In solidarity with this week's global strike for Palestine, your curators have decided to postpone photography week. This week your pfp and banner are from the iconic Palestinian artist, Mona Hatoum.
🖼️Cellules
🎨Mona Hatoum
📅2012-13
⏰Formal Interest Check will be posted Monday and more info to come next week!
As you wait, let us know your favorite Tannie art moment. We have too many to count, but we're kicking off with The Jihope Monet Date
Your curators are delighted by your interest! We promise more info to come soon.
In the meantime, please enjoy two artworks that are near and dear to us.
Saturn Devouring his Son, ca. 1819-1823
Francisco Goya
Mixed medium
Imagen de Yagul, 1973
Ana Mendieta
Chromogenic print
Starting tomorrow, your curators will pick a new ship each day. For each new ship, we will drop the artwork we think they would meet in front of -- and we want your opinions!
This couple met at MoMA 56 years ago in 1968! 🥰
Myron and Sabine Farber first crossed paths at a Dada exhibition at MoMA. From there, the rest is history!
💌 Help us celebrate their upcoming 55th wedding anniversary! What artwork would you want to fall in love in front of?
♐️ HOROSCOPE PROMPTING GAME 🎨
We are proud to present our first prompting game! Consult the thread below to find the according information for your prompt (use rising or venus or both, if you like a challenge!):
Sun = member-centric
Moon = trope
Rising = era
Venus = medium
Old married couples had to meet for the first time somehow, right? In front of which artwork did Jin make a bad joke that made Yoongi begrudgingly fall in love with him?
Curator🖌️
🖼️ Fish (Still Life)
🎨 Édouard Manet
📅 1864
Curator🖼️
🖼️ The Goldfish
🎨 Henri Matisse
📅 1912
Dear gallery contributors: congratulations on choosing our first header/icon! By voting for impressionism at the end of our interest check you have chosen to feature the below artwork. Future header/icon polls will release weekly.
🖼️ Japanese Footbridge
🎨 Claude Monet
📅 1899
📢 NAMGISTS! YOU'RE UP!
Which artworks are namgi having their first heated philosophical debate in front of? Curatorial ideas below and we hope to see yours!
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Yo Mama
🎨 Wangechi Mutu
📅 2009
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Piles of French Novels
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
📅 1887
📢 CALLING ALL WRITERS 📢
We are opening sign-ups for volunteer writers to join our fundraising initiative! If you are a fiction writer, no matter the fandom, we need YOU!
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🗣️ CALLING ALL VMINNIES
Which artwork are vmin having their meet-cute in front of? Your curators' opinions are below, but we wanna see yours 👀
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Death of the Miser (detail)
🎨 Hieronymus Bosch
📅 1490s
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Rose Bushes Under Trees
🎨 Gustav Klimt
📅 1905
📢📢 TAEJOONERS 📢📢
The two Bangtan resident art lovers! What artwork do you think taejoon would meet in front of? Curators' thoughts below!
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ The Pursuit
🎨 Yinka Shonibare
📅 2007
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Seated Woman with Bent Knees
🎨 Egon Schiele
📅 1917
This week's layout is brought to you by Irving Penn - famous for his photographs of models and celebrities, but did you know he also has a collection of lowkey weird n creepy still lives?
🖼️ Salad Ingredients
🎨 Irving Penn
📅 1947
(for more, check out: )
We've hit 70 prompts and could not be more delighted! Thank you to everyone who has submitted a prompt so far 🥳
Your curators are delighted to present our first ever ship breakdown! 🚢📊
Want to see more of a ship? Submit a prompt via this form here:
🎨PROMPTING CLOSED🎨
Thank you all for your amazing prompts! We've received such INCREDIBLE submissions!
Now, don't forget... claiming opens this Monday, May 27!
🖼️ After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly
🎨 Jane Wong
📅 2019
On the last day of pride month, we want to highlight a very special artist, Agnes Martin. Martin is one of the most important painters of the 20th century and was a closeted lesbian.
To everyone who is in the closet: we see you, we love you, and we support you.
Dawoud Bey is a master portraiture photographer. Your curators will not be taking any feedback at this time.
🖼️ Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY
🎨 Dawoud Bey
📅 1978
🖼️ A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY
🎨 Dawoud Bey
📅 1988
Are your curators a little on the nose with our sope picks? Perhaps. But can you blame us?
