Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on printmaking.

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a fragmentary introduction to the artist’s relationship with printmaking. The writing opens with an anecdote concerning Toulouse Lautrec (in which a french actress refuses the artist's gifted work). Falling out of this decontextualized tidbit, Neiman provides an unfinished definition of a monoprint that leads to phrases such as, “prosaic commonplace / similar features resembling monkey or apes.” He closes the note with, “paint metaphorical, metaphorically / passage or image in a painting literally denoting one kind of object, or idea, is in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.” The nature fo the note is not known.

LeRoy Neiman

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c. 1990-2011

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New York (N.Y.) New York

Star actress Marcelle Lender and Theatre des Varietes 1895 refused gift from Lautrec of his painting of her, which he [in turn] kept in his studio the rest of his life.

Monoprint is a

prosaic commonplace
similar features resembling monkey or apes

a clutch of drawings
nest of eggs or brood of chicks

eschewed

inviting and rebuffing the viewers gaze
Sub-Text (Text)

paint metaphorical, metaphorically
passage or image in a painting literally denoting one kind of object, or idea, is in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

Pencil on paper.