Claves: * interesante, **Muy interesante *** excepcionalmente interesante !
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Rythm 10 (seen in April 2011) – Seven easy pieces (seen in March 2011) – What is Performance Art? (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011)
(biography, work)
A profile of Michael Andrews (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) in 7 parts the first one can be seen here the others can be followed from there.
Alberto Burri
Alberto Burri (seen in February 2011) working on plastic can be seen here
Paul Cezanne
(biography, work)
A travel to the landscape Cezanne knew (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here«Cezanne en Provence» a documentary on Cezanne (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here«L’atelier de Cezanne» (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Chuck Close
(biography, work)
Chuck Close at work (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereArtist studio (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereChuck Close interview (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Salvador Dali
(biography, work)
Dali painting a rhinoceros (no language, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Dali painting (Spanish, subtitles in French, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereDali and Gala performance (English, subtitles in English, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Dali explaining his Venus de Milo (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here«Destino» (no language, seen in February 2011) cooperation Disney Dali can be seen
here **A biography (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) including images and video can be seen
here
Denise Glaser interview (French, no subtitle, seen in February 2011) speaking about Cezanne, Meissonier … can be seen
here *
Mike Wallace interview(English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) speaking about genius, Science on his paintings, death, monarchy, Gala… (seen in February 2007) can be seen here *Soler Serrano in depth interview (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011). In 8 parts the first can be seen here the others can be followed from there. **A summary of his life (English, some subtitles in English, seen in February 2011) can be seen hereThe last public appearance (Spanish with subtitles, seen in February2011) can be seen here *!
Marcel Duchamp
(biography, work)
«Jeu d’échecs avec Marcel Duchamp» an in depth interview (French, subtitles in English, seen in February 2011) can be seen here **The secret of Marcel Duchamp (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen hereDuchamp breaking glasses a part of «Dadascope» (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen hereDuchamp interviews (English and French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here
«Marcel Duchamp in his own words» (French and English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) in 3 parts the first can be seen here the others can be followed from there.
Sam Francis
(biography, work)
Sam Francis painting in his studio in Venice (seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Helen Frankenthaler (biography, work)
Helen Frankhentaler painting (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Alberto Giacometti (biography, work)
A documentary on Giacometti (Frenc, subtitles in German, seen in February 2011) in 7 parts the first can be seen
here the others can be followed from there **Giacometti speaking about surrealisme his stage in Montparnasse (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Ein portrait (German, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Arshile Gorki (biography, work)
Arshile Gorki my grandfather (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) containing some images in Gorki painting can be seen
here
Philip Guston (biography, work)
Guston in his own words (English, subtitles in English, seen in April 2011) can be seen
hereGuston at work (English, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here
David Hockney (biography, work)
Hockney in his studio talking about what is unphotographeable (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Painting with light (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) in 5 parts the first can be seen
here, the others can be followed from there
Hockney answering some questions (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
A short video on viewpoint of paintings (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
hereHockney painting a landscape (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Some slideshows of Hockney’s work in his own page can be seen
here
Hans Hoffman (biography, work)
Hans Hoffman teaching (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Vassily Kandinsky (biography, work)
Kandinsky painting (German, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Lee Krasner (biography, work)
Lee Krasner interview (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereOther Lee Krasner interview (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
herePollock Krasner house (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here (see also this
web site)
Yoyai Kusama (biography, work)
A documentary (English, no subtitles, seen in May 2011) where she appears drawing can be seen
hereKusama’s self obliteration (seen in May 2011) can be seen
hereKusama posing for Klaus Gingand (Japanese, subtitles in English, seen in May 2011) can be seen
here
Roy Lichtenstein (biography, work)
A conversation about different issues (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
A documentary on Lichtenstein (English, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) containig some short segments of Liechtenstein working can be seen
here
Henri Matisse (biography, work)
Henri Matisse working (seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereMatisse speaking about drawing and painting (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereAn essay on Matisse (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Joan Miro (biography, work)
Miro working explaining his work (French, subtitles in Spanish, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Claude Monet (biography, work)
Claude Monet painting in Giverny (Sacha Guiltry’s film, Renoir and and Degas also appear) (only music, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Yoko Ono (biography, work)
Reading «grapefruit» (English, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
hereOno’s auto interview (English, subtitles in French, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here !
