In “Filmmakers Painting,” from ART PAPERS September/October 1998, film scholar Sally Shafto emphasizes the importance of understanding how Jean-Luc Godard’s approach draws influence from painting 🎨📖 She writes, “Godard is becoming a model for serious artists…

and his work correspondingly demands the attention of art historians. 30 years after releasing his first feature and articulating a novel production method (“I work like a painter”), Godard was ready to address modes of distribution. In a 1990 interview, Wim Wenders asked him if he minded the falling off of his audience. Godard responded that he was holding out for a time when each of his images will be prized as highly as a painter’s canvas, where his film frames will be sold as individual pictures on the auction block” 🔗 Click the link in the @artpapers bio to read more. This text is part of our Archival Spotlight, Focus on Art and Film, originally published in September/October 1998. In the coming days, we will feature additional texts from the issue 📚✨on ARTPAPERS.org . . . (1) Jean-Luc Godard © SIPA PRESS