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Paul Slater Answers FAD’s Questions

1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
A carpet fitter.

2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Bacon and Beryl Cook

3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Tex Avery.

4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Cubism

5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
That my sketchbooks are a lot of fun.

6. And the dumbest?
That I should paint landscapes.

7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Tex Avery

8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Yes. Artists need to know their worth.

9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Beauty, romance and Tom Foolery

10 Are you a political artist?
Yes. Up the workers.

11 How do you start the process of making work?
Scribbling in a sketchbook.

12 What next?
Mosaics

13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
3 very expensive ones.

14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed art the artists, for they shall……”… Stop dreaming and get proper jobs.

15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”.. Continue to be fearless and press on with their ground breaking work.

16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”… Get their own award winning TV series.

17. What is your favourite cheese?
Tesco’s

18. What’s next for you?
More mosaics

Paul Slater at Central Illustration Agency

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