
Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann
Visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with Vasily Kandinsky (October 21, 1930)

Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann
Visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with Vasily Kandinsky (October 21, 1930)

“I can’t see anything that I don’t like about you.”
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
+listen this isn’t an happy ending. no one gets saved and no mysterious stranger shows up with pockets filled to the brim with adventures. there’s no forgetting, no “it’s gonna be alright”s. they just learn how to move on. together.

dazed & confused may 1997 “sports illustrated” photographed by paulo sutch

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.