PAUL STANLEY: Another Video Interview Posted Online
August 20, 2007St. Louis' KSDK has posted a video interview with KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley in which he discusses trying his hand in the art business, the heart condition which forced him to miss the first KISS show in over 30 years, his son's musical aspirations and taking off the group's makeup. Watch the interview at this location.
In a recent interview with The Times, Stanley spoke about his love for painting.
"I started painting about seven years ago when I got divorced," Stanley said of what led to his new career as a painter of abstract art. "My friends got tired of me ranting and screaming, and one of them suggested I take up painting, so I did.
"Pretty much as soon as I put a painting up in the house, people kept asking, 'Who did that?' and 'Where can I get a painting like that?' so I knew I was on to something. It's pretty cool, because I really like that people now are getting to see another side of me, besides just the music," he said.
"When I first started out, I knew that I didn't want to paint a tea cup that looked like a tea cup," he continued. "I do a lot of abstract, because I want people to connect ... and, more importantly, ME to connect with the painting(s) emotionally rather than intellectually. I wanted them to say it made them feel a certain way, rather than say, 'Wow, that tree really looks like a tree.' That's not what I go for when I pick up a brush."
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