The long awaited book “How To Be An Artist” by Jerry Saltz is here. Based off of his early Vulture essay by the same name, he wrote the work as a note to his younger self.
In this week’s episode Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine talks with Amon Focus about being radically vulnerable, the importance of deadlines, the Pulitzer Prize and how to look at art. There are a few surprises in this interview but we don’t want to give it all away in the intro.
Just a heads up, during this conversation you may hear a little bit of phone static from time to time, it’s only for a few seconds, it’s nothing crazy, I just wanted to give you a heads up so you’re not wondering what the heck is that sound.
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Show Notes
- 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism – the details (links to articles for Mr. Saltz’s winning work are located on this page)
- JERRY SALTZ WINS 2018 PULITZER PRIZE FOR CRITICISM– Art Forum, April 16, 2018
- History of the Pulitzer Prizes
- The demons
- Your misery is my company
- Work and creating are the same thing
- The journey to finding one’s voice in writing
- Long distance truck driving
- Art Forum
- Art Critic
- Art Criticism
- Whitney Museum
- “The late commodified object of Marxist simulacra finds the interrogation of cross-sectionality…” -Jerry Saltz (Wait, what?)
- I wrote what I really thought
- I want people to know the me I think I am
- Radically vulnerable
- Jasper Johns
- “You do everything you can do until you do what comes helpless.” Jasper Johns Quote
- Dark Wood of Error Symbolism
- Dante’s Inferno
- “I had to go through hell in the trucks to come out somehow perfect, pure, and ready for the stars.”
-Jerry Saltz - Clement Greenberg – Art Critic
- Avant-Garde and Kitsch
(Greenberg, Clement (1939). “Avant Garde and Kitsch”. The Partisan Review: 34–49.) - Art & Therapy
- Dexter Hand Sewing Machine _Jerry Saltz’s father’s invention (images)
- I don’t know how I got involved with art…
- Inner city of Chicago
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Diptych
- The beheading of St. John the Baptist
- A letter to the world in the art
- What can be lost
- Abstract Operating Systems
- Coronavirus
- Art will still be here
- Bush & Cheney War aka Iraq War
- Flint Water Crisis
- How to see art?
- Embedding of thoughts
- All art is subjective
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Best of Mozart via YouTube
- William Shakespeare
- Do not be intimidated by art
- No right way or wrong way to look at art
- Indian Raga
- Anoushka Shankar – Indian Classical Raga via YouTube
- Music from Tibet via YouTube
- Matrices of Beauty/Ugliness
- Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring his Son
- Charlie Parker Jazz Musician & Composer
- Charlie Parker – All the things you are via YouTube
- “Not all communication is accessible to all people” -Jerry Saltz
- National Endowment of the Arts
- I’m an artist
- The value of delusion
- Hearing criticism
- Roberta Smith
- A grain of truth in every criticism
- Vincent Van Gogh Artist
- Vincent Van Gogh Gallery of Paintings
- My Life as A Failed Artist Essay by Jerry Saltz in Vulture.com 4/17/2017
- Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Graffiti
- “I don’t like Banksy’s work.” -Jerry Saltz
- Banksy Street Artist
- Jeff Koons Artist
- Imitative & Generic
- Larry David moment
- Mark Rothko Abstract Artist
- Emily Jones Artist
- “You can learn enough from bad art as good.” -Jerry Saltz
- Free Live Audio Streams of Met Opera
- Pinball
- Approach- the first marks are very hard
- Each essay is a trip somewhere
Importance of Deadlines
- I know they are bad
- Make a deadline
- Never break a deadline
Biggest Lessons thus Far:
- Be nice
- Energy-Bring it!
- Make an enemy of envy
- Don’t let rejection define you
- You have to listen to get the final lesson…(We can’t tell you everything)
Jerry Saltz Quotables
“…fear is the admission price to the house of creativity, to the house of art.”
“I have no choice but to get on with it.”
“Things only happen when you work.”
“Roberta is the greatest art critic alive.”
“I throw out about 99% of what I do”
“I’ve got to get back to the art world, I’m in agony.”
“I had to go through hell in the trucks to come out somehow perfect, pure, and ready for the stars.”
“I want people to know the me I think I am”
“We are mildly insane.”
“Art – the greatest abstract operating system(s) ever devised by our species.”
“Not all communication is accessible to all people”
“All art is subjective”
“No right way, no wrong way to look at art.”
“Don’t be intimidated by art”
“Deadlines come from Hell via Heaven.”
“You can learn enough from bad art as good.”
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