American painter Eric Fischl gives his Advice to the Young | Louisiana Channel
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- “They should be lucky enough in their young art life that everything they thought was art was stripped from them.”
We met one of the grand seigneurs of American art, the painter Eric Fischl who shares his advice for young people.
“It’s through your limitations that life becomes expansive. It will be profoundly painful. For a short period of time, hopefully, they will be stripped bare.”
Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor whose achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Fischl was born in New York in 1948. He graduated from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia in 1972 and was a teacher between 1974 and 1978 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.
Eric Fischl has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held in institutions such as Dallas Contemporary in 2018 in Dallas, Texas; the Albertina in 2014 in Vienna, Austria; the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga in 2010 in Malaga, Spain; the Kestnergesellschaft in 2007-2008 in Hannover; Germany, the Stadtkirche Darmstadt in 2006 in Darmstadt, Germany; and the Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in 2006 in Wilmington, DE. He has also participated in exhibitions at major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée Beaubourg in Paris, France, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Fischl’s work has been featured in over one thousand publications.
Alongside his wife, the painter April Gornik, Eric Fischl co-founded The Church in Sag Harbor. This nonprofit arts center hosts a residency program, a rotating set of exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and a browsing library. Fischl was also the founder, President and lead curator for America: Now and Here. This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of America’s most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers was designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts.
Eric Fischl is a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY.
Eric Fischl was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in March 2024.
Camera: Matthew Heymann
Edited by: Signe Boe Pedersen
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024
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I love that he says “young ART life”. Implying that once you become an artist at any age, you are starting a new life.
I suspect this one will be difficult to understand until after you've actually gone through it. Poignant wisdom nonetheless
Thank you Eric Fiscl and the muses of lofty contemporary American painting . Strip it. Necessity is mother of invention. .
Exceptionally poignant and difficult-applies to art and life in general. I really appreciate the unburnished clarity of the advice. 🙏
Where is the full video? Really interesting advice!
actually original advice I thought he was gonna say "keep at it and believe in yourself" , OG w a killer hair do
love his paintings
Thank you!
could not live without ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG !!!! ( 1:39min is all I can process in my ANDROID brain )
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Ok. Unfortunately, what he is describing is very familiar territory for me. But what he doesnt say, is how it ends!!
Sounds like art school, or how it should be.
I am glad to see this because it is always useful to see at last a certain artist speak who I know only by name and some paintings. And, having seen now who is behind those paintings, I must say it has not elevated what I always thought of him through his paintings. Now for the good part: I have never ever liked a single one of his paintings, and have always thought the Art World must be experiencing a serious paucity of talent to elevate this artist to whatever level of notice and success he now enjoys. I am sorry I cannot say anything better about Fischl, but of course that is solely a product of how good his paintings are or are not. He certainly does not help the cause of figurative painting, which I hope can somehow survive.
You take yourself a bit too seriously, don't you?
@@rohitmadashri7250 No. I take fine art seriously. And I don't like bad or overrated artists and their bad and overrated paintings.
@KpxUrz5745 I have yet to see any artist where someone wasn't claiming their art bad, and they overrated or talentless.
@@tthomas184 Are we to draw any conclusions from that? It almost sounds as if you are implying that it is a badge of honor to be “falsely attacked” by critics. After a lifetime at this, I would say that , statistically speaking, if most popular artists have been called untalented and overrated, the critics are almost always correct when speaking of the paucity of talent. But in fact, the art world has far more than its fair share of glowing, gushing positive reviews, written either by critics or by “art writers” who do that for a living. They have a vested interest in saying wonderful things in order to continue being hired. I would even say this is the majority of what is written. It is mostly a “mutual back-patting society”. My view is that our best course of action is to educate ourselves, and this does not mean reading those kinds of reviews and magazine articles. Instead, study art history, spend time in museums and reading mountains of good books about art. Eventually we can hopefully learn to rely upon ourselves for accurate assessments about art.
In the case of this artist Fischl, there is no doubt whatsoever about the paucity of talent here. I could elaborate further, but I really don't relish the thought of wasting more time on an obvious point.
@@KpxUrz5745 Yes, study art history. Here are some examples of critics of world renowned artists from their time: Michaelangelo is better fit for a brothel than a chapel . It is ironic Leonardo is interested in light, his paintings end up too dark. Rembrandt puts only ugly people in his work, the product of an ugly low mind. Impressionists are mere daubers of smudgy paint. Matisse is garish and ugly. Picasso, brutish and ugly.
And that's leaving out all the artist bashing done on this platform of artists past and present. Point is, It says more about the critic than the artist.