Paul McCartney: Paintings
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0821226738 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Lovely1 Awesome book to look through and to keep!! LOVE Paul McCartney!!. Martyn Etherington said Unpretentious Art!. Regardless of the high brow reviews of this book, I chose to purchase this book to see if this was another celebrity who found art and realized their celebrity could sell their art. Bottom line I had hoped that McCartney's personality would triuumph and his down to earth philoposphy would come through. Indeed it did and this is the first Unpretentious book on Art I have ever read. If anyone has the desire to paint, draw or create but is held back through social conditioninig this book is for you. McCartney albeit through interviews and ghost writers tells how he himself freed himself from his own perfectionist procrastination mode. Luigi Will Be Most Satisfied A Customer Paul McCartney only cautiously agreed to publish this book of paintings, fearing, quite rightly, he would be categorized as just a 'celebrity painter' - the Stallone and Curtis kind. "I know I'll be getting a few snide comments for doing this book - it seems that if you approach the art world by one route, that's OK, but if you've come via another route, then it invites prejudice. In fact [], one 'critic' wrote that I 'shouldn't be allowed to do this.'"The simple, almost child-like honesty with which McCartney comments on this crossing into a different field, manifests itself in his paintings: they carry schoolboy-naughty titles l
Candid photographs by Linda McCartney of her husband in the studio provide an exciting counterpoint to the work revealed. His painting, like much of his life, has been a very private endeavor. For over seventeen years, Paul McCartney has been a committed painter, discovering in paint on canvas another expression beyond his music that has made him such a beloved artist worldwide. Last year he exhibited the work for the first time in a small museum in Germany, where it met with critical acclaim. He sculpts and carves the paint upon the canvas, working with a physical pleasure and immersion influenced by his friend, Willem de Kooning. In Paul McCartney: Paintings he shares this work for all to enjoy. Brief texts by cr
Cohen. The book is a catalog of paintings from McCartney's 1999 exhibition in Germany. Music and art have many things in common; for McCartney it is the freedom to "play" that connects both endeavors. From the illustrations and accompanying essays to the very candid interview, we are given remarkable insight into McCartney's practice as a committed creative person. Also included are personal photographs of the artist at work, 117 color illustrations, and 17 duotone photographs. --J.P. Fittingly, his paintings draw most of their influence from abstract expressionism, in which the material quality of the paint itself inspires the drips, blobs, and splatters. He confides his insecurities as a p