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Doodle comm for @sichfaggot666

YEESH

To illustrate, here is Marie van Goetham - better known as Little Dancer of Fourteen Years - modeled c. 1879, by Edgar Degas.

This sculpture marked the end of Marie's dancing career with the Paris Opera Ballet, and altogether. She was put on blast for this work - critics called it 'ugly', 'depraved', etc. And she stopped going to classes.

Marie van Goetham slipped off the face of the earth.

And yes, she was 14 when she modeled this work for Degas. She modeled for him for ~2 years. What could have happened during those years with Degas?

Unfortunately, it was common practice for older aristocratic men to 'privately sponsor' ballerinas. Degas was one of those men, or at least existed in the same realm. He had many other young ballerinas model for him in his studio over the years, creating countless paintings and studies.

These paintings endure today. The figures are so beautiful, so poised. The colours and brushwork are praised. A bronze cast of the Little Dancer recently sold for 41.2 Million dollars.

This is a call for us to look harder at the artwork we are surrounded by. We take artwork at face value. The work becomes ornamental, purely decorative, and boring, boring, boring.

and often, that is what it was intended to be. Especially the female image. But as informed, clever people, we can look deeper into the meanings and messages art offers.

In a world where this questionable work is still revered and prized and praised, it is up to us to challenge these images.

I have been going back and forth on allowing smaller cats but the point is that no matter what the size of the actual cat is, the big cat woman will always be big and strong. Because what matters is the cat spirit within the woman. Maybe this kind of cat woman would behave as if she were a smaller cat, but she would still be a big strong cat woman. Ergo, she would try to sit in boxes that are too small for her, or only chase small prey.

Ocelots are cute, i'll add her to the list!