That's Not Art - Broken Area Podcast
What's art and who decides what it is? In our podcast, we discuss the variety and the approaches taken by a multitude of artists to create their artwork. How often we hear the words "that's not art!" Mark and myself, we try to consider the art world in a personal and authentic way.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2019
Episode 10 : Series of Shorts: Howard Hodgkin
Hodgkin is super neat because he paints in lose, large, and strong strokes over the frames of his paintings. So in effect, the paintings are about the paintbrush and the frame first and then about c…
Wed 08 Jul 2015
Episode 9 Series of Shorts: Matisse
Henri Matisse is perhaps the most often cited painter by my professors. His Fauvist style has no equal still today. He has the unique ability to place elements in his paintings. His compositions are…
Mon 06 Jul 2015
Episode 8 Introducing the "Series of Shorts"
While Mark is away doing super important family activities and other cool summer things, I decided to keep the recordings alive until his return which I hope will be very soon. So the next series of …
Mon 06 Jul 2015
Episode 7 The Business of Art
After a three week break, Mark and I discuss the business of art, the way in which art is evaluated, and everything we can think of around this subject. We argue that collectors are central to the …
Tue 30 Jun 2015
Episode 6 - Abstraction
Abstraction is vast, people often hate it, but Mark and I love it in our own specific way. Why is this so? We're not quite sure exactly, we're figuring out. Maybe some questions can't really be answe…
Mon 25 May 2015
Episode 5 - Old Art
The art that was created through the ages fascinates us. From the cave paintings of Chauvet to the Byzantine mosaics in Greece. We cover a lot of ground today but there is still so much we wish we kn…
Mon 04 May 2015
Episode 4- Gigantic Steel and Colour Field
In this episode we cover a huge amount of topics: Algoma Blue by Llewelyn Davies, Frank O. Gehry's Gugenheim in Bilbao, Serra's UN Square entrance piece, Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, amongst a few. A…
Mon 27 Apr 2015
Episode 3 - Expressionism and the Painters 11
Artist Stephanie Babcock a.k.a Geordie joins me on a discussion about our time together at Algoma University. In this episode, we talk about her end of the year Thesis show, about Conceptual art, and…
Mon 20 Apr 2015
Episode 2 - Beyond the Group of Seven
I came upon the Group of Seven when I came to live in Sault-Sainte-Marie, Mark learned to see art through the eyes of a friend who initiated him to the vastness of art in Southern Ontario. Mark's sen…
Thu 16 Apr 2015
Episode 1 - New York Art, Pop Art, Realism and Chuck Close
Mark and I are starting our weekly conversations about art. Where to start? All roads lead to New York somehow. It's always hard to start anything new, what to chose? Here's our first step! We discu…
Sat 11 Apr 2015
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