Observations on Celebrity, Personality and Power
Language: English
Published by Blurring Books, US, 2023
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Rarewaves USA, HEBRON, KY, U.S.A.Rarewaves USA
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"Fairfield Porter is a bit of a mild dish, don't you think?" Alice Neel asked me in the late 1970's in her Spanish Harlem apartment studio on 107th Street. Alice, always a bit of a tease, was competitive in an endearing way, and I knew the answer she wanted me to give. I like Fairfield Porter, but I knew what she was aiming at. "Yes, he is a bit, Alice," I replied.She then went on to show me the portrait she had done in the 1930's of Joe Gould with multi-phalluses protruding from his torso and giggled "Don't you just love it?!"This moment came to mind when I was asked to say a few words about Cumwizard's paintings. Mild dishes, they are not. Like Neel, the work can be brazen, direct with forthright painthandling. The subject matter can be considered to be "unsavory". Who else has made paintings of Donald Trump? Does this mean Cumwizard admires Donald Trump?Certainly no more than Warhol admired Mao, who proceeded to apply lipstick and mascara to his official face. I appreciate Cumwizard for approaching Trump as a subject, and it was one of the first paintings of his that I acquired. And God knows I detest Trump. Cumwizard is what one would call an outsider artist-self-taught but surprisingly sophisticated in both subject and execution. He is not following any 'trends', and allows a pleasant reprieve from a relentlessly inbred artworld. - John Cheim.…
Seller Inventory # LU-9798986197555
- Title
- Observations on Celebrity, Personality and Power
- Author
- Cumwizard69420
- Publisher
- Blurring Books, US
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798986197555
"Fairfield Porter is a bit of a mild dish, don't you think?" Alice Neel asked me in the late 1970's in her Spanish Harlem apartment studio on 107th Street. Alice, always a bit of a tease, was competitive in an endearing way, and I knew the answer she wanted me to give. I like Fairfield Porter, but I knew what she was aiming at. "Yes, he is a bit, Alice," I replied.
She then went on to show me the portrait she had done in the 1930's of Joe Gould with multi-phalluses protruding from his torso and giggled "Don't you just love it?!"
This moment came to mind when I was asked to say a few words about Cumwizard's paintings. Mild dishes, they are not. Like Neel, the work can
be brazen, direct with forthright painthandling. The subject matter can be considered to be "unsavory". Who else has made paintings of Donald Trump? Does this mean Cumwizard admires Donald Trump? Certainly no more than Warhol admired Mao, who proceeded to apply lipstick and mascara to his official face. I appreciate Cumwizard for approaching Trump as a subject, and it was one of the first paintings of his that I acquired. And God knows I detest Trump.
Cumwizard is what one would call an outsider artist―self-taught but surprisingly sophisticated in both subject and execution. He is not following any 'trends', and allows a pleasant reprieve from a relentlessly inbred artworld. -- John Cheim
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About the Author
With partner Howard Read, he opened the Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City in February, 1997. The continuity of Cheim’s vision and commitment to artists was immediately expressed in the gallery’s inaugural exhibition Lousie Bourgeois: Spider. In 1998, Cheim’s support of Alice Neel’s portraiture culminated in Alice Neel: Men In Suits, paintings from the 50s to the 80s. And in 2007, he curated the first ever survey of Joan Mitchell’s works on paper. The catalogue was co-produced with Steidl. Over the course of the past 25 years, the gallery has exhibited works by Dianne Arbus, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Cumwizard69420, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Jack Pierson, Marco Pariani, Tal R, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, Kimber Smith, Andy Warhol, and Matthew Wong, among others.
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