Abstract Art is Political | Artist Sam Gilliam | Louisiana Channel
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- “It’s fun to fail. You learn something: How not to fail.” We had the pleasure of meeting one of the great innovators in post-war American painting, the legendary abstract painter Sam Gilliam (b.1933), in “the most beautiful place on earth” - his studio in Washington D.C. With warmth and humour, Gilliam shares stories from his life and talks about painting.
“The thing about art is that sometimes you’re broke. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but I’ve never lost entirely. As Aretha said: You just keep on keepin’ on,” the painter says laughing. Gilliam talks about drawing on dirt as a child and being inspired by Marvel comics and murals. He finds that abstract art can be just as political as representational art: “It messes with you. It convinces you that what you think isn’t all. And it challenges you to understand something that’s different… Just because it looks like something that resembles you, it doesn’t’ mean that you have an understanding.” In connection to this, Gilliam stresses that when he makes art, he likes the experience of coming out with something different: “That’s what I’m here for. That’s what art is supposed to do. It’s supposed to change.”
Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) is an American painter associated with the Color Field School. He is particularly known for his innovation of hung and draped canvas outside of the traditional stretcher frame and has also worked with plastic and sculptural elements in his paintings. In 1972, Gilliam represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale - the first African American artist to do so. Gilliam has had solo exhibitions at Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA in New York among many other institutions, and in 2018 he was the subject of a major retrospective at Kunstmuseum Basel. His works are held in several collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Modern in London, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Gilliam is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honours.
Sam Gilliam was interviewed by Christian Lund at his studio in Washington D.C. in October 2018.
Camera: Matthew Kohn
Edited by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Produced by Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2020
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"If you have a problem, then the important thing is you learn how to solve it. You solve it by listening, practice, choosing different ways."
Yessir
What a fascinating person. Would love to listen to his stories for hours.
Absolutely agree with you !!!!!!! Artworks , voice and manner of speaking fascinate Thank you, MASTER SAM GILLIAM !
He was great to know.
"If you do a good show. sometimes you cry".....love it.
What a pleasure and how lucky that we get to see and hear him!
This man taught me so much through his art! I have never heard an interview with Gilliam before this. A quiet brilliance.
Sam the pigment on your canvas is as dryly soft as your voice...an open work on a lovely mind! Thank you Sir.
I think he's beautiful and not only do I enjoy his abstraction and use of color, but his innovative creation of draped and "sculpted" canvas.
This makes me cry. He’s so sweet! I wish him the best remaining years ever! 😭😭
Man that answer to the question how abstract art can be political is just amazing!
Thank you...I was day dreaming and your comment helped me listen better. I'm glad I didn't miss that
@vamsee sundru it pushes having an open mind. it teaches you that how you view the world and everything in it can be very different from how someone else does
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What a sweet human being. :-)
Never seen & hear befor ..its amazing...thanks so much Universo ..🙏
What a great soul. Truly inspiring!
“The will to concentrate”
That is some inspiration I’m putting into practice today.
…the greatness of the unfinished, in the sense that something can exist, and then it can not exist, and I don’t know if I’m really geared to just painting, and the manifestation of painting - painting through progressing, which has that strong begetting through, education of Giotto, having gone to Giotto’s temple outside of Venice. I’m in love with Tintoretto, not so much his paintings but seeing the flatness of his paintings, looking at a madonna you can feel the splash of the paddles in the canal. - thank you, Sam. What a gift to us
Well I never knew Muhammad Ali's Dad was a mural painter ! Sam Gilliam : inspirational human being X
Sam Gilliam is wonderful to listen to. No platitudes that we are often bombarded with by experts or so called. Sam is talented and confident . Thank you for the interview I will now google more on him.
I so like and respect this man, this artist. Mr. Sam Gilliam is very real, authentic, so human - the way all people should be. I'm going to look up his life and work as soon as I finish watching this wonderful video. I know that by the time I complete my reading and research, I'm going to absolutely ADMIRE this fantastic human being of a man. A true artist. Thank you for introducing him to me!
I love how he tells the story.
Amazing ART.
I could listen to this man all day.
RIP Sam Gilliam. Heaven will be beautiful. Regards
Sam you are wonderful and your art reflects your brilliance ⭐❤🌟
You know what I love about his work? The splash complimenting color combinations that make sense and I would've never thought about. Also may I add Mr Gilliam's voice can lull me to sleep, like hearing your dad read you a bedtime story. Peace!
Thank you for the excellent vibrations. Sam Gilliam is an inspiration.
I’m so glad I came across this video, this is my first time seeing his work, he’s a true inspiration
Can’t not love this man and deeply respect his voice and clarity. This was a very rare and entirely inspiring, liberating yet sobering interview all at once!
An artist and human being I’d l’d dream of meeting and conversing with.
Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️
Amazing to hear Mr. Gilliam's words and to hear him defend abstraction so directly and eloquently.
And so lacking in ego! I usually don't like to hear people blabbing about art.
