#INTRODUCEYOURSELF….Coffee white, humour black
BLACKPAINT20...30, Female, INTJ Personality
OFFICIALLY A MUSEOLOGIST/#ART HISTORIAN/TOMB RAIDER (yes, really) who realized I am a dark tourist specialising in cemeteries, crypts, catacombs, charnel houses, funerary symbolism and burial grounds, a muse, une gamine, a dark scholar, a creature of darker nature wishing to engage on creative ventures with talented and interesting individuals who share my love for the decadent, the intellectual and the macabre. I am a tumblr émigrée and now I plan to make Partiko my own personal museum, a place where I share the art I have always been fascinated with. My main fascination is Eschatology and the visual culture of death and sepulchral culture; the figure of #Death throughout the centuries, (the triumph of death, the grateful dead, artistic anatomy prints) plague art, Danse Macabre, Vanitas, Death and the Maiden, cemeteries, memento mori objects, European cultural manifestation of deisidaimonia e.g. Phoenician apotropaic amulets, the decadent, the grotesque, demonology, symbolism, occult, esotericism, witchcraft, the weird and wonderful, jewellery (especially mourning jewellery) alchemy, curiosities, oddities, mythology, antiques, funerary art, architecture & symbolism, wonderful interiors of museums …and coffee.
MY BOOKSHELF HAS BOOKS ABOUT…History of art, art and artists, cemeteries and funerary art, Latin dictionaries, erotica, philosophy, teratology, occult, crime and serial killers.
WHY DID I BECOME AN ART HISTORIAN…I was too fascinated with Indiana Jones.
AND A MUSEOLOGIST?.…It was an occupational hazard.
AND A TOMB RAIDER?...I made my peace with the inevitability of death.
IF I WERE NOT IN THE WORLD OF MUSEUMS, I’D BE…a criminologist/psychologist.
SKIN OF CHOICE…too pale with winged eye liner so sharp you could stab a man and sacrifice him to Ashtart.
FAVOURITE STYLE OF ART…I love gritty details, shock, the macabre and anything dealing with mortality. I If I had to choose, one of my favourite art movements is the Decadent movement of the 19th century - my favourite century as well! The movement explored ideas which greatly interest me; madness, evil perversity, sacrilege and sin.
MY FAVOURITE THING ABOUT ART…that it can be so eloquent about the culture which produced it. It is fascinating that you feel a connection with an artwork of the past as if a hand has reached out to you across the ages.
SOME OF MY FAVOURITE ARTISTS… Hieronymus Bosch (and his followers, Jan Mandyn or Mandijn, Pieter Huys and Herri met de Bles), Early Netherlandish monsters/demons. The Flemish trio: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (The Triumph of Death masterpiece) his son Jan brueghel the Older and his son Jan Breughel the Yonger (hellscapes), David Ryckaert, Louis Breton, Jean Delville,Gustave Dore, Jacques Callot, Maximilian Pirner, Jacques de Gheyn, Albert Besnard, Hans Holbien, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Pieter Claesz, Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburgh, Joseph Heintz the Younger, Jan Lyuken, Zbigniew M. Bielak, Caravaggio, Antoine Wiertz,Franz Stuck, Gustav-Adolf Mossa, Michelangelo, Bernini, Rudolf and Conrad Meyer (Danse Macabre) Salvator Rosa, Hieronymus Wierix, Leonard Bramer, Felicien Rops, Jacob Cats, Le Poitevin, Vasily Wilhelm Alexandrovich Kotarbinsky, Bartholomaus Bruyn (Barthel Bruyn the Elder), Frans Francken the Elder, Frans Francken the Younger, Christoph Jamnitzer, Günter Brus,Malcolm Liepke, Juan de Valdés Leal, Leonardo Bistolfi, Francisco de Goya, Goitia, Stefan Eggeler, Marcelo Bordese, José Segrelles, František Rint, Alessandro Magnasco, Jacopo Ligozzi, Kawanabe Kyōsai, Gerald Scarfe, and Martin Van Maele.
MY MOTTO…Carpe jugulum; “Seize the throat.” And Memento Mori of course.
MY BLOOD TYPE…#Coffee.
TOOLS OF THE TRADE…Black pen, archives, notepad, passport, ICOM card, wifi, mobile phone and word processor
FUN FACT… St. Anthony is my favourite saint because of him artists depicted many fantastic imagery of demons
NOT FOR…the faint of heart.
