Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl
Eric Fischlis an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. His wife is painter April Gornik...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth9 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
esoteric painting language
Abstraction is an esoteric language.
spiritual art believe
Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.
should-have hell precision
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.
art worry art-is
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
artist
What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.
art believe work-out
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.
sarcastic art couple
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.
beauty problem nudity
Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.
art believe mean
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.