🌠🌠😍😍he is so fun..love his color and palette..beautiful..very inspiring
Oh, what an amazing artist and inspiring man....Sad to say that I just read that he died today at 87......but his art will live on forever.
Sorry to hear this a year later. Rip brother. Your work truly shines far beyond your years and will continue to do so.
How lucky for us all. Sometimes painting really matters. Andbthat alone makes it a political, and perhaps a spiritual practice.
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Fabulous work, such talent, subtle colours, lovely man to listen to.
What a beautiful man! Loved his emphasis on practicing....practicing getting the color you want, the effect of his practice is inspirational.
I have two of your works! I love love love them!!! Thanks for sharing your talents!
I do both well. Ha ha! I love it.
This opened my mind - thankyou.
I have never seen Gilliam’s work before. He is amazing.
You learn something when you fail:
How not to fail.
I needed this today. Thank you.
I could listen to this guy talk all day :D
his piece at the saint louis art museum is a gem. glad i looked him up, what a good soul
Beautiful wisdom
Came here for the interview but got SERIOUS ASMR TRIGGERS 💯💯💯
WOW!!! such colour....
Incredible and touching interview. I'd love to talk to the man even if its for 30 seconds. I love his work so much. The draped painting outside against that rocky wall really stood out to me.
I give you full suport guys 👍❤️🙏
Heavy Gratitude.
This is the older me. Man I love this guy so much and I’m just now seeing this
Beautiful work and person.
Absolutely gorgeous painting Thank you for sharing this
Fantastic. He's talented, articulate and adorable. This was an excellent interview.
Thanks so much! We're glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing man, amazing art.
Thank you it is dreamie
love it ! "artist´s shoot at a target"
My god his voice is so calming
A master of color.
Yes!🙏🏾
Love his work.
He's a genius
So are you 🙏🏾♥️🌍
Beautiful Man!!! ❤️
Love this thank you 🙏🏾
I am very attracted to socalled abstract art. I Think its a way of catching the key qualities of the wonder, aliveness and beauty of a moment, a time-space-relation expressed symbolically through color, texture, sensitivity and movement. Its a multidimensional language of the body-mind-heart-world
Thank you for sharing this wonderfull video 🙏🎵🎶🎵
Best interview...a true human being.
Fantastic work & interview!
RIP lovely creative soul.
Maravilhoso! Parabéns!
I'm from Brazil!
I like this guy. He would make such a good teacher for kids or anybody.
I could lose myself in colors of his paintings...
Nice...artlife always i2f the artist...one love...blessings
this is great.
I love this Artis he is fab.
Why haven't I heard of Gilliam before? Very interesting and satisfying.
I feel with him life is beautiful
Badass 🔥💯❗
Sam, Sam, Sam. You made it !!!
He and the draperies behind him really look like a great 👍🏾 painting in soft pastel
Those are his paintings rather than draperies. He became famous in the 1960s for taking canvas off the stretchers and hanging, or draping, it. He had one man show at the Museum of Modern Art. He said, "It felt GOOD. I bought myself a new suit that day and wore it to the ooening."
Very nice 👍🙂
thats it bam thats me love the works
Great video
Thanks for sharing
Je continuerais à aimer tes couleurs et ta liberté.... comme tu les mélangeais et les faisais danser !
Merci Sam!
''It's the will to concentrate.''❤
THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜 AWESOME
An amazing artist! I just heard about his passing and was just getting to know him. A real loss to this world too soon.
Just wow.
Thanks
I really enjoyed this interview. Thank you
The use of fabric is brilliant...I’ve never seen his work I’m embarrassed to say.
Great interview with the master of Color field and form. I think that what he meant is that “Art is suppose to change...”, change as you see it more clearly, less clearly, with your own current perceptions, prejudices, likes, knowledge, exposure, light, humor, experience, etc. That is why he hangs his work differently every time. also, wd have like for the video to have subtitles as it was difficult to hear what he was saying.
Sam's work will always be 'alive' and outside of 'time'
Man said milk man on horses at his door. He’s seen some stuff in his day
Presentation. If you dream Big or Bigger you need to be good enough, not easy!!! But ,, staff gets Better if We Work on it" 👈this is gold☝️🙏
Wow! I'm just now seeing this two years later. I saw that he died recently and then this video popped up. I had never heard of him, but I'm completely enthralled with him now. What a fascinating artist! I love his voice.
i would recommend going out of your way to see some of Sam's work in person. You sound like you really have an appreciation for his painting aesthetic. I was a student of his when i was very young (in the late 1960's) and he was generous and influential to me. He's one of my favorite painters and I wish he were still around to continue following the thread to where his work was leading him. I have closely followed his evolution for 50 years and all of it is exceptional.
rest in peace og
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super art
Great talk
Fantastisk interviw og snak med Sam Gilliam. Ham ville jeg gerne se en udstilling med 🥰🥰🥰
Voiced as an angel
Son muy bonitas tienes mucha. Sabiduría un abrazo
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❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Rip legend
I’m interested if he tried animation and character art. I would like to see those samples.
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What a beautiful man