This proclamation didn’t stop Chuck Close, who started painting portraits in the 1960s, 10 years after Pollock’s most famous drip paintings, and still during Greenberg’s reign. “I thought, ‘Well then, that field is wide open.’ And why the fuck can’t you make a portrait anyway?” – Chuck Close
An informative little video
WTF
The quotes above from Clement Greenberg declaring portraits aren’t possible to paint anymore, and Chuck Close’s “fuck that” response is from the upcoming lecture on Portraiture After Photography – part of our ongoing WTF Art History Lecture series with Suzanne Walker (BA, MA, PhD, BFD).
“The only art historian I’ve ever wanted to listen to for 2.5 hours” – Lendy Hensley, League Provost
WTF Art History Lecture: Portraiture After Photography Sunday, March 17, 1:00-3:30pm
Active League Students and members are invited to attend WTF Lectures for free. Contact us for your coupon code.
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Portraiture After Photography Workshop, March 30/April 6
Hiroshi Sato, born in 1987 in Gamagori, Japan, is a contemporary painter known for his modern realist works that often depict quiet, introspective scenes with a strong emphasis on geometry and light. From the age of three to fourteen, Sato lived in Tanzania, East Africa, and he currently resides in San Francisco. His ‘Water Series’ …
I have been sharing works from Figure in Interior; the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne, and how making small marks distributed around the page (thank you to Fran O’Neill) can be a way to integrate time and change within a drawing. I talked about Kathy Paul and …
Feet in blanket, drypoint and embossed chine-collé on 14×11″ Rives gray BFK. (The color is a little dark and dull in this photo, because the paper was still wet) An accidental print resulted in some body-less feet at the bottom of the page, and Nikki had a brilliant idea to add chine-collé to the empty …
I love a good heist movie. Here’s a news article that would make a great movie: one where the librarian steals the paintings by replacing them with fakes, and then those paintings get stolen, replaced by worse fakes. Get the popcorn! Chinese Librarian Switched Out $17M in Paintings…With Fakes He Painted Himself But the thief …
WTF? Clement Greenberg says it’s not possible
Chuck Close in his studio, 2002
This proclamation didn’t stop Chuck Close, who started painting portraits in the 1960s, 10 years after Pollock’s most famous drip paintings, and still during Greenberg’s reign. “I thought, ‘Well then, that field is wide open.’ And why the fuck can’t you make a portrait anyway?” – Chuck Close
An informative little video
WTF
The quotes above from Clement Greenberg declaring portraits aren’t possible to paint anymore, and Chuck Close’s “fuck that” response is from the upcoming lecture on Portraiture After Photography – part of our ongoing WTF Art History Lecture series with Suzanne Walker (BA, MA, PhD, BFD).
WTF Art History Lecture: Portraiture After Photography
Sunday, March 17, 1:00-3:30pm
Active League Students and members are invited to attend WTF Lectures for free. Contact us for your coupon code.
LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING
Related:
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