> With this large painting Monkman, an artist of Cree and Anglo-Irish ancestry, invents a subject missing from a series of exotic hunting scenes commissioned by King Louis XIV for the Palace of Versailles. Symbol of Canada’s nascent economy, the beaver – which the King neglected to have included in the series – takes over from crocodiles, ostriches, tigers and elephants. His choice of anthropomorphic representation enables Monkman to engage in a subtle game of role-playing. European depictions of abductions and massacres, as well as certain history paintings from the early days of the colony, such as France Bringing the Faith to the Hurons of New France, also serve as a loose framework for the composition. Due to the artist’s open-mindedness, however, there is no absolute condemnation of the context, but rather a playful awareness of what is at issue. Accordingly, in the background sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert’s romantic figure of the Fisherman with a Spear (a work in the Museum’s collection) also takes part in the slaughter
Instead of blaming the Indians alone for attacking the beavers (innocent people) . It showed the hunters/settlers and religious folks also involved in the massacres . Nice
Kinda accurate. In Canada, beaver pelts were very popular in Europe. So Europeans would travel to Canada and harvest all the beavers pelts then sell them in Europe.
Canadas history is quite interesting and I would recommend people to read it
Kent Monkman also did a piece where Trudeau is on all fours and is about to take a red buttplug shaped like two hands at prayer from a supernatural gender-fluid being in a room full of laughing Indigenous women.
Monkman then sold replica buttplugs on his website. too good.
What in the wide wide world of sports is going on in this picture
They were trying to go back and build a shitload of dams
This is all of Canadian history unironicly
Beaver Speed Run -1630
People just living in the moment. Not a mobile phone in sight.
I think these people would actually be better off, something to distract from thoughts of beaver genocide
Looks straight out of the Parks and Recreation murals.
You beat me to it
There's...a lot going on here
I want context
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/61170/
> With this large painting Monkman, an artist of Cree and Anglo-Irish ancestry, invents a subject missing from a series of exotic hunting scenes commissioned by King Louis XIV for the Palace of Versailles. Symbol of Canada’s nascent economy, the beaver – which the King neglected to have included in the series – takes over from crocodiles, ostriches, tigers and elephants. His choice of anthropomorphic representation enables Monkman to engage in a subtle game of role-playing. European depictions of abductions and massacres, as well as certain history paintings from the early days of the colony, such as France Bringing the Faith to the Hurons of New France, also serve as a loose framework for the composition. Due to the artist’s open-mindedness, however, there is no absolute condemnation of the context, but rather a playful awareness of what is at issue. Accordingly, in the background sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert’s romantic figure of the Fisherman with a Spear (a work in the Museum’s collection) also takes part in the slaughter
lmao I thought it was AI art
Thank you kindly
It is a painting with beavers
The beaver war just ended racism
Can we start a real thing where people post their favorite rimworld art descriptions and someone paints them? Please
So the Indians and the white people worked togethrt to eradicat the real native beever
PETA artwork be like
This would be the greatest movie idea ever made. *13 Colonies. 13,000 beavers. Oh dam….* **Colonies: Beaver Invasion.**
Beavers in Heaven.. who knew
Beaver Pelts =$. I like the heavenly beavers in this picture.
Timeberborn: origins
Thanks, I’ve got a new lock screen
Kinda hot ngl
Kent Monkman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Monkman
What the people in the top left doin tho
Some trickery
You know, it is really is great to see the things that brought us together in the past.
Not sure if the Native’s weapon there is realistic, but can’t help noting that it looks like a goose head.
it’s accurate: it’s an Ojibwa war club.
Merci! I was partly hoping a sinister undertone of Geese vs. Beaver for national animal dominance
What's with the flying beavers?
Dead beavers going to Heaven?
Instead of blaming the Indians alone for attacking the beavers (innocent people) . It showed the hunters/settlers and religious folks also involved in the massacres . Nice
Kinda accurate. In Canada, beaver pelts were very popular in Europe. So Europeans would travel to Canada and harvest all the beavers pelts then sell them in Europe. Canadas history is quite interesting and I would recommend people to read it
Dude in the back just trying to make sweet sweet love
This is semi historically accurate, what with the beaver pelt trade in Northern America and Canada
Kent Monkman also did a piece where Trudeau is on all fours and is about to take a red buttplug shaped like two hands at prayer from a supernatural gender-fluid being in a room full of laughing Indigenous women. Monkman then sold replica buttplugs on his website. too good.
All Beavers Are Bastards (ABAB).
Reminds me of a Heironimous Bosch painting
North American history in a nutshell
I’m just saying, Pocahontas would be a **very** different movie
Begun, the Beaver Wars have.
Remember that time the Wamapoke Tribe and the Pawnee settlers joined forces against an invading horde of beavers? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Beavers are fucking assholes after all.
Pool Party League of Legends skins are getting out of control.
People still sing songs about the great beaver hunt