Richard Artschwager: The artist who doesn't fit any category | Documentary "Shut up and Look"
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2021
- Richard Artschwager (1923- 2013) is a distinguished quirky American artist whose works command hundreds of thousands of dollars - yet, fame eludes him. His eclecticism has made Artschwager tough to categorize. He’s been called a pop artist, a conceptual artist, a minimalist, but none of those schools fit the range of his work. The artist says himself "If you are a 'school of…,' you’re dead. The only way to keep from drowning is to be original."
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Born from German and Russian parents Richard Artschwager early on showed a talent for drawing. Fluent in many languages and a good pianist, he made his breakthrough relatively late after having built and sold furniture for some time. Director Maryte Kavaliauskas' film provides an intimate look at this extraordinarily gifted artist as he abandoned a reclusive life style to allow our camera into his private world over the last 8 years. In that time, Richard, who has been known for his black and white work, turned to color for the first time. He is facing the challenges of getting older while still making radical changes, creating the most vibrant works of his life. While the painter explains some of his work and is seen drawing we get the impression, that he is also making fun of himself and art lovers. A rich selection of his work and contributions from friends, gallerists, curators and collectors round off the picture.
Director: Maryte Kavaliaskas
Producer: Morning Slayter
Production company: Long Tail Films
Licensed by Poorhouse, 2012
I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of weeks with him in a private guest artist class with a limited amount of students. It changed the direction of my life forever. He was very concerned with process making at the time. Peripheral information creeping into the thought process outside the limits of the of the surface; these interruptions influencing the direction of the work. Afterword I enrolled in Philosophy classes along with my art curriculum propelling me forward. I was surprised to see this video and grateful to remember an artist who inspired such a dramatic shift in my thinking. My success is a result of him.
Amazing, what an experience!
What was the conclusion in regards to process? Are the interruptions and outside information hurtful to the work?
@@convolution223 I'd assume both. Obviously outside sources add to our imagination but they can also put you in a box.
Where can I find your art? @Asunder
Limited number of students. I don't think you would want a limited amount of students, but then again, it was an artistic workshop. Haha
I don't necessarily like all of his work, but it makes me happy that someone made it nonetheless. We need people who find joy in making odd stuff out of odd materials.
Resourcefulness is a finicky art lol 🙂
This is a refreshingly nice, level headed comment.
@@sugarcakezz Listen, you already made your objectively incorrect views apparent with your own comment.
No need too reply to decent comments as well.
We need to serve our own mind and spirit, with play, more than we do. We are trained to think working for someone else , just so we can go on vacation once a year, is the “height of success.”
We need to BE that person
As an artist its hard to find your place in this art world. We all want to be original. That's why I was never classically trained or focus on other people's work. I find inspiration from own life and pain. I want my artwork to speak and make people feel a way. I work with so many different materials.
Sometimes you need to see others works to be awakened and to avoid repeat things that just was created.
@zerotwo8245 I agree and disagree at the same time. It's hard to explain. A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande was a painting that I saw in person when I was 10 years old, and it was one of the greatest paintings I've ever seen. It inspired me to have my own ideas and style. It had an impact on me, but I didn't want to copy it. I don't know if you understand that.
@zerotwo8245 That's true.
Other than the few classes I attended in high school I also have never trained or was taught art. It was just in me, I picked up an instrument and easily learned how to play it, could draw anything with a simple pencil or Bic pen, could create murals with spray cans, and now love to just paint with acrylics.
I think it's best this way...just to find your wayt and teach yourself. You'll quickly see if there's any real talent there.
@@TheBlackCrayon77 I don't even know if I can call myself an artist. I started getting into digital sculpting and stuff just shy of 4 years ago with the mindset of just do what I wanted to and love doing, but then bills popped into existence.
I’d never heard of him before this video, but I’m so impressed by his work and he seems like fantastic company. Full of ideas!
