Legendary Filmmaker John Waters On the Audacity of Cy Twombly

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What is like to live with a work by post-war master Cy Twombly? According to legendary filmmaker John Waters, it’s “great because every day when you pass it you think of his nerve. The audacity of him doing this.” Watch our video to find out more about John Waters’ longstanding admiration for the artist and to see the two Twombly paintings that will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 11 May in New York.
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@stevennewlin8640 2 года назад

John Waters talking about art needs to be a ongoing series.

@mattlohr 5 лет назад

It must be said: That is a fabulous jacket.

@shaunloynds5317 4 года назад

...and the shoes!

@gardensofthegods 2 года назад

I definitely want those shoes ... does anybody have any ideas what brand it could be ?

@of496 Год назад

“All great art is hated, and then it changes everything” I love that

@TheNecessaryEvil 6 месяцев назад

Just because something changes, that doesn’t automatically mean it’s improved.

@of496 6 месяцев назад

@@TheNecessaryEvilsubjective, of course.

@rivinish 5 лет назад

Will there ever come a day when we won't have to defend ourselves for liking contemporary art?

@BobPagani 5 лет назад

Why defend yourself to anyone ever? You like it and that's justification enough.

@ConvincingPeople 4 года назад

In a way, I kind of hope not, precisely because of what John says here: It's a great way to keep assholes away.

@dansmith4984 3 года назад

Let’s hope not because then it means it has stopped being challenging

@swicheroo1 3 года назад

I've never had to defend myself for liking contemporary art. But I am surrounded by people who are very open about all kinds of art. I think that if I ever had such an encounter, I'd probably just stay away from whomever was heaping their ignorance and aggression upon my consciousness.

@aztro.99 3 года назад

damn you must be persecuted everyday 😱😱😭

@havefunbesafe 3 года назад

One of my favorite reviews on cy twombly. John gets it.

@khalilac17 Год назад

Youre a moron

@brianmcmanus4286 3 года назад

What a fuckin' score! My favorite director breaking down an artist I've only recently given serious thought to, an artist who is almost violently divisive. Cheers!

@samuelbridgman6664 Год назад

What a wonderful critique! John Waters has amazing taste! He is a National Treasure!

@LaMasLatinaaa 8 лет назад

this was AMAZING

@markpx Год назад

To paraphrase Pound, art is news that stays news, ugliness that stays ugly, beauty that stays beautiful, depth that stays deep.

@shaunloynds5317 4 года назад

Truly wonderful. The best thing I have seen in ages. Elegant, defiant and honest.

@ItsVinnieHager 4 года назад

this is my favorite video on the internet

@DanBlabbers 5 лет назад

"one must have chaos in the soul to give birth to a dancing star." - nietzsche. Out of dysfunction, rebellion and taking the path less traveled you become something dazzling and unique. Cy Twombly's art encapsulated that. There's a beauty in destruction and unless you've broken the rules, been an outsider or marched to the beat of your own drum you won't find the beauty in his art. If you live for structure and morals to make a framework for your life, then stick to impressionist. They are loved because they take a safe step outside of the salon accepted atelier art, cy is a huge leap.

@helenconnolly6805 5 лет назад

Beautifully stated

@gardensofthegods 2 года назад

@@helenconnolly6805 yes I agree with you ; very well said

@dannyichijou1588 Год назад

Im selling my art for $1 billion. Wanna check it out ?

Год назад

Such soulful words to describe such soulful artwork. 🖤

@elflaco6654 8 лет назад

I lived in Houston Texas for a year, uh... The worst city I have ever lived in but, they do have some good museums and art galleries. The best being the Cy Twombly Museum just a stroll from the Mark Rothko Chapel.

@earlspencer7863 5 лет назад

Y u hate Houston?

@missybeegood5359 3 года назад

Hey...we 💙HTown 👍👍👍

@gardensofthegods 2 года назад

Wow I'm going to have to check it out because otherwise I never had a desire to ever pass through Houston ever again .

@dylantech Год назад

I’m only watching this video because I discovered how ridiculous the art world is by attending the Twombly museum in Houston. I couldn’t help but laugh at everyone taking his scribbles and aborted sculptures seriously. As a comedian who showed us the true lunacy of modern art, Twombly is a genius, but his pieces are merely instrumental props made to sell the ruse.

@michaelgeisert289 Год назад

@@dylantech 😂😂

@cedarraine7829 Месяц назад

I have to watch this at least once a month ❤

@pritchettdan 2 года назад

I have two prints by Twombly. Love his work!

@furbabyfineart1172 2 года назад

This was surprisingly excellent

@sophisticatedshrink 3 года назад

I love this on so many levels

@gardensofthegods 2 года назад

Same here , my friend .

@fj103 Год назад

Pls bring John waters back again!!!

@taramerryman7330 Год назад

I’d listen to him talk about anything🤘

@GreybeardtheSurvivor 3 года назад

Now THAT was enlightening...and a riot.

