🖤🎶#ArtIsAWeapon @officialmarvingayemusic #MarvinGaye's landmark album "Here, My Dear" was released 45 years ago today (December 15, 1978)! Listen to this double album in order from front to back to fully feel this Black soul-opera love / loss / rage / redemption saga!
Track Listing:
Side one
1. "Here, My Dear"
2. "I Met a Little Girl"
3. "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You"
4. "Anger"
Side two
5. "Is That Enough"
6. "Everybody Needs Love"
7. "Time to Get It Together"
Side three
8. "Sparrow"
9. "Anna's Song"
10. "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" (Instrumental)
Side four
11. "A Funky Space Reincarnation"
12. "You Can Leave, But It's Going to Cost You"
13. "Falling in Love Again"
14. "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)"
Via Wikipedia: Here, My Dear is the fifteenth studio album by music artist Marvin Gaye, released as a double album on December 15, 1978, on #Motown-subsidiary label #TamlaRecords. Recording sessions for the album took place between 1977 and 1978 at Gaye's personal studios, Marvin Gaye Studios, in Los Angeles, California. The album was notable for its subject matter focusing largely on Gaye's acrimonious divorce from his first wife, #AnnaGordyGaye.
A commercial and critical failure upon its release, it was later hailed by music critics, in the years following Gaye's death, as one of Gaye's best albums.
The front cover featured a painting of Gaye dressed in a toga in a neo-Roman setting, created by artist Michael Bryan, who stated Gaye described how he wanted to be depicted on the cover. The back cover features a temple with the word "matrimony" collapsing around a mock-Rodin sculpture of a romantic couple. The fold-out illustration inside the original double album shows a man's hand reaching across to the hand of a woman's, about to give her a record. The hands are extended on a Monopoly board—with the legend JUDGMENT written on it. On the man's side are tape recorders and a grand piano; on the woman's are a house, car and ring. The scales of justice sit above the game while, from arched windows, curious observers watch.
“It is not enough to have Picasso's brushes to be Picasso” Alexander Nurulaeff #picasso #favoriteartist #handpaintedshoes #dandyshoecare #alexandernurulaeff #famousphrases #phylosophy #day #portraitphotography #green #shoemaker #artistofinstagram #wiwt #stylishgent (presso Parma Centro Storico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgpBUvsMGLq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Who are your favorite artists?
My favorite artists? Well, if we’re talking about music, the one and only Breezy, Chris Brown, tops the list for me! That guy’s talent is off the charts, and his songs are always on repeat in my playlist. Who are your faves?
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A few more studies, this time focusing on mass. I picked the works of 2 of my favorite artists to study: Yoshitaka Amano & J.C. Leyendecker. If their names are new to you, check them out. They are amazing. . . #leyendecker #jcleyendecker #massstudy #colorstudy #smallartist #photoshop #digitalstudy #favoriteartist #practicepracticepractice #smallartaccount https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdlp4n8olMc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Pic I commissioned Samthemann to do, had him put me as anonymous though since I don’t have a public FA. It’s perfect, I highly recommend hitting him up next time he’s open for commissions
♎️🎨#ArtIsAWeapon Happy 93rd B'earthday to #artistactivist, my hero @faithringgold!!
Images of Ms. Ringgold's extraordinary body of work taken at her 2022 exhibition "American People" at @newmuseum
"Bringing together over fifty years of work, 'Faith Ringgold: American People' provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s impactful vision.
Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories to both document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify the struggles for social justice and equity. From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.
'Faith Ringgold: American People' is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this groundbreaking artist’s vision, highlighted by the first full presentation of her historic French Collection in over twenty years along with many other quintessential works that will be exhibited together for the first time in decades. Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series, this show examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change. The exhibition also foregrounds her radical explorations of gender and racial identities, which the artist incorporates into the rich textures of her "paintings, #softsculptures, and #storyquilts." - www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/faith-ringgold-american-people
Finally listened to ttpd omg love it, probably one of my favorite Taylor Swift album! Be a swiftie since the beginning! She is a genius, she surprised us with a double album! Proud to be a swiftie!! #taylorswift #swiftie #ttpd #thetorturedpoetsdeparment #doublealbum #solonglondon #butdaddyilovehim #florida #whosafraidoflittleoldme #loml #favoriteartist #storyteller #typewriter #songwriter #poet