Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on artistic reference.

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on a range of his artistic references. The writing opens with a nod to nightlife. Subsequently, Neiman speaks to his interest in Holland and modern Dutch painting. And, the note closes with a list of artistic movements to which the artist also looked. Inserted into this discussion of reference, Neiman provides an abbreviated discussion of the concept of “the study”. (Neiman writes, “I draw in paint / Never make drawings preparatory for paintings.”)

LeRoy Neiman

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Notes

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New York (N.Y.) New York

CULTURATI
NITE CRAWLER
Dizzy’s wife Lorraine was a an Apollo chorus girl

I draw in paint
Never make drawings preparatory for paintings

Drawings are works in themselves
Capital Holland
Rotterdam hard drinking city, known for drunkenness
Reputation of fashionable city
Kees van Dongen born in Rotterdam in
When deKooning was [?] years old

Fauvism (flourished in) France 1898-1908, brilliant
Color, pure, straight from tube, aggressive, direct,
Create exploration of canvas, VIOLENT WILD beasts
Agitated—Cezanne with his vision and style; order and structure KOed its emotional turbulent Fauves in favor of the logic of cubism.
Dufy carefree ornamental bold

Mescaline Acid, Psychedelic drugs

Marker and pencil on paper.