#lost artwork

More lost art hehehe

One of the artists commissioned to create a new work for the 1939-40 World's Fair was the sculptor Augusta Savage. A leading member of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only black woman to be so honored.

Her piece, intended to celebrate African-Americans’ contributions to music, showed a kneeling black man holding a bar of music and 12 black chorus singers representing strings on a harp, the sounding board of which was no less than the hand of God. She called it Lift Every Voice and Sing, a nod to a poem by her friend James Weldon Johnson that was later set to music and adopted as the black "national anthem" by the NAACP.

The work stood 16 feet tall and was made of plaster that had been lacquered to look like black basalt. She was paid $360 for it (around $8,000 in today's dollars) and it was placed in the courtyard of the Contemporary Arts Building, near one of the Fair’s gates. Fair officials renamed it The Harp, which Savage reportedly hated. Small metal replicas were sold as souvenirs, and images of it were reproduced on postcards.

When the Fair ended, Savage had no money to remove and store her sculpture, or to cast the large piece in bronze, as she had with other, smaller works. So, like all the other "temporary" artwork created for the Fair, it was destroyed by a bulldozer.

In 2017, a NY Times op-ed piece by the filmmaker Aviva Kempner proposed that a full-size replica of the sculpture be created and placed in front of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington. So far, there has been no movement towards carrying that idea out.

Hello Anon and thank you :)

So I have some bad news for you, unfortunately.

If those arts are hard to find, that's because:

the artist deleted their account (if the art was on Deviant art and the artist deletes it, it's gone forever, I'm afraid)

the artist deleted their old Logyn arts to make place for their new ship/original work...

And who can blame them. Of course people move on.

But as an art lover and a Logyn fan, it does hurt a lot and I now understand how the people of Florence might have felt, watching Botticelli burning his own paintings during the Savonarole era :'(

So much lost art works...

Some have found a home on Pininterest, but the people who reposted them didn't even write the artist's name OR the characters' names... Loki is very recognizable. But Sigyn? There are so many cases were casual commenters think it's Amora or Jane , or insist it's their own OC XD

So finding their creators was quite the journey, and I'm not gonna lie, this project took me quite a while because of this difficulty.

And alas, in some cases, though I LOVED the arts, and I KNEW they were Logyn arts as I remembered them from Deviant art a decade ago, their creator was totally lost and no one remember who they were... so those arts are now anonymous and I could not include them in the tourney, which pained me a great deal...

If you've followed me for a while, you might have seen some of my posts this past year, trying to find the artist behind this or that fan art... Alas, I did not always get an answer...

I still found 256 arts for this tourney... and though it was quite hard work sometimes, it was worth it.

And of course, not ALL arts have lost their creators. Some artists' style is so recognazible (nanihoo, for instance), it's easy to know it's their work.

And there are still plenty of Logyn fan arts on tumblr, deviant art and Instagram (though the Sigyn tag on Instagram is kinda weird and does not always give you all the posts you'd like to see ^^').

Some artists also created new pieces for the tourney... not sure if all of them posted them.

Anyways, you are right, Anon: for the arts whose artist I know, I'll post the original link (if it still exists, of course ^^').

Slight delay in scanning for now. I just got two shots and blood work done this week on my right arm. It does not feel good but at least it gives me a excuse to post this panel of lost Julie-Su artwork again.

I’ve been looking for this image for quite a while.

things I know about the drawing

.black, yellow and orange

.traditional art (pen, pencil, marker or watercolor)

.possibly uploaded around 2022 or 2023

.image depicts 2 springtraps

.image is like a playing card

if anyone has seen it please tell me about it

please spread this far and wide!!!

Link to the article

Makes me think that there are so many better ways to spread your message then shocking people in a public space and causing a panic... and getting yourself arrested. Of course sometimes there isnt a choice... but this isnt one of those cases.

This group needs to stop. There are so many more better ways to promote your cause.... that being said it's white activism at it's finest. But it only proves to infuriate me more rather than support these people.

This kind of activism only inspires copycats, and people looking for a thrill, or people who actually wish to cause actual harm to things within the public eye, specifically things that are well loved or spoken or documented of.

And even if these pieces are replicas put out to protect the originals... this is such a waste of passion that could be redirected in other ways. The museums have already gone to lengths to keep their collections safe... they don't need protesters using them as their focal point. I said it once and i will say it again. Im so tired of people using the shock factor to get their way.

Especially with the digital age and promoting your voice on platforms bigger than yourself. It has been proven that having a positive impact will far outpace a negative impact with charities and organizations. But no. Once again, important topics and environmental emergencies are just written down to shock and awe.

I'll say this now, of course I care about the cause. I have little care for the organizations who keep doing this however. Yeah sure they hit where the money seems to be going... but are you really going to put it down to oil and oil paints? Really? How ingenious. Note the heavy sarcasm there.

I can't help but feel that this is just the excuse private collectors look for with art. They will argue that these pieces arent as safe as they could be in private collections. Which is bullshit because while a fair amount of people do tend to take care of private collections, they will just as often face neglect and destruction.

That's aside from the fact that they would be ON PRIVATE display. Unavailable to the public. Museums are for the purpose of public enjoyment and education. Not to mention inspiration. And before you say, well I could just look the painting up on the internet, yeah you could, but have you actually gone to a museum and compared a digital photo to a physical work of art?

You don't get the detail. You don't get the understanding of just what strokes were put to canvas or wood. There is something different of the clarity, and the vibrance, and rhe depth of color that you just can't quite capture on film without some form of enhancement.

You won't quite understand the time and effort and life that was put into the mastery behind these pieces of art.

So many masters pieces have been lost throughout the annals of time, likely never to be seen again.

We are VERY fortunate to have funders support their local or favorite museums. Fortunate to have passionate people who dedicate their life's work to preserving the quality of the art and restoring it if needs be.

These are masters pieces that are rich in history and time. And now it's not enough for regular museum security to do their jobs and protect and keep the reputations of these museums. Idk if theyre getting bought off or just... whatever... Personally I would rather keep a more optimistic view of people, especially when it is likely they have this job to put food on their table and keep themselves warm. But it happens. And now security will tighten, which means regulations will tighten, which means more restrictions from a public museum, which means a restriction on entertainment and education, which when you think about it, we all know who will get hit first from that.

So yeah. I support the idea of shutting down big polluting oil rigs. And i would gladly support these orgs if they weren't already shady as hell. But like said before. White privelaged stupid activism. There are so many better ways to promote yourself. Especially in the digital age.

Im just glad that they werent permanently damaged, because there has been so much history of intentional damage and theft in the art community. And then people come in boasting how they are experts in their field and ruin a piece further. Sorry... i was one of the people who actually cared about my art history class in high school.

Here’s fanart of Krusty I did a month back and I forgotten 2 post it lol XD

(I had the speedpaint first ;3;)