446. Alex Katz (e.v.a.) artistiek mislukt?

Stukje opmerkelijke tekst bewaard, ooit aangetroffen op een opmerkelijke site over 'artistic failures'

2 Responses to “105 Years from Now, All Artists Will Be Failures” apedigrab says: May 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Alex Katz was a visiting critic at my graduate school MFA program. He was a complete diva. The first thing he did to cement his divahood, was to refuse to allow one-on-one meetings with the MFA candidates. In the program I was in, the method was that the MFA candidates were informed of the visiting critics dates of attendance and we were to sign up for individual meetings. Each meeting was to last no longer than an hour. Katz refused to meet any of the MFA candidates individually, instead allowing only a group critique. He sat in a chair in the middle of a large room in the studio building as the students dutifully trouped their work in front of him. He was gruff and negative. He hated everything and said so. A student in a top floor studio was working on very large paintings. With much difficulty and with the aid of a friend, one painting made its way down the three flights of stairs and into the room where the critique was being held. One corner of the painting was being manoeuvered into the room, when Katz said, ” Take that piece of garbage out of my sight!” The painting was quickly removed. The student spent the remainder of the day crying in the studio. And the critique was for all intents and purposes over, as the students began to drift away rather quickly. Katz later told the MFA program director that none of the artists he saw had any talent at all.