Nancy Spero Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Jobs #Artist #Might
“I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Art #Men #Order
“When I showed â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ in MalmÃ¶, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in MalmÃ¶, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe lâ€™oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ and continued that on the wall.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Wall #Space #Black
“I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Wall #Thinking #Squares
“I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Book #School #Math
“I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist Iâ€™m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what Iâ€™m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work Iâ€™ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I donâ€™t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.”
-- Nancy Spero

#Art #Thinking #Feminist

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