I like this bit...
The 78-year-old is busy hanging his latest show, 60 Years of Printmaking, yet there is surprisingly little material from his 1960s heyday. "I look back with surprise that I did so few prints in the early days," he says. "I think in the Sixties, when most of my contemporaries were making a lot of prints, like [David] Hockney and [RB] Kitaj, on some kind of odd principle I didn't make any.It was a curious kind of moral stand, something to do with commercialism and just making things to be sold, whereas now I'm much happier to embrace all of that."
"Fucking hell. Commercialism is so much worse today that it was in the 60s and now he thinks it's ok to just conform and let go of his "morals" on the idea. I guess that's why his new art is full of advertisements throughout the decades, and he sells it left, right and centre."
And where the hell is my brief!
ReplyDeletewhere is this quote from??
ReplyDeleteOn one of the print outs Mike did I think.
ReplyDeleteAlso on a link he posted actually.
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