Color Is Crucial In Painting, But It

Color Is Crucial In Painting, But It Is Very Hard To Talk About. There Is Almost Nothing You Can Say That Holds Up As A Generalization, Because It Depends On Too Many Factors: Size, Modulation, The Rest Of The Field, A Certain Consistency That Color Has With Forms, And The Statement You're Trying To Make.

Usually I Begin Things Through A Drawing, So A Lot Of Things Are Worked Out In The Drawing. But Even Then, I Still Allow For And Want To Make Changes. I Kind Of Do The Drawing With The Painting In Mind, But It's Very Hard To Guess At A Size Or A Color And The Colors Around It And What It Will Really Look Like. It's Only A Guess At The Beginning, And Then I Try To Refine It.

A Number Of Artists Have Done Things With Mickey Mouse - Including Claes Oldenburg And Andy Warhol. He's Such An American Symbol, And Such An Anti-art Symbol.

I Take A Cliche And Try To Organize Its Forms To Make It Monumental. The Difference Is Often Not Great, But It Is Crucial.

All My Art Is In Some Way About Other Art, Even If The Other Art Is Cartoons.