Abstraction is vast, people often hate it, but Mark and I love it in our own specific way. Why is this so? We're not quite sure exactly, we're figuring out. Maybe some questions can't really be answered. Mark went to the AGO and Museum London and talks about what he saw there.
Episode 5 - Old Art
The art that was created through the ages fascinates us. From the cave paintings of Chauvet to the Byzantine mosaics in Greece. We cover a lot of ground today but there is still so much we wish we knew.
Episode 4- Gigantic Steel and Colour Field
In this episode we cover a huge amount of topics: Algoma Blue by Llewelyn Davies, Frank O. Gehry's Gugenheim in Bilbao, Serra's UN Square entrance piece, Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, amongst a few. As usual, our conversation meanders to what we've done and liked. I have since found what the pick up stick game is called, it's called Mikado sticks! That's what Algoma Blue looks like! Although Isabelle laughs at Mark's red paintings, she actually loves them. Enjoy and don't forget to comment!
Episode 3 - Expressionism and the Painters 11
Artist Stephanie Babcock a.k.a Geordie joins me on a discussion about our time together at Algoma University. In this episode, we talk about her end of the year Thesis show, about Conceptual art, and Expressionist art. We also talk about Jack Bush and Kazuo Nakamura. Expressionism is one of those categories that we find difficult to define. But what the heck, we'll have fun talking about it anyway! Thank you so much for joining me today, Stephanie and I hope we can join our voices again soon.
Episode 2 - Beyond the Group of Seven
I came upon the Group of Seven when I came to live in Sault-Sainte-Marie, Mark learned to see art through the eyes of a friend who initiated him to the vastness of art in Southern Ontario. Mark's sensibilities were closer to the Automatistes, Paul-Émile Borders and Jean-Paul Riopelle. My parents loved Jean-Paul Lemieux and the Automatistes of course. Who else is there beyond Varley, Carmichael, Lismer, Johnston, Harris, Jackson and MacDonald? A whole lot more! But somehow, no matter what, we always seem to return to these seminal seven (or eight with Tom Thomson, or eight with Emily Carr, or nine with Casson...) Somewhere deep in our hearts, they have a special place and that's all fine.
Episode 1 - New York Art, Pop Art, Realism and Chuck Close
Mark and I are starting our weekly conversations about art. Where to start? All roads lead to New York somehow. It's always hard to start anything new, what to chose? Here's our first step! We discuss Hyperrealism, Pop Art and Andy Warhol, Chuck Close and other artists. Next week: The Group of Seven, can Canada move beyond?
Here are some links of photos we looked at during our conversation.
http://serenayang.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Serra_9766b.jpg
http://www.openobject.org/cloudfarm/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Richard-Serra-trowing-lead.jpg
http://www.playbillarts.com/images/photos/metoperachuckclose460.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Rbreich.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Christinasworld.jpg