@mclare71 4 года назад

I could listen to John Waters forever! I humbly ask that you tone down the music in these beautiful think pieces. It detracts from the authenticity of what is being. Thank you!

@therossauger 5 лет назад

I hope he's still got that cardboard from his dad.

@jeff6660 7 месяцев назад

I love every single word that John Waters had to say in this video about Cy...not to mention that I am falling over crazy in love with the way he dresses. Just 'in your face' in the most adorable way. Good on you John!!!

@sintes88 3 года назад

He was one of the greatest crooks in the history of art, I'll give him that.

@jward8868 4 года назад

What makes Twombly’s work so great is that he had the audacity to create it

@PiersPlowman 3 года назад

😑😑😑

@thewozmancan Год назад

“Wards off assholes!” You have to love John Waters. I was lucky to work with him on Hairspray.

@ew3861 5 лет назад

now that’s a way to make art history classes better.

@expressdual1 Год назад

thank you thank you thank you for those wise words!

@sunflowers2469 2 года назад

that’s nice that John loves these works. see, there’s art for everyone. he can buy all the prints and keep them in his house so no one else has to see it.

@connectingthedots100 2 года назад

Oh wow love this explanation!

@nikolausgerszewski2086 4 года назад

I like very much how he speaks about this work.

@albertandrews130 Год назад

genius about genius

@mylindacasbarro777 Год назад

Art is so interesting and be Cy as to My name.

@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl Год назад

Interesting thx Mr. John Waters

@quikslvrx 3 года назад

I cant draw a straight line, but I can definitely express myself in this manner. I am a high school drop out/single parent on welfare. As a castoff of society, if I had the audacity to create such art, are there people that would pay such prices for it?

@cli260 2 года назад

Gotta try it out, cause asking this question on the internet never gonna make you find out the truth

@steven1822 Год назад

just do it. free yourself from your self and just let your brain command your hands. you will amaze yourself.

@elliottewryan Год назад

do it! make art!

@Renan064 8 лет назад

What is the name of the book John Waters talks about in the video? Thanks!

@marinatrujillo8012 6 лет назад

Renan De Oliveira I'm curious too!! Did you ever find out?

@MetamorphoseostouXR 6 лет назад

It's "Letter of Resignation" by Cy Twombly, published in 1991 by Heiner Bastian (in Berlin, Germany).

@bluetoad2001 2 года назад

i have an early copy of “The Palmer Method of Business Writing” it really is a Twombly sketch book primer.

@user-nz4yd3iu4t 2 года назад

멋찝니다~~

@athenaambrosia8670 4 года назад

Omg I love him "keep away assholes". Love him so much

@hbomb65 2 года назад

yes YES yes!

@tomfurgas2844 7 лет назад

I keep trying to appreciate Twombly, really working at it. I do like his sculptures, but the paintings and drawings still leave me cold. And I love abstract art! But those scribbles drive me nuts.

@1chipchap 7 лет назад

we dont have to resonate with everything. its ok to only like some things an artist does. nothing wrong with disliking. it good you can appreciate his sculputures but not his paintings.

@cliffdariff74 6 лет назад

You feel the I do about Philip Guston.

@wray8166 6 лет назад

his art keeps away assholes...

@tomfurgas2844 6 лет назад

Late Guston also drives me nuts. Ridiculous cartoon Klansmen, bums, and so forth, painted as if with hideously tinted lard. His nose-thumbing gesture at the whole art world and art market. But those horrible canvases are still around, still driving us nuts.

@tango31313 6 лет назад

His scribbles are only part of his overall work. I don't enjoy them too much but most of his other work is sublime.

@monicanudelman Год назад

❤❤❤👏👏👏

@anbernika 7 лет назад

100%

@chrisknapp4050 Год назад

I do not think he was ever audacious. He simply did what he wanted to, never giving thought to what anyone thought. He was oblivious to what others thought.

@xlerosx 2 года назад

He always has the greatest shoes.

@littleghostfilms3012 3 года назад

John Waters is our deranged seer into our world in all it's madness, hypocrisy, delight, and absurd contradictions. I've never seen him utter a single sentence that wasn't funny or perceptive.

@zenoist2399 4 года назад

The only audacity of him is to call it art.

@apes4days254 4 года назад

The audacity of you to define art by your uneducated opinion

@juangringo8811 4 года назад

It is art. (garbage art, but still art)

@chezceleste 3 года назад

What are you doing here asshole?

@gardensofthegods 2 года назад

Well , if they hated Cy Twombly's work ; they're going to really hate mine ... ... The world , mos def, is not ready for my artwork it is just too bizarre . I would consider myself blessed if my paintings and sculptures could keep the assholes away . I have photographs from long ago of my son when he was little at the Philadelphia Art Museum standing in front of Cy Twombly's work with his arms up . He was standing on a bench it appears as if he is holding up the painting .

