Paul Lamens's video: KLEG EXTENSION - ART SONGS 02 - 03: INTERLUDE 1 REINHARDT PAINTS A PICTURE

'Interlude 1' and 'Reinhardt paints a picture' are part two and three of the song cycle 'Art Songs' written by David Dramm for KLEG, as performed by KLEG Extension ft. David Dramm at Grand Theatre, Groningen, Jan.16th, 1993. Video produced by Frank van Vlijmen. Art Songs was commissioned by KLEG, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and the City of Groningen. David Dramm: guitar, vocals * Henry Alles: guitar, backing vocals * Tiedo Groeneveld: guitar * Paul Lamens: guitar * Arno van Roosmalen: guitar * Dick Toering: guitar * Floris Sirag: bass guitar * Ben Onderstijn: drums Reinhardt Paints a Picture (1991) Ad Reinhardt was born on Christmas Eve born out of daylight on the eve of the entry of Europe into the First World War The year the cubists peaked the birth of abstract art modern art moved into America like a Avro called itself, the 'Armory Show' Laid down the rules at the port of New York set up shop in Chicago wound up in Boston, well, lil' Ad smelled 'em burning Matisse. I grabbed my Sony, I showed up his loft where Wavery Place meets Lower Broadway. I said, "Let me ask you a couple of questions." "You were a vanguard pre-abstract expressionist in the late thirties. You were a vanguard abstract-expressionist by forty-four. You were a vanguard post-abstract expressionist when the fifties rolled around." "Speak into the condenser mic, you've been doing these things since 'I like Ike.'?" "Yes," he said. "You were the first painter to kick the vanguard thing?" 'Yes," he said. 'You were the first painter to read the whole 'I Ching'?" 'Yes," he said. I pointed to some rags full of paint on the floor. "Are these rags here your paint rags? Do you use them anymore?" "Yes," he said. "You're using Bocour? You're using Belgian linen? These bottles over here, are these the ones you mix in?' "Yes," he said. "You went around the world once?' "Yes," he said. "Paris to Peking?" "Yes," he said. Your stomach really curled once Andy make the scene. Its a fact, Jack, that at the Factory they got art, TV, top 40 chart they don't feel guilty Its a fact, Jack, that at the Factory they got Pop Art, they're popping reds cameras rolling above their beds. Red and blue, '52, monochrome, symmetrical. Matte black, 5 X 5, anti-dialectical. You're a pioneer, you're a prophet. One of the few, isn't it true who always knew how to hawk it? "Are you still saying that 'art-as-art dogma? The new stuff looks like old stuff I've read. Are you still saying that what you been saying is the only thing an artist can say that needs to said?" "Yes," he said. "There's nothing else to say?" "No," he said. "That's all for today." © 1991 voLsap Music, Amsterdam Music published by Donemus Amsterdam