Eva Hesse let go of all self-imposed curbs on her painting, giving her the confidence to show and sell her work. Eva Hesse is voiced by actress Selma Blair and actor Patrick Kennedy voices Sol LeWitt.
Premieres Friday, August 31 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)
I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed upon myself I will strip me of superficial dishonesty I will paint against every rule and you have to understand at that time there wasn't in the art world there were people making work for themselves and for each other and there wasn't any product commodification hadn't happened the art world hadn't been taken over by collectors no one don't thinking about how much money they were gonna make it was all dedicating your life to your work and I know that even felt that way to only painting can now see me through it is totally interdependent with my entire being it is what I have found through which I can express myself [Music] [Music] she came to New York and I met her she'd just gotten out of Yale he was very pretty cute very live and hip and knew a lot of people because of being in Yale I recognized that she had something extraordinary about her work I'm beginning to sell and show my work in that order one gave me the confidence to proceed to the other international watercolor show at the Brooklyn Museum and three young Americans my show last evening it is the beginning of being fully in the midst of the art world
