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dark academia dump I



Shown from the lap up, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a goldenrod-yellow dress, sits reading a small book, facing our left in profile in this vertical painting. The deep, scooped neckline of her rich yellow gown is edged with lace and decorated with a mauve-purple bow at the bust. Her chest is covered by sheer white fabric under a ruffled, pleated collar. The ruff is tied at the back with another mauve bow, and a ribbon of the same color ties up her chestnut-brown hair. She has a delicate nose and rosebud mouth, and she tips her head down to read the book she holds in one hand. She sits against an oversize pillow streaked with pale lilac and deep rose pink. Her left arm, closer to us, is draped over a railing that extends across the width of the canvas. The background behind her is streaked with tan and muted teal blue. A vertical strip of light caramel brown along the right edge of the canvas suggests another wall against which the pillow rests. The artist’s loose, lively brushstrokes are visible throughout.

Ophelia – Sir John Everett Millais – Widowcranky

*Indian Summer - Józef Chełmoński, 1875, oil painting | The Old Man and Death. Grim Angel of Death with a Scythe - Jacek Malczewski, 1902, oil painting | Young Girl Reading - Jean Honoré Fragonard, 1769, oil painting | Ophelia - John Everett Millais, 1851–1852, oil painting



note: I may do more of these if y'all like them. I like a lot of academia aesthetics and earth tones, so I wanted to try something new


*The painting by Józef Chełmoński references the Native people of America, who are not from India, and prefer to be called the Indigenous people of America. 


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