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DessertStorms@kbin.social to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 239 points –

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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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

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

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.

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!