Episode 40: Goya's Anti-Academicist Speech
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English - July 09, 2018 11:27 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsVisual Arts Arts History arthistoryartshort Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Goya's amazing speech to the newly founded Spanish Art Academy School. He was invited to speak to them as he was well-respected and was interested in helping other artists learn. Yet he had a profound dislike and fear of Academicism. Not only one of the best artists of all history, but was an independent and socially critical thinker, although he was court painter. Academics are scholars, and he and I are not criticizing them or their practice, rather AcademICISM, which is the worship of the Academy, the belief in Rules for Art and Creativity. And that these can be memorized.