Leonard Baskin
American artist (1922–2000)
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
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Quotes
edit- Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. The human figure is the image of all men and of one man. It contains all and it can express all.
- Leonard Baskin, quoted in "Art: The Monumentalist" Time Magazine (January 18, 1960).
- .. the only true originality any art can have is originality of content. If I tried to find a new way of doing sculpture, I’d be like any other guy.
- Leonard Baskin, quoted in "Art: The Monumentalist" Time Magazine (January 18, 1960).
- Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.
- Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (5 April 1965).
- There's a tremendous tendency not to make a statement, not to be committed in that ultimate sense. Photo-realism is the same thing as minimal abstraction. Both are unwilling to say anything about the nature of reality, about their own involvement with reality, the evolvement of forms, their expressive...their deepest involvement with human reality.
- Leonard Baskin Interview (1996) Discussing the State of Contemporary Art. in: Don Gray "Art Essays, Art Criticism & Poems" at jessieevans-dongrayart.com
