“No,” he says. . [O’BRIEN: Young people today probably don’t understand that moment.O’BRIEN: Painting was so out. The artist indicates the cover of the catalog, which displays Currin is intrigued by the suggestion. I mean, there are big boobs, but . It’s gonna be like a kid playing a video game.CURRIN: Painting is like that much more than it is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation, you know?O’BRIEN: Yeah, that’s exactly the problem I have with calling your work satirical. but I like everything in all my paintings. [CURRIN: Yeah, he’s like Conan the Barbarian. Currin's conceptual program involves assimilating the … I think that’s because I resurrected a brand that was very close to their hearts, and I lived in Italy for a long time and speak Italian.

.CURRIN: It’s not ironic. The English, who knows? It’s not like I got enabled by a fascist, but much the same way that I stopped structuring my paintings as abstract paintings, I realized that subject matter does not matter. You know, different languages battling on one painting. . I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.
John Currin: Well it starts out being involuntary, a reaction to what I didn’t like or didn’t finish in the last show.

INTO: Platform Sandals to Live, Work, … It’s not anything that’s ever freaked me out. Governments could never figure out how it works. All those kinds of cool things bring me down. His recent exhibit, “New Paintings,” was shown at New York’s Gagosian Gallery. Is there a date when the baby’s officially supposed to…CURRIN: Well, the actual date was either Hitler’s birthday or Larry Gagosian’s birthday. That’s really about putting on a sort of armor to go out in the world. “I think I initially refined things in order to make it more surprising when they aren’t refined,” he admits. “And so maybe I lost touch with that.” He stares at me, really The latest fashion news, beauty coverage, celebrity style, fashion week updates, culture reviews, and videos on Vogue.com.The best new culture, style, and beauty stories from Vogue, delivered to you daily.© John Currin. At the time he was working on “this big provocative nude,” a porn painting that suddenly felt all wrong for the moment. What were some of your first memories of seeing beauty?FORD: That would have been as a little kid living in Texas. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. But with the idea of bad drawing, for instance—the gold standard of no value is crummy drawing. First of all, I love women.

I think it’s gonna happen, like, tomorrow. The museums and academia had made painting CURRIN: Right, they were busy turning art into something like modern music. He thought to himself, Even if this turns out good, everybody’s going to hate it, like if he showed up in Paris in 1789 with one of Fragonard’s debauched garden party scenes. They don’t travel.CURRIN: I’m so envious of Europeans for their history, their painting ability, their style and aesthetic, and I sometimes think “American painter” is an oxymoron. I mean, that was the funny thing—just the weirdness of having that as a celebrity face. The painter John Currin’s studio is on the top floor of a loftlike building in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, just a few blocks from the Gramercy Park town house he shares with his wife, artist The walls are hung with works in progress, fictional portraits of ladies wearing classical draperies, with hot-roller tresses and eerie, mirthful expressions. Everything we are saying is going to be recorded.CURRIN: Well, I’m here to ask you some questions, and I think a good one to start off with is about your childhood. Courtesy Gagosian. My expression of beauty is something I do naturally. It’s great when you have a combination of the two— that’s what makes a true beauty. I think it’s mixed up in my lust for women, or my sexual desire for women . I still think it’s an interesting idea, but, again, it’s only an idea. Like walking throughO’BRIEN: Really?
Those are the questions George is asking himself.FORD: To high heels? ’Cause it’s what everybody can agree on, what they don’t like.

But when you’re making a sculpture or image of a woman, is there a sexual aspect to it?FORD: It is never even calculated. Do they see you as a stereotypical American who’s hardworking and controlling, or do they see you as one of them?FORD: I think the Italians feel like I’m one of them. John Currin is a contemporary American artist considered among the most influential painters working today. John Currin will be signing copies of his book Men, which accompanied his exhibition John Currin: My Life as a Man, recently on view at Dallas Contemporary. Twitter Facebook Email To Pinterest. And there’s so much that doesn’t depress me. Read more. What do we make, for instance, of a man and his butler in their underclothes and knee socks, one of the stranger images from his new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York?

The only painting I’ve seen that sticks in my craw is Currin calls the painting “a perpetual motion machine,” in which Arthur’s “nudity is also the opposite of her fame.” Does he get why I don’t love it? What does this mean? [CURRIN: It must be terrible in magazines, because magazines are all about exuberance. Bea Arthur had a presence in my head. To read the full Tom Ford interview pick up a copy of the February issue of Interview. It’s a brighter color. See available works on paper, paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. GAGOSIAN . There’d be an article on Meissen porcelain . . This is an excerpt of the cover story.


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