Podcast – Academic art and kitsch p.2
I talk about the history of the French Academy of Fine Art and defend it from charges of kitsch. Artists mentioned: David, Manet, Courbet, Watteau, and Fragonard among others.
Category: Turpentine diaries
Turpentine diaries 7/6/19
After several days of drawing, I spent the last 5-6 days working on The Lens (unfinished painting on the easel). I started with the over-painting today before running out of gas. My main palette, the…
Turpentine diaries 6/23/19
Today I had several more sessions on Directions. I posted a video of me working on some of the small, background figures.
Session video: Directions
In this oil painting session video, I work on a large painting (40" x 50") titled 'Directions.' The painting has a lot of variable-sized figures. https://youtu.be/z5EtDiSz2TU
Turpentine diaries 6/16/19
I can't imagine why anyone would want to watch me paint but--believe it or not--I get asked to do session videos with some frequency. So I taped some of my session with Directions. Directions is…
Podcast-academic art
I pick up last episode's discussion about Clement Greenberg and the avant-garde and kitsch, and talk about academic art. Artists mentioned: Gerome, David, Bouguereau, Ingres, and Thomas Couture.
Turpentine diaries 5/12/19
As much as I whine and moan about this or that, I'm not the hot-house plant that I may appear. And sometimes my paintings go well! (Although, I won't say that too loudly or I'll…
Avant-garde and kitsch
In this podcast, I look at Clement Greenberg's influential article from 1939, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch.'