Reblogged from surrealistaa-deactivated2017031
Miss Atomic Bomb
A 50's soul in a millennium world. 19
Vincent Van Gogh, (Dutch, 1853 - 1890), “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”, Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890. Oil on canvas, 23.4 × 22.0 in, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
(Source: goodreadss, via coral)
Gala serves as canvas for Salvador Dalí (1942), by Philippe Halsman.
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.
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.
(Source: lookingforanepiphany, via keithharingdaily)
