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Exploring the mind and habits of an artist in twenty-five questions
In high school, so around fifteen or sixteen years old. Drawing and painting became the only thing of interest to me, that seemed worthwhile, so after high school I went off to study seriously.
They were always extremely supportive and encouraging.
Michelangelo, Giotto, Pontormo, Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Degas, Kollwitz, Annigoni, and many others.
Francis Bacon.
I have a lot of books.
The need and ability to develop, born from dissatisfaction and determination. Painting is a humbling pursuit.
Yes.
The ones that made the biggest impression were exhibitions I saw in my first year of study after high school. Seeing retrospectives on Gericault in Paris and Ribera in Naples made it impossible to take being a painter lightly.
I prefer not to think about that; I am not sure what I would have done with myself.
I shared a studio in my early twenties with two painters, Charles Weed and Frank Strazzulla, and being around similarly driven people within an atmosphere of mutual respect was fundamentally important to me. No politics, no competition, just the pursuit.
I didn’t (and don’t) have a lot of common sense, so if I stayed too long or didn’t seek something out I needed, I prefer to fault myself rather than the schools.
Probably the Rembrandt self-portrait at the Met, it seems to be different somehow every time I look at it
Architecture, though I suppose it is somewhat related to painting.
Sometimes.
There were a few in Chelsea near my studio I visited. Finding really interesting exhibitions seems somewhat difficult.
That would be a long list, probably as long as the list of overrated artists.
Oil paints.
When possible.
A month or two, usually when life events took over somehow.
Read or get junk done that needs to get done anyway, and try again to work the next day.
Why am I doing this in the first place?
Introspection.
A painting I like.
I would consider social media a good thing if it improved painting somehow—and that is yet to be known. To be honest, I am hard pressed to see it as a positive thing. Clearly more people can see what other people are doing, but the price for that has been a loss of privacy and time to develop, replaced by seemingly non-stop self-promotion.
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