Is a work of art purchased, or is it better said, that it is the artist who is bought?
The work is purchased… though I can also be had… at a price.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
Is art necessary?
If it weren’t necessary, it wouldn’t have existed for so long.
Does it pain you to let go of a piece you have sold?
No… it gives me more space for newer work.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
Which artists do you admire and how do they influence your work?
I admire Rembrandt, Jan van Eyck, Memling, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Goya, Diane Arbus….. they inspired me to express myself to the best of my ability and to have very high standards.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
Do you consider yourself postmodern?
I consider myself current.
Must an artist reinvent him/herself everyday?
That would be exhausting. I think it’s more useful to put your energy into your art work.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
How do you evaluate whether an idea is good or not?
If it moves me.
When and how did you begin to see yourself as an artist?
At the age of three.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
What is art?
Everything.
When do you get your best ideas?
When I’m feeling something… strongly.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
How is an idea born? For you, what is inspiration?
I think in images.
What role does technology play in your creative process?
I use pencil and paper. I am one step up from a cave man.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
Your biography in four lines.
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany,France and London and has recently moved back to the States after 35 years abroad. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
What do you do? How do you define yourself as an artist?
I draw.
What is your message?
Life is bizarre, reality is subjective and my drawings are very very detailed.
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Zωγραφική: Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort”.
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