"When I was a kid, I was painting, as a few of my classmates were, because my teacher was a painter. We were making paintings and different things as well - silkscreens for dances or basketball games, mobiles ... It was around 1963, so a lot of different types of artistic endeavours were happening, which played into what he was teaching us. That was kind of where I started."
"I went to Rhode Island School of Design, and there was a film department there. I started to spend a lot of time there, because the painters in the painting department were very good, and because I'd done painting for so long."
Gus Van Sant is recognized as an adventurous contemporary filmmaker known for oscillating between commercial successes like Good Will Hunting and Milk, and experimental works such as Gerry and My Own Private Idaho. Beyond cinema, Van Sant developed painting skills in childhood under an artist teacher, pursued formal training at Rhode Island School of Design, and has intensively returned to painting over the past 15 years. A new publication, Gus Van Sant: Paintings, documents his painted works from 2011 to present. Van Sant's artistic journey reflects a consistent pattern of discovery and reinvention across multiple creative disciplines, mirroring the experimental sensibility evident in his filmmaking.
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