Dr Great Art! Short, Fun Art History Artecdotes!
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDr Great Art! (Sometimes even with a "?"), Short, Fun, Art History Artecdotes. Through his podcasts and performance-lecture installations, artist and art historian Dr Mark Staff Brandl takes viewers inside visual art,art history, and visual metaphor theory. Entertainingly, yet educationally and aesthetically he presents and discusses stimulating tidbits of knowledge. Brandl stands for an understanding of art in which art historical knowledge and aesthetic pleasure merge into a new artistic experience.
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Episode 26: Artists Create New Metaphors to Live By
November 19, 2017 15:48 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBMy Artecdote this episode is the an explanation of my assertion that "Artists Create New Metaphors to Live By." Under the inspiration of Lakoff, Johnson and Turner's Cognitive Metaphor Theory, I describe my assertion that artists create for themselves new metaphors to live by, by creating new metaphors to create with, which viewers can then also use to think with and live by. This I refer to as artists’ metaphor(m)s or central tropes.
Episode 25: Exhibition Comics and Iconosequentiality in Art
November 03, 2017 18:16 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBA new artistic development: Exhibition Comics and a new compositional form: Iconosequentiality.
Episode 24: MIA Marietta Tintoretta
October 16, 2017 18:32 - 8 minutes - 7.57 MBAn artist who greatly needs to be rediscovered. Not only her name, but her works! Marietta Tintoretta. The daughter of Jacopo Rubusti, aka Tintoretto. Renowned as a great artist in her time, the Late Renaissance, now disappeared.
Episode 23: Genius in Art
September 25, 2017 14:44 - 13 minutes - 12 MBThe concept of "genius" in art has rightly been criticized for its sexism, exaggeration and more. However, it is possible to retain its useful aspects by redefining it as the level of achieved pervasiveness of an artist's metaphor(m).
Episode 22: Representationalism in Art
September 17, 2017 18:22 - 10 minutes - 9.95 MBWhat constitutes representation in a work of art? The representational nature of visual art is one of its most important, fruitful, and intriguing elements --- yet for very particular reasons.
Episode 21: Giotto and Halley's Comet
September 03, 2017 14:34 - 5 minutes - 5.47 MBGiotto, the painter who made the crucial change from the Medieval style thus beginning the Renaissance in art, painted a picture of the Star of Bethlehem which is an image of Halley's comet!
Episode 20: Mongrel and Democratic Art
August 27, 2017 12:43 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBMongrel Art! Democratic Art! This Dr great Art Artecdote is a description of and plaidoyer for a (Post-Postmodernist) art that is anti-purist, syncretistic, and creolized, unifying a variety of artforms, disciplines, tendencies and philosophies. Artworks involving popular or democratic and street artforms outside the "standard" fine art ones, yet also not eschewing either so-called time-honored, nor technologically "new" disciplines, as it seeks to revitalize and transform them all, while op...
Episode 19: (No) Rules in Art
August 18, 2017 14:48 - 9 minutes - 8.48 MBThis Dr Great Art Artecdote concerns supposed rules in art, especially painting. It describes how there are really no rules in art, and it decries the obsequiousness of those who believe there are rules and who seek to follow them.
Episode 18: Meaning is in Artworks Themselves
July 31, 2017 20:24 - 7 minutes - 6.89 MBThe meaning of every artwork lies in the object