Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on touching on artistic career, family, and reference.

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a duplicate response. The writing traffics through a range of subjects, such as racial injustice, Neiman’s relationship with his brother Earl, and work with Playboy magazine. Little of the remark proves either conclusive or comprehensive. However, Neiman does elaborate more on the impulses and relationships that fueled his success; this discussion exists largely on a plane of generality and abstraction. The reason behind duplication proves unclear.

LeRoy Neiman

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c. 1990-2011

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Notes

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New York (N.Y.) New York

suffered form injustices
racial issues challenged their dignity
They persevered through their music
The long shadow of slavery lingered
The long struggle for evil right
Insurrection—dark period equality
I had a found it difficult to deal with my brother
Earl for the poignancy of his goodness
Culture vultures

The perpetual observer.
Recording the events that I witnessed
The life of my time with style
Involvement in contemporary sociological
(the financially fit and the elitist)
I’d grasp exterior details—close up.
Watch their manners as they were not on guard against me. I was allowed to mix with them as I presented no challenge. (I didn’t share a want in) Their wants, desires, needs.
Stifled by parents, oppressed by misery. My sight penetrated to the depth and secret scrutinizing of social life. (My gaze) embracing the scene. Fascinated, I flung myself into the world of PLAY.
HE LOVED WOMEN. NOT INDIVIDUAL women, but women. /

suffered form injustices
racial issues challenged their dignity
They persevered through their music
The long shadow of slavery lingered
The long struggle for evil right
Insurrection—dark period equality
I had a found it difficult to deal with my brother
Earl for the poignancy of his goodness
Culture vultures

The perpetual observer.
Recording the events that I witnessed
The life of my time with style
Involvement in contemporary sociological
(the financially fit and the elitist)
I’d grasp exterior details—close up.
Watch their manners as they were not on guard against me. I was allowed to mix with them as I presented no challenge. (I didn’t share a want in) Their wants, desires, needs.
Stifled by parents, oppressed by misery. My sight penetrated to the depth and secret scrutinizing of social life. (My gaze) embracing the scene. Fascinated, I flung myself into the world of PLAY.
HE LOVED WOMEN. NOT INDIVIDUAL women, but women.

Felt-tipped pen and pencil on paper.