Brickyard Composition: Recent Episodes

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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/

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Richard, Dave, and David discuss realism in art. Or do they?

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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/

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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

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Horror Stories! Dave, Richard, and David discuss them. Hopefully you are amused.

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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

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In this Mortar session, David Presents Not to be Reproduced (La Reproduction interdite) by René Magritte

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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/

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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

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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/

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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

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Richard and Dave discuss artist statements. Why are they always so awful? Do they need to be awful?

1. Arty Bollocks

https://www.artybollocks.com/ 2. Artist Statement Guidelines

https://www.gyst-ink.com/artist-statement-guidelines 3. 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 4. Elegant proofs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty#Beauty_in_method 5. Guernica

https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp 6. Beauty is a State

https://www.themathesontrust.org/papers/art/cooma-beauty_state.pdf

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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/

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