Spend time w/your favorite living artist!
Scarlett
would you like to spend time with? I don't know, myself....
See below:
I just returned from a lovely visit with friends and family in
both
Denver and Los Angeles. Part of my trip plans was too do a
series of
drawings in different people's houses which I will turn into oil
paintings
this coming spring and summer.
But, what happened was so exciting to me that I feel like a
teen-age
groupie.
Ten years ago, I wrote to David Hockney because I wanted to
send him
slides of five of my paintings that he was in (I literally
painted him in
windows, doorways, walkways and on the porch). I sent them and
shortly
afterwards he mailed me a signed laser photo of himself and his
dog, Stanley.
Well, I refound his address and wrote to him again along with an
announcement from my recent exhibit in Worcester, Ma. I told him
how I had
admired him for years, been influenced by him, taught his works
in my
classes, and had written about him as well. Then, I told him
where I would
be for a week in L.A. and that was that and I forgot about it.
Once in L.A., I of course visited the Getty Museum and next
the L.A.
County Museum. As I was paying for my David Hockney postcards,
the store
manager started to tell me how people all over the world send Mr.
Hockney
everything from their belly-button lint to their birth
announcements. I
sheepishly said that I too had written to him and hoped he would
call my
friend's phone number where I was staying. He just about laughed
at me.
Well, when I returned to my friend's house, there was a message
for me from
David Hockney telling me he would love to meet me after he met
with the
director of the Getty the next day and before Thursday, when he
had to meet
with the director of the Tate Museum in London!
I called him back and he invited me to come to his house and
studio in
the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday. He was just getting over the
flu, so I
brought him some chicken soup. He met me at the car and I was so
excited
because HE IS THE ONE PERSON (living artist)IN THE WHOLE WORLD I
WANTED MOST
TO MEET. Well, we went into his studio where he had about six
large
landscape canvases in progress along with painted portraits on
the right side
and drawn portraits on the left. He wanted to see some of my
work and I
showed him my most recent interior paintings which both he and
his assistant
really liked. I think he related to the heightened color, wacky
perspective,
subject matter, and I don't really know.
He offered me tea, cookies, and cigarettes. But what he
really wanted
to talk about was the book he just spent a year writing. He went
through
every page with me asking me if I could tell the difference
between
Carravaggios lines and Andy Warhols. His theory is that most of
the artists
from the mid 1500's up until the time of photography used tools
just as the
20th century artists do. Their realistic still lifes, portraits,
etc. were
done with mirrors and pin-hole cameras(camera obscurers),
collaged and then
painted from these mirror images as opposed to the way the eye
sees. Anyway,
I couldn't believe we were having this long discussion, but I
enjoyed every
minute of it.
What I wanted to do, but didn't have the nerve was to ask if
I could do
a sketch (to become a painting) of his studio and maybe, we could
make a
trade! No,no--I didn't ask him. After an hour and a half, He
said he really
must get back to work and so I thanked him and left. I was so
exhausted
(from anxiety and excitement) that I took myself to a deli, ate a
huge lunch,
and was thoroughly thrilled.
Sorry this e-mail is so long, but it was truly a major event
in my life.
I hope you all get to meet the one living person in the
world you would
most want to spend some time with.
--
Scarlett
Website:
http://ScarlettDecker.homestead.com
"Do you know what he needs?
Two or three shock treatments," Mary George said.
"Get that artist business out of his head once and for all."
(from "The Enduring Chill" by Flannery O'Connor)
" "
human, and perhaps the only reason these icons dont meet us, talk to us,
etc., is because we put them on a pedestal and then ignore them?
wonderful story scarlett, so who is the second person you would want to
meet?
Steve
"Scarlett" <scarl...@theriver.com> wrote in message
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Melody
Scarlett wrote:
>
> I friend just e-mailed me about her dream come true. Which artist
> would you like to spend time with? I don't know, myself....
Excellent story!
Sadly enough I can't think of *any* living artist I would want to spend
time with off hand...
Peter H.M. Brooks
Melody <wik...@cdc.net> wrote in message
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to spend time with the dead is attenuated by the prospect of meeting me.
You can see some old pictures of mine at http://www.psyche.demon.co.uk .
