Film number 3 (3 more to go) This one is called COLOUR THEORY DISCO.
Usual team:
Made by Peter Lydon @pglydon
Edited by @TristanAliceNieto .
Really happy with the response to these films I just need to take the next step - a YouTube channel… and/or get them in front of someone who knows how to find the right audience. If any of you have ideas or connections that might be useful - step forward.
Thanks to:
@harryscolour_ Grade
@unit.work and Phil McCluney
#matthewcollings#lydondirects#martinamis
Here’s the 2nd of 6 films I made with Peter Lydon in which I talk about a different painting of mine in each. This one’s called “Peter Bruegel The Elder painting Elderly Greats in a Care Home.”
Films by @pglydon .
Edited by @TristanAliceNieto
I’m still mulling over what to do with the series. Maybe a You Tube channel for the whole set that then becomes a place to post more such films. Is that a good idea? Would you subscribe?
Thank to:
@harryscolour_ Grade
@unit.work and Phil McCluney
Last summer (as you may know) I had an exhibition of my work at Vigo Gallery. I reconnected there with Peter Lydon @pglydon who I’d made a number of films with on the Late Show. Peter had gone on to direct some brilliant docs, splashy dramas (Shameless, Poirot etc) and shiny ads (with the likes of Al Pacino, Mads Mikkelsen and Benedict Cumberbatch)… Oh and he draws funny cartoons. He persuaded me (easily) to make some super simple films of me talking about my paintings. We made 6 films about 6 paintings … this is the first. I wonder how they could be used? All feedback welcome!
Thanks to
@tristanalicenieto . Edit
@harryscolour_ Grade
@unit.work and Phil McCluney
Alice Neel paints the truth. In the spirit of Rembrandt and Goya she tells it how it is.
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When I was at art school
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Someone would come by my little cubicle and mention John Cage so I’d get books by him and read them, unmoved by a load of fey codswallop though not knowing that’s what it was. Or that my distance from it might be justified. I read him to find out what I should have in mind to paint like Jasper Johns because he painted jokes about the inexplicability of brush strokes. I didn’t know what else I needed to know though in order to be an artist. What’s the beginning of paintings like that, the middle, the end? So I tentatively painted anything from one minute of the day to the next — my shoe maybe; I’d stick it on a canvas and paint it a colour all over - maybe eight things but not on eight canvases on only one and then I’d wipe it out or throw the shoe or whatever away and leave the school in a panic and stay away a few days. Meanwhile the students painted on canvases one after another building up lots of work and thinking about the artists the teachers who taught painting from life informed them about like Bonnard and Matisse. I couldn’t understand those artists. Johns seemed to be sarcastic in his funny paintings about the very bafflement I myself experienced when I looked at most art. So that was the direction I thought I better go in. His path and the paths of people I assumed were in his orbit like Rauschenberg and Dine and Oldenburg. But I had no idea how I was supposed to do it without actually “doing” those artists as they’d already done themselves as it were. In that state of panic I gradually absorbed loads of information about art but in an alienated way because it was all random dipping into this and that. But I found I knew a lot more than the other students (that’s why you can see images on my wall by Bacon & Hockney besides Johns: Bacon’s Painting 1946 & Hockney’s A Bigger Splash; plus the Warhol book on the chair). Just not about actual painting, because I never finished anything. That went on for years then I finished several things all at once and I realised I’d probably finished a few things before but they seemed too slight to be anything.
The Tories are racists! Get them out! Who shall we replace them with? Racist Labour! Uh?
Labour is not against the Tories’ racism. It’s against the technocratic inefficiency of it. Labour offers racism that costs less to tax payers. Hurray!
Tories: attack migrants.
Labour: attack migrants.
Tories: mass murder brown people in Gaza.
Labour: mass murder brown people in Gaza.
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It’s funny that the art movement of late capitalist fascism is dreamy expressionism. Nolde thought Expressionism — the first-time-around version — was the most Teutonic form of art and as one of its top-league innovators he ought to be honoured by the Nazis. He was a member of the Nazi party himself. But instead they forbade him to paint. Today the fascists who run the USA, the UK, Germany etc don’t forbid any artists anything. It’s not the thing in the west in our time to forbid art. It’s the thing to be seen at art functions. Genocide is supported by fascists who are fine with art, and art-culture returns the compliment. No artist of any profile says no to it.
