Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman detailing a range of artistic reference, including French tapestries, landscape tradition, and Buddhism.

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on a range of subjects, including writer Edmund White, Buddhism, French tapestry, and the mythical Queen of Sheba. In addition to the diffuse quality of these references, the predominance of the record is dedicated to a discussion of Neiman's own thoughts on landscape painting, and thereby process. It could be then that Neiman is thinking about landscape painting through these various lenses, but nothing in his commentary suggests this reading; his intention remains unclear. Furthermore, the artist had a tendency to create heterogenous lists.

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Notes

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New York (N.Y.) New York

Queen of Sheba
figures in a landscape – close
indulgent, narcissistic, nourishing
reinventing my experiences
you change things for artistic reasons
show your self in a better light
to make a more beautiful work of art.
uncompromising, rigorous
self serving
nirvana – Buddhism
dicy
exacerbated
Edmund White

Pencil on paper.