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Sunflowers
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
📅 1888
Curator🖼️
🖼️ Impression, Sunrise
🎨 Claude Monet
📅 1872
ALL 2SEOK LOVERS ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Which artwork would 2seok meet (giggling) in front of? Your curators picked their best guesses - share yours with us!
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Untitled (to Barry, Mike, Chuck, and Leonard)
🎨 Dan Flavin
📅 1972-75
Curator🖼️
🖼️ Pink Spraycan
🎨 Futura 2000
📅 1983
🚢📈 Looks like Taejoon and Jinmin are tied for most fics claimed!
Don't see your favorite ship here? We have prompts for every ship, so go ahead and claim your ship of choice!
Your curators feel very strongly about these minimoni picks 💕🥊🌸
Curator🖌️
🖼️ Tight Rooted
🎨 Zoe Buckman
📅 2019
Curator🖼️
🖼️ Flower still life with a watch
🎨 Willem van Aelst
📅 1663
was forced into exile and moved to London. From there, she began her career as a multidisciplinary artist. Her work "explores themes of containment, displacement, conflict, and home." (Artsy) Her piece, Impenetrable (2009), is one of 🖌️'s favorite artworks. It is depicted below.
Claiming opens in T-18 hrs, so we want to highlight 2 of our more unique rules!
🎨 1. Multiple people can claim the same prompt! Since art is so subjective no two fics/artworks will be the same!
🎨 2. If you want to self-prompt, DM us or email us at btsartfest
@gmail
.com!
We've hit 50 prompts! We're so excited and touched that y'all are participating and prompting!
Ship breakdowns coming later this week! 🚢
🖼️ Crying girl
🎨 Roy Lichtenstein
📅 1963
Your curators picked very different - yet very similar - works of art for our Taejin! What would you pick for them?
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ 1947-Y-No. 2
🎨 Clyfford Still
📅 1947
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket
🎨 James McNeill Whistler
📅 1875
Some green works your curators have picked out for ship meet-cutes!
🖼️ Roses Bushes Under Trees
🎨 Gustav Klimt
📆 1905
🖼️ Le Printemps
🎨 Pierre-Auguste Cot
📆 1873
🎨COLORING BOOK PROMPTING GAME
Join us for our second prompting game! Let us know your favorite tropes by coloring in the tubes below.
Be sure to prompt them along with your favorite artworks using this form:
🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH🌈
In honor of pride, your curators will focus specifically on LGBTQ+ artists all month.
We'll kick off our celebrations with a layout change featuring the inimitable Roni Horn, a queer and genderqueer artist (that Namjoon collects!). Artwork details below!
Sally Mann is one of the most successful female photographers. She often photographs the landscape and people around her, which, in her early work, resulted in depictions of rural landscapes and portraits of her children.
🖼️ The New Mothers
🎨 Sally Mann
📅 1989
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 to Palestinian refugees who fled Palestine after the Nakba of 1948. As with all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon at the time, she and her family were not eligible for Lebanese citizenship. When the Lebanese Civil War broke out, she +
You chose green! See this week's icon and header, two of our favorite green artworks below:
🖼️ Blue and Green Music
🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe
📅 1919-1921
🖼️ Cage Grid (Teil N)
🎨 Gerhard Richter
📅 2011
We're baaaaack and we're back with Hopekook! Here are your curators' picks for this snuggly ship!
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Soundsuit
🎨 Nick Cave
📅 2009
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Orange and Yellow
🎨 Mark Rothko
📅 1956
Mickalene Thomas' work reimagines the portrayal of black women in art through a distinctly black, queer lens. Her work is often multi-medium, most notably featuring rhinestones as color, accents, or outlines as shown below.
🖼️ NUS Exotiques
#1
🎨 Mickalene Thomas
📅 2022
Coreen Simpson is not only a photographer, but has been a writer, an editor, and a jewelry designer. Through all of her art, she portrays the Black American experience, particularly that of Black women.
🖼️ Alva with Clock
🎨 Coreen Simpson
📅 1991
☂️🔮💜BORAHAE WEEK IT IS💜🍇👾
And we're celebrating with two female painters from the early-mid 20th century!
