Editing David Lynch (section)

===Painting===
[[File:Lynch's So This is Love painting.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25|Lynch painted ''So This Is Love'' in 1992.]]
Lynch first trained as a painter, and although better known as a filmmaker, continued to paint. He said: "all my paintings are organic, violent comedies. They have to be violently done and primitive and crude, and to achieve that I try to let nature paint more than I paint."<ref name="lynch05" />{{rp|22}} Many of his works are very dark in color; Lynch said this was because:

{{blockquote|I wouldn't know what to do with [color]. Color to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a color, the more dreamy it gets&nbsp;... Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|20}}}}

Many of Lynch's paintings contain letters and words. He said:

{{blockquote|The words in the paintings are sometimes important to make you start thinking about what else is going on in there. And a lot of times, the words excite me as shapes, and something'll grow out of that. I used to cut these little letters out and glue them on. They just look good all lined up like teeth&nbsp;... sometimes they become the title of the painting.<ref name=lynch05/>{{rp|22}}}}

Lynch was the subject of a major art retrospective at the [[Fondation Cartier]] in Paris from March 3 to May 27, 2007. The show was titled ''The Air is on Fire'' and included paintings, photographs, drawings, alternative films and sound work. New site-specific art installations were created specially for the exhibition. A series of events, including live performances and concerts, accompanied the exhibition.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wyatt |first=Caroline |date=March 2, 2007 |title=David Lynch's dark arts laid bare |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6412525.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208154450/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6412525.stm |archive-date=February 8, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2010 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Lynch's alma mater, the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], presented an exhibition of his work called "The Unified Field", which ran from September 12, 2014, to January 2015.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 27, 2014 |title=David Lynch: The Unified Field |url=https://www.pafa.org/davidlynch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225205447/https://www.pafa.org/davidlynch |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |access-date=May 1, 2017 |work=pafa.org}}</ref> Lynch was represented by Kayne Griffin Corcoran in Los Angeles, and began exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and photography with the gallery in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 7, 2018 |title='I Like Dogs with a Human Head': David Lynch Shows New Paintings in Los Angeles |url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/07/like-dogs-human-head-david-lynch-shows-new-paintings-los-angeles/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021024651/http://www.artnews.com/2018/09/07/like-dogs-human-head-david-lynch-shows-new-paintings-los-angeles/ |archive-date=October 21, 2018 |access-date=October 20, 2018 |website=ARTnews}}</ref>

Lynch considered the 20th-century Irish-born British artist [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]] his "number one kinda hero painter", saying, "Normally I only like a couple of years of a painter's work, but I like everything of Bacon's. The guy, you know, had the stuff."<ref name="lynch05" />{{rp|16–17}} His favorite photographers included [[William Eggleston]] (''[[The Red Ceiling]]''), [[Joel-Peter Witkin]] and [[Diane Arbus]].<ref>{{cite web |date=January 13, 2014 |title=David Lynch interview: 'There is something so incredibly cosmically magical about curtains' |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/art/david-lynch-interview-there-is-something-so-incredibly-cosmically-magical-about-curtains |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729022756/https://www.timeout.com/london/art/david-lynch-interview-there-is-something-so-incredibly-cosmically-magical-about-curtains |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |access-date=April 16, 2020 |website=Time Out}}</ref>