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In Pachuca, Mexico, hundreds of houses serve as the canvas for what has been called the country’s largest mural. Each colorfully painted house plays a part in the mosaic – serving the project’s goal of bringing the community together.
i want Kim Michey to come to the netherlands
Jerri Finch (Belfast, Ireland) - Burning Off, 2011 Paintings: Oil on Canvas
now that’s fucken art to me
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.
Ollie Lucas, The Alternative Space, 2014
Kumi Yamashita - Origami. Creased Japanese paper, single light source, shadow, 366x366x1cm (2011)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Undressing Adara Sánchez Anguiano
"The act of undressing amazes Adara in a way that is difficult to explain, ‘It’s like a romance with the human body, a cupid’s arrow every time I contemplate it,’ she explains. The project revolves around a quotidian gesture, the intimacy and sensuality of a casual and ephemeral movement. In her illustrations she explores the expressivity of human figure in sometimes forced poses. She is fascinated by the idea of the extraordinary exposure of the anatomy by a simple and daily gesture like undressing. But it goes further than a simple human body study. ‘The act of undressing is a rebellion, the uprising of the skin over the tyranny of clothes, it’s actually an act of freedom,’ Adara states."
KENT WILLIAMS TOPSY-TURVY ( 2014)
David Bowie’s paintings