Pfp:
🖼️ Petunias
🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe
📅 1925
Banner:
🖼️ Gaea
🎨 Lee Krasner
📅 1966
We have 41 claims so far. Think we can get to 50 by the end of the week? 🤔
🎨 Browse all prompts here:
Don't forget that multiple people can claim the same prompt!
Prompting closes in 24 hours ...
Have something you want someone to write? Get your submissions in now!
🖼️ Space Station: Two Rebeccas
🎨 Cauleen Smith
📅 2018
🎨PROMPTING GIF GAME🎨
Build a prompt with us by taking a screenshot of each GIF!
QRT with your results and then submit your prompts here:
Here's Curator 🖌️'s example 🤭
Info on this week's icon:
Multidisciplinary artist Sin Wai Kin combines film, performance art, and drag to construct narratives around misogyny, racism, desire, and identity.
🖼️ the story changes the body changes (repeating)
🎨 Sin Wai Kin
📅 2022
🎨How does prompting with pictures work?🎨
Easy.
Step 1. You fill out our Prompting Form here:
Step 2. Your curators get everything uploaded to ao3 on the backend for you.
Step 3. Your prompt is up on ao3, ready to be selected once claiming opens!
Hank Willis Thomas is a famous American multi-media artist. In his photography, he explores the continued commodification of Black men, highlighting painful, unacknowledged truths.
🖼️ From Cain't See in the Mornin’ til Cain’t See at Night
🎨 Hank Willis Thomas
📅 2011
📚🎨FIC REC FRIDAY🎨📚
Starting Friday, June 7th, your curators will add a new fic rec to this thread. Each fic will involve art in some way.
Want to submit a recommendation? Fill out the form here:
🖼️Young Girl Reading
🎨Jean Honoré Fragonard
📅1769
🎨UNCLAIMED PROMPT🎨
González-Torres made this piece as an homage to his lover who passed away from AIDS. It represents the way illness slowly pulls away all happiness and joy, one piece of candy at a time.
🖼️ Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
🎨 Félix González-Torres
📅 1991
Your curators are off this week in support of the global strike for Palestine. We will be back next week to answer questions and reengage as normal.
In the meantime, below is a helpful graphic highlighting ways in which you too can participate.
#FreePalestine
📢Starting tomorrow, your curators will highlight unclaimed prompts on Tuesdays.
🌈This pride month will feature prompts with artworks created by queer artists. Can you guess who we might feature first? (Hint: this artist is one of the most famous contemporary artists)
This piece and its lost frame were especially ornate at their inception, and may have originally contained mechanics for clockwork.
🖼️ Ghent Altarpiece (The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb)
🎨 Hubert and Jan Van Eyck
📅 completed 1432
Some fun n silly puppy art for our favorite playful ship, Jinkook! What do you think?
Curator🖌️
🖼️ Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites
🎨 Mike Kelley
📅 1991/1999
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ A Couple of Fox Hounds
🎨 George Stubbs
📅 1792
💎Beautiful boys Jinmin! 💎 Your curators both felt fun and flirty with their picks. Who picked what?
Curator ❓
🖼️ Le Printemps
🎨 Pierre-Auguste Cot
📅 1873
Curator ❓
🖼️The Swing
🎨Jean-Honore Fragonard
📅1767
Today's medieval art isn't one piece but a classification of art known as marginalia. These drawings were made by monks as commentary in the margins of the volumes they worked on. See an example with analysis here:
Today we have some Namjin! Want to guess which curator picked which artwork?
Curator ❓
🖼️ Apocalypse Now
🎨 Chris Wool
📅 1988
Curator ❓
🖼️Postcard
🎨Aiko Hachisuka
📅2016
Welcome to Medieval Week!
We begin with the below tapestry, among the most intricate that survives of its kind. Themes of marriage and fertility permeate the complex flora and fauna seen throughout the work.
🖼️ The Unicorn Rests in a Garden
🎨 Unknown
📅 1495–1505
Is any Yoonkooker ever over HYYH Yoonkook? Us neither. Your curators offer you gay angsty vibes for today ✨
Curator 🖌️
🖼️ Man on Motorcycle
🎨 Robert Giard
📅 1977
Curator 🖼️
🖼️ Piano Keys, Lake
🎨František Kupka
📅1909