TJ Clark and Renaissance

First of all TJ Clark's interview was a very laid back and open to the interview. When I read interview I thought of more professional and a formal setting. This was definitely not the setting. I was listening to the interview and TJ Clark was cursing "Damn" in every other sentence and smoking cigarettes right in the middle of the interview. I couldn't take my eyes of this and was pretty distracted by this.

First Pollock started his paintings as drips. The function of painting was between easel and the moral. The easel picture was a drying form and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall piture or moral. The time isn't right to blend them in from the wall or moral.

The pictures are interpreted as a halfway state and an attempt to point out direction of the future without arriving there completely. Discipline is most important in art. It had something to do with good paintings and bad paintings. For example, Lavender and mist are great sucesses but Blue Poles is a failure.

Michaelangelo never could've painted great without learning from earlier masters. There has to be an artist from all the artists that learned from the first. Giotto was one of the first. Discoveries of Giotto represented the first stages of Renaissance rebirth of great art. Roman artists had great appreciation of nature and beauty. They sculpted painted and made mosaics based on what they saw around them, for hundreds of years. The Roman Empire provided enough stability for the arts to fully flourish.

I learned about mosaics and descriptions in a different class. I think it was Art History. It helped me a lot in this class because the terms were familiar such as Baroque and the Goths.