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Upcoming talk at Representational Art Conference, Ventura

I’ll be giving an invited talk at The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, California, from October 14-17, 2012, hosted and organized by California Lutheran University. My talk will include themes from my essay “Why Art Became Ugly,” first published in Navigator magazine and subsequently translated into in German [pdf], Korean [pdf], and Spanish. Other invited […]

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Yet more on how great artists become great: Rodin

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Following up on a series of posts about Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Liszt. From Frederic V. Grunfeld’s very good Rodin: A Biography, the answer in the case of August Rodin is education and self education. Rodin was born into a French culture in which the large majority of the population was illiterate or semi-literate. The fact

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Today’s art collectors

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Indeed, Patrick, indeed. Click for full size. Taken in Florence, across the piazza from Santa Maria Novella.

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Artistic Genius — Magna Graecia

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Shooting for Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes in the presence of real Greek temples, monuments, and amphitheatres. Awe inspiring. Greek culture, centered especially in Athens, was the fount of what art historian E. H. Gombrich called “the greatest and most astonishing revolution in the whole history of art.” The intensely personal poetry of Sappho, the

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Artistic Genius — Florence, Italy

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Shooting the last two days in Florence, where republican politics, relatively free markets and innovative business, relaxed religion, and humanistic philosophy laid the groundwork for the explosion of artistic creativity in the 1400s — Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the list goes on. Awesome. Visual delights everywhere, a strong sense of living

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Artistic Genius — Monet’s Giverny

Art / Stephen Hicks

Shooting yesterday at Claude Monet’s magnificent house and grounds at Giverny, about an hour west of Paris along the Seine. It was there that he painted his beloved waterlilies. Monet left his world-class mark in two fields — painting and gardening. At Giverny he lived his final decades of a long life, after a hard-fought

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Artistic Genius — Impressionists in Paris

Artistic Genius — Haarlem and Amsterdam

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Filming today in Haarlem, primarily in connection with Pieter Saenredam’s renditions of the interior of the Bavokerk, and in Amsterdam for its importance to art in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. Here is Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam, in which he lived and worked, along with his apprentices, from the 1630s until the

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Artistic Genius documentary — Europe locations

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We are currently working on a new documentary with the working title Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes. The question I take up is why art flourishes so awesomely in some places and times — classical Athens, Renaissance Florence, the Dutch Golden Age, nineteenth-century Paris — but is stagnant in others. Some of our production team

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The best art form — architecture version

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In the Renaissance, there was a lively debate among artists and critics over which art form was the best. Cases were made for and against painting, sculpture, poetry, and music. To my mind, the debate is philosophically silly, but it is a fun and instructive exercise to compare the strengths and limitations of each art

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