An artist is truly accomplished when he can carry out new ideas and fresh projects within the realm of a professional studio. David Salle has done just that. Not to mention his insightful observations and lectures relating to the visual arts.
Give us strength! Is there no travesty of art that the middle classes won’t gawp at if it comes with a deep voice and pseudo-intellectual jibberjabber? Emperor’s New Clothes… and it comes with added Debussy. Pass the sick bag…
Appropriation, the buzz-word of my 80s art education, lives on! I admire the fact that Salle has simply stuck to his guns. It's bloody-minded, in a way, and underlines the fact that he's an artist without a subject, which is not a subject in itself, no matter how you dress it up with outmoded euphemisms for 'ripping off' - he's still defensive about this obvious charge. He mentions "free jazz" and I wish he'd actually do a bit of that. Trust a lifetime of painting and go AGAINST his grain. Improvise, sabotage his shtick. Pluck something out of his head. Surprise us! I dare him... Also, please don't smoke cigars. There is no way to do that ironically. It's just a bad look in so many ways and is an ugly patriarchal throwback. And I worry about his health. I'd like him to live long enough to just ditch all the po-mo , kulter vulture stuff and take a flying leap out of his comfort zone. The elderly should rage against the (hopefully gradually) dimming of the light and behave disgracefully - just not in the political sphere. Please Mr. Salle, pull a rabbit, not Bugs Bunny, out of your hat.
Ha! You think smoking cigars can only be a social statement. What a bigot. As bemusing it may be to you and I, he may actually enjoy them. And his ‘subject matter’ has to do with symbols, images, and the power they have over us, specifically in mass media. The fact that it’s appropriation is incidental, not the primary focus of the work.
@@DazzledBanana Hmm, caring about someone's health and pointing out that a drug of addiction (with its own 'cartels') that places the US for-profit, privatized, parasitic healthcare system under an enormous burden, all on the backs of desperate and underpaid tax payers - that is, regular people, not rich and famous artists, is bigoted.? Hey, I'm also "bigoted" against war, imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, environmental destruction, sexism, racism, etc I fess, a bigot I be! Well, I guess Salle has good health insurance... And cigars carry no symbolism? You smoke them just because you "enjoy them" (we'll overlook your addiction for 1 second)? Really? And then you talk about Salle's "symbols. images, and the power they have over us"? Oh my. A cigar is only a cigar, eh? And I guess a US missile falling on Gaza is only an explosive device? I do like how you know your difference between iconography and subject matter, more broadly or figuratively speaking.
@@DazzledBanana Smoking a cigar on camera is a social statement. Duh. As to Salles subject of old New Yorker cartoons, speak for yourself for the "power" they have over you, not us.
David your first stuff was your best stuff. This latest route seems mystifyingly wrong-headed. An homage to a New Yorker cartoonist? Is that all you got?
Why are abstract paintings always huge?? Is it because they are more convincing? Vermeer did not have to be large because he was the real deal. Another aspect is when a painter has to verbally defend their absurdities such as this one.
I think with a larger surface, there’s more the artist can place. I tend to enjoy larger painting because they feel intimidating. In contrast, I also enjoy smaller work because it feels more intimate and invites you to get closer. Neither of these make you the “real deal” though.
“Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.”
~~~ Matisse
“ Whoever wishes to devote themselves to being a critic should do the same “ -Me
An artist is truly accomplished when he can carry out new ideas and fresh projects within the realm of a professional studio. David Salle has done just that. Not to mention his insightful observations and lectures relating to the visual arts.
Love David Salle, but the Debussy in the background make it sounds like he’s trying to sell me foot cream
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Boy David has gone off the deep end.
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It’s almost like David wants to “BE” Peter Arno.
Give us strength! Is there no travesty of art that the middle classes won’t gawp at if it comes with a deep voice and pseudo-intellectual jibberjabber? Emperor’s New Clothes… and it comes with added Debussy. Pass the sick bag…
Are you putting a lot of effort into sounding so pretentious, or does that just come naturally?
I'm no fan of Salle, but please find some other means of critique than the emperor's new clothes, it's moth eaten and musty.
@@hd-xc2lz whatever
Give us strength! Is there no vapid middle class pseudo intellectual criticism of art that does not include the phrase Emperor's New Clothes? 🦜
@@tthomas184 whatever
High level of sophistication
Oh yeah, right. Hahahaha
Appropriation, the buzz-word of my 80s art education, lives on! I admire the fact that Salle has simply stuck to his guns. It's bloody-minded, in a way, and underlines the fact that he's an artist without a subject, which is not a subject in itself, no matter how you dress it up with outmoded euphemisms for 'ripping off' - he's still defensive about this obvious charge. He mentions "free jazz" and I wish he'd actually do a bit of that. Trust a lifetime of painting and go AGAINST his grain. Improvise, sabotage his shtick. Pluck something out of his head. Surprise us! I dare him...
Also, please don't smoke cigars. There is no way to do that ironically. It's just a bad look in so many ways and is an ugly patriarchal throwback. And I worry about his health. I'd like him to live long enough to just ditch all the po-mo , kulter vulture stuff and take a flying leap out of his comfort zone. The elderly should rage against the (hopefully gradually) dimming of the light and behave disgracefully - just not in the political sphere. Please Mr. Salle, pull a rabbit, not Bugs Bunny, out of your hat.
Ha! You think smoking cigars can only be a social statement. What a bigot. As bemusing it may be to you and I, he may actually enjoy them.
And his ‘subject matter’ has to do with symbols, images, and the power they have over us, specifically in mass media. The fact that it’s appropriation is incidental, not the primary focus of the work.
@@DazzledBanana Hmm, caring about someone's health and pointing out that a drug of addiction (with its own 'cartels') that places the US for-profit, privatized, parasitic healthcare system under an enormous burden, all on the backs of desperate and underpaid tax payers - that is, regular people, not rich and famous artists, is bigoted.? Hey, I'm also "bigoted" against war, imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, environmental destruction, sexism, racism, etc I fess, a bigot I be! Well, I guess Salle has good health insurance...
And cigars carry no symbolism? You smoke them just because you "enjoy them" (we'll overlook your addiction for 1 second)? Really? And then you talk about Salle's "symbols. images, and the power they have over us"? Oh my.
A cigar is only a cigar, eh? And I guess a US missile falling on Gaza is only an explosive device?
I do like how you know your difference between iconography and subject matter, more broadly or figuratively speaking.
That's not a cigar he's smoking. It's actually a whiney graduate art student...
I also did a double take when he mentioned free jazz. What? Where? 😅
@@DazzledBanana Smoking a cigar on camera is a social statement. Duh. As to Salles subject of old New Yorker cartoons, speak for yourself for the "power" they have over you, not us.
David your first stuff was your best stuff. This latest route seems mystifyingly wrong-headed. An homage to a New Yorker cartoonist? Is that all you got?
nice lght white
Понты выше крыши....Но это имеет отношение к живописи такое,как я к труду практикующего хирурга....
Meh...
Oh, sorry.. A cartoonist which ironically, is laughable.
ridiculous
pure bullshit paintings
Why are abstract paintings always huge?? Is it because they are more convincing? Vermeer did not have to be large because he was the real deal. Another aspect is when a painter has to verbally defend their absurdities such as this one.
Salle isnt abstract 😊
I think with a larger surface, there’s more the artist can place. I tend to enjoy larger painting because they feel intimidating. In contrast, I also enjoy smaller work because it feels more intimate and invites you to get closer. Neither of these make you the “real deal” though.