 Robert
Hughes |
Robert
Hughes is an Australian born, American art critic
and senior writer for the Time Magazine. Hughes
has also published several books on art, including
"American Visions", "The Fatal Shore",
and "Goya".
Born: 28th of July, 1938
Country: Australia
Moved: To USA 1970
Lives: United States
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- I
have always tended to take art contextually. If
I have any merits as a critic, they have to do
with my ability as a storyteller.. and above all
I wanted to tell a story.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Criticism, Art
- Australia
is not, to me, a picturesque little country full
of cute marsupials at the end of the world.
Robert
Hughes > Australia
- I
don't like the idea of art being a pseudo-religion.
I love genuinely visionary, mystical art.
Robert
Hughes > Art,
Ideas,
Religion,
Dislike
- I
think the biggest single difference between Australians
and Americans is that you were founded as a religious
experiment, and we were founded as a jail.
Robert
Hughes > Australia,
Religious,
America,
I
Think
- I
love art that is really fully embodied, that has
a somatic character, not art that has some kind
of academic, post-structuralist simper.
Robert
Hughes > Art,
Love,
Like,
Taste
- Can
it be that the artist who paints flowers starts
at a disadvantage? Almost certainly. To many people
botanical subjects seem not altogether serious..
a kind of pictorial relaxation, an easy matter
compared to landscape or the human figure.
Robert
Hughes > Artist,
Art
Subjects, Flowers,
Landscapes,
Human
Figure
- I
think Lichtenstein is a giant bore. Or has become
one anyway in his later years. And I think that
James Rosenquist is a far more important artist
and remains one.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Criticism, I
Think, Artist,
Likes,
Dislike
- Duchamp
is a hugely overrated artist. Duchamp was the
first artist who really became a great master
at the art of curating his own reputation. Other
artists had done it before, but Duchamp was the
first modernist artist to do it.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Criticism, Artist,
I
Think, Promotion,
Modern
- Most
of the time they buy what other people buy. They
move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical.
There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel,
they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring,
two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Collecting, Influence
- I
am often viewed as a "conservative"
critic. On the other hand, what does "conservative"
and what does "radical" mean in today's
context? As far as I can make up, when an artist
says that I am conservative, it means that I haven't
praised him recently.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Criticism, Artist,
Taste
- Drawing
never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth,
because the hunger it satisfies.. the desire for
an active, investigative, manually vivid relation
with the things we see and yearn to know about..
is apparently immortal.
Robert
Hughes > Drawing,
Die
- The
auction room, as anyone knows, is an excellent
medium for sustaining fictional price levels,
because the public imagines that auction prices
are necessarily real prices.
Robert
Hughes > Art
Collecting, Art
Auctions
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