Brickyard Composition
By David Allen
We discuss art, being artists, and chat about what inspires us. We used to have regular chats about this stuff privately, but figured you might like to listen in. Whether you create art or enjoy consuming it, you'll probably find something of interest, and (hopefully) learn something.
Brickyard CompositionApr 23, 2020
Art, in Concept
Richard, Dave, and David discuss conceptualism. Is all art conceptual? Should it be? What IS with that banana?!
Duchamp, Father of Conceptual Art - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/09/marcel-duchamp-exhibition-celebrate-father-conceptual-art
Retinal Art - http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Retinal_art
Impressionism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/impressionism/
Felix Gonzalez Torres - Heaps of Candy - https://publicdelivery.org/felix-gonzalez-torres-untitled-portrait-of-ross-in-l-a-1991/
Kandinsky - Circles in a Circle - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-247.php
Piero Manzoni - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/manzoni-artists-shit-t07667
Sol LeWitt - https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html
Carl Andre - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/andre-equivalent-viii-t01534
Justine Varga - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/aug/02/justine-varga-taking-photos-without-a-camera-in-pictures
Jean Honore Fragonard - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/frag/hd_frag.htm
Rococo - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/rococo/history-and-concepts/
John Cage - https://www.johncage.org/
Deconstruction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
Peter Paul Rubens - https://www.peterpaulrubens.org/biography.html
Romanticism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/romanticism/
Is Realism Really Real?
Richard, Dave, and David discuss realism in art. Or do they?
Find Dave: https://davidsallen.com
Plato’s Republic, Chapter X - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm
The Greek Miracle - https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-11-29-1992334243-story.html
Nike at the Louvre - https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/winged-victory-samothrace
Verism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verism
Idolatry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry
Foreshortening - https://www.britannica.com/art/foreshortening
Linear Perspective - https://www.britannica.com/art/linear-perspective
Renaissance Fame - https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-theme-of-fame-in-renaissance-art.html
Trompe l'oeil - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/t/trompe-loeil
Realism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/realism/
Impressionism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/impressionism/
Pictorialism & Ansel Adams - https://petapixel.com/2016/09/22/ansel-adams-wrote-pictorialism-photography-history/
Numbers in Color
In this Mortar session, Dave Presents Numbers in Color by Jasper Johns
This makes more sense if you have the image in front of you while listening: https://bit.ly/numbersincolor
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold - https://www.metmuseum.org/en/art/collection/search/488315
Oh, the Horror
Horror Stories! Dave, Richard, and David discuss them. Hopefully you are amused.
Find Dave: https://davidsallen.com
Fred Torres - https://news.artnet.com/market/david-lachapelle-sues-former-dealer-fred-torres-for-28-million-78001
Peter Selz - http://arthistorians.info/selzp
Unregulated Art Market - http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wgreene/entertainmentandmedia/Art-as-an-unregulated-financial-market.pdf
Jeff Koons - http://www.jeffkoons.com/
Exit Through the Gift Shop - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/movies/14banksy.html
Marian Willard - https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/07/arts/marian-willard-johnson-81-dealer-in-contemporary-art.html
Flipping Art - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-flipping-art-controversial
YBA and Richard Prince - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Prince
Warhol Sales - https://news.artnet.com/market/dominique-levy-warhol-women-1524946
Jasper Johns, Painting with Two Balls - https://www.moma.org/collection/works/67530
Lichtenstein, Brushstroke - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lichtenstein-brushstroke-p07354
Warhol, Shadows - https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/andy-warhol-shadows
Warhol, Do It Yourself - https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/andy-warhol-paint-by-numbers-do-it-yourself-sailboat-museum-497072
Not to be Reproduced
In this Mortar session, David Presents Not to be Reproduced (La Reproduction interdite) by René Magritte
This makes more sense if you have the image in front of you while listening:
https://mo.ma/2V76lgX
Art Collecting Life Collecting Art
Dave, Richard, and David discuss art collecting.
