Encanto is a lovely movie! And there’s so much great fanart of the characters interacting, so here’s one from me: Luisa and her dad bonding over piano music!
Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting
Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”
the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”
More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.
He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.
Painting titled “My Loved Ones”
[in reference to his career] “the most immediate and lasting part of my life’s work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children.”
OMFG I used to work at Carl’s house which in now a museum in Falun, Sweden, and now his art is on my dash!
I could tell so many stories about this family, but to sum it up they lived the definition of what we would call a cottagecore life where both Carl and Karin worked as artists in their dream house that they designed and built together. It really was an artist’s home built with pure love, and also a big contrast to what a typical Swedish home looked like at the time. The late 1800s trend was to have a dark home with gothic vibes and brown and dark red colours. The Larsson’s home though is bright and colourful with big windows and homemade textiles sewn by Karin.
I also wanted to tell a bit about Brita, the cute little girl on her father’s shoulders in the painting in the original post. She was the fifth child of seven and felt sometimes like she didn’t get enough attention from her dad as a middle child in a big family. To get more time with her dad she would ask him to paint only her as often as possible since then she could talk to him without any of her siblings annoying them. This is how she became the most painted of all the children with hundreds of portraits made with her as the model. She was 89 years old when she died in 1982 and loved to talk about her childhood and those many, many painting sessions with dad.
This is one of my favourite paintings of Carl Larsson, A Viking Raid in Dalarna. Here we have all the children in a boat during a cool summer’s eve (from left, Pontus, Brita, Lisbeth, Ulf, Kersti, Esbjörn, Suzanne).
I reblogged this post too quickly before checking the notes and seeing this fantastic addition. I love how Brita came up with a solution to her problem – wanting some undivided attention from her father – in a way that worked for both of them.
Saw Jared Bush’s and was just immediately struck by the idea of A Child dealing with the constant come down off of honesty that only adults should have to take on. So yeah. Let the boy have some sand.
(I swear to god I have some happy Encanto/Bruno drawings coming.)
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Encanto (2021) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Julieta Madrigal, Original Male Character(s), Original Child Character(s) Additional Tags: Abuse, Anger Management, Hurt/Comfort, Sins of the Father, Healing Summary:
Gift fic for @papermachette of a scenario in which her OC Chepe brings his daughter to Julieta when she collapses on their farm. Julieta’s food can heal physical wounds, but her words may be enough to soothe some deep internal struggles.
Ok. Briana is Chepe’s third child and the first daughter from his 2nd marriage. He has two other estranged kids, a son and a daughter, from his first marriage. His son is the oldest and in his twenties, daughter 18, and Briana is 8 years old. Out of all his kids, Briana is his favorite and treats her with kindness. His other kids not so much when he was in their lives. His first wife was fed up with his abusive personality, so she packed her things and took the kids and left. Much later in the years, he tried to reconcile with his two kids, but they chose not to reconnect because of trauma and them not forgiving him.
As for Briana, she is a kind soul. She is nothing like her dad and takes more after her mother. She loves her dad very much, and Chepe is very protective of her. The reason why is that she was born premature and she was very sickly. The only reason she was able to survive was because of Julieta’s gift. She has a mild heart condition and gets really tired easily when stressed or overworked and gets fevers. I always believed that Julieta couldn’t heal everything especially something that was congenital. Most of the time she can heal physical trauma. Chepe will often take his daughter to Julieta to get herbal medicine from her or get healed. Chepe still respects the Madrigal family, especially Julieta.
A little extra note. Briana knows of her other siblings and sometimes she fears that her dad will abandon her. So she tries her best to be on his good side. She keeps her worries to herself.