I know nothing,about nothing.But i love his genuine smile.This random video that I just watch touched my heart.What a wonderful world.
My motto as an artist painter, is to shut up and paint. Don't paint for money; paint because you love, having to paint. Being alone, and working daily; will make you good. Period.
the small cabinet with different levels was very fascinating for some weird reason
THIS is the perfect case study why people need to attend basic course in videography
before they are allowed to handle a camera
Facts
I also think that Children are the best artists, their intentions are pure and playful, not pretentious, not abstract.
I have to disagree in a way, i think it's our view their abstraction of what we consider to be "adult reality" that we find so marvelous.
Agreed 100%
Yes
Abstract? More like splashing paint and merging different fucking patterns and making millions out of it LOL
My wife is an elementary school art teacher. And she teaches from the TAB mentality.
The works her students make, is incredible. Free and beautiful.
Genius
Brilliant! What a quote "The only way to keep from drowning is to be original" - a true artist. Thanks for the upload!
How an artist's work is interpreted by others is one of the biggest factors in what makes their work and makes the artist an artist of interests.
How the artist interprets their own work is capable of making them and their work pretentious but also makes both them and their work oddly intriguing. They create a why, and a what's it about. They invoke a type of curiosity.
Yes, his art is peculiar, and interesting, but some of the people in front of the camera were being so dramatic...
@@GuiPurri That's what I was thinking too. They were really laying it on rather thick.
One of a kind oddballs creating one of a kind concepts from their eye and hand is what this kinda art is all about. I don’t think there’s much to ever try and figure out or interpret unless they really want you to. This guy is no doubt weird as hell as well as literally every good artist and that’s what makes their visions they put on paper so different from everyone else’s!
Great doco of an often overlooked luminary artist - thinking, creating and living 3/4 outside the box and completely at ease in his charming non conformity. an artform in itself.
I also seen that in him. Like he is on his own wave and experiences life quite different than most.
and FOOLS ar paying for it...
I love that he did what and how he wanted to create. He was going with his own flow and having fun but also being real and true to himself. An awesome rebel artist and real human being. ❤
Thank you for posting,Came across his work in a school textbook and have been intruiged,
OH MY GOD! I ADORE him! I've been a huge fan for decades!
A REAL ARTIST MUST GET LOST IN HIS/HER OWN WORLD TO PRODUCE ''''ORIGINAL WORKS OF ART""...........!
Why you yelling, bro?
going up its clockwise... and going up its clockwise , i love this guy!!!
The table-ness of the table only exist if the table is tabling
You big baby
You got it.
I think table-ness can also exist in the mind, as when you have a heavy load to put somewhere, and you scan the space for a table. It's not any particular table you're looking for, just something with 'table-ness', that will serve your immediate purpose…of supportability, flatness, and elevation (so you won't have to bend your back too much).
Such a fascinating, weird artist. Have always found his work fascinating. Its nice to see that he's such an avuncular, unpretentious guy. "Middle class defacing" - LOL.
After spending 4 years and lots of money on art school, I’ve concluded that this type of art is popular among a specific groups of people because it makes them feel smart. For the artist it’s fun and playful but it is successful because people like to try and understand what the artist is trying to do.
Have you ever seen a "nonsense device"? Their creation began in the late 1780s at the beginning of the industrial revolution. They are objects designed to look like scientific devices, and were submitted to panels offering scientists and inventors money - grants. Con-artists pretended to be scientists. They submitted phoney scientific papers with the objects to impress a panel of judges. Sometimes they got the money. The nonsense devices look exactly like contemporary works of art. You can see them in several science museums and planetariums in Europe.
