{"id":157878,"date":"2015-04-23T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/23\/stunglikehell-the-magic-beans-keith-haring\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:58:31","slug":"stunglikehell-the-magic-beans-keith-haring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/23\/stunglikehell-the-magic-beans-keith-haring\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-157878 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/23\/stunglikehell-the-magic-beans-keith-haring\/attachment\/157879\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280-768x775.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280-1015x1024.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n7hikqS9jn1rnj3fyo1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stunglikehell.tumblr.com\/post\/108806458434\/the-magic-beans-keith-haring-in-1989\" target=\"_blank\">stunglikehell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-magic-beans.tumblr.com\/post\/89389204851\/in-case-you-wonder-my-new-avatar-is-a-canvas\" target=\"_blank\">the-magic-beans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Keith Haring in 1989: \u201c<i>Unfinished Painting<\/i>\u201d. Haring died few months after and this is his last painting. This is supposed to be a self-portrait. Haring knew he wouldn\u2019t have enough time to finish it. This is one of the saddest but certainly the most powerful thing I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>to clarify: this\u00a0<i>is<\/i> a finished self portrait. haring did know that he would be unable to continue to work; this \u201cunfinished\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s actually unfinished takes away some of his agency as an artist\/activist\/pwa and the political power of the work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stunglikehell: the-magic-beans: Keith Haring in 1989: \u201cUnfinished Painting\u201d. Haring died few months after and this is his last painting. This is supposed to be a self-portrait. Haring knew he wouldn\u2019t have enough time to finish it. This is one of the saddest but certainly the most powerful thing I\u2019ve ever seen. to clarify: this\u00a0is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/23\/stunglikehell-the-magic-beans-keith-haring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,17743,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157880,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157878\/revisions\/157880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}