I am in the process of updating the site, to add some drawings, pastels
and new oils and acrylics, but have found that I have been delayed by
day to day concerns.Give me a shout and I can send you a photo of one of
my recent pictures.
I do understand ennui. If you suffer from it, I can promise to
alleviate it - especially if you are filthy rich and wish to pay for the
privilege.
--
A car that will not go is not a car at all. - Birkett
Karsales (Harrow) Lts. v. Wallis 1956
Jiri Borsky
(much pruned)
I told him
> how I had
> admired him for years, been influenced by him, taught his works
> in my
> classes, and had written about him as well.
He was just getting over the
> flu, so I
> brought him some chicken soup.
Has David Hockney given up being a vegetarian, then?
Jiri Borsky
http://www.borsky.dial.pipex.com/
Scarlett
copied an e-mail message I received from my friend, Nan, who
loves him.
I think I'd like to meet Robert Rauschenberg, pick his brain a
bit (and his pocket!)
But, I think the point is that things can happen and Nan is a
very high-energy person. I can't gather up the courage to write
or call an artist I admire (plus, there's those nasty
"restraining orders"....)
--
Scarlett
http://ScarlettDecker.homestead.com
"Do you know what he needs? Two or three shock treatments,"
Mary George said. "Get that artist business right out of his
head once
and for all." (from "An Enduring Chill" by Flannery O'Connor)
"" "" <sbr...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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: wowee. you are so lucky. or is it luck? does this not prove
:
Thomas Ziorjen
> I friend just e-mailed me about her dream come true. Which artist
> would you like to spend time with? I don't know, myself....
> [...]
Great story Scarlett!
I think given the opportunity I'd spend some time with Rauschenberg
or Johns. But I'm sure I'd have to get over being seriously
intimidated first.
--
Thomas
online portfolio:
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~sn3222
" "
they are just humans also seeking affirmation and love, just like you and
me.
you can see some of my work on:
http://communities.msn.co.uk/SBaRt
you may want to spend time with me..........but I'm not holding my breath !!
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Alison A Raimes
<scarl...@theriver.com> writes
>Sorry Steve - I wasn't very clear. I've never met Hockney. I just
>copied an e-mail message I received from my friend, Nan, who
>loves him.
>
>I think I'd like to meet Robert Rauschenberg, pick his brain a
>bit (and his pocket!)
>
>But, I think the point is that things can happen and Nan is a
>very high-energy person. I can't gather up the courage to write
>or call an artist I admire (plus, there's those nasty
>"restraining orders"....)
Reminds me of waiting weeks to attend a lecture by Susan Hiller, only to
be plucked out of the audience to work the high technology that
projected the slides onto a twenty foot high screen above our heads to
an audience of around three hundred. I was so thrown back by not only
having to decide when the slides should be changed to the next, but by
the terror of getting it wrong (and earning her wrath) that I didn't
hear one word of her lecture or see one of her images on the screen
above my head. All those questions I'd been saving up to ask her stayed
neatly tucked behind frozen lips .... and that doesn't happen too often
;-)
Alison
http://www.raimes.com
Alison A Raimes
<pe...@new.co.za> writes
>I can't promise to return the favour. However, you may find your desire
>to spend time with the dead is attenuated by the prospect of meeting me.
>You can see some old pictures of mine at http://www.psyche.demon.co.uk .
>I am in the process of updating the site, to add some drawings, pastels
>and new oils and acrylics, but have found that I have been delayed by
>day to day concerns.Give me a shout and I can send you a photo of one of
>my recent pictures.
Brooks is like a second hand car dealer ...
>
>I do understand ennui. If you suffer from it, I can promise to
>alleviate it - especially if you are filthy rich and wish to pay for the
>privilege.
>
>
>--
>A car that will not go is not a car at all. - Birkett
> Karsales (Harrow) Lts. v. Wallis 1956
ha! there you go .... and I hadn't even got to that bit!
Peter H.M. Brooks
Alison A Raimes <ali...@raimes.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Brooks is like a second hand car dealer ...
>
using a sock puppet for a change.
RBrac53660
>>copied an e-mail message I received from my friend, Nan, who
>>loves him.
I've been very lucky in meeting famous people but then I did live in NYC for
ten years.
Barnet Newman
William DaFoe
Duan Michaels
Steve Buscemi
etc.
Its a pretty cool experience