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alt text: "stop normalising the grind and start normalising whatever this is" above a painting of a forest where two bear cubs are up on their hind legs dancing together and two other bears are chilling under a tree watching them

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Dancing Bears (1865) by American Romantic artist William Holbrook Beard

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-holbrook-beard/dancing-bears-1865

Also check out his larger work The Bear Dance: https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-holbrook-beard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL, thanks!
(also good to know I described it correctly and they're not meant to be fighting or anything lol)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It also inspired the song "The Teddy Bears Picnic" and has been the inspiration for when the Stock Market is in "a bear market"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrvkHAxnjzI for a Bing Crosby version of the song

My wife and I have had this print in our house for over 20 years. I have always loved it. Currently it hangs right above my record player.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love that song, it was on one of the children's songs compilation cassettes I used to listen to as a kid.. It did come to mind when I was writing the description!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I kinda need this to pride my walls. It's magnificent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Bare Necessities