Messages, meanings, movements-how does art history help us understand our world? Join curators, historians, artists, musicians, and filmmakers as they explore art and its histories in a search for our shared humanity.
Rena, such a great presentation on aquatinting, and it's relevant, early history. The presentation spawns intrigue and excitement for those of us that are fascinated by fine art. The task now is to find ways to apply printing and its varied techniques to make works of art that can excite the general public. I don't know if it is possible, it seems to be a dying art that only a few are privy to galleries, artists, and a few interested in art. As artists, we have to keep pushing the boundaries and discover new ways to use these mediums.
Not so important, but the correct way to pronounce Appel is: take the word apple, and replace the A sound with the A of Aardvark. A subtle difference, but then you're pretty close to how it should be pronounced in Dutch!
I don't think the Holocaust should be the pivotal defining event of western culture. You have to ignore so many other atrocities to make that your reality.
Am a self-taught artist and it amazing to see an artist that is inspiring I am from The Bahamas and a survivor of hurricane DORAIN and many other direct hit mega storms i did paintings about the subject . Its amazing manmade super storms disaster is a commodity. I have the painting Dorain posted on my Facebook and Instagram Under Rupert Watkins
Benjamin Binstock's book, " Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice" posits that Vermeer's daughter was his uncredited studio assistant. In "girl with a flute" it looks he gave her studio scraps to play with, an old panel, a ratty brush and some gritty paint.
I've never found Robert Adams work to be artistic, compelling, or even technically competent. All this flowery language used to describe his pictures is just dishonest fabrication... Aka crap.
I was so moved by his works when he had an exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta. I love that he gave credit to the Creator/God for himself, being able to create. ❤ Rev. 4:11
This is like a spoof of the art world except it's real. Of course they chose a woman and Black men to comment on the artist known for KKK imagery. Guston was art bro hipster slacker alcoholic and an absent father. He was a tumblr artist before tumblr and the art world taking him seriously is why I cannot take the art world seriously. Devin is a literal art troll at the expense of his own race and culture who has no respect for Black women at all. White women arts administrators placing these burn out creeps on a pedestal is very horse girl energy. All parties involved participating in racism and sexism via irony and that's just as bad. You cannot make commentary on horror by embodying said horrors and still believe you are insightful, artistic, or intelligent. You are a jerk.
Great video; this is one of the very best presentations on David Smith I've seen (and I've seen quite a few). I will come back and watch Part 1 at some point. When I was a kid, my best friend's father was a good friend of David Smith. As a young teenager I was fortunate enough to go with my friend to visit David Smith's farmhouse/studio in Bolton Landing, in upstate New York. David Smith had passed away a few years before in an automobile crash, but I think his widow still lived there and there were still dozens of his amazing sculptures spread out on the undulating fields of the property. I feel very lucky to have a pretty vivid memory of that day! By the way, I had never heard that story about Clement Greenberg stripping the white paint off of a Smith sculpture...Yikes! Whether or not the white paint was a primer coat or the intended final color is somewhat irrelevant, because it was clearly not intended to be unpainted.
stopped after 2.00 mins...Art museum people full of self importance... I rather enjoy Vermeer ( the important one )without listening to this nonsense and keep the mystery of Vermeer alive.
Hilarious! "Dream team" ? Yeah righ! Luckily masterpiece paintings , such as these by Vermeer, long outlive the alterior motives and short sighted views of lesser mortals...
Sometimes art talks can be long and tedious but not this one. Very well done, lots of insightful information, well researched. I learned a great deal listening to this, and I am well-read on Rothko. As a bonus, some photos of the artist that I have never seen before. I am sure I will watch this again. Thank you for posting!
I saw the LV Paris exhibition, the one in Vienna, and St. Louis Museum of Art...Rothko's son is no public speaker, I have to say. His daughter did a better job walking us through her father's art in Rome and talking about the family trip there (15 years ago)
Interesting analysis and conjectures spanning decades of dick art; so convoluted and still only two women mentioned and barely at that!!! Imagine how the mention of even a a decade of art created by anyone other than American men, would have changed this analysis of abstract art!!!
