Realism vs Modern Art

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so I want to talk about modern art
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versus realism and it's really a subject
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that I've avoided for years and really
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actually never thought I would even
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attempt to try to talk about it but it's
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something that I think you know creates
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a lot of it's controversial and I don't
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think it should be or needs to be but I
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thought I'd just give you my perspective
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you know my first true love has always
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been for realism you know as a child I
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was you know even remember the paintings
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that my father hung on our walls or
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prints that we had and I was always you
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know very moved by by everything that I
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saw and it was the realism that was
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really you know was the thing that I was
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most attracted to very early on and even
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when I first started painting myself in
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my early 20s you know it was my favorite
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artwork was you know Rembrandt and the
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you know self-portrait as the Apostle
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Paul which I've shown before but it was
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really you know beyond that and this is
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what I want to touch on is that you know
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the real foundation of art or what
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really makes art is you know when
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something moves you in a certain way and
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you know and that can be a in a bad way
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or in a way you know a lot of art is
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meant to shock and there's all kinds of
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ways that that art can move you and you
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know everybody has their own personal
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taste my personal taste is you know
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something that you know I can't really
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put into words but it's I do like art
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that moves me I like art that touches me
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in some sort of deep way which I again I
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can't really explain but you know
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there's there's just everything under
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the Sun out there but if you look at for
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instance tapestry you know you can find
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tapestry that is very representational
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and is you know meant to look like
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people and actual you know seeing that
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you might visually see in real life but
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then there are also tapestries that are
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purely patterns and abstract and so in
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the same way that you know one is not
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necessarily better than the other that
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they both can be appreciated on their
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own you know I think that may be one of
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the reasons that modern art is perhaps
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misunderstood is that there's just so
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much art out there I mean even in
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realism there's so much so many
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paintings out there and the vast
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majority of it I don't care for
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personally you know I have real you know
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if I want to talk about their the art
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that I really love you know I can walk
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through the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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and and really the vast majority of the
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work in there the realism even I don't
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care for and there's only if a you know
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a certain style that I really like and I
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have to go and look for those paintings
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that I really love but in in Modern Art
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it's even more so for myself you know
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originally I would sort of you know
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modern art wasn't appealing to me when I
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was younger and then I discovered Mark
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Rothko who was and it was actually was
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in the museum and it wasn't until I
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stepped into a room with Rothko
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paintings all around me and you know
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really sort of gave it some
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consideration and this was after I was
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an artist and after I was you know
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working with colors and trying to
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understand color harmony and some other
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things and it wasn't until I stepped
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into that room and spent a good 30
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minutes maybe I don't remember but it
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must have been even an hour just sitting
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on a bench and looking at these
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paintings and taking it all in and I
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realized you know there really is
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something here that's that's affecting
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me in some kind of way and by the end of
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this period of sort of letting these
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very large paintings and in the
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environment that I was sitting in you
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know really take hold of me and I really
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learned to appreciate Mark Rothko so let
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me show you some paintings of an artist
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that I just became aware of and this is
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this artwork really epitomizes what I
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love and it's very much a personal thing
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but there I could try to explain to you
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why I love these paintings so much you
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now they're the paintings that I would
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hang in my home and you know hang in my
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children's rooms and you know there's
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something about them that you know it's
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it's certainly representational in some
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way there's horses and dogs and people
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but there's a mood that that are created
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by these paintings that really touches
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me personally I think that you know
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there's an abstraction to them there's
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abstraction in the concept in the
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composition in the placement of figures
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there's there's abstraction in the in
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the brushwork you know you can look at
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any part of these paintings and up close
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and there's a beauty to the to the
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colors and the brushwork and them in the
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pattern but in the end artwork is very
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personal and these are just paintings
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that touch me you know there's a if I
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was a child I can imagine growing up
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with a painting like this on my wall and
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I don't think I would ever understand it
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I would it would be a door for my
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imagination and that's what what I think
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these paintings are more than anything
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else to me and maybe why I like them so
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much but I just thought I would show you
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these paintings Franca's from Italy
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she's only been painting for a couple
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years now and I can't wait to see what
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she does next but it was just a you know
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shocking to me to see that somebody was
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painting at this level and I and I don't
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mean in realism but I mean in her ideas
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in her ability to maintain abstraction
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throughout the painting to create these
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these dream worlds so to speak it really
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gives my my mind a place to wander but
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in the end it's really these paintings
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are just paintings that for some reasons
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that I really can't put into words
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really touch me and I thought I would
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share them with you if you go to draw
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manufacture myself right here in Austin
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and thank you so much for watching
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you