David Griffin - http://landmarkbranding.com/who-we-are/
15 Negatives - https://15negatives.com/
Hans Hoffman - http://www.hanshofmann.org/about
Realism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/realism/
Surrealism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/surrealism/
Louis Comfort Tiffany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany
American Antique Bottles - https://www.americanbottle.com/
The Treachery - Rene Magritte - https://collections.lacma.org/node/239578
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hair - https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2014/march/03/why-joseph-beuys-and-his-dead-hare-live-on/
Gertrude Stein - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertrude-stein
Andy the Art Collector - https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2015/10/19/about-some-forgotten-photos-of-andy-warhol-and-his-legacy-as-an-art-collector/
Find Dave: https://davidsallen.com
coronARTvirus
The Brickyard Compositors discuss COVID-19's possible effect on the art world, virtual exhibitions, etc. Also, they're joined by special guest David Griffin, who (spoiler alert) will become a regular on the podcast.
Corona Virus - https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1
Hong Kong Basel - https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/vip-virtual-viewing-rooms-and-grassroots-digital-action-how-the-art-market-is-combating-coronavirus-through-cyberspace
Photographing the Mona Lisa - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/09/mona-lisa-tourist-snappers-louvre
Chuck Close - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close
Impressionism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/impressionism/
Art Reach Organization in Philadelphia - https://www.art-reach.org/
Thorne Miniature Rooms in Chicago - https://www.artic.edu/departments/PC-15/thorne-miniature-rooms
Find David: https://davidsallen.com
"Art" Vs. "Craft"
Richard & Dave discuss possible definitions for "art" and "craft" and how they are different. Dave really tries to push his definition for "Art." He won't shut up about it.
The Arts and Crafts Movement - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/arts-and-crafts/
John James Audubon - https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america
Meret oppenheim (fur-lined teacup) - https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80997
De Stijl Movement - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/de-stijl/
Antoni Gaudi - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/gaudi-antoni/life-and-legacy/
Wassily Kandinsky - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/kandinsky-wassily/
Art for Art’s Sake - https://www.theartstory.org/definition/art-for-art/
Ruskin vs. Whistler - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jun/26/artsfeatures
Oren Pinhassi - https://orenpinhassi.com/
George Nakashima - https://nakashimawoodworkers.com/
Futurism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/futurism/
Find Dave: davidsallen.com
"My kid could do that!"
Richard and Dave discuss the comment "my kid could do that" as a response to seemingly simple art. Spoiler: your kid probably couldn't.
Mondrian - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/mondrian-piet/
Mondrian and aesthetics study - https://www.academia.edu/1203303/Personality_and_the_aesthetics_of_composition_A_study_of_Mondrian_and_Hirst
De Kooning’s early drawings - https://nitramcharcoal.com/the-early-drawings-of-willem-de-kooning/
The Golden Ratio - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/golden-ratio-in-art-328435
Rule of Thirds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
Jackson Pollock and Fractals - https://blogs.uoregon.edu/richardtaylor/2016/02/08/fractal-analysis-of-jackson-pollocks-poured-paintings/
Fibonacci Sequence - https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html
Chirality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
Arty Bollocks
Richard and Dave discuss artist statements. Why are they always so awful? Do they need to be awful?
- Arty Bollocks
https://www.artybollocks.com/
- Artist Statement Guidelines
https://www.gyst-ink.com/artist-statement-guidelines
- Morris Graves and Mark Rothko Statements
http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=857#.XmaiSpNKiV4
https://www.rothkocenter.com/en/about-rothko/statement-about-art
- Elegant proofs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty#Beauty_in_method
- Guernica
https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp
- Beauty is a State
https://www.themathesontrust.org/papers/art/cooma-beauty_state.pdf
Find Dave: davidsallen.com
The Comedian
Richard and Dave discuss controversial banana art (at Art Basel Miami).
Maurizio Cattelan - https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Maurizio_Cattelan/2#images
The Comedian - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maurizio-cattelan-banana-explained-1732773
Marcel Duchamp - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/duchamp-marcel/
Fountain - https://press.philamuseum.org/marcel-duchamp-and-the-fountain-scandal/
Readymades - https://www.theartstory.org/definition/readymade-and-found-object/
Dadaism - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/dada/
Jackson Pollock - https://www.theartstory.org/artist/pollock-jackson/
Ab X / Drip paintings - https://www.theartstory.org/movement/abstract-expressionism/
Find Dave: davidsallen.com