Home / Quotes / Quote by Jerry Saltz

Quote by Jerry Saltz

“In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.”

Quote by Jerry Saltz

Author

Jerry Saltz is a renowned art critic, born in March 1951. His career began in the 1980s, and he is known for his unique artistic perspective and critical style. Saltz's work covers a wide range of fields from modern art to contemporary art, and his reviews are frequently published in magazines such as The New Yorker. more

You May Also Like

“It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.”

World Kind Art Influence Modern Century Twentieth Century Shattered Cezanne Giotto

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”

Years Firsts Art Boys Saws Twenties Heavy Metals Abstraction Eighty Heavy Metal

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.”

Years Art Past Space New York Painting Boxes Enormous Fifteen Aesthetics Fifteen Years Immaculate Installation

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).”

Way Kind Art Talking Known Wonderful Creatures Wicked Annoying Dealer Lovable

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”

Eye Used Found Process Products Creating Psychics Blur Pollock

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.”

World Art Shows Media Painting Arguing Museums Worthless Art World

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.”

Values Perfection Sick Obsession Traditional Artistic Epic Purification

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”

Littles Shows Seems Four Boxes Studios Decades Bottles Apartment Slow Down Jars Vases Nicholson Down Time Bologna

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.”

World Made Ideas Artist Order Can Do Known Vision Careers Happened Talent Picks

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.”

Art Stuff Audience Eating Drawing Noise Contemplation Hanging Out Museums Invites Entertaining Norm

Author:Jerry Saltz