Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait in Hell, 1895. Oil on canvas
why have I not given Munch a good look, The Scream is such a turn off… but but this.
Robert Rauschenberg with his tongue stamped “Wedding Souvenir, Claes Oldenburg,” photo by Dennis Hopper, 1966.
(Source: moremoviesmoremovies)
"I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work. I fear it will be forced and mechanical. Architecture interests me, but not in the sense painting and sculpturing does… As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell."
Jackson Pollock at age 17 in a letter to his brothers Charles and Frank. [l] (via artistandstudio)
consequently I have been within my own shell
Jenny Holzer, from the Living Series, 1980-82
From MoMA:
Since the late 1970s Holzer has used text as her primary artistic vehicle. Many works have had a public presence; her pithy, ironic, and often disturbing statements have been presented on posters, T-shirts, baseball caps, and a flashing screen in Times Square, New York. In the Living series, she has adopted the bronze plaque in order “to have the look of a voice of authority, of the establishment,” she has said.
