“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.” MatterSubjectsPaintingBackgroundsSubject MatterElusiveUnclear Book:William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition Source: William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition
“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.” ArtEyeDifficultFourPaintingArt IsDifficultyCornersBackgroundsDifficult Things Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated
“I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.” WritingWellsPaintingSellsBackgroundsAcademic Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldAmericaPracticePaintingProfitBackgroundsVulgarGallerySchumann Author:Terry Teachout
“Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.” WayLongCertainPositionPaintingFingersBackgroundsNecksWorking ItFabricThrust Author:Lillian Bassman
“I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.” StoriesHouseFunInterestingPaintingShotsBackgroundsDishesInteresting StoriesToenails Author:Carmen Electra
“Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.” DoePlayPastRolesPaintingInspiredBackgroundsPassiveBorrowed Author:Kehinde Wiley