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One of my favorite portrait painters ever, Giovanni Boldini.

Boldini, Giovanni (1842-1931) - 1902 Portrait of the Artist Lawrence Alexander Harrison (Sotheby’s New York, 2004) by Milton Sonn

Oil on canvas; 126 x 101 cm.

Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the “Master of Swish” because of his flowing style of painting.

Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and went to Florence in 1862 to study painting, meeting there the realist painters known as the Macchiaioli. Their influence is seen in Boldini’s landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known. He attained great success in London as a portraitist.

From 1872 Boldini lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He also became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Impressionist influence but which most closely resembles the work of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu. He was nominated commissioner of the Italian section of the Paris Exposition in 1889, and received the Légion d'honneur for this appointment. He died in Paris in 1931.

“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

Tom Hiddleston attends The Olivier Awards at The Royal Albert Hall on April 06, 2025

I am torn between completely ignoring everything going on and obsessing over it. I cannot find a middle ground. I feel like all mainstream media is now being censored and so am finding alternate sources like Substack and Discord. Reddit seems to be under the gun now and important subreddits are starting to disappear.

So I am putting this article forward for you, my followers, and to keep it close. No, I could not read the entire thing. My anxiety level became unbearable and I had to stop.

I just went through an 8 month process to finally get off Lexapro and I am not going to allow this administration to put me back on it!

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO in WICKED (2024)

Following up on the last post, my mind turned, as it inevitably must, to Tom Hiddleston looking so handsome and moody.

Sometimes we must blur the world to endure it.