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I know I am a few years late to this trend, but I did that thing that used to be huge on the internet and took a hammer to a bunch of aluminum foil and it actually worked! I thought it would be terrible, because every guide I found eventually suggested that you bring out your belt grinder and a bottle of aluminum polish, and I am not a metal worker, so I don't have that. Turns out you can get a very satisfying ball of aluminum with just the foil, a hammer, any kind of flat surface to work on and some toilet paper for polishing.

It's shiny and I made it and I can use it as a stress ball by just tossing it from one hand to the other and feeling the satisfying weight. I love it!

North Koreans built this statue.

Mansudae Overseas Projects is a construction company based in Jongphyong-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea. It is the international commercial division of the Mansudae Art Studio. As of August 2011, it had earned an estimated US$160 million overseas building monuments and memorials. As of 2015, Mansudae projects have been built in 17 countries: Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Germany, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe.

The company uses North Korean artists, engineers, and construction workers rather than those of the local artists and workers. Sculptures, monuments, and buildings are in the style of North Korean socialist realism.

Alexei Leonov was a prolific and talented artist, and drew and painted many pictures inspired by his experiences in space

This particular picture is rather special though, because he drew the first draft for it while in space using coloured pencils he took with him

(Post reappropriated from Tumblr)

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Original 1930's ad on the left, recreation from a Libcom.org user on the right.

this is the artist

Frida Kahlo, born on this day in 1907, was a Mexican artist and communist known for her folk-art inspired style paintings, touching on themes on gender, race, class, self-perception, indigenous culture, and chronic pain.

At the age of eighteen, Frida Kahlo suffered a very serious accident that forced her to a long convalescence, during which she learned to paint, and which in all probability influenced the formation of the complex psychological world that is reflected in her works. In 1929 she married the muralist Diego Rivera; Three years later, she suffered an abortion that deeply affected her delicate sensitivity and inspired two of her most valued works: Henry Ford Hospital and Frida and Abortion, whose complex symbolism is known from her own explanations.

Her self-portraits, also of complex interpretation, are highly appreciated: Autoretrato con monos or Las dos Fridas. When André Breton learned about Frida Kahlo's work, he affirmed that the Mexican was a spontaneous surrealist and invited her to exhibit in New York and Paris, the latter city in which she did not have a great reception. Frida never felt close to surrealism, and at the end of her days she openly rejected that her artistic creation was framed in that trend.

In her search for the aesthetic roots of Mexico, a trait she shared with Diego Rivera and the muralists (David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco), Frida Kahlo made splendid portraits of children and works inspired by Mexican iconography before the conquest, but they are the fabrics that focus on herself and her eventful life, which have made her a leading figure in twentieth-century Mexican painting.

In 1943, Kahlo accepted a teaching position at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, the "La Esmeralda." She encouraged her students to treat her in an informal and non-hierarchical way and taught them to appreciate Mexican popular culture and folk art, and to derive their subjects from the street.

Frida Kahlo was a member of the Mexican Communist Party and committed to radical anti-capitalism throughout her entire adult life.

also trotsky cheated on his wife with frida kahlo true story. :frida-commie: :chad-trotsky:

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This Friday we will be watching " White Tiger " (2012) :tank-deluxe: The film is about a badly wounded Soviet tank commander on the Eastern Front of World War II who becomes obsessed with tracking down and destroying a mysterious, invincible Nazi tank, which the Soviet troops call the "White Tiger". The Soviets design a new, more powerful T-34 tank and assign the tank commander the job of destroying the White Tiger. Here is the Trailer

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Bask in awe of her penis shaped fur as she jumps on the dinner table and begs for scraps. Coo at her cute little mews as she rips off the tape from shipping boxes and eats it right in front you. Rub her fluffy, chubby belly right before she bites your computer cables and destroys a $100 webcam because you didn't play with her for a full half an hour that day.

10/10 Puppycat, no regrets despite how she knocks over my windowsill plants if her automatic refill food bowl is empty for more than 2 hours.

I've always just drawn for me, never really to show off, but I've shown friends my art lately and I think I'd like to start sharing it here. So I guess I'll be art posting more since I've stepped back from it all and entirely reverted back to my good ol' artsy self.

Ink is my favorite medium. It's permanent but I find solace in that, especially in times of extreme stress and turbulence where my ability to work with a permanent medium and have confidence in the direction I want to take a piece knowing that fuck ups can ruin the whole thing are the only things I can be sure of. And it's nice to have something that keeps me grounded the way working with ink does.

I just think the composition of this photo really pops.

Credits to yum_paste on reddit

they have some other cool shit they've posted too with a similar style! Honestly very impressive

Part of the exhibition "Unity is Strength. An Art Exhibition on the Fight Against Covid-19" at the National Museum of China in Beijing.

fee free to use the drawing if u want to share

https://twitter.com/gerarddalbon/status/1315717647443599360

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