@@duncanweller1 Hm interesting thought
The eye of the beholder. I think people just want stuff no one else has. When it comes down to some weird shit like this, or sloppy paintings anyone can do - You always hear the words, "I can do that!" The best answer is always, "But, you don't"
I somewhat agree, but I don’t think it’s only popular because it makes some people feel smart. I feel like individual artists work going for ridiculously high prices is strictly off the clout around them, but actually looking at and enjoying abstract art at least for me isn’t for any part of understanding what they’re doing or some message behind it, it’s about looking at a completely original thought and concept that is unique to that one persons brain and life experiences mixed with their own artistic ability. When you look at a Picasso, at least to me they’re not the prettiest thing to look at but what makes them what they are is it’s 100% him. Before that, you’d never seen anything like it. People who go to art schools and work on types of art and that sort of thing usually are chasing somebody else’s original vision which is something you’ll never master. You can go to school all your life to draw the most beautiful bob ross esque landscapes, but it’ll never truly stand out as a one of a kind concept that’s come directly from your interpretation of something that peaked your own interest. Same thing goes for music. Think of the first time you ever heard a really good new song or new genre, people will always copy it and follow the original sound, some successfully. But the first time you and others hear that new style of sound it’s just pleasant, nothing to really understand.
There was exhibition on my university. There were local politics, TV media, some celebs, catering... all for opening of exhibition of one "national treasure" artist. He bring only one sculpture for exhibition. It was just "cheap clocks ("Slipsten, $15) that he bought in IKEA and he put it on stand prepared by university" nothing more. Just clocks that he bought. But he is famous conceptional artist. All his art is in this way. Hole drilled to drywall in museum, piece of string that you can find in pocket, pair of shoes that he put in the middle of room, box of burned matches, box of eaten cheese... etc. Famous artist.
An excellent film! Documenting an artists artist, an inspiring take on art; to see him adapt, strive, thrive in the process of creating and presentingart.
This tells me I'm going to be famous with my own art.
Do what makes you happy.
Release your inner sperg.
School brought me here...
Thank you School.
24:11
The audience, perplexed and astonished: “Wow that’s a big rug”
The chair made of building blocks that a friend's daughter 'came up with' scaled up...now in a museum under his name...tells me everything i need to know about our Fine Art.
please ..don't give up in ..fine..art. there is more...like it..
Indeed Richard was an artists artist , a joy to be around.
Love how self aware yet committed they are. Promoting bad art is fine. Glad they are having fun
Imagine being dense enough too wash an entire person's subjective carreer with :
"bad art"
Keep on keeping on lol
What is "bad art"?
How much for the script ?
Leaving asinine comments exemplifies your lack of visual perception, I doubt if you could substantiate your critical observation so convincingly.. Glad you are having fun though.
I enjoy his works, but I guess I am not as enlightened as you 😂
Super fascinating is the concept of Not being a part of something/ "school of" rather to be apart from. Originality is key and few....do..
Love the humor and creativity of this artist
I got as far as the right-handed tendrils of a creeping plant and knew I could recognise something in me which Richard Artschwager noticed in a place where you could reflect on life without the sonic disruptions of the city. I’ll have to set aside some extra time to indulge myself with this video and others.
Very very inspiring....
27:35 correct me if I'm wrong, but that's like when you get a small ass jpeg from a client and blow it up and see all the pixels 🤣🤣 This man was absolutely ahead of his time!👏👏
Amazing...I am inspired!!!
What a lovely video. Thanks for sharing this.❤
I hope I can be this youthful at an old age
Its not a blip, it is a Capsule.
I'd describe his work as Budget 3D Computer Models in person.
where r u curating at the moment
I like people like him.
Simplicity is the opposite of chaos, to see something that combines the two so well, their beautiful
This man is literally a trip.
What a mind and heart. Humorous and whimsical in his curiosity about life!
Love it.
i see a lot of humor in his art
He makes Modern Art. Boom, categorized.
Best Art documentary. Game recognizes game.
Or at least best comedy.
This is so awesome
Madness!
His sculptures reminded me of Claus Oldenburg. I enjoyed the documentary bringing the personal perspective of the artist and his approach.
