If I was a young artist I probably go and live in Germany because I think the Germany is the
motor of Europe and it’s the intellectual center of the art world. And Berlin is very similar to
what New York was and New York maybe possibly at the end of its burning life as an art center.
You know New York maybe moving toward, to be what Paris was in the 60s’. It’s still a
headquarter in a certain sense showing place but creativity, creativity I might moved to, yeah I
might go to Berlin where you can get cheap places and it’s very important that when you are a
young artist to have friends because you have to keep each other warmed. You have to hold each
other. Learn from each other. Support each other. Make a society and keep each other warmed
and that’s how you can get through.
Well, I found the whole figurative art movement fascinating. I thought it was wonderful
defensive painting and I don’t particularly make a distinction between abstraction and figuration
in terms of what I like, what I’m attracted too and I’m very attracted to the life seek school
painters near Ralph for example. I find very nice and then many others, there are many others
and I thought that was a very interesting way of renovating an interesting painting. And what
seems to happen, what was has happen so far is that as a strong sense of figuration. I don’t know
if it’s over simplification. Well, any generalization is over simplification but in time of richness,
wealth figurative art what is sometimes known as Pop Art nor less it’s derivation plainly Pop Art
and so on which the young German painters where interested in. It tends to be in the foreground
and very dominant because it’s popular and more people get involved but as art with us, to it’s
trunk it gets harder and then abstraction seems to make a comeback and this is certainly what
happen if you look back the 90s’ where there’s lot of abstraction. The 80s’ where there was a lot
figuration and that was an époque of copious wealth. The 70s’ was abstract. The 60s’ was full
out with Pop Art so this seems to happen and now we might be looking a lot of abstract painting.
Well I think the next generation of artists; painter artists will be more concerned with a kind of
regeneration of spiritual value, a reflective art as opposed to a populist, bombastic, obvious art. I
think there will be more integrity in art because art and politics do hold hands. They do walk
down the avenue together. I think we’re going to see that and we got that now in the United
States. We got to move significantly to social order, social awareness, social caring, a sense of
responsibility, repairing the extremely tarnished, wantonly tarnished image of America, outside
America and a sense of global responsibility. The sense that we are all in the family together
which is what John F. Kennedy talked about, we all breathe the same air, his famous remark.
And I think we will return to that and the artists will be concern with a more reflective vision.