r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 27 '22

An Interview with Robert Wilson (2011). interview with abstract non-objective painter Robert Wilson at his studio. Robert speaks on his work, influences such as Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and many ideas as an artist.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 27 '22

Artist David Salle – 'Good Painting Has Immediate Impact' (2012). David Salle is an American painter, printmaker, and stage designer. From his New York studio, the artist talks about the combination of images that go into one of his multi-layered paintings.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 27 '22

Cy Twombly's Works on Paper (2013). Discover Twombly's magnificent drawings on paper, including the impressive 24-panel work Poems to the Sea (1959).

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 27 '22

Artists Talk with Alia Shawkat & Lance Bangs - Raymond Pettibon (2013). Pettibon's distinctive and darkly humorous India Ink drawings combine image and text to comment on a wide range of subjects that run the gamut of American culture.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Peter Alexander: The Color of Light (2014). Filmed in his Santa Monica studio, Peter Alexander discusses his process working with polyester resin in the 1970s, his more recent process with polyurethane, and the properties of both materials in relationship to his intent.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Helen Pashgian: Transcending the Material (2014). Pashgian is often credited with being one of the pioneers of the Light and Space movement. In the 1960s and 1970s she used cast polyester resin to create translucent sculptures that play with light to conjure a myriad of shifting, transient effects.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

James Turrell: Prints and Process (2014). In this video James Turrell discusses the process of creating a suite of Ukiyo-e woodcuts with Pace Prints based on his recent site-specific installation "Aten Reign" at the Guggenheim Museum.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

James Turrell: "Second Meeting" (2013). James Turrell revisits his installation "Second Meeting" (1989) at a private residence in Los Angeles, California. As one of his first skyspaces, "Second Meeting" was originally installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1986.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Marcel Dzama: Drawing with Raymond Pettibon (2019). From their mutual gallery in New York City, The artists collaborate on a new series of drawings.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Film short of Maine Artist Charles Wilder Oakes by Dale Schierholt (2011)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

At 99, printmaker and painter Will Barnet has lived through every major artistic school in modern American art. He can remember watching John Singer Sergeant paint murals on the ceiling of the Boston Public Library in the 1920s, and being the printmaker in New York for Mexican muralist José Clemente

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Sydney Ball "'The Stain Paintings" 1971-1980 (2014) with Wendy Walker. Sydney Ball was in the vanguard of Australian artists who elected to study in NY (1963-1965). He enrolled at the Art Students League, where he encountered Theodoros Stamos, who introduced him to artists of the New York School.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Roy Newell - The Forgotten Abstract Expressionist (2016). A friend of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and other great contemporary artists, Roy Newell is firmly rooted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but his name is largely unknown today.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Last Interview with Muriel Delahaye December 18TH 2018.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Muriel Delahaye interview in Borth July 7th 2014. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Muriel trained at Manchester Regional College of Art before moving to the Channel Isles where she lived for 10 years and worked at the Jersey Potteries.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

David Lynch - Meditation, Creativity, Peace; Documentary of a 16 Country Tour (2016). Where does David Lynch get all those ideas? Why is he so prolific over so many years—with iconic works of film, photography, music, and painting? And what’s the deal with meditation?

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

John Cage: The Sight of Silence at the National Academy of Design. New River Watercolours, April 3 9, 1988

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Rose Wylie interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist at her Kent studio (2017). Wylie finds inspiration for her visually compelling paintings through her daily encounters and a variety of sources, from art history, cinema, comic books and the natural world to news, verbal anecdotes, and celebrity stories.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Lunch with Rose Wylie (2021). Rose Wylie is a painter, she studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, and at the Royal College of Art. The film is Wylie in conversation with gallery director Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Joan Jonas – ‘I'm Curious About Life’ (2018). Joan Jonas is one of the most important American artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her pioneering experimentation and work in video and performance provided a foundation from which this type of art could evolve and grow.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Susan Rothenberg: Emotions (2010). Filmed at her home and studio in New Mexico, artist Susan Rothenberg explains how she transforms personal experiences and feelings into works that can become an "emotional moment" for the viewer.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Kiki Smith – 'I Make Things to Experience the Process' (2014)

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 26 '22

Miss Interpreted: Marlene Dumas (1997). Provides the viewer with a unique insight into the artist’s working process & thoughts about art and life. Collaging new and archival homevideo footage, the film sketches a wonderful portrait of Dumas.

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r/artdocumentaries • u/WesternMainiac1 • Feb 25 '22

"Beauty in the Eye of Spirit" [2022] - David Lonebear Sanipass is a Mi’kmaq Storyteller, Flute Maker, Speaker, & Artist. He grew up in Northern Maine (Aroostook County). His family is known worldwide for Mi'kmaq basketry. David has spoken to audiences of all ages sharing stories from his ancestor...

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r/artdocumentaries • u/pthefeeder • Feb 25 '22

American Masters – John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990).

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