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Repository 90: Top 20 Movies about Art
While creativity remains illusive, there are countless books and resources that give glimpses into the unique mind of an artist, or the cadence of an art movement. Movies trump books for the time strapped, and are sometimes the most honest given the amount of first person interviews, discussion and revealing footage. The following is a list of films about art, contemporary art specifically, I have found over the years to be intriguing, inspiring and sometimes hilarious. I hope they inspire…
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Repository 87: Why Good Art is Informed by Non-art | Free School
It’s very easy to get dizzy as an artist reading cryptic reviews in Artforum and equally cryptic calls for art proposals, bopping around art blogs, and trying to write generally confusing artists statements. The key to bring clarity to your work, is actually to get out of that world. Clarity is key – one needs to SEE WELL to be well as an artist. So leave the “art”then re-enter it after a heavy dose of learning, observing or doing something…
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Repository 68: Muses, Crayons and Katz
Painting by Alex Katz, image courtesy of Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art Recently I’ve been having long sessions of crayon art with my kids. Besides doing observational studies of their little faces in Lime Green, I’ve been thinking about how to push the boundary with such an unforgiving, plastic medium. I start thinking of fine artists that have excelled with flat, graphic and otherwise plastic effects of their art. Specifically painters. While Warhol of course came to mind, he actually didn’t…
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Repository 54: David Salle Starts New Job as Art Critic
Image of David Salle courtesy of Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris I just finished flipping through this month’s Town & Country and Architectural Digest magazines, the former for the astrology (really), and the latter for the real estate porn. David Salle the painter was prominently featured in both. Not his paintings, but his opinion and reviews of art shows in T&C and his house for sale in AD. David Salle has an illustrious career that includes a Guggenheim fellowship for stage…
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