Legendary Filmmaker John Waters On the Audacity of Cy Twombly

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8 жыл бұрын

What is like to live with a work by post-war master Cy Twombly? According to legendary filmmaker John Waters, it’s “great because every day when you pass it you think of his nerve. The audacity of him doing this.” Watch our video to find out more about John Waters’ longstanding admiration for the artist and to see the two Twombly paintings that will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 11 May in New York.
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@stevennewlin8640 2 жыл бұрын

John Waters talking about art needs to be a ongoing series.

@mattlohr 5 жыл бұрын

It must be said: That is a fabulous jacket.

@shaunloynds5317 4 жыл бұрын

...and the shoes!

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

I definitely want those shoes ... does anybody have any ideas what brand it could be ?

@of496 Жыл бұрын

“All great art is hated, and then it changes everything” I love that

@TheNecessaryEvil 6 ай бұрын

Just because something changes, that doesn’t automatically mean it’s improved.

@of496 6 ай бұрын

@@TheNecessaryEvilsubjective, of course.

@rivinish 5 жыл бұрын

Will there ever come a day when we won't have to defend ourselves for liking contemporary art?

@BobPagani 5 жыл бұрын

Why defend yourself to anyone ever? You like it and that's justification enough.

@ConvincingPeople 4 жыл бұрын

In a way, I kind of hope not, precisely because of what John says here: It's a great way to keep assholes away.

@dansmith4984 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s hope not because then it means it has stopped being challenging

@swicheroo1 3 жыл бұрын

I've never had to defend myself for liking contemporary art. But I am surrounded by people who are very open about all kinds of art. I think that if I ever had such an encounter, I'd probably just stay away from whomever was heaping their ignorance and aggression upon my consciousness.

@aztro.99 3 жыл бұрын

damn you must be persecuted everyday 😱😱😭

@havefunbesafe 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite reviews on cy twombly. John gets it.

@khalilac17 Жыл бұрын

Youre a moron

@brianmcmanus4286 3 жыл бұрын

What a fuckin' score! My favorite director breaking down an artist I've only recently given serious thought to, an artist who is almost violently divisive. Cheers!

@LaMasLatinaaa 8 жыл бұрын

this was AMAZING

@samuelbridgman6664 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful critique! John Waters has amazing taste! He is a National Treasure!

@shaunloynds5317 4 жыл бұрын

Truly wonderful. The best thing I have seen in ages. Elegant, defiant and honest.

@markpx Жыл бұрын

To paraphrase Pound, art is news that stays news, ugliness that stays ugly, beauty that stays beautiful, depth that stays deep.

@ItsVinnieHager 4 жыл бұрын

this is my favorite video on the internet

@cedarraine7829 Ай бұрын

I have to watch this at least once a month ❤

@DanBlabbers 5 жыл бұрын

"one must have chaos in the soul to give birth to a dancing star." - nietzsche. Out of dysfunction, rebellion and taking the path less traveled you become something dazzling and unique. Cy Twombly's art encapsulated that. There's a beauty in destruction and unless you've broken the rules, been an outsider or marched to the beat of your own drum you won't find the beauty in his art. If you live for structure and morals to make a framework for your life, then stick to impressionist. They are loved because they take a safe step outside of the salon accepted atelier art, cy is a huge leap.

@helenconnolly6805 5 жыл бұрын

Beautifully stated

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

@@helenconnolly6805 yes I agree with you ; very well said

@dannyichijou1588 Жыл бұрын

Im selling my art for $1 billion. Wanna check it out ?

Жыл бұрын

Such soulful words to describe such soulful artwork. 🖤

@sophisticatedshrink 3 жыл бұрын

I love this on so many levels

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

Same here , my friend .

@pritchettdan 2 жыл бұрын

I have two prints by Twombly. Love his work!

@jward8868 4 жыл бұрын

What makes Twombly’s work so great is that he had the audacity to create it

@PiersPlowman 3 жыл бұрын

😑😑😑

@taramerryman7330 Жыл бұрын

I’d listen to him talk about anything🤘

@elflaco6654 8 жыл бұрын

I lived in Houston Texas for a year, uh... The worst city I have ever lived in but, they do have some good museums and art galleries. The best being the Cy Twombly Museum just a stroll from the Mark Rothko Chapel.

@earlspencer7863 5 жыл бұрын

Y u hate Houston?

@missybeegood5359 3 жыл бұрын

Hey...we 💙HTown 👍👍👍

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I'm going to have to check it out because otherwise I never had a desire to ever pass through Houston ever again .

@dylantech Жыл бұрын

I’m only watching this video because I discovered how ridiculous the art world is by attending the Twombly museum in Houston. I couldn’t help but laugh at everyone taking his scribbles and aborted sculptures seriously. As a comedian who showed us the true lunacy of modern art, Twombly is a genius, but his pieces are merely instrumental props made to sell the ruse.

@michaelgeisert289 Жыл бұрын

@@dylantech 😂😂

@fj103 Жыл бұрын

Pls bring John waters back again!!!

