SALLE: There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. But there is a sense that the artist is a political candidate, and this candidate is being put forward, and they are meant to represent us.
It has not much relevance to the world of conceptual art, but it’s what I refer to almost every day.
You’re sort of looking without actually engaging in one piece more than another.SALLE: No one’s quite figured out how to make the images come to the viewer.
SALLE: No, I don’t think we do. CLINE: You write about giving viewers the autonomy to respond in an individual way.
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This next comment is more of the cranky kind, but when I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. Artist David Salle sits in a vintage Wim Rietveld chair at his East Hampton, New York, studio with three recent paintings. Does it do what it’s supposed to be doing in an efficient way? The American artist David Salle (born 1952) combined the human figure with abstract forms in many of his works, presenting disturbing meditations on our modern existence. I don’t know why that’s challenging. You know it’s magic and that someone’s pulling the wool over your eyes in a way, but it’s so damn pleasurable. Until that point, I just thought that if it was a book and I was holding it, it was probably really good. I never thought it would stick.
David Salle I spoke to David Salle at the end of a blustery Labor Day. Blog Home Abstraction within the Postmodernism of David Salle. But it’s hard to capture the butterfly without tearing the wings off of it. But still that doesn’t answer the question of why people feel art is outside of themselves.
Just because it’s in a museum doesn’t mean it’s anything. It’s fun to think about it.CLINE: It is. 95 1/8 X 122 3/8 INCHES.
We live in a time when people are pretty adept at giving their opinion on anything; that’s how the internet functions in certain ways, facilitating 35 impassioned Yelp reviews of a gas station. OIL AND ACRYLIC ON CANVAS. For example, it was a normal night at a bar, nothing very momentous, when in walked a painter.
I don’t know if they do.
I thought, “Well, the publisher is never going to go along with this. How did it start and who encourages it?
I’m comfortable with that danger. I’m not using its ubiquity or its mere visibility as an indicator of value, but it was such a dynamic concentration of imagistic energy in a specific place related to architecture and urban design and sculptural aesthetics. In these essays, you insist on the human as the scale by which to talk about art. Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures.
IMAGE COURTESY OF DAVID SALLE. It houses hundreds of his works. So yeah, art can fail in lots of different ways or even commit lots of sins as long as it does that occasionally. EMMA CLINE: I was at the Whitney over the weekend, and I noticed something I always notice at museums: the museum gait. To my surprise, people seemed to accept it as a normal, natural title.
It’s fun for me to hear about the art world because it’s gossip in the same way that a soap opera would be gossip, where it doesn’t come to bear on me specifically, but I enjoy it as a world.
Every time I saw it, I just felt so grateful, so happy. There were books I loved, which I only later discovered were commonly understood to be schlocky and sentimental.
I guess that’s the danger one has to be able to live with. But, yeah, Jim is also a great inspiration of how to condense something into a few essentials.
David Salle is a contemporary American painter, printmaker, and photographer. I find it so amazing and so full of wonder when something is good.
They didn’t write anything down. The title could be taken the wrong way. So the problem with that, of course, is that it sounds as though one is embracing a kind of philistinism. Feb 7, 2017. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually. Porter says something like, “Yeah, Rothko paints rectangles of color. artnet and our partners use cookies to provide features on our sites and applications to improve your online experience, including for analysis of site usage, traffic measurement, and for advertising and content management. How did you come to want to write a book?SALLE: It’s just folly, yet another way to waste time, to deflect myself from what I should be doing. Very much in sync with what he produced. I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the Italian work, from a different era, is so comfortable with its relationship to nature and to culture.” He said, “Oh, you’re exaggerating.” But, my point is simply it would have been unthinkable to walk into that show and not say, “American art from this period is really not nearly as dynamic,” or to have some crushing opinion about it. That could be a next generation of museums.