me neither, but that was all i could find while trying to understand

the painting reminds me of a scene from a film about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre. Sadly I can’t remember the name

or maybe this

Members of the regular Republican Guards conventionally wore a scarlet-colored triangle insignia on both shoulders of their uniforms (sometimes backed with white material to form a white border around the edge of the triangle)

The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: حرس العراق الجمهوري, romanized: Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003, which existed primarily during the presidency of Saddam Hussein. Initially a praetorian guard unit tasked with the sole purpose to protect the president of Iraq, it grew exponentially during the Iran-Iraq War, transforming into an elite force of the Iraqi Armed Forces. It later became known as the Republican Guard Corps, and then the Republican Guard Forces Command (RGFC) with its expansion into two corps. The Republican Guard was disbanded in 2003 after the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led international coalition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Guard_(Iraq)

@Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works

another 😱

At 33 years of age (the traditional age of Jesus at his death) on the Feast of Pentecost, Toth, wielding a geologist’s hammer and shouting “I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead”, attacked the statue. Following his arrest, Toth repeated his claim that he was Christ and said that God had compelled him to destroy the statue because Christ, being eternal, could not have a mother. Toth was deported back to Australia, where psychiatrists did not consider him dangerous, and has not been heard of since. He was not charged with a criminal offence after the incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism_of_Michelangelo's_Pietà

The red triangle appears in the 1917 flag of the Arab Revolt, with the color red symbolizing Arab independence and unity. The red triangle also appears in the derivative Palestinian flag, which was used during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against British rule and Jewish emigration. In a 1938 photograph, Palestinian rebels are seeing waving a black, white and green flag with a red triangle, with a cross and a crescent, symbolizing interreligious unity, inside the triangle.

Some media speculated that the symbol originates from Nazi concentration camp badges. However, the Nazis used the inverted red triangle to identify prisoners with political views opposed to Nazism, not necessarily Jewish prisoners.

The red triangle has been described as referring to the Hashemites or the ashraf of Mecca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Arab_Revolt 🤷

@Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works

the real purpose of 2020/2021

still?

joined lemmy a week ago to post these?

your 9 post history is so impressive that i will wait another week before blocking this diarrhea

If I paint a study of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, even though I painted it it’s NOT my art. Trying to sell a reproduction without acknowledgment that I’m not the original artist is forgery and fraud.

you’re still looking at art through the lens (window, frame) of today, my comment was to remind that this proprietary way of seeing art wasn’t always the norm. “Original artist” is itself a product of the market. There were no fraudsters, only artisans making images.

Van Gogh is an interesting example, whose paintings wasn’t worth a cent during his life. Others, later on, profited from his work.

Art world itself is full of absurd examples working on these ideas. (Latest must be the Comedian.

“history” has a clear definition and implies writing… i would have written but apparently my understanding is considered “old conception” now ☞

The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5,200 years ago. It took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted, with writing having spread to almost all cultures by the 19th century. The end of prehistory therefore came at different times in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently. It is based on an old conception of history that without written records there could be no history.

As people we are constantly hoarding knowledge and ideas to benefit is individually or as a tribe.

rather ☞ As people we are constantly sharing knowledge and ideas to benefit collectively

owning “imagination” or ideas, images or even melodies is a new idea for humanity. For most of our history people wouldn’t even think of owning an idea and profiting from its reproduction.

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

i kept reading because i too can’t see a dancer in that figure 🤷

but then imagine a figurine of a twerk, found a thousand years from now, without any context to explain what’s happening 😀

depends on how long you can wait

To the American IVC specialist Jonathan Kenoyer, the reading of the figure as a dancer is “based on a colonial British perception of Indian dancers, but it more likely represents a woman carrying an offering” (which he also thinks the second figure is doing), although most sources, such as the National Museum of India, continue to see her as a dancer.

from the Wikipedia page linked by @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Some beer and wine use gelatin for make them clear and less cloudy. I don’t think distilled alcohols do, however.

more like "Some beer and wine don’t use …

it’s easier now but for some time it was very difficult to find vegetarian/vegan wine. From eggs to blood, there is a long list that is used for “collage”

Le collage peut s’effectuer soit avec des matières organiques colloïdales (gélatine, blanc d’œuf, sang), ainsi qu’avec de l’acide tannique (ou gallotannique) C76H52O46, soit avec des matières non organiques (kaolin, bentonite pour les vins blancs).

if?

music has that effect!

this would make a beautiful stamp

☞ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/01/jane-goodall-world-renowned-primatologist-dies