@furbabyfineart1172 2 жыл бұрын

This was surprisingly excellent

@sintes88 3 жыл бұрын

He was one of the greatest crooks in the history of art, I'll give him that.

@GreybeardtheSurvivor 3 жыл бұрын

Now THAT was enlightening...and a riot.

@jeff6660 8 ай бұрын

I love every single word that John Waters had to say in this video about Cy...not to mention that I am falling over crazy in love with the way he dresses. Just 'in your face' in the most adorable way. Good on you John!!!

@therossauger 5 жыл бұрын

I hope he's still got that cardboard from his dad.

@mclare71 4 жыл бұрын

I could listen to John Waters forever! I humbly ask that you tone down the music in these beautiful think pieces. It detracts from the authenticity of what is being. Thank you!

@ew3861 5 жыл бұрын

now that’s a way to make art history classes better.

@thewozmancan Жыл бұрын

“Wards off assholes!” You have to love John Waters. I was lucky to work with him on Hairspray.

@expressdual1 Жыл бұрын

thank you thank you thank you for those wise words!

@connectingthedots100 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow love this explanation!

@sunflowers2469 2 жыл бұрын

that’s nice that John loves these works. see, there’s art for everyone. he can buy all the prints and keep them in his house so no one else has to see it.

@nikolausgerszewski2086 4 жыл бұрын

I like very much how he speaks about this work.

@albertandrews130 Жыл бұрын

genius about genius

@mylindacasbarro777 Жыл бұрын

Art is so interesting and be Cy as to My name.

@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl Жыл бұрын

Interesting thx Mr. John Waters

@hbomb65 2 жыл бұрын

yes YES yes!

@quikslvrx 3 жыл бұрын

I cant draw a straight line, but I can definitely express myself in this manner. I am a high school drop out/single parent on welfare. As a castoff of society, if I had the audacity to create such art, are there people that would pay such prices for it?

@cli260 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta try it out, cause asking this question on the internet never gonna make you find out the truth

@steven1822 Жыл бұрын

just do it. free yourself from your self and just let your brain command your hands. you will amaze yourself.

@elliottewryan Жыл бұрын

do it! make art!

@athenaambrosia8670 4 жыл бұрын

Omg I love him "keep away assholes". Love him so much

@bluetoad2001 2 жыл бұрын

i have an early copy of “The Palmer Method of Business Writing” it really is a Twombly sketch book primer.

@monicanudelman Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤👏👏👏

@tomfurgas2844 7 жыл бұрын

I keep trying to appreciate Twombly, really working at it. I do like his sculptures, but the paintings and drawings still leave me cold. And I love abstract art! But those scribbles drive me nuts.

@1chipchap 7 жыл бұрын

we dont have to resonate with everything. its ok to only like some things an artist does. nothing wrong with disliking. it good you can appreciate his sculputures but not his paintings.

@cliffdariff74 6 жыл бұрын

You feel the I do about Philip Guston.

@wray8166 6 жыл бұрын

his art keeps away assholes...

@tomfurgas2844 6 жыл бұрын

Late Guston also drives me nuts. Ridiculous cartoon Klansmen, bums, and so forth, painted as if with hideously tinted lard. His nose-thumbing gesture at the whole art world and art market. But those horrible canvases are still around, still driving us nuts.

@tango31313 6 жыл бұрын

His scribbles are only part of his overall work. I don't enjoy them too much but most of his other work is sublime.

@xlerosx 2 жыл бұрын

He always has the greatest shoes.

@user-nz4yd3iu4t 2 жыл бұрын

멋찝니다~~

@chrisknapp4050 Жыл бұрын

I do not think he was ever audacious. He simply did what he wanted to, never giving thought to what anyone thought. He was oblivious to what others thought.

@anbernika 7 жыл бұрын

100%

@Renan064 8 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the book John Waters talks about in the video? Thanks!

@marinatrujillo8012 6 жыл бұрын

Renan De Oliveira I'm curious too!! Did you ever find out?

@MetamorphoseostouXR 6 жыл бұрын

It's "Letter of Resignation" by Cy Twombly, published in 1991 by Heiner Bastian (in Berlin, Germany).

@littleghostfilms3012 3 жыл бұрын

John Waters is our deranged seer into our world in all it's madness, hypocrisy, delight, and absurd contradictions. I've never seen him utter a single sentence that wasn't funny or perceptive.

@AudiobookLibrary24-7 5 жыл бұрын

@zenoist2399 4 жыл бұрын

The only audacity of him is to call it art.

@apes4days254 4 жыл бұрын

The audacity of you to define art by your uneducated opinion

@juangringo8811 4 жыл бұрын

It is art. (garbage art, but still art)

@chezceleste 3 жыл бұрын

What are you doing here asshole?

@ericdavidwallace Жыл бұрын

That is a true genius - An Artist that keeps A-holes away.

@dantewalter6600 3 жыл бұрын

My new goal in life is to simply get rid of the assholes. Then I shall be at peace. Thanks John!

