Note on Art
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Title
Note on Art
Subject
A note from LeRoy Neiman looking at the making of an artist.
Description
This winding note from LeRoy Neiman provides a kind of off-the-cuff mediation on what it means to be an artist. The note touches on everything from personal anecdote (e.g. a design instructor at SAIC telling a student, “Sweetie, your problem is you only, of designing clothes for yourself to wear”), to a historical narrative about Giotto being questioned about sketching sheep by an attendant shepherd, questioning of heredity, and primacy of art historical embeddeness in shaping style. The note is in no way total.
Creator
LeRoy Neiman
Source
LeRoy Neiman Foundation
Publisher
LeRoy Neiman Foundation
Date
c. 1990-2011
Contributor
LeRoy Neiman
Rights
Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details.
Relation
Notes, LN_Notes_1677, LN_Notes_1658, LN_Notes_1674, LN_Notes_1667, LN_Notes_1655, LN_Notes_2250, LN_Notes_1995, LN_Notes_923_01,LN_Notes_923_02, LN_Notes_1871_01,LN_Notes_1871_02, LN_Notes_1702,LN_Notes_1703, LN_Notes_2436_01,LN_Notes_2436_02, LN_Notes_1903_01, LN_Notes_1903_02, LN_Notes_1673_01, LN_Notes_1673_02
Format
Image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Document
Identifier
LN_Notes_919_01; LN_Notes_919_02
Coverage
New York (N.Y.) New York
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
art
The artist does not develop from a void
Bite your tongue or I’ll pin your ears back.
Reaching out from one world of forms (forms) to another. Eldzier Cortor painter
Dress design, telling female student who complained to her she was not getting enough attention.
“Sweetie, your problem is you only, of designing clothes for yourself to wear.”
Artists do no develop (programs) form drawing as a child to maturity. Not from childhood, but from works of their predecessors. The struggles and works of other artists.
The artist is conditioned by art (works) they have seen, and the world of art.
Contact with specific works or (particular) artists
Not out of the blue
[?] saw a shepherd boy, Giotto, sketching sheep life—admired the boy drawing from nature—but it was not the sheep that inspired the boy, but he was thinking as he drew, “Now how would [?] do this?” He was more moved by [?] than the sheep /
Heredity—inheritance, tradition, the sum and the qualities and potentialities genetically derived from one’s ancestors.
The transmission of qualities from ancestor to descendants
here – upon – immediately after this
Heavyweight James Broad
The artist does not develop from a void
Bite your tongue or I’ll pin your ears back.
Reaching out from one world of forms (forms) to another. Eldzier Cortor painter
Dress design, telling female student who complained to her she was not getting enough attention.
“Sweetie, your problem is you only, of designing clothes for yourself to wear.”
Artists do no develop (programs) form drawing as a child to maturity. Not from childhood, but from works of their predecessors. The struggles and works of other artists.
The artist is conditioned by art (works) they have seen, and the world of art.
Contact with specific works or (particular) artists
Not out of the blue
[?] saw a shepherd boy, Giotto, sketching sheep life—admired the boy drawing from nature—but it was not the sheep that inspired the boy, but he was thinking as he drew, “Now how would [?] do this?” He was more moved by [?] than the sheep /
Heredity—inheritance, tradition, the sum and the qualities and potentialities genetically derived from one’s ancestors.
The transmission of qualities from ancestor to descendants
here – upon – immediately after this
Heavyweight James Broad
Original Format
Marker on paper.
Files
Collection
Citation
LeRoy Neiman, “Note on Art,” LeRoy Neiman Foundation, accessed April 25, 2024, https://leroyneimanfoundation.omeka.net/items/show/71.