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THE JOURNEY ZONE
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Jrnydv.Com’s
Exclusive Telephone Interview
with Robert Fleischman
January 8, 2003
Part Five: Painting and Sculpture
DG: Let me take this time to ask you about your own painting and sculpture.
RF: Well I’ve been painting all my life, mainly murals, and I do six-foot by six-foot paintings and some of ‘em are figurative, and some of ‘em are very abstract, and a lot of ‘em are very, kind of, non-suicidal-looking Rothcos. I don’t know if you know who Rothco is. Mark Rothco. I’m into Mark Rothco and I’m into all the ashcan old-New York fifties painters—abstract painters like Franz Klein and De Kooning, and people like that. I’m into that whole era. I love that whole era of painting.
DG: Do you actually at times ever put a canvas on the floor and just drip stuff on it the way Jackson Pollack did?
RF: I’ve done stuff like that, yeah. I mean, I’ve painted for over twenty years.
DG: Wild. And sculpture too, right?
RF: Yeah, I work in alabaster. About a 350-pound rock and you just get a two-pound hammer and start whacking away with the chisels.
DG: That’s actually the best stone to work with—that’s the only stone I’ve ever worked with personally.
RF: With alabaster?
DG: Yeah, I just did one thing.
RF: Well alabaster is soft marble, and it’s very—you know, it’s very forgiving.
DG: And you can almost sort of see through it—the light can kinda’ come through it a little.
RF: Yeah, it’s very translucent. And I’m really into that, and sculpture-wise I’m into people like Henry Moore, and I’m into Cyclotic art, which is an island in the Aegean Sea, off of Greece. And they had these people—the natives of this island used to make these statues that looked like they were from outer space, and it was before Christ. I mean it’s just amazing. They just looked ultra-modern.
DG: Like around the time when Homer was writing, I guess.
RF: Yep.
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