PAINTING AND COLOR

I had a gallery owner tell me to stick to "my heritage" in my paintings. My "heritage" is American. There are definite expectations as to the work a black artist is to do to be accepted. Needless to say, I hate the bastards.

POST SCRIPTS: A Facebook friend shared this post, and someone remarked that to say one's heritage is "American" is "too bland and pussy". To which I said: " My interests and loves are international. As America is. I feel no closer to "Black" culture than any other. I grew up with blacks unwilling to look outside their own neighborhoods. And hostile to those who did. That is a way of staying "safe". I call that "pussy"."

"Many black people think that because a popular entertainment has a black "face" that it is black "culture". News: They're all by the same producers. SHAFT is no more a "black" film than MAJOR DAD."

"I'd be more interested in doing a graphic novel about Van Gogh than about Frederick Douglass. But there are folks (black and white) who'd have a hard time with that aspiration." 

A GEEZER'S ADVICE

You kids are lucky. You don't have to buy old prints or postcards now. Or fill your rooms with books. It's all right here. Be smart with the money you save.

OLD FRIENDS

COPYRIGHT 2015 BY MILTON KNIGHT

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!

DEBASING THE "WRISTS"

Makes me boil when someone says such-and-such an actor was ON "Futurama" or IN "Frozen". They were VOICES, Godamnit!!

More Later, MK.

GASTON LACHAISE

My previous complaint: "Another artist paints, and it's a "celebration of womanhood". I paint and am just a lech."

Bursting forth, the work of an artist I love, and, to an extent, choose as a model, Gaston Lachaise. Celebrated as "greatest American sculptor of his time." (Images from pinterest.com.)

FINE ART?

Another artist paints, and it's a "celebration of womanhood". I paint and am just a lech. I'm getting angry, people.

P.S.: A Facebook friend commented on this post, and I'll restate my thought here...

It is thoroughly true that race is a major part of the issue. It dictates what an artist can and cannot do to expect support in the fine art "world"-MK.

COPYRIGHT 2015 BY MILTON KNIGHT