Friday, 18 March 2011

Twofold


Divine

In quiet, black and white portraits, Peter Hujar captures his subjects in moments of reverie. This one shows Divine, a famously foul-mouthed drag queen, usually seen wearing a blonde wig, sequined dress, and garish make-up. In Hujar’s portrait, the public persona is stripped away. Divine appears as a man, wrinkled and balding, resting on a velvety black blanket and gazing into the distance. His half-closed eyes suggest he is on the borderline between dream and sleep... - Whitney Museum of American  Art





Now playing: Divine - I'm So Beautiful
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6 comments:

  1. Jill18 March 2011 at 16:55

    Or Valium...

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  2. Christina @ Fashion's Most Wanted19 March 2011 at 02:33

    It's a fabulous picture. I must check out more of his work xx

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  3. HOBAC19 March 2011 at 18:17

    Christina - the cover of I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons is Hujar's portrait of Candy Darling on her deathbed.

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  4. Benjamin19 March 2011 at 19:42

    While you are looking at Hujar and Wojnarowicz, you must not forget to examine the AMAZING work of Paul Thek, also a lover of Hujar. In fact, Thek made a series of wax sculptures called, Technological Reliquaries, after a trip he and Hujar took to the catacombs of Sicily.
    http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/PaulThek/Images

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  5. Pigtown*Design21 March 2011 at 15:36

    LOVE Divine!

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  6. HOBAC23 March 2011 at 01:13

    PD - one of my heroes.

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