Richard Tuttle: Pollock & Tiffany

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Art21 first featured artist Richard Tuttle in 2005
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Channels: American ArtContemporary ArtDrawingSculpture
Artists: Richard Tuttle
Themes: People

Exclusive Episode #076: Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism. Interviewed outside his home New Mexico, Tuttle's dialogue on being the "brush of society" versus "using society as your paintbrush" is paired with a retrospective of his works installed at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.

Learn more about Richard Tuttle: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttle

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Sam Henriques. Sound: Ray Day & Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. Special Thanks: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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00:00:15 I am proud to be attached to a tradition that not only has made enormous contributions to world art,

00:00:24 but it’s also, I think, making contributions. This is how this all started with what art is supposed to be of what kind, what it can be in the world.

00:00:36 And I always said for years I think the two greatest American artists are Pollack and Tiffany.

00:00:43 Pollack is great because he let himself be the brush of society. Society couldn’t express itself any other way, actually expressed itself in Pollack’s painting.

00:01:00 He, you know, is the kind of hero who is a hero because he submitted so totally and even abjectly to forces outside of himself

00:01:12 and just allowed himself to be a means. Tiffany on the other hand used the society as his paintbrush and why we you know we think that, "Oh Tiffany,

00:01:24 it's that store down on 57th Street," you know where he wasn’t really an artist, he just told other people what to do.

00:01:32 If we see it clearly I think is how this artist placed himself outside of the kind of individuality that Pollack is seen as.

00:01:44 And that indeed if you wanted to use the society as your paintbrush, you would have to put yourself in the background to the extent Tiffany did.

00:01:58 It’s very very connected to American pragmatism. I love Tiffany. He is almost like the quintessential American pragmatic artist.