Post #2384

The father of filmmaker, John Waters, was so horrified after learning how much his son had paid for a work by Cy Twombly that he created this drawing, which he then gifted to his son on Christmas Day, 1994. Brilliant. “When my father saw one of the Twombly pieces I had [Five Greek Poets and a Philosopher, 1978], he was just appalled—you know, “You bought this..?” I would never brag to anybody about how much things are worth—except to my father, because that was the only thing he understood. But he was even more stupefied when I told him. So for Christmas one year, he did this little drawing for me that just said, “C-R-A-Z-Y”. The thing that amazed me was that as much as my father hated that piece and was bewildered by it, the work somehow spoke to him artistically. It made him make art, which he had never done.” An extract from an interview with Waters in 2022, courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar. отсюда