Lari Pittman: Craft | Art21 "Exclusive"
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Uploaded by art21org on May 8, 2008
Episode #010: Lari Pittman painting Palace (2006) in his Los Angeles studio.
Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into luxurious scenes. Meditations on romantic love, violence, and mortality, his work demonstrates the complementary nature of beauty and suffering, pain and pleasure. In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman's hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Southwestern kitsch.
LEARN: Lari Pittman is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Romance of the Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.
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Caption: Lari Pittman, Palace
Learn more about Lari Pittman: http://www.art21.org/artists/lari-pittman
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mark Sutton. Artwork courtesy: Lari Pittman.
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A few years ago Lari gave the same shtick to me in regards to my work as he did to a group of my peers. He was incredibly disingenuous and phoney. Strange that a person of such low humanity can create such elaborate paintings.
peterphilip 3 years ago
I showed his video (on Art21) to my drawing classes & they were so inspired by Lari Pittman ... I love him too. He seems like a sincere person who takes what he does seriously.
vividblack01 3 years ago
Lari Pittman is such a great artist. And his words have a jewel-like brilliance about some weird aspects, unspoken ones, of our society. I saw his show at the Corcoran Museum years ago, and I'd say I qualify as a fan since then. If I could swing it, I would love to own one of his paintings.
ppfuchs 3 years ago 2