Some evening reading for you on this #WorldGothDay! A fascinating look at the Goth movement through #music, #film, #literature and visual #art. Also, everyone looks good in #black.Yet she chose to put some benign (dreaming) writer wth background owls to illustrate her "pop culture" point.
Screenshot from Art Gallery of Mississauga's Facebook page
The article she links to from Britain's The Independent, references more disturbing "goth" paintings than Goya's owls.
Here is one:
The Nightmare (1781)
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Oil painting on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts
As I've sad before, the macabre, the alien, the monster, Satan, is often linked with sex, and often gruesome sex which by all standards is rape. Look how the Hollywood sluts have demonized Harvey Weinstein whose mottled face (from alcoholism?) fits perfectly with their rapist/seductor. They charge that Weinstein "forced" them into sex while they were young and innocent (one at least says she was underage). But then all went bejeweled into his chamber to bedazzle the monster.
The #MeToo movement suddenly made them aware of the corners they cut and the favors they garnered when the went onto the couch of their "director." And who's to say they didn't enjoy it?
Mandy Salter Director and Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga
wearing a #MeToo solidarity black at a gala event where all the guests (see the audience)[Photo from Art Gallery of Mississauga's Facebook page]
came in colorful attire, if not in jewels, which "ethnics" self consciously display honoring themselves
and their surroundings with respectable presentation
This "rape of the virgin in virginal white by the monster creature" is just another example of the "eroticism" of women who dare foolishly to enter such charged quarters.
They swoon, but with pleasure.
This painting is clearly of this creature's "score" after he raped the woman in virginal white.
This is the demonic, Satanic, God-rejecting art that the Art Gallery Of Mississauga's goth "aficionados" have channeled.
The monster and the swooning maiden, coming from self-declared feminists. The irony is lost on them!
But more serious than the AGM's staff monster-sex proclivities is the posting of such demonic imagery and alluding to such woman-beast/monster fornicatlon. Serious because such pornography is posted on an official site of a public agency which is accessible to an audience where "this is x-rated material" does not apply. Young underage (12-year olds) can access this material anytime, anywhere. The physical AGM gallery space, in the City Hall's space, has the billboard "those under 18 cannot attend this exhibition" at the entrance of the AGM's current exhibition seeping upwards, rupturing the surface (lack of uppercase letters normal for titles is a deliberate "subversive" tactic), and without blinking an eye. It's too close to all those grant-granting counsellors!
Let Kendra Ainsworth, the gallery staff who posted the image and article link, do what she will on her private (or not so private) "social media" page, "sip slow" all the beer and wine she wants, and read all the class-conflict "goth" novels she desires (on her patio no less - irony is lost on these people).
Leave the public galleries clean.