4/14/2023 0 Comments Learning on the job by jerry saltzThese are three drawings, a square shape in the middle flanked by two verticals. You’re a fake…'” Saltz drawings for the inside panels of a Canto I altarpiece. Your work has nothing to do with anything. ‘You don’t know how to draw,’ I told myself. ![]() I erupted with fear, self-loathing, dark thoughts about how bad my work was, how pointless, unoriginal, ridiculous. “But then I looked back, into the abyss of self-doubt. He was ecstatic with the recognition, yet he had a nagging contempt for his art: Jerry Saltz writes about his younger artist self: “In 1973, I was 22, full of myself, and frustrated that I wasn’t already recognized for my work.” But a few years later he had some great acceptance from the art world: museum purchases, a $3,000 NEA grant in 1978 money, reviewed in Artforum, exhibited with Barbara Gladstone Gallery and with Rhona Hoffman. And if I were the parents, I would encourage the teen to spend time doing something that he had talent for. If I were talking to the kid’s parents, I would tell them that the scratchy quality and ugly color sensibilities might be a reflection of chronic doubt and dull frustration. You would expect a kid to be more fearless, less worried, and less tentative. ![]() If this was the work of a 13 year old, I would have to dig deep for encouragement. Those who can’t teach, critique.” And no one represents this weakness better than Jerry Saltz, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his article, “My Life as a Failed Artist.” Saltz drawings for the inside panels of a Canto I altarpiece. Saltz circa 1976, in front of his drawings.
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