Fulfill Me

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

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

Chris Cleave, Incendiary  (via wordsnquotes)

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.

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. 

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