Painters Painting
Emile De Antonio
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Plot Summary
The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.
Customer Reviews
ignore the trailer's blahblahblah
I ignored this video for a few months, then finally got it out of boredom. Don't pay attention to the pretentious introduction of this old documentary - once you get past the "anti-elite-true-art-is-MY-art" nonsense, you get the opportunity to hear the thought processes behind the various artists' work, and their particular focus of exploration. Some of them are pure scientists in a way, some you can tell are more into creating a movement rather than an idea. Then... there is the Warhol clip. I'm not usually amused and enraged at the same time by someone, but Warhol usually pulls it off. I was happy to find out about Newman, whom I have never heard of before, and to see that Jasper Johns seemed to have a delightful sense of humor that wasn't apparent right away in his more famous works. It was pretty entertaining and enlightening.
So glad to find this!
I saw this way back in 1980 (81?) and was very inspired by it back then. I've looked for it over the years, but haven't found it till now.
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