Baziotes quotes, on painting & his life in the United States - free resource, American art history

**William Baziotes in quotes - the famous artist on his painting art & life in American Abstract Expressionism ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in art history

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William Baziotes’ artist quotes represent him as a dedicated painter of American Abstract Expressionism, also called the ‘New York School’. He created modern paintings in a mixture of Abstract art and Surrealism. He created intimate and very personal symbolic images in his painting art.

Baziotes was involved in many American art-debates during his life, but rejected firmly any general theory about Art or Painting. Baziotes’ law: ‘what happens on the canvas is unpredictable!’ Moreover Baziotes was a famous art-teacher in New York after World War 2. for the young, starting artists.
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Some selected artist-quotes of the American artist William Baziotes - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I work on many canvasses at once. In the morning I line them up against the wall of my studio. Some speak, some do not. They are my mirrors. They tell me what I am like at that moment’ - quote of Baziotes, in ‘Possibilities’, Vol. I, no. 1, New York, United States, Winter 1947-48

• ’As for the subject matter in my painting… …it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me…’ - Baziotes’ quote, in ‘Fifteen Americans’, Exhibition catalogue of the MoMA, U.S. 1952 p. 12

• ’There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists… …the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.’ - quote of Baziotes, in his text for a symposium, 1954

• ’My whole intention in painting is to make a thing poetical; but not poetical in a literary sense. I want something that evokes mood, a background, a stage set for certain characters that are playing certain parts.’ - in ‘An interview with William Baziotes’, 1956-57
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  selection of free art-resources on American painter-artist William Baziotes:

  • extended biographical notes of Baziotes, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Baziotes
  • selected artist-quotes of ànd about Baziotes, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Baziotes
  • images of Baziotes’ painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Baziotes
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]