Deliver me to history, I studied a lot of art history a sort of side effect of becoming a professional fine artist. I admit I slept through some classes on abstract art but otherwise I know a bit. Which brings me to Victorine Meurent a woman who modeled for Manet's most significant works whose name I've used in several works including the show in Berlin with Stu Mead named WHEN LOVE BECOMES POISON - I love that title it's my best effort at melodrama noir art. So I've been thinking about Stu because of a book we are doing and talking a bunch recently getting jpgs bigger. I showed the cds in installations there, including Victorine Meurent which is the most treasured of all the discs paying homage to Meurent and the great painter of the moment Mssr Manet. So it's a bit history driven and art obsessed after all I was in art schools from 1963 until 1986. It mind as well have been a long confinement in a mental hospital. The real world is not to be found in art schools. The models are the professors best friend, they keep the students busy whilst the professor thinks on the company's dime. Thinking is the main activity of the mind. Thinking about art is a free inquiry like science the experimental model is required. The outcomes sometimes prove startling, and now for my Top Ten List -
1. Victorine Meurent,model immortal image in greatest paintings of Manet (where modern art began).
2. Velvet Underground (Andy Warhol brought us this band)
3, Dreamsicles
4. Favorite movie Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks dir. MGM
5. Jackson Pollock
6. http://stumead.com
7. Peter Saul
8. Wittgenstein
9. The Clash tied with Al Green
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov or Heidegger's book on Nietzsche
Best I can do today -I'm painting on LP,s cds harder to find, it's downloading age. No.11 opera