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拍品专文
In 1960, as a recent U.S. art school graduate living in Europe, Peter Saul was understandably dissatisfied with the values of American culture. Wanting to remove himself from what he called "art as furniture" he began to include in his expressionist paintings, references to consumerism, violence, politics and sexuality. Saul's Ice Box paintings from this period represent compendiums of aggressive consumer madness including exploding produce and crazed head-less figures. Pop in subject-matter, the Ice Boxes echo the Abstract Expressionists' post-Cubist picture plane and gestural energy.
Robert Storr: Why did you choose an icebox as an image?
Peter Saul: I could remember dimly seeing an advertisement for an icebox from a few years before when I was in the United States. I'd done a stove. I'd done a car. So I went to look for an icebox image in Life magazine. There's no real reason except I wanted the subject to be recognized.
RS: What about the stuff in it?
PS: Yeah, that would be fun. You can do unusual things, and you could put a telephone in. You could mess it up. I didn't have any good intellectual position yet; I was too young. Shortly after becoming known, I got a visit from an American woman, an important collector, who did ask me, "Why is the telephone in the icebox?" And I didn't know what to say. I should have said, "cultural." And I think she just lost all interest in my art at that moment-you know?-because I didn't know enough to use the word cultural.
(Peter Saul, exh. cat., Orange County Museum of Art, 2008, pp. 45-46)
Robert Storr: Why did you choose an icebox as an image?
Peter Saul: I could remember dimly seeing an advertisement for an icebox from a few years before when I was in the United States. I'd done a stove. I'd done a car. So I went to look for an icebox image in Life magazine. There's no real reason except I wanted the subject to be recognized.
RS: What about the stuff in it?
PS: Yeah, that would be fun. You can do unusual things, and you could put a telephone in. You could mess it up. I didn't have any good intellectual position yet; I was too young. Shortly after becoming known, I got a visit from an American woman, an important collector, who did ask me, "Why is the telephone in the icebox?" And I didn't know what to say. I should have said, "cultural." And I think she just lost all interest in my art at that moment-you know?-because I didn't know enough to use the word cultural.
(Peter Saul, exh. cat., Orange County Museum of Art, 2008, pp. 45-46)