Oral history interview with Guy Dill
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 6 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Dill, Guy, 1946-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists' models
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
label: Provenance
content: Funding for this interview provided by Bente and Gerald E. Buck Collection.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Dill, Guy, 1946-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Guy Dill (1946- ) is a sculptor from Venice Beach, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording (60 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 24 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 August 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dill00
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Guy Dill conducted 2000 August 29, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Dill's studio, Venice Beach, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The interview focuses on Dill's art school experience at the Chouinard Art Institute, especially his introduction to nude life drawing classes. Dill describs how he drew the model from inside a cardboard refrigerator box at Stephan von Huene's instruction; the art school situation of the time as "sexually charged," a product of 1960s social behavior; models from the standpoint of the "energy" brought to class; being stimulated by the subject, whether nude female or landscape; the effect that a pose can have on his creativity; the model as the "primal method of getting the art motors going"; drawing now clarifies for him a relationship, providing a point of reference for understanding; and the difficulty of drawing his wife, whose presence is complicated by their long married history together and the important place a spouse occupies in one's life.