@gardensofthegods 2 жыл бұрын

Well , if they hated Cy Twombly's work ; they're going to really hate mine ... ... The world , mos def, is not ready for my artwork it is just too bizarre . I would consider myself blessed if my paintings and sculptures could keep the assholes away . I have photographs from long ago of my son when he was little at the Philadelphia Art Museum standing in front of Cy Twombly's work with his arms up . He was standing on a bench it appears as if he is holding up the painting .

@alfiemarie Жыл бұрын

it looks like his chair is moving :/

@superdan422 6 жыл бұрын

so what makes cy twombly so great is that his work is so abstract that you have to project your own made-up meaning on to it? that's what i got from this video.

@Davidparle71 6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps its the urge to speak but without the forms of language...body and not mind.

@cedricduguay8492 5 жыл бұрын

He deconstructed writing, its a gesture, an irony, a posture, the gesture of a dandy* from the text :cy twombly: works on paper

@123oner 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah what a weird interview. Couldn't agree less about the hand writing, or the idea of translating. And where he says 'the audacity' as if he knows it's all bullshit. Cy's just an exceptional mark maker.

@samahdi6972 2 жыл бұрын

Twombly whose art makes as much sense as his name, the powers that seem to be are taking the pi - - we are being mocked from all sides Science, Health, Education, etc etc Lunatics rule the Narrative, and Sotheby's are milking it.

@calumcdz3152 2 жыл бұрын

The chicken music in this video defines this mans delusional character

@ezragonzalez8936 2 жыл бұрын

The value of Twombly's art is based on the disgusted feelings meritless envy it creates!

@chezceleste 3 жыл бұрын

If you can repel assholes you will have a happy life. Didn't stop smiling for the length of this video.

@goyaassfilms4551 10 ай бұрын

True success is keeping the assholes away. Couldn't agree more.

@TerrapinCreations666 2 жыл бұрын

I swear, I could slip in one of my granddaughter’s scribbles and nobody would think twice that it’s not one of the works of this con artist.

@123oner 4 жыл бұрын

What a weird interview. Couldn't agree less about the hand writing, or the idea of translating. Cy's work is just energy, expression, the tight, the loose, the quiet, the loud.....it's just exceptional mark making

@abstractbybrian 8 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@abrahamcuellar6603 2 жыл бұрын

LOL. YASS! ANARCHY

@teeniebeenie8774 6 жыл бұрын

I love all art, but twomblys scribbes escape me....argh

@VinnyDrugs 4 жыл бұрын

Why can't I like a artist just because he is pretentious?

@TheNecessaryEvil 6 ай бұрын

Abstract art is about how it makes you feel. It makes me feel like you have no talent. 🤷🏿

@jessegarza9977 4 жыл бұрын

Twombly was a studied artist and academically trained, so yes...he has earned the right to make intellectually disruptive art. Unlike the mountains of shit today that feigns value through vacuous explanation backed by rich mommys and daddys.

@1chipchap 7 жыл бұрын

good video. good points. keep away arseholes!!! :D

@celestialteapot309 Жыл бұрын

Bored

@arte0021 2 жыл бұрын

Sure, a guy who directed a shit ton of crappy movies likes a guy who made a shit ton of crappy art

@chrisknapp4050 Жыл бұрын

Why bother to defend your ideas against the idiotic masses who are all caught up in capitalism, ego and making money. It is pointless exercise and has nothing to do with making art. No true artist ever makes art for the Public, they make it because they can’t help themselves. They make it because they must. What others think or say about it should and does not matter.

@vivienneb6199 7 ай бұрын

Nice jacket choice!

@sylvestregagnon5681 Жыл бұрын

As much as i like john water i find nonetheless is comment on art rather banal. Cy twombly is just another overevaluated modern art charlatan. He is great at selling stuff that have not much value to pretentious people who want to appears fancy. Only in a democracy such non sens can be taken seriously.

@FilzSkillz 7 жыл бұрын

Bit of a stretch to call John Waters "legendary". A more appropriate adjective would be "shit".

@skylarkportraitstudio Жыл бұрын

I never heard a good word about Cy Twombly when I was in art school. When his name was mentioned, and it wasn’t often mentioned, my profs often frowned or said unkind things under their breath. One said to me “I just don’t believe that those scribbles mean anything.” I must admit to not liking his work very much myself. Probably all the lack of appreciation for Cy’s work by my teachers has informed my own opinion on his work. I don’t know. Has anyone here read Ron Rifkin’s recent book on Twombly “Chalk”? I’ve heard rather unkind things about it as well.

@williamsadler6467 Жыл бұрын

I'm conflicted about Cy Twombly. I like some of his work, but I can't help but feel that most of is a challenge to critics to actually come out and say that this is not art, it's just a Cy Twombly, and has no deeper significance beyond that. Which most of them will not do. But then I feel the same way about Damian Hirst and Jeff Koons.

@skylarkportraitstudio Жыл бұрын

@@williamsadler6467 Yes, I like some of his work as well. However, despite my training as an Art Historian, I am reluctant to assign real value to anything that I do not fully understand. Liking isn’t enough, I suppose, though it is the start of any real understanding of anyone’s art. Twombly’s art is intentionally opaque and vaporously elusive. I must read more about him and his art, I reluctantly admit.