Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith

Author:Anna Deavere Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780307487445
Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc.
Published: 2006-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

matters of the mind

Questions

Dear BZ:

Okay, as promised, a full report on my interview with the abstract painter Brice Marden.

Yes, he is as sexy as you thought. (As to your other questions—Do I think painters have to be sexy? And what does this mean for a woman painter?—I don't have an answer yet. I have to think about those.)

It was so windy outside today that a ferry going to Staten Island crashed and some people died. It was this kind of wind that was howling outside when I interviewed Brice Marden. His studio is in a fairly tall building directly across from the Hudson River in New York City. The studio is stunning—all stone and glass, quite large, two floors. His wife paints on the upstairs level. Some of his paintings were leaning against the stone wall. The vibrant colors really leapt out from the stone.

I asked about Picasso, like you said I should. He dissed the man! Really. In fact, I have transcribed some of the interview for you at the end of this letter, where you'll see that when I asked him about Picasso (and I had in mind what you had said to me, that if you could be anybody, if you could have the talent of anyone, you would pick Picasso) … well, he kind of snickered and giggled at the idea of Picasso being idolized. But in the end, he talked about how Picasso did after all make Guernica, an incredible, incredible painting—a “war painting,” as he called it. And Marden asks, “Why haven't we made our war painting?”

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