( Thank Heavens - cue pearl clutching, etc - that Ruby didn't fail this essential test of humanity or something. Sarissa is hideous and absurd, idek. )
So it's expressionism, right? The style? But Art Nouveau was this big fuckin' deal around that time, it was like... it was all flowing and meant to be more natural than some of the complicated-as designs that were before it? It's like um, end of the nineteenth century and tipping into the twentieth, yeah? Munch did The Scream in nineteen-ten, I think. '
( She takes a second, biting the inside of her cheek, trying to remember. ) Anyway, it's like... expressionism, which is all about things being subjective and evoking emotion, and he made it because one time he was out on this walk in nature and maybe high, I can't remember, and his friends had just left him, and cutting through everything he heard this scream. And it's all bright red, fiery skies and this cool blue landscape, and—
( Wow, she's getting frustrated, but now it's more obviously at herself, as she tries to scrabble for the right words. ) When we have art and they capture that moment or that feeling and they can evoke that— that shock and those visceral feelings in us, they make stuff make sense, right?
( Pleading, for maybe half a second. ) It's all organic, flowing lines, while trying to make us understand shock and— those things don't automatically go together, in your head. When you think shock and being jerked out of one mental state into another, you'd think more sharp lines, right? So it... creates a nuance? And like... levels? Of how something feels and makes sense?
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( Thank Heavens - cue pearl clutching, etc - that Ruby didn't fail this essential test of humanity or something. Sarissa is hideous and absurd, idek. )
So it's expressionism, right? The style? But Art Nouveau was this big fuckin' deal around that time, it was like... it was all flowing and meant to be more natural than some of the complicated-as designs that were before it? It's like um, end of the nineteenth century and tipping into the twentieth, yeah? Munch did The Scream in nineteen-ten, I think. '
( She takes a second, biting the inside of her cheek, trying to remember. ) Anyway, it's like... expressionism, which is all about things being subjective and evoking emotion, and he made it because one time he was out on this walk in nature and maybe high, I can't remember, and his friends had just left him, and cutting through everything he heard this scream. And it's all bright red, fiery skies and this cool blue landscape, and—
( Wow, she's getting frustrated, but now it's more obviously at herself, as she tries to scrabble for the right words. ) When we have art and they capture that moment or that feeling and they can evoke that— that shock and those visceral feelings in us, they make stuff make sense, right?
( Pleading, for maybe half a second. ) It's all organic, flowing lines, while trying to make us understand shock and— those things don't automatically go together, in your head. When you think shock and being jerked out of one mental state into another, you'd think more sharp lines, right? So it... creates a nuance? And like... levels? Of how something feels and makes sense?