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\"Chuck<\/a>

Chuck Close with his collection<\/p><\/div>\n

From a NYTimes<\/a> article about what famous artists collect. I want to ask Koons, if art is just about sex, what’s up with the word “transcendence”?<\/p>\n

Jeff Koons<\/strong>
\nWhen Jeff Koons speaks about the \u201cbiological\u201d subtext of his art, he\u2019s alluding to the sexual references embedded within. (Think of the hoses and tanks of his vacuum cleaners, the crevices and shanks of his stainless steel balloon figures.) When Koons looks at the art he collects \u2014 old and modern masters including Picasso, Dal\u00ed and Courbet \u2014 he sees much the same thing.<\/p>\n

The composition of a William-Adolphe Bouguereau nude that welcomes visitors to the Upper East Side townhouse he shares with his wife, Justine, and their six children is \u201cvaginal,\u201d he says, while a Manet painting of a boat displays \u201caspects of boat gender.\u201d (To Koons, ships are metaphors for sexuality.) The Picasso portrait in his living room combines the faces of two women. \u201cThe whole thing is phallic.\u201d In his bedroom, where nearly every painting \u2014 by Poussin, Magritte, Fragonard and more \u2014 is a celebration of desire, another Picasso depicting the artist making love is \u201cabout conquest, both artistic and sexual.\u201d<\/p>\n

If it seems as if he has a one-track mind, let it be said that the art in his possession affects his whole being. \u201cI think art is about transcendence and consciousness, making connections to things in the world.”<\/p>\n

Chuck Close<\/strong><\/p>\n

The living room of (Chuck Close’s) NoHo apartment doubles as a gallery for Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters like van Dyck, Rembrandt, Titian and Tintoretto, as well as for African art.<\/p>\n

A white marble bust of Hadrian, carved from life in the second century A.D., sits near a window, while a gilded Italian altarpiece, dated 1310, hangs over a Gerrit Rietveld cabinet. \u201cWhen I studied Greek and Roman art,\u201d Close says, \u201cI didn\u2019t know or care who the subjects were. Now I\u2019m thinking, Hey, who\u2019s Hadrian? Turns out he was a gay emperor. And a pacifist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Close, who is 73, . . . says, \u201cI\u2019m not acquisitive.\u201d Yet on either side of an interior hallway are dozens of portraits, small drawings, photographs and paintings, many by artists Close has painted. They include Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn and Alex Katz, as well as Jacob Lawrence, Diane Arbus and Man Ray. Most were trades, though a cut-paper collage by Ray Johnson was a purchase. One section of the work is blank, removed by the artist after Close requested a 20 percent discount. \u201cContemporary art is the most overpriced, overvalued stuff \u2014 thank God,\u201d he says. \u201cBut old masters are the most powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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