antARTica - selfportrait blog » Interviews/Studio Visits http://blog.selfportrait.net art contemporain, situationnisme, marxisme, esthetiques relationellese Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:55:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Food For Thought: Robert Longo http://blog.selfportrait.net/2009/08/18/food-for-thought-robert-longo/ http://blog.selfportrait.net/2009/08/18/food-for-thought-robert-longo/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:15:49 +0000 Eddie Ubell http://blog.selfportrait.net/?p=397 “Drawing when I was a kid was an escape for me, and now as an adult it’s a profession. I always draw. I’ve always drawn. I love the line that comes from the hand, it’s real power. Now my favorite kinds of drawings are the sketches I make to plan the works from. They’re the most personal. I got a B.F.A. in sculpture, which was the closest thing in the college catalogue to a drawing degree. I was never inclined to painting, it seemed too messy, too slow. I also have a major in art history, those are my weapons. My drawings are like sculptures, when I draw with graphite I smudge it with my fingers, move it around physically, it’s like clay. Painting is painting on the surface, covering up, where drawing is putting the picture into the paper like a photograph.”

Robert Longo in interview with Richard Price, Robert Longo: Men in the Cities, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, p.94-100.)

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