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Friday, 29 September, 2000, 06:03 GMT 07:03 UK
McCartney art makes UK debut
![]() Abstract art: Sir Paul started painting when he was 40
The first UK exhibition of Sir Paul McCartney's art work has opened in Bristol.
The 58-year-old singer has been painting since he was 40, but he has only exhibited his work once before, in Germany last year. Featuring a selection of the 500 canvasses he has painted, the exhibition, at the Arnolfini Gallery, coincides with the publication of a book on his art. Speaking on the eve of the exhibition's opening, Sir Paul said he had always wanted to be an artist, and felt he had missed out on formal training in his teenage years. "I always liked drawing as a kid and I liked the idea of painting but I felt there was some sort of reason why I shouldn't, because I hadn't been trained, because I hadn't been to art college, because I was just a working class person," he said. Abstract art Sir Paul recounted how a conversation with US artist Willem de Kooning prompted him to pick up palette and brushes.
De Kooning, an abstract expressionist, replied: "I dunno, looks like a couch, huh?" "I thought his painting looked like a purple mountain and he thought it looked like a couch, but the fact that he said that it didn't matter what it was just freed me," Sir Paul said. Spat with Lennon The exhibition coincides with the recent re-publication of an interview fellow Beatle John Lennon gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1970. Lennon attacks Sir Paul in the interview, but the musician pointed out that it came when the band members were going through their worst crisis.
"He could have been boozed out of his head, as he was during that period, he could have been crazed on this, that or the other substance. "But we did get very friendly, and he did tell me that a lot of those things he said he didn't mean. "I was very lucky in as much as before he got killed we were able to tell each other we loved each other," he added.
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