Presented without comment.
1. It Looks Like A Landscape, Liu Wei (2004)
2. The Bathers, Henry Scott Tuke (1888)
3. Photo of Samson Mdzunga climbing into an Aeroplane drum during a performance (2000). When they’re not cropped awkwardly, his drums look like this.
4. Cropped from Persian manuscript folio, Unknown Artist (16th C.)
5. Salutat, Thomas Eakins (1898)
6. Untitled (derrière rouge), Alina Szapocznikow (c. 1970-71)
7. Woman before a Mirror, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1897)
9. El Festival de Sacrificio, Judithe Hernández (2009)
11. Statuette of a female, Northwestern Iran (early first millennium BCE)
12. Behind the Trellis, Kendall Shaw (1992-6)
13. Caryatid, Amedeo Modigliani (Not dated. The artist lived 1884-1920.)
14. Next Bathers, one (picking flowers), Carroll Dunham (2012)
15. Bather, Picasso (c. 1908-1909)
16. Aspara statue from India (12th century)
17. Twin Henrys, Mike Kelley (2009)
18. Cumul I, Louise Bourgeois (1968)
[They could be butts. They are definitely bubbling.]
19. A Storm, Georgia O’Keeffe (1922)
20. Marble statue of a youthful Hercules, Roman (c. 68-98 AD). Photo from The Metropolitan Museum of Butts.
Tags: art history, butts, history, Johannah King-Slutzky
Man, I wish I had “Woman Before a Mirror” butt. That butt is EPIC.
That is a lovely ass.
It is impossible to buy jeans.
I have that butt.
I am also a redhead. It is possible that I went back in time to be painted.
That guy in #10 is seriously terrified of butterflies.
Are you not?
Or enraged by them, not sure.
or butts
If you can zoom in, it appears that there butterfly is eating a hole into his leg.
OK, that would make me more than passing scared of them.
Ow.
Venus of Willendorf is the original tribute to bubble butts.
That Picasso really speaks to me. I need to find a print.
Metropolitan Museum of Butts!
that is my favorite tumblr. well, one of them.
Actual email I wrote to the author:
“Hi Johannah King-Slutzky! This is great; can you include a few more bubble butts of colour? It’s a little white-bubble-butt heavy at the moment.”
the butts of colour definitely added to the experience!
While some may ass-ess a post about butts and decide it’s the bottom of the barrel, I give it a spanking good round of applause!
That’s quite enough of your cheek.
Oh, don’t be an asshole.*
(*OK, that was way harsh, Tai, but only for the pun! The puuuuunnnnn! I think you’re lovely!)
I am 100% behind* this kind of scholarship.
*heh
I just spent a good ten minutes mentally cycling through my fields of Art History knowledge to find more examples of great butts in art.
shaaaaare.
Pretty great soundtrack in my head right now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-NXv5Tma0&fe…
yassssssssssssssss
Me too! Bu-bo-bu-bo-bu-bo-bounce!
You know that feeling when you repeat a word so many times it loses all meaning? Watching this video made me have that feeling, but with visual representations of butts. What even is a butt? It’s just the tops of the legs! Why do we have a word for this area? Why are we so obsessed with it? Why is it a singular thing, when there are clearly two symmetrical but distinct things going on there? WHAT EVEN IS A BUTT
Finally, some media representation.
Tina Belcher for President
Seriously, seeing Modiglianis in person gets me a little hot & bothered.
Hahaha I have a Modigliani print and my boyfriend HATES it. But it’s not a nudie, so that may be the problem.
This bubble butt says thank you.
You know, it really DOES look like a landscape.
Dat ass tho.
But (ha) isn’t #4 a knee?
I thought so too, but I’m imagining otherwise for the sake of this collection.
This made my butt feel weird. Tingly? Or maybe I was just hyper aware?
Hmm, me too! My therapist wants me to work on body awareness/mindfulness more, so maybe I should ask if this post counts.
Butts! Toulouse butt is the best butt.
I’m listening to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJqfVPMYGvA) right now and it lines up wayyyy too well with this gif.
What about Venus Callipyge?
really hoping this becomes a series.
A SERIES A SERIES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Beyonce: reincarnation of Aspara? (daaaaammmn.)
Why is the Modigliani butt backwards? Whyyyyyy? Also the Iranian statuette. What is up with this backwards butt thing?
Toulouse Lautrec. Whoa. Whoa. I cannot handle that bodaciousness.
I have that butt.
I am also a redhead. It is possible that I went back in time to be painted.
Oh god that Hernandez is giving me feelings, and not pleasant ones.
Um, me and That Guy are very attached to that statue of an APSARA.
Relevant: http://io9.com/who-knew-illuminated-manuscripts-c…
Medieval fart jokes made by monks
I’m gonna have to disagree with #5. There is not nearly enough gluteus medius development on that for me to consider it a bubble butt.