Frasi di William Baziotes

William Baziotes è stato un pittore statunitense, tra i maggiori esponenti dell'Espressionismo astratto. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Giugno 1912 – 6. Giugno 1963
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William Baziotes: Frasi in inglese

“One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.”

Origine: Posthumous quotes, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, (1983), p. 147

“The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.”

in a letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 6 November, 1955; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, Köln, 2006, p. 34
Baziotes' quote is referring to his painting 'Pompeii', Baziotes painted in 1955
1950s

“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”

from Baziote's text for a symposium in 1954; as quoted in William Baziotes – paintings and drawings, ed. Michael Preble, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004, p. 18
1950s

“To be inspired. That is the thing.
to be possessed; to be bewitched.
To be obsessed. That is the thing.
To be inspired.”

a poetry line on his painting, in: 'Tiger's Eye', Baziotes, Vol. I, no. 5, Westport, Connecticut, October 1948, p. 35
1940s

“I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting. What happens on the canvas is unpredictable and surprising to me.”

Origine: Posthumous quotes, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, (1983), p. 135 : original source: 'Willem de Kooning', in 'Moma Bulletin' pp. 6,7

“Its decadence, satiety, and languor [of Roman civilization] interested me. And I kept looking and returning to their wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and their elegant plasticity. I admired the way they used their geology in their art — the sense of mineral, clay. rock, marble, and stone.”

from his letter to Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 6 November, 1955; as cited in the text of 'The Baziotes Memorial Exhibition' and its accompanying catalogue by Lawrence Alloway; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1965, p. 11
1950s

“One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.”

Origine: Posthumous quotes, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, (1983), p. 136 : in Artists Club, January 8, 1952

“In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.”

from the catalog of the traveling exhibition 'Nature in Abstraction', Whitney Museum of modern Art, 1958, p. 61
1950s

“The eye seems to be responding to something living.”

Modern Artists in America, Robert Motherwell et al. eds., First series, New York 1952, p. 100
1950s

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