Pablo Picasso (biography, work)
Pablo Picasso biography including testimonies, documents and images (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) in 9 parts the first part can be seen here the other parts can be followed from there.An extract of Clouzot’s film on Picasso (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here here here and herePicasso working (seen in February 2011) can be seen here and hereA documentary on Picasso in 1966 (Fench, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here
An extract of an interview to Picasso (French, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here
Jackson Pollock (biography, work)
Pollock painting in the outside in Springs (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here (the
same with subtitles in English) **Pollock painting (seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
A documentary on Pollocks’s life (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
hereFrank Stella speaking about Pollock (English, subtitles in English, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here.
Paula Rego (biography, work)
Tate channel Paula Rego on the fine art of printmaking (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011), can be seen
hereAn interview in an exhibition of her work (Portuguese, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Diego Rivera (biography, work)
A documentary (Italian, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) where Diego appears working can be seen
hereDiego Rivera spaking about art (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
hereDiego and Frida (seen in April 2011) can be seen
here
Norman Rockwell (biography, work)
A documentary on his life and work (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) In 2 parts the first can be seen
here the second can be followed from there *
Mark Rothko (biography, work)
A short documentary on Rothko narrated by Harry Cooper (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here.
Rothko’s daughter speaking about Rothko’s work (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011). In 2 parts the first can be seen
here the other can be followed from it.
A BBC documentary on Rothko (English, no subtitles) in 7 parts the first can be seen
here the others can be followed from it.
Yinka Shonibare (biography, work)
Thougths abot «Being an artist» (English, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here
A documentary on Shonibare’s work, identity and authenticity (English, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here.A discussion about the ideas underlying his work (English, no subtitles, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here.
Stanley Spencer (biography, work)
Resurrecting Stanley (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) containing images and video of Stanley Spencer, Hilda, Cookham … in five parts the first can be seen
here , the others can be followed from there **A short documentary (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) showing some aspects of Spencer’s life can be seen
here
Bill Viola (biography, work)
A lecture by Bill Viola (English, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Viola’s work can be seen
here.
Spanish Artists
Eduardo Arroyo (biography, work)
Arroyo commenting his work in relation with classic painting of Prado Museum (Spanish, no subitles, seen in March 2011) in three parts, the first can be seen
here the others can be followed from there.
Arroyo speaking about his trajectory (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March) can be seen
here
Miquel Barceló (biography, work)
Barceló working (Spanish and English with Spanish subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
hereBarcelo working on the Palace of Nations (Spanish and subitles in Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
hereBarceló’s paso doble (seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Venancio Blanco (biography, work)
Venancio Blanco speaking about his work (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) and his Fundation can be seen
here
Venancio Blanco at its atelier speaking in his work, biography and Castilla’s spirit (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Antonio Lopez (biography, work)
Comments on an exhibition in Boston (Spanish, no subititles, seen in February 2011) mainly speaking about his sculpture and painting can be seen
here
An interview (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) describing his ideas on art, living in Madrid.. . in two parts. The first part can be seen here. The second part can be followed from the first one.Antonio Lopez teaching (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here, here, here and hereAntonio Lopez painting (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen here, here and hereEl sol de membrillo (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011). In my humble opinion the best film about drawing and painting ever made. A fantastic exhibition of knowledge. To be seen even if you can not follow it in Spanish. Divided in 13 parts can be seen from here ***!
Jorge Oteiza (biography, work)
Oteiza speaking about art (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here.Oteiza speaking about art, Arantzazu, the relation with landscape… (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Guillermo Perez Villalta (biography, work)
Perez Villalta describing the «movida» (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
An interview (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) by the great Paloma Chamorro in «la edad de oro» can be seen
here *
Antoni Tapies (biography, work)
Tapies speaking about art and painting (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011). In 3 parts, the first can be seen
here the others can be followed from there.
Manolo Valdés (biography, work)
An interview in his studio (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
An interview commenting art in the street (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in March 2011) can be seen
here
Joaquin Vaquero Turcios (biography, work)
Joaquin Vaquero interview (Spanish, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) on murals at Granda de Saline can be seen
here
Fernando Zobel (biography, work)
A summary of his biography (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
A discussion on Fernando Zobel (English, no subtitles, seen in February 2011) can be seen
here
Emerging, young or less knwn artists
As you see, this page tries to get some insight in the creative process of plastic attists. It is mainly dedicated to artist with a long trajectory. Some emerging or young artists explain the keys of their work very clearly and originally. I tried to include some of them here
Esther Achaerandio (biography, works)
An interview (Spanish, subtitles in English, seen in April 2011) can be seen
here; several of her videos can also be seen
Ignacio Chavarri (biography, work)
The Internet magazine
Claves de Arte published a detailed interview about his recent work (Spanish, no subtitles seen in February 2011) that can be seen
here
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