Alex Katz.He saw Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day (see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames), was an American jazz singer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and generally regarded as one of the @ Cannegie Hall, "but it wasn't a good n ight -- near the end." He's watched "Pillow Talk" 4 Times, and "Some Like it Hot" is one of his "all time favorites" He doesn't go for science-fiction "at all." He doesn't like "paint all over my clothes or to get my hands dirty." Consequently, he keeps his studio very tidy. "Too much contact w/ the outer world" gets him depressed and bored, but "if I'm by myself I'm usually O.K." He knew EVA HESSE
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. : "She lived in this building a while w/ Donald Droll droll adj. droll·er, droll·est Amusingly odd or whimsically comical. n. Archaic A buffoon. [French drôle, buffoon, droll, from Old French drolle while she was sick. Dear old Donald." He played the violin when he was "a kid." I told him that I make work specifically for 2 or 3 people on earth @ any given time and asked was it the same for him. "Not exactly," he said. "I do make it for myself -- but I want the truckdriver who takes it away to say something too. And there are messages specifically for other painters, a lot about craft and aesthetics -- the decorative -- which is an unconscious part of what artists do." I asked him why R. Prince asked him about Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel has become a cult classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque, everyman style of prose. in their Interview. He said he didn't know. "It was just an esoteric es·o·ter·ic adj. 1. a. Intended for or understood by only a particular group: an esoteric cult. See Synonyms at mysterious. b. question I suppose." I told him I met Selby a couple of weeks ago in Hollywood, how exciting it was for me, I'd read the book about 5 times since I was 18. He said he had met him too, a long time ago, when he was staying @ the Chelsea and was a friend of Frank O'hara. I told him the CHARLES RAY piece @ Feature reminded me of him, and he could understand that. I asked him if he thought you could tell a person's sexuality by the art they make, and he said that "sometimes you can. Someone like Pontormo is one of the great queens of all time. Some art is neuter neu·ter adj. 1. Having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs. 2. Sexually undeveloped. n. A castrated animal. v. To castrate or spay. neuter 1. : fascist art -- Franco's Tomb is devoid of all sexuality. I think my art is fairly repressed re·pressed adj. Being subjected to or characterized by repression. actually." I told him that I practically cried once in front of his painting Sylvia in his "From the Early 60's "Show @ Robert Miller. He didn't know right off which one I meant. I described it: a woman, maybe in front of a window, lots of yellow, in the smaller room behind the desk. "Oh yes," he said. He seemed surprised. "She's drenched in Adj. 1. drenched in - abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows" drenched covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; sunlight. It's neither happy nor sad, like the light in your work." 17.DEC.1992/NYC |
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