@dantewalter6600 3 года назад

My new goal in life is to simply get rid of the assholes. Then I shall be at peace. Thanks John!

@AudiobookLibrary24-7 5 лет назад

@ericdavidwallace Год назад

That is a true genius - An Artist that keeps A-holes away.

@chezceleste 3 года назад

If you can repel assholes you will have a happy life. Didn't stop smiling for the length of this video.

@samahdi6972 2 года назад

Twombly whose art makes as much sense as his name, the powers that seem to be are taking the pi - - we are being mocked from all sides Science, Health, Education, etc etc Lunatics rule the Narrative, and Sotheby's are milking it.

@goyaassfilms4551 10 месяцев назад

True success is keeping the assholes away. Couldn't agree more.

@alfiemarie Год назад

it looks like his chair is moving :/

@superdan422 6 лет назад

so what makes cy twombly so great is that his work is so abstract that you have to project your own made-up meaning on to it? that's what i got from this video.

@Davidparle71 6 лет назад

Perhaps its the urge to speak but without the forms of language...body and not mind.

@cedricduguay8492 5 лет назад

He deconstructed writing, its a gesture, an irony, a posture, the gesture of a dandy* from the text :cy twombly: works on paper

@123oner 4 года назад

Yeah what a weird interview. Couldn't agree less about the hand writing, or the idea of translating. And where he says 'the audacity' as if he knows it's all bullshit. Cy's just an exceptional mark maker.

@ezragonzalez8936 2 года назад

The value of Twombly's art is based on the disgusted feelings meritless envy it creates!

@abstractbybrian 8 лет назад

LOL!

@123oner 4 года назад

What a weird interview. Couldn't agree less about the hand writing, or the idea of translating. Cy's work is just energy, expression, the tight, the loose, the quiet, the loud.....it's just exceptional mark making

@TerrapinCreations666 2 года назад

I swear, I could slip in one of my granddaughter’s scribbles and nobody would think twice that it’s not one of the works of this con artist.

@abrahamcuellar6603 2 года назад

LOL. YASS! ANARCHY

@calumcdz3152 2 года назад

The chicken music in this video defines this mans delusional character

@VinnyDrugs 4 года назад

Why can't I like a artist just because he is pretentious?

@teeniebeenie8774 6 лет назад

I love all art, but twomblys scribbes escape me....argh

@1chipchap 7 лет назад

good video. good points. keep away arseholes!!! :D

@TheNecessaryEvil 6 месяцев назад

Abstract art is about how it makes you feel. It makes me feel like you have no talent. 🤷🏿

@jessegarza9977 4 года назад

Twombly was a studied artist and academically trained, so yes...he has earned the right to make intellectually disruptive art. Unlike the mountains of shit today that feigns value through vacuous explanation backed by rich mommys and daddys.

@celestialteapot309 Год назад

Bored

@vivienneb6199 7 месяцев назад

Nice jacket choice!

@chrisknapp4050 Год назад

Why bother to defend your ideas against the idiotic masses who are all caught up in capitalism, ego and making money. It is pointless exercise and has nothing to do with making art. No true artist ever makes art for the Public, they make it because they can’t help themselves. They make it because they must. What others think or say about it should and does not matter.

@arte0021 2 года назад

Sure, a guy who directed a shit ton of crappy movies likes a guy who made a shit ton of crappy art

@sylvestregagnon5681 Год назад

As much as i like john water i find nonetheless is comment on art rather banal. Cy twombly is just another overevaluated modern art charlatan. He is great at selling stuff that have not much value to pretentious people who want to appears fancy. Only in a democracy such non sens can be taken seriously.

@FilzSkillz 7 лет назад

Bit of a stretch to call John Waters "legendary". A more appropriate adjective would be "shit".

@skylarkportraitstudio Год назад

I never heard a good word about Cy Twombly when I was in art school. When his name was mentioned, and it wasn’t often mentioned, my profs often frowned or said unkind things under their breath. One said to me “I just don’t believe that those scribbles mean anything.” I must admit to not liking his work very much myself. Probably all the lack of appreciation for Cy’s work by my teachers has informed my own opinion on his work. I don’t know. Has anyone here read Ron Rifkin’s recent book on Twombly “Chalk”? I’ve heard rather unkind things about it as well.

@williamsadler6467 Год назад

I'm conflicted about Cy Twombly. I like some of his work, but I can't help but feel that most of is a challenge to critics to actually come out and say that this is not art, it's just a Cy Twombly, and has no deeper significance beyond that. Which most of them will not do. But then I feel the same way about Damian Hirst and Jeff Koons.

@skylarkportraitstudio Год назад

@@williamsadler6467 Yes, I like some of his work as well. However, despite my training as an Art Historian, I am reluctant to assign real value to anything that I do not fully understand. Liking isn’t enough, I suppose, though it is the start of any real understanding of anyone’s art. Twombly’s art is intentionally opaque and vaporously elusive. I must read more about him and his art, I reluctantly admit.