‘A good painting has immediate impact’, says American artist David Salle, ‘but rewards a longer viewing time’.
David Salle is an American painter, printmaker, and stage designer.
From his New York studio, the artist talks about the combination of images that go into one of his multi-layered paintings.
The artist also explains how his interest in ‘exploring the body in space’ has led him to paint the bodies of his models and have them physically lifted onto his canvases to leave an imprint.
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I guess I'll have to risk being a cliche by bringing up Van Gogh. Even when Van Gogh fell into the trap of being "intellectual," for example inserting his take on Japanese prints into the background of some of his portraits, I'm thinking of the portrait of Father Tanguay (spelling?) the art dealer, even then the emotional charge of the portrait overcame the impulse to show us Van Gogh's up to dateness. Do you see an emotional charge in any of Salle's work? I don't. Or in simpler language, it's not alive.
It seems like history collided with the now. Overlapping timelines with a peaceful window for the reflection of memories. We are all carrying the past into the future. Simultaneous integration. It has to be digested in pieces. What an elegant man is he.
Que de la merde.
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he's not a painter nor an artist. It's sad to look at this poor man.
How to talk and talk and talk without saying anything at all…Bravo!
I never watch videos that begin with a cigar.
The moment he lit that cigar I instantly loathed him..what a douche!
I would never put this ,,paintings,, in my house…
If you cannot talk to us without a damn cigar in your gob, you are not worth listening to.
Art critics have such an eye for aesthetics and are so harsh with what they consider to be bullshit – how did the folks filming this not think it would be absurd for him to do the cliche cigar thing?
cool guy.
It’s much better than some of the modern art I’ve seen.
And gallery culture has ruined the human experience of discovering art for yourself and experimenting with new techniques. Now everybody follows trends or established movements guaranteed to get them noticed, and anybody who dares to step outside of that is considered "a bad artist". You ever wondered why your art sells more after your dead? How the rich use artwork to claim on tax relief through "donation" while also earning money at the same time? It's a sick, twisted, elitist society we live within in the art world. Art has become an overpopulated swamp full of mediocrity and cancerous consumerism. If you want to talk about art from a non biased perspective, go check out 'The Art Assignment'. Anything from the Tate or other big galleries-turned-businesses is just one huge circle-jerk. "look at us, we know art! I like to pretend to understand it because it makes my ego tingle!"
If you've studied art history, you'd make the connection that we're back in the age of post-impressionism, where the only good art is art that looks good. Where anything else (Fauvism, Dadaism etc) is considered "bad". Until it suddenly gains popularity, and art that was once rejected from display is suddenly being sold for multimillions… Pssst, surrealism after Salvador Dali murdered dadaism
It makes me sick at the amount of "artists" who smell their own farts.
You ain’t an artist if you can’t explain your own work. Brain full of furts..
What an amazing studio. He must be doin pretty good
Jean-Michel Basquiat
For an artist to talk about his/her art is difficult. I just fall silent whenever someone asks me to explain my art.
I was like: “He lights up a giant cigar. Nope! Pause! Next!”
The art of bullshit.. …my “first level reaction”. you can talk and talk and talk and it wont make a good painting..