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Russell Connor, Artist: Masters in Pieces
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One might think being born in 1929 would create a sentimental bond with the economy, as we struggled to grow together through the depression and war toward prosperity. But in truth my father did the struggling, my brother went to war, and when I chose the life of an artist, the economy went its way, and I, another. I was attracted to the life of an artist to justify my obsession with drawing, but also because it seemed to extend one's adolescent license for freedom and irresponsibility –it promised there would be no need for dreary meetings with people bent on Accomplishing Things, and the dress code was much more in harmony with my studied carelessness. My father was far from happy with this decision, saying, "It's OK to be an artist, if you can paint like Rembrandt."
It has been a wonderful life, but I've strayed often from my personal vision of How an Artist Should Be, and my painting has taken some astonishing turns. I continue to be surprised that the inspiration for my work of the past quarter century has been, God help us, television. Or, more precisely, television and art history. This sounds so strange, even to me, I must flash back to puzzle out how it came to be.
Art school, Boston, late forties – the Massachusetts College of Art was largely devoted to preparing public school teachers. I studied every day a sort of sixth generation Impressionism, painting from the model, swept away by the heroism and romance of the artists' lives as told in John Rewald's new books on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. My other principal reading seemed to be anything I could find by Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse.
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