Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Woodwas an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded The Blind Man magazine in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1916. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 March 1893
CountryUnited States of America
We moved immediately to New York and then I was taken over to Paris and I learned to read French before I learned to read English.
And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.
And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Young, I had a show at the Los Angeles Museum.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.