In the Studio with David Salle 

“Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.” ~~~ Matisse

An artist is truly accomplished when he can carry out new ideas and fresh projects within the realm of a professional studio. David Salle has done just that. Not to mention his insightful observations and lectures relating to the visual arts.

Love David Salle, but the Debussy in the background make it sounds like he’s trying to sell me foot cream

David your first stuff was your best stuff. This latest route seems mystifyingly wrong-headed. An homage to a New Yorker cartoonist? Is that all you got?

Boy David has gone off the deep end.

It’s almost like David wants to “BE” Peter Arno.

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Appropriation, the buzz-word of my 80s art education, lives on! I admire the fact that Salle has simply stuck to his guns. It's bloody-minded, in a way, and underlines the fact that he's an artist without a subject, which is not a subject in itself, no matter how you dress it up with outmoded euphemisms for 'ripping off' - he's still defensive about this obvious charge. He mentions "free jazz" and I wish he'd actually do a bit of that. Trust a lifetime of painting and go AGAINST his grain. Improvise, sabotage his shtick. Pluck something out of his head. Surprise us! I dare him... Also, please don't smoke cigars. There is no way to do that ironically. It's just a bad look in so many ways and is an ugly patriarchal throwback. And I worry about his health. I'd like him to live long enough to just ditch all the po-mo , kulter vulture stuff and take a flying leap out of his comfort zone. The elderly should rage against the (hopefully gradually) dimming of the light and behave disgracefully - just not in the political sphere. Please Mr. Salle, pull a rabbit, not Bugs Bunny, out of your hat.

Give us strength! Is there no travesty of art that the middle classes won’t gawp at if it comes with a deep voice and pseudo-intellectual jibberjabber? Emperor’s New Clothes… and it comes with added Debussy. Pass the sick bag…

High level of sophistication

Meh...

Понты выше крыши....Но это имеет отношение к живописи такое,как я к труду практикующего хирурга....

nice lght white

Oh, sorry.. A cartoonist which ironically, is laughable.

ridiculous

Why are abstract paintings always huge?? Is it because they are more convincing? Vermeer did not have to be large because he was the real deal. Another aspect is when a painter has to verbally defend their absurdities such as this one.