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SCULPTUREFOR THE EYE,PAINTINGS
TO BETOUCHEDRICHARD ARTSCHWAGER'S MIXED MESSAGES
tBY CHARMAINE PICARD
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tor.
1USE
Richard
n\' the ti me they're five years old they want to hop around
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L1ving in this society: I hope people are motivated by
om
1 think that there's a natural tendency toward civilization.
\\'henIwas a teenager,I had a conversation withmy
a child.The best ofcapitalist society is toys. Of course,
there's a lot of the pleasure principle operating on \Vall
Street Icould have had fun with that.Itry to playgames with the viewer. Is there any pleasure in looking at
some thing? Or playing something, ifit's a musicalins-
trument?
The "blps" are my best cheat.I make myself a constant,
his sculpture Yol seem to be into art and you're sort of interested in sci there.And then the viewer consumes it-by looking at it. I
Courtesy Brrkele)Art l\luscum
Atc hive.
CURRENTLYONV l EW:
"Richard
A rtsc hwap;cr!
at the \Vhitnev.\luseum of
American Art,
Ne'" York;"R ichard
Arhchwap;er,
blps." at 'rious
location!nH:thi ng and then it doesn't go anywhere,and you HJd le
\\ith something else.
I've always tried to make something that wasn't there
before. You take yourself- physical, mental-as
material.
$tarring things and resolving them, and feeding one's
l' iosiry-that gets more specialized over time.
l\1ostly what we artists make are toys.There should
b 'orne kind of immediate appeal-much as a toy has to
had a good run of those things.
There are commercial artists-and there arc workers.1have never wanted to be a professional anything, to this
day.I really like the idea of just hanging around. We can't
do that,ofcourse, which I realized ea rly on.l asked myself,
"llowamI going to do art that is not commercial art?"
Art is useless looking, or useless seeing-these objects arc
not necessary to life.\e start with the pleasure principle
we're born with that-which is healthy. Anti the pleasure
principle is a constant in life-we always go back to it. 0
-Astold to Faye Hirsch
Ri hard
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