The article I read was in Friday's NYT, the WeekendArts section, in an art review titled, "Mr. Natural Goes the the Museum" You will enjoy it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > Hey, did you notice the Crumbster, or an exhibit about his work got > > a good write up in the NYT yesterday. > > No. And I thank you from the bottom of my heart > for bringing it to my attention. > > http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/robert_c rumb/index.html > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/6hjwaa > > I really love Robert. He is one of the most sincere, > straightforward, honest people it has ever been my > good fortune to meet. You just want to hug him, > but you don't, because you know it would make him > uncomfortable. > > What those who have never really dived into his more > esoteric (read "limited edition" and "expensive") > work may not realize is the God's-honest-truthness > of the lines from the article, "...art critic Robert > Hughes once called Mr. Crumb 'the Bruegel of the 20th > century.'" > > He's that good. I'm into art. I've seen the line > drawings of Bruegel and all of the other Dutch > Masters. Robert's in their league. > > Also from the article: "Mr. Crumb's work presents a > vision of American life as a phantasmagoric gallery > of grotesques that is as gripping as it is harshly > funny." > > Hey, I lived for a time as Robert's next-door neighbor. > Life often IS a a phantasmagoric gallery of grotesques > in Sauve. But it's also To Die For Funny, and I loved > that Robert, given all he's been through, could laugh > at it as much as he does. > > One of the first things that endeared me to R.Crumb, > the first time I met him in Paris, is that he laughed > at my jokes. > > Really. > > I mean, he *really* laughed. > > Get a couple of glasses of wine in me, and I tell jokes. > It's just who I am, and what I do. And I *understand* > that some of my friends put up with my jokes only because > they really, really love me. > > But, weirdo that I am, I really *get into* the telling > of a good joke. I look at a joke as an artform, something > that one practices but never masters. So I don't just > tell jokes over and over, I *tune* them, and try to make > them more *effective* jokes. > > This inner artistic quest has so far met with far too > much stony non-laughter. Maybe it's my choice of jokes. > > But Robert really *liked* my jokes. And when he did -- > and it would always take him a few seconds before he > did, and realized that he did -- he would burst into > the most Buddhalike laughter I have ever heard. > > It was like someone who carried the weight of the > world around on his shoulders for a living suddenly > having a moment that made him laugh. > > Contributing to that laughter, whenever I could, were > the high points of my time in Sauve. >
