Sometimes we like to pretend that it doesn’t matter (usually after a lukewarm review!), but of course you want others to share your enthusiasm for your subject and to feel that you’ve presented it in a beautiful, intelligent, enlightening way.
Instead of being discouraged when a professor and leading contemporary artist dismissed this choice as “not good art material," I saw in his dismissal an undeveloped land, something to be explored and developed.
The latest generation of Americans may one day hold the record for being the most conservative, smug and ignorant group of consumers in the history of this country—at least since the one my parents belonged to.
When you mention ‘poetry,’ I consider the language of this film from beginning to end as visual poetry. Like a poet we essentially depended on the use of allegory and metaphor to tell our story.
This Broadway loft, his studio, is the embodiment of Clemente’s sensitive response to life, to literature, to religion, philosophy and mysticism. This, in turn, echoes his yearning for the harmony created when balancing opposing elements
Sometimes a subject will want to assume the stance or behavior of figures in works of art, such as those by Schiele, John Singer Sargent, or whoever. Sometimes with younger subjects, Balthus comes to my mind in the quality of pensiveness or the beautiful awkwardness embodied in a person
The expressiveness of her left hand in counterpoint to the closed right hand of the makeup-artist whose thin brush hesitates millimeters from Monica’s left eye, highlights the brilliance of her eyes that burn through and beyond everything within reach.
Today most Americans are still unwilling to recognize the existence of pubic hair. Hence the proliferation of hair removal salons that help to turn the naked human (usually female) body into the nude.
