Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholder
Fritz Scholderwas a Native American artist. Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the mythos of the American Indian. A teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the late 1960s, Scholder influenced a generation of Native American students...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth6 October 1937
CountryUnited States of America
We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.
I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.