“Blips were born in California”. That makes sense to me.
I still don’t get any of it but in a good way. He has a way of making you stare in confusion. I wouldn’t even say I liked any of his stuff. I quite disliked most of it. But he has an effect that others don’t. I don’t often question arts purpose but I keep asking myself why? Sitting on the table and questioning it’s tableness was genius though. I think the same way about furniture I use a table as a piano style bench for my desk. I like being able to slide left and right instead of rolling on a chair. His work isn’t obscure for obscurities purpose which is hard to find these days in my opinion. It’s overly inspiring.
What a mind. What a talent. What a gift 💝
This guy was an artist's artist
disclaimer: this is just my own observation i am just a lowly artist who found some solidarity in this mans process so please take with a grain of salt
what an interesting fellow. he's so observant in such an almost childlike way. he's not quite pretentious, but he recognizes the skills needed to do what he does. he knows that he and his art are valued in some way.
ALSO PLEASE DONT FORGET!! he peaked in the era of contemporary art! his art is REVOLUTIONARY in that setting.
i just found this and YES THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 OG!!
42:42 what a serendipitous moment for two predominantly English speakers IN GERMANY struggling through a conversation in German to stumble into
You might not like his form of art, but you can't argue this man was an artist. Artists can't translate their vision with complete accuracy unto the medium. A very frustrating part of creating art is knowing when to call your work complete. What really defines an artist in my perspective is the thought process around the work of art. What is the artist trying to express? As a spectator, does the piece make me think does it make me feel? As a consequence of this stirring of thought and emotions do I now have an opinion about the piece or the exhibition? If so, the artist has been at least partially successful in his role.
This is a fruitful and perspicuous way of framing contemporary art. When everything that has been done in art can no longer be done, without simply reproducing the past, the artist is faced with a dilemma: do I simply do what it is possible to do, or can I somehow become capable of what is not possible? I think this question addresses the role of intention and implication in art, and it opens up a way of thinking and creating that goes beyond the material or formal manifestation of the work of art.
The man had art in his last name, this was his destiny
beautiful soul
Art is life ✨
He really seemed to get better at making his art as he grew older and that is inspiring.
I really identify with this character. What a gent
Doesn’t fit any category shows a thumbnail of brick tiles.
He sharpens all the monds he encountered by stayingbtrue to his artistry.
looks fun
On this episode of Fake or Fortune we investigate the possible discovery of an important work by Richard Artschwager. The work - a black oval - was discovered by a couple when they saw what they thought was graffiti on their mailbox. The work was done in the same medium Artschwager is known to have used - commercial vinyl. The size and shape of the oval are eerily similar to those in Artschwager's body of work. The only remaining question to resolve is if it is a work done by Artschwager himself or one of his studio apprentices. The former could mean a fortune, while the latter virtually of no value. "Remove tongue in cheek here."
Such a hilarious episode. Although I wouldn't discard the possibility that the black oval on the mailbox was a work done by the neighbor's son. Loved the fact that the word "art" was never mentioned.
Great artist indeed, funny how he gets applause for the dots all over yet when a person uses sspraypaint they get arrested.I personally believe that art can be made with anything, anywhere, anytime by anyone.who is the judge to call it or or not.it's the headspace and action.
this is Artschwager
he schwags art
Even zero can be quantified given a little art.
Thank you for your life story asunder
anyone know the piano piece??
Originality is always nice....
Best artist once on Earth
Ahead of his Time … a real true visionary
I wonder what percentage was foresight and how much was him forming the future of art. I like to think he neither cared nor considered it. Just make it.
Visionary if you have cataracts.
I am glad I came across this documentary, mainly for two reasons. Firstly he was an interesting artist from the little I have seen and I will certainly search for more about Richard. Secondly, he has given me some hope. I agree with him about 'if you are a 'school of.....'' and I can relate to that, being categorised as 'pop artist, a conceptual artist and a minimalist' myself amongst other genres. I like to say that doing different things, as opposed to one way of doing art helps me from becoming stale. However, saying and doing this does not win any favours with the art world, unfortunately. I am also glad he made it, bless him. Zeal.
