Elizabeth Peyton

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Celeb Whore or talented draughtswoamn .

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know Elizabeth a bit, have been to her studio and hang out at a bar where she often DJs, so I wouldn't want to say anything against her.

However, I do worry that she may have tied her work too closely to Britpop, and I wonder if, as a result, she'll be out of fashion until the day the last trump sounds and Britpop comes back, riding 'on the shoulder of giants'.

― Momus, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe that is why her new stuff deals with the now hip new york scene. Like that lovely watercolor of a red jacketed chloe sevigny ?

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As well does the lasting effects of portiture depend on us knowing who the sitters are . We know nothing of who the ladies of vemeer or van eyck are . but they are masters. I think that she will be rembered for the gestural and emphrael nature of her work .

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think her paintings are vapid.

― turner, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because they are of the famous or because of formalist concerns ?

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For cutely androdgynous celeb boys=please look no further than the latest N'sync fanzine. Why do they have to be painted? Photography serves the purpose much better (if the purpose is simple, uncritical adulation-why let all that paint get in the way?) Guess her technique also strikes me as a little, um, underdevloped. Bottom line: a good one-liner.

― turner, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have never seen such beautiful colours used by a contemporary artist as those in Elizabeth Peyton's paintings, they're just like jewels. Similar artists, like Karen Kilimnik or Amy Adler make work that looks icing-sugary in comparison. Also, identity of sitters aside, I like how Peyton picks up on the vulnerability of the men she is painting, something I noticed when I stood next to one L Gallagher at the last Manics with Richey gig in London and was shocked into arrhythmia by the colour and ferocity in his blue eyes. I mean, wow. Then I saw Peyton's take on same and even from a distance - she works from photos - she'd managed to 'see' this too.

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She works from both life sittings and photos.
Photogrpahy does not have the color sense, the sketchy and gestrual qauilty of line.
The way she makes men look like boys, the aristocratic androgny i do not think can be matched by photographs.
Suzy :I did not think Adler painted . I love her drawings and the Teen beat Story is one of my favorite art stories though.

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony, with Adler I was referencing the celeb subject matter. She takes the photo, then makes a drawing (you know this, I'm sure, but other posters mayn't). With Peyton/Liam, no way did he sit for her. Pfff, chortle, can you IMAGINE the comedy potential?

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I stood next to one L Gallagher at the last Manics with Richey gig in London and was shocked into arrhythmia by the colour and ferocity in his blue eyes. I mean, wow.

I've sent this to Private Eye, expect it to run the week after next.

― Momus, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hypocrite!

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But she has had some life studies, Jarvis i think
What do you think of Lucien Freud getting the royal comisson, now the Queen sitting for Freud, that would be a comedy fest.

Espically if it ends up being one of those hard edged sqaulid nudes.

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, just think of all that blue blood throbbing in the mercilessly rendered blue veins around Her Majesty's flaccid breasts...

Shit, there goes my knighthood. Her Majesty is certain to Google.

― Momus, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do not think her majesty does anything but travel and look at her art. now the hiphop master charles is another matter.

― anthony, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was in France last weekend the house we stayed in had a copy of Nerds 2.0.1 wherein it says EII has been online since 1976 and used it to send Silver Jubilee thank-yous.

But sitting for Lucian Freud...this I did not know.

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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