when they are genuine! Miracles make it impersonal and cold and not as fun-" Grumpily continues Aziraphale as he snatches the ring from Crowley's hand."So are you going to try again?" Interrupts Crowley, making Aziraphale make a confused noise."You know,try again the magic trick you were trying to do before. Unless you wanna skip to the part where I say yes because of course I wanna marry you?" he continues, looking to the side with a shy smile, blushing profusely, and putting a hand behind his neck. Crowleys expression suddenly changes to a flustered panicky one as he says "Though you just said that you had a whole speech planned??!! So maybe you wanted to do that first?? n-N G K!!". Aziraphale stares at him with a small loving smile as Crowley continues rambling about messing all this up and suggesting to start all over at the bench.

Left: The defense of the sampo (1896) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Description: An action scene in a long rowboat at night. Louhi, a hag who has transformed her arms into wings and legs into an eagle's talons, swoops down to attack the wizard Väinämöinen. Väinämöinen meets her eyes and holds up a sword, his long white hair and beard flowing in the wind. Other people on the boat strike at Louhi with spears. In the corner of the image, chained in the middle of the boat, sits Sampo, a magical artifact.

Propaganda: An epic scene from an old, famous story of the Baltic-Finnish peoples.

The defense of the sampo 1896 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Tempera on canvas. The art is 125 × 122 cm. Accessed through Wikipedia Commons (link here).

Right: Adalmina’s Pearl by Albert Edelfelt

Description: illustration showing Adalmina, the princess walks in a garden the trail of her long dress is carried by many people, who follow behind her, she holds her head up, the magic pearl on her crown glows.

Propaganda: I always loved to read fairy tales from different places, this art is an illustration to a literature fairytale by Zacharias Topelius.

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Left: Cat, Mosse 1872 - 1873 by Maria Wiik

Description: painting showing a cat laying on a red pillow with its eyes closed. The cat is brown with stripes, a white chin, a white chest, white front paws and a white tail tip.

Propaganda: I want to pet her.

Cat, Mosse 1872 - 1873 by Maria Wiik. Oil on canvas. The art is 21 × 26 cm. The art is in the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). The art was photographed by Hannu Pakarinen.

Right: Cat and Dog 1890s by Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Description: painting of a cat and a dog looking at eachother, they are outside in the snow, seperated by a thin river. The cat is ducked down.

No Propaganda has been submitted.

Left: Girl with cats in a summer landscape 1891 by Elin Danielson-Gambogi

Description: painting showing a young woman sits in a field of white flowers holding one kitten in one hand and reaching toward a second kitten with the other hand, the kitten is looking to her. In the background is a field and further in the background buildings.

No Propaganda has been submitted.

Girl with cats in a summer landscape 1891 by Elin Danielson-Gambogi. Oil on Canvas. The art is 110 x 137 cm. The art was accessed through UPM-Kymmene Cultural Foundation (link here). The art was photographed by Matias Uusikylä.

Right: Good Friends (portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt and Capi) 1881 by Albert Edelfelt

Description: painting showing a young girl sits on a bed and reads a book, a small white dog looks over her shoulder at the book. It is day time. The girls hat lays on the floor. The girl is wearing shoes.

No Propaganda has been submitted.

Left: The violinist, 1900 by Pekka Halonen

Description: painting of a young man or teenager playing the violin, he is shown from the chest up, he is not wearing a shirt, the background is black. The man has white skin and blonde hair.

Propaganda: for me the choice of cropping, and the contrast with the black background creates this feeling of the only thing existing is the craft and the art you make in that moment, and for me thats how making art feels like, not even you yourself exist, but only the progress and the art

The violinist, 1900 by Pekka Halonen. Oil on canvas. The art is 43 × 50 cm. The art is currently at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art work here). The art was photographed by Matti Janas.

Right: Queen Blanche 1877 by Albert Edelfelt

Description: painting of a young blonde woman with a young blonde boy riding on her knee. She is smiling. They are wearing expensive 14th century clothes. There is a bear rug on the floor, tapestry on the walls, and a large cupboard in the background.

Propaganda: The people shown is Blanche of Namur (1320–1363) and her son Haakon (1340-1380), in Sweden there is the children's song "Rida rida ranka, hästen heter Blanka" ("Ride, ride on my knee, the horse is called Blanka") based on the historical figure and in turns then probably influenced the action depicted in the painting.

Propaganda 2: I love what a loving ordinary moment is shown here, despite the subjects being a queen and prince.

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Left: Life and Death 1884 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Description: two paintings in one: a small horizontal rectangle in the middle of the larger veritical rectangle art shows four people next to a boat, 3 women and 1 man, one woman and man look at eachother. The larger background rectangle shows a human skull with a tree with white blossoms growing out of one eye socket, and a cracked pot with a plant in it. The leaves from the tree growing out of the skull overlaps over the image of the people and the boat. At the top of the larger background are two dragonflies mating.

Propaganda: it is such a different composition that really struke me when I saw it.

Life and Death 1884 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Oil on panel. The art is 60 x 43 cm. Accessed through Wikipedia Commons (link here)

Right: Skulls, Illustration for Seven Brothers, Closing Vignette for Chapter 14, 1907 by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Description: drawing of a very large number of human skulls packed very tightly together, the outer most face the viewer, in the middle between the skulls is a tree with fruits

No Propaganda has been submitted.

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Left: Virgin Mary in the Rose Garden 1898 by Albert Edelfelt

Description: painting of a young woman (the virgin Mary) doing embroidery, behind her are red roses behind them a city.

Propaganda: I love this expression, she does not look serene and otherworldly she looks like a teenage girl murdering me in her mind

Virgin Mary in the Rose Garden 1898 by Albert Edelfelt. Accessed through Wikipedia Commons. (Link to the artwork here)

Right: Christ and Mary Magdalene 1890, by Albert Edelfelt

Description: painting showing Mary Magdalene on her knees with her hands clasped looking up to Jesus Christ standing in front of her, Jesus is reaching toward her, they are at a lake, with birch trees with yellow leaves growing around them. Mary wears a Karelian ethnic dress from eastern Finland, Jesus wears birch-bark sandals.

Propaganda: Not based on a bible story but by the poem "Mary Magdalene's Journey by Water" by Elias Lönnrot. I actually love how finnish the landscape and clothes are - obivious taking a story and planting it in a different setting is a complicate matter, where power dynamics play a large role, the original context for the stories of the New Testament was the middle east, but the stories also became part of the life of people elsewhere and they interpreted the stories based on their lived context, and I think that is a very interesting stuff.