Nice charcoal line sketches at the 7.00 part of this video.
his last name is literally art swagger
"We didn’t document it, a trips a trip" this modern generation needs to learn how to "Trip"
Yeah this generation only knows youtube comments, MDE, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie
Far Out break down , blunt and samurai like
old people need to learn to stop telling everyone what to do.
@@OddoFelacio I hope u took selfie’s as you typed your comments to me, otherwise it never happened. 😝
@@davemenard5089 living in the moment is important I agree, but you sound like every generation of bitter old farts before you. Generalising new generations and telling them how to live.
My I suggest an idea? Take a window on a building .... remove the window trim and sill replace it with a gold gilded art frame, replace the sliding windows with a single pane of glass. Place a brass name plate on the bottom of the frame titled " Moving Art " . Now aside that put on a wall a window frame and sill , the sliding windows and behind that a very realistic art of a homeless person cautiously peering in at the on looker. Perhaps backlit to achieve realism. What do you think ?
This type of art is not my favorite, but certainly it so sad that he was not famous in his lifetime. An artist should not be put in a category like putting an item in a bix. Art is being creative, no matter if those that admire the srt understand tge true meaning or nit. Art is the deepest expresion of the artist, who is free to express him or herself using any medium, any theme, any idea, anywhere he can, reaching others in different ways. Art is endless, because creatuvite is endless. I have great admiration for the greatest artist of old times, Michelangelo, Botero, Da vinci and many more, but that that not take away my respect for those that adventure into expresing themselves outside the know schools of art, and create in an amazing way art that is different. ❤
Is there any record of the address of the last Detroit Blp?
PLEASE, what's the music from 22:57?
He does fit! It is called Artist! A group of artists! Ok?
What’s the first song called? Shazam isnt working…
If I ever have an art showing I'm going to wear large industrial ear protection so I can watch people and they won't try to talk to me. And if they do, I'll have no idea what they might be saying to me.
There are only two categories of art. Good Art and Bad Art.
If you are a fan of Christopher Guest's post Spinal Tap movies, (Best in Show, Break like the Wind etc) you will love this doco. Just like seeing Spinal Tap the first time you're never really sure if it's a spoof or not? If Christopher Guest was to remake this as a film it actually couldn't be any funnier. (Mmm I am not really sure if it was for real?)
I guess the only diff. is that, in spinal tap, there is an obvious discrepancy between what the artist 'thinks' he's doing - what he intends - and the actual manifestation of the vision, which is actually quite conventional and boring - a fact that the theatricality and bombastic nature of the music can't overcome. The situation seems different here, in that what is made is kind of flat and purposeless, or generic-looking - like examples of things rather than the things that they apparently reproduce - and there seems no apparent reason or rational for making them this way.
Black dot portion felt like a parody
I love to listening to Art cliche piled on Art cliche piled on Art cliche..
Good pianist.
The blips even made it to the “subscribe” button.
Ya even a pill shape?! Omg he invented the pill! Wait, didn't it exist before he was born?
It so happens that he can explain his art and he is in a place that has opportunities and he's accepted but other than that
I'd have a heart attack if someone knocked on my door, claiming to be a War World II soldier, speaking German 💀
one category he fits in with. commercial artist
With a name like Artschwager.....what else could he have been?
It’s all about who did it not the✌️work✌️its self. Like in high school. Who’s popular and who’s not. 😂
I didn't feel I should disturb the subscribe blip.
his art looks like the Line Rider tracks i used to make as a kid.
He's a multi-medium artist, loads of artists are like this. I'm like this. non-artists are weird man, wdym he can't be in a category?? I see like 20?
this guy understands...