tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732916056750859428.post8008134797806820272..comments2023-04-14T17:05:06.132+02:00Comments on An English Artist Back From Brittany: Everybody's Mate, Rolf.Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10045812978614550446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732916056750859428.post-23835773077901793272008-09-18T21:24:00.000+02:002008-09-18T21:24:00.000+02:00He looked a bit surprised when I commented on his ...He looked a bit surprised when I commented on his painting, saying "Er, and are you going to knock back that bright blue a bit?" !<BR/>I was amused by the article in A&I which suggested his portrait of The Queen bore an uncanny resemblance to himself...Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045812978614550446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732916056750859428.post-39472560933776816902008-09-18T14:45:00.000+02:002008-09-18T14:45:00.000+02:00I once interviewed Rolf when I was working at A&am...I once interviewed Rolf when I was working at A&I magazine (I think I may be the only person to have interviewed him, the Chapman brothers, Jane Seymour and Lawrence Weiner) and got the idea he could artistically mimic just about anyone (well, apart from the Chapmans and Weiner), but had no voice of his own at all.James Hobbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751173890194690530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732916056750859428.post-39741456185519519442008-09-15T13:18:00.000+02:002008-09-15T13:18:00.000+02:00Thank you, Dot, that's a lovely thought and not at...Thank you, Dot, that's a lovely thought and not at all too fanciful... hadn't thought of that. <BR/>I think I was the only artist to draw the 'ugly' barriers... that was what Lowry was about, wasn't it, depicting the warts an'all?<BR/>I was quite het-up when I was drawing them, all very psychological! We were cordoned off, and, thinking back, a friend had refused to take part in the event, describing it as the artist seen as 'performing seal'- he's prouder than I am but I know exactly how he feels and I have my own limits.<BR/>Another aspect of the barriers might be the difficulty of breaking into a lucrative art market...??Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045812978614550446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732916056750859428.post-28805575876075695172008-09-15T12:07:00.000+02:002008-09-15T12:07:00.000+02:00I go through periods of loving Rolf and hating him...I go through periods of loving Rolf and hating him. My best assessment is that he has popularised art and I guess that is no bad thing. My one small contribution was to take my daughter, then aged 10/11 and her friend to the Saatchi gallery when it was in North London. <BR/><BR/>The friend soon left with her Mum to go to the West Country. Years later my daughter met her again to discover she had gone to art school as a direct result of visiting the gallery. Till then, she had never realised art could be as weirdly conceptual as the stuff being exhibited.<BR/><BR/>I love your work. I like the way you have painted the barriers - they engender all sorts of thoughts - with the tiniest piece of imaginative projection you can see the uprights of the barriers as Lowriesque people bearing their collective burden of the crossbar. Perhaps I am being too fanciful.DOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.com