Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

New York Studio School on 8th Street in Manhattan.

New Museum—

Literally something flayed, an écorché is a body with the skin taken off to reveal the muscle, bone, and sinew.

painters use tricks like putting a spot of white in the pupil of the eye to convey liveliness and making a muddy mixture of colors for an undecipherable facial shadow.

How do you tell what art is “interesting”? It looks like art. What is art? Art is what’s in galleries. Now you know.

In The Art World, illustration is inferior to art on account of serving an end that is not art. Illustration serves subject matter,

contented concentration

A woman in her eighties is a sage. She is dignity and wisdom. She inspires the world. She has gravitas. She is elegant.

Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.

The freedom of disregard.