Very true, it's very true and nothing has changed. Well done

@GreatArtistsSteal

3 жыл бұрын

thanks.

I’ve just come across your channel and it’s brilliant! I do find that art schools never actually go into enough depth about the technical side of painting and make us learn on our own, I’ve been so frustrated at how to paint the things I actually want to do, and the best way is to learn from the artists before us

@GreatArtistsSteal

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your positive comment. Yes I agree with what you said about Art Schools, I don’t see why art schools can’t do both, encourage us to learn on our own and pass on previously discovered techniques. Otherwise we will remain in the rediculous situation where we are having to reinvent the wheel all the time. I, for example, spent twenty years learning how to glaze when knowedge about glazing could have been passed on to me in one afternoon. This is main reason why I created this channel.

Great to look at this painting in context of then and now. Thank you

@GreatArtistsSteal

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Anita.

I am enjoying your channel. Your interpretation is interesting and I certainly believe correct..Thank you for the courage to say so.

@GreatArtistsSteal

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Winifred. That’s a very encouraging comment.

Thanks for a very interesting video.

@GreatArtistsSteal

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Wendy,, thanks for your comment I am pleased you liked it.

1:05........one individual void of color has five chances(brushes) to recreate or destroy as David did with 5 choice stones...only neededing one to destroy the green Goliath.

I think, with Guston, you have to think in terms of his radical youth. He had work destroyed by American Legion types that was critical of the Klan, and lynching and such. In the 60s he said he said 'I got tired of all that purity; I wanted to tell stories again.' and when you look at this piece in that context he's using the KKK as a metaphor for the anxiety and ambivalence around his own role as an artist in extraordinarily turbulent times, politically, and what it might mean to create in such times. He was Jewish, and he changed his name from Goldstein to Guston because of the raging antisemitism he experienced, a masking, so to speak, much like the artist in the painting who performs a similar masking; adopting the guise of the dominant culture in the society he lived in. I enjoyed the focus on the red and white hands, I haven't thought about this painting in those terms before so thank you for the set of formalist concerns you presented.

@GreatArtistsSteal

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for that interesting feedback. Sorry to rly sorry to reply so late.