This made me smile and LOL. At first I laughed when I saw what I though was the Edwardian ladies using modern slang haha. Somehow I can't picture any great aunts or other big hatted ladies in old family photos and paintings saying slutty or sexy haha, but it sure made me smile to think of them doing it. Then I realized it was the 'gentleman' in the foreground sizing up the ladies haha.
I love your style in this period and the architecture is a dream. I'm sure I'm paying attention to all the wrong bits I'm supposed to, but there you go :) Lovely stuff tho @katharsisdrill
I wonder what thoughts they had those fin de siecle ladies. I am reading Proust and he reveals some of the underlying layers. But there's probably a certain naivite in him when it comes to women... When I was younger I was sometimes generally surprised about the inconsistencies of the nice lady image and the actual thoughts some of them shared with me in confidence :)
But in this case the 1889 world exhibition is mainly a background setting. The last house is a modified version of the pavilion of the pastel artists association. Most of this is a gross satire about men's mid-life crisis, and a certain sefl-absorbed and whiny type of person. I was a bit feed up with helpless men at the time, so this is not my most friendly or empathic work...
Well, I think it's well done and there surely could be some lovely satire on many of today's "variety" of men haha.
Thank you for sharing this image as well, breath-taking building.