Fulfill Me

[tastenseemag-deactivated2017062]

[perrfectly]

[radnoir]

[pre-raphaelisme]

detail of Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse, 1896.

[jimlovesart-deactivated20190109]

Anselm Kiefer - Everyone Stands Under His Own Dome of Heaven, 1970. 

[wordsnquotes]

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave, Incendiary  (via wordsnquotes)

[lookingforanepiphany]

Keith Haring in 1989: “Unfinished Painting”. Haring died few months after and this is his last painting. This is supposed to be a self-portrait. Haring knew he wouldn’t have enough time to finish it. This is one of the saddest but certainly the most powerful thing I’ve ever seen.

[auntbutch]

to clarify: this is a finished self portrait. haring did know that he would be unable to continue to work; this “unfinished” painting refers to that self-consciously as a visualization of how the aids crisis and government neglect robbed him of his life and future career.

i feel like this distinction is important? there are many artists who died due to hiv/aids and left unfinished work, but haring made this specifically to comment on his impending death. i feel like stating that it’s actually unfinished takes away some of his agency as an artist/activist/pwa and the political power of the work. 

[bigcatslions]

[flyartproductions]

[f0rbidden-forest]

[90377]

[1graphicaday]

[istmos]

[hiltnbeta]

[basiadziadosz]

[the-garden-of-delights]

“Portrait of an Elegant Lady” (detail) by François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775).

[jaatri]