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Introduction Developing your Ideas, Writing and Art Connections The Studios of Patrick Otis Cox
The Party Couple By Patrick Otis Cox |
Warhol, Van Gogh and the Myth Business Vincent Van Gogh, “I am risking my life for my work”. Andy Warhol, “I lie in all my interviews, and tomorrow I’ll just say something different, because I never remember what I said before ”. Two artists with totally different myths. They both lied
and both told the truth in very different ways. Van Gogh lived on the edge of
hysteria and was prone to drastic mood changes. He would scream at his
brother Theo for not selling his art, and at the same time refuse to conform
to the business world. Cézanne said, “The only thing Van Gogh can teach us is
what to avoid in life and art”. Andy
Warhol said, “Art is what you can get away with”. But why does his
mass-produced prints with mass-produced images sell so will now? What
emotional chord did he create with his work “Marilyn Monroe Twenty Times” in
1962? The strength to grab life by the balls and create with no
limitations is not a dream, but a reality you have to work toward. The live
or die forces screaming that you must pursue a safe course for your life are
only right if you listen to them. If you yield to these forces, you will
loose the spark that could be your salvation from a torturous civilized
existence. Cézanne said, “The only thing Van Gogh can teach us is what to
avoid in life and art”. As you can tell Vincent Van Gogh Andy Warhol said, “Art is what you can get away with”. But
why does his mass-produced prints with mass-produced images sell so will now?
What emotional chord did he sound with people? I believe his work reflected the lost of individualism
with everyone having the same plastic products we all suffer then and today.
His quote about being dishonest is the same as sales people pushing
mass-produced plastic down into our mouths. Notice how Warhol’s images are
never polished or perfect like the advertisements they mock. They are colored
in a disturbing, artificial and resentful tone, which brings out the dirty
sleazy pulp fiction of the real world we witness everyday. Then you have Vincent Van Gogh who said the Night Café was
“the ugiest painting I have done, these reds and greens show the terrible
passions of human nature” painted
with total honesty, but his life was so haunted by demons that his disturbing
brushwork evokes feelings of pain and anguish. Most of us don’t have this bad
of a life, but all know the saying, when it rains it pours. When life is bad,
it is really bad. Seeing his work brings to mind an old friend, Mr. or Ms.
Pain. We are a cast of characters and we all know depression at some level.
Maybe not Van Gogh’s depth. But at times it can be deep. The humanity of art is just that, an honest picture of what is inside. |
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Woman, Ancient Chinese
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