Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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