Artist Talk: David Salle on “How to See”

In this appearance at the Art Students League Mr. Salle talks about his interactions with other artists, the need to have a common language in discussing art, and his experiences in a career spanning 25 years.
David Salle helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MoMA Vienna; Menil Collection, Houston; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

[@sandykrage9351]

Hardly dull. The greater your personal knowledge base, the more you know what to look for to fill in your own gaps as you connect with another's thinking. He's a visual artist. His thinking process and comparisons were great.

[@normanstratford9329]

When I visited New York in 1980, found that there was a great divide between England and America. Conceptual art was going down well in England, while in America it was more about Photographic Realism. Since that time , it is possible to see that painting in England has returned to the figurative tradition with the help of David Hockney. It is now skill verses art inventiveness . Critics can reach back in the past for skill, but are not so precise about art inventiveness and the language does not come easy.

[@bloubulus]

Love your work! Great talk also, thanks for doing it for us. Searched your work and loved it!! Your figures is devine!!

[@AluminumBird]

Thank you. This is helpful.

[@ericswain4177]

Once again The "BIGGEST" ! factor in the price of art often isn't quality, or effort - it's "BRANDING" ! !

[@deborahb63]

This guy...I think so. He is attempting to bring many different elements together in a free and thought provoking way... In my opinion.

[@jameswelsh7789]

This is a REALLY GOOD Op Ed on the state Art criticism and how it might improve. Thankyou David Salle sharing your thoughts. So many comments here are frankly disgusting, Trolling is “so 2019” pearls before swine, thank goodness we’ve moved on…

[@justinmcgonigle5587]

Salle makes cool paintings....😊

[@DJSTOEK]

🖤

[@marceltzara3253]

David Dial / Dyall / Deeal - who is here talking about at the start? I'd like to see the work

[@simonlinke1]

David Diao

[@jameswelsh7789]

An aesthete first, a big intellect, a teacher to me. We should have a fresh loot at his work.

[@patriceortovent6451]

The passion in an artist doesn’t express itself by imitating nature but by creating like nature does. Van Gogh has been one of the most powerful figure in that respect. Everything else is talk, talk and more talk.

[@gravesbruce]

I fell asleep...what did he say?

[@hamidijaz2167]

😂

[@hamidijaz2167]

Minu assignmnt na labbi hundi ty tainu dasda ainy ki kuj ponkyaa vy

[@Doppe1ganger]

Think your art is crap, but love your talk

[@davidtucker3538]

hain ?

[@sixfifththree]

Are those his works behind him? They don’t look like it.

[@2209009pm]

This guy, I don't think so.

[@thingy2780]

the emperor has no clothes

[@rbettsx]

Don't give up the day job.

[@ypure3859]

What makes an interesting speaker?? Hard to define..But Salle is RATHER DULL DULL DULL

[@babyirene3188]

Yeah no. Perhaps practise speaking in public.

[@janesaddiction101]

*practice

[@mrdavestanley2156]

A lot of mumbling and stumbling to say virtually nothing. The type of bull manure that surrounds art and alienates lovers of great imagery. It's either appealing or it isn't. Intellectual snobbery at its finest.

[@gloobnord]

My god this guy is a terrible lecturer. He should try to test it out on someone "critical" before he offers it to others. He's disorganized and scattered. Please, David, read something about "How to Lecture."