INTERVIEW WITH THIERRY SAVATIER 1/5: INFLUENCES & FIRST ART WOKS IN FRANCE & IN MONTREAL | 7|29|2019

Описание: Filmed interview between Jean-Pierre Sergent and art historian Thierry Savatier (world-famous specialist of Gustave Courbet).

1/5 : INFLUENCES & FIRST ART WOKS IN FRANCE & MONTREAL
JPS : Hello dear friend Thierry, it's a great pleasure to welcome you to the workshop. We had this interview project for a very long time and you came to the region to give lectures on Gustave Courbet. We are really very happy to welcome you at the workshop today. Thank you for coming. We will start these interviews quietly and I will answer your questions as much as possible!
TS: Yes, thank you Jean-Pierre! In fact, we've had this interview project for quite some time now and I wanted to ask you, it's true, a number of questions, probably with an art historian's approach, that is to say, I'm still very interested in chronology. It is a little bit about this type of orientation that I would like to ask you, in particular, starting with everything concerning your training, your first works, your influences too! There's a question that everyone always asks themselves when it comes to an artist, it's that we consider that an artist is someone a little particular and we wonder how one becomes an artist. So that's my first question: for you, how did you decide to become an artist one day?
JPS: It's not really a decision, it's a life path I think. Yes it's a path of life! It's not a decision, but you still need a lot of will to continue working as an artist, of course! And it's what fills me with joy and happiness. That's really what gives me the most happiness in life, being an artist!
TS: So, a path of life! So there was a time in your life, in your youth, when you thought that was the direction you wanted to go in?
JPS: At first I hesitated a bit. In my teenage years, as a young man, between writing and painting. Because both seemed important to me!
TS: We'll talk about writing later!
JPS: Okay, yes!
TS: Because you do have a whole part of your activity that consists of writing about your art, writing about art!
JPS: Yes!
TS: It's very important because a lot of artists don't do it! That's true!...

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