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La Vie En Pose.
Byline: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
As Natalia models for Francesco Clemente, Jonathan Safran Foer recalls the uncanny pleasure of sitting for his own portrait.
Sometimes people are sad to be separated by a train window, and sometimes they are relieved. A locked door can inspire feelings of fear or safety. People can be on opposite sides of cigarette smoke, tears, waterfalls, camera lenses, one-way mirrors, bedsheets, elevator doors, banquet tables, stage curtains, crosshairs, peepholes, and binoculars. But of all the things that can be between two people, a canvas may generate the most awkwardly lopsided experience. The person being painted watches ...
- Amazing artist of silent poetry: Francesco Clemente.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Interview Sischy, Ingrid July 1, 1997 700+ words
Francesco Clemente and his family live much of the year...out some of the secrets that make Francesco Clemente 100-percent artist. INGRID SISCHY...terms of the show, but in general. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: Well, in general, I started with...
- "CLEMENTE".(paintings, Francesco Clemente, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International HICKEY, DAVE January 1, 2000 700+ words
...was genuinely disappointed by Francesco Clemente's exhibition at the Guggenheim...exhibition's trademark title, "Clemente"--as if murmured, by one...scent. As light and fragrant as "Clemente" is, however, I would have...
- Lines liberate new style for Francesco Clemente
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Mary Sherman November 20, 1987 700+ words
...the artist and his personal life." Italian artist Francesco Clemente made these comments in an interview in 1985, at...expressive canvases of the Neo-Expressionists. "Francesco Clemente: The Argentario Series" will be on display at the...
- Francesco Clemente. (Peter Blum, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Hainley, Bruce April 1, 1996 700+ words
...this taut miniretrospective of Francesco Clemente's paintings, how easy it is...of the self. Again and again, Clemente's beautiful head - attached...voluminous material written on Clemente (and his generation) but scrape...
- Francesco Clemente at Gagosian.(New York, New York)(Review of...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Wei, Lilly November 1, 1997 700+ words
...this show of new paintings by Francesco Clemente, refers to a distorted image...drawn; what modeling there is Clemente accomplishes with color, as with...broken by the weave of the canvas. Clemente is a sensual ascetic or an ascetic...
- Francesco Clemente at Gagosian. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Bourdon, David June 1, 1994 700+ words
...tenebrous development in the art of Francesco Clemente. For most of the past two decades...influence of Warhol, with whom Clemente co-painted a series of noteworthy...florid, ornate and sensual. Clemente's penumbral pictures evoke an...
- Tableaux vivants.(Francesco Clemente exhibition)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar Ceria, Melissa December 1, 1999 700+ words
Several of Francesco Clemente's celebrity portraits came alive...Marden and Fran Lebowitz to celebrate "Clemente," a survey of the artist's work...and Lebowitz to the real thing, the Clemente daughters, Chiara and Nina, drew...
- Francesco Clemente.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International September 1, 1999 700+ words
...dictates we cut these macho dudes some slack. Of course Francesco Clemente was never mas macho, and with the epoch-claiming...enough to forgive the orientalism and the angst. Clemente is one of those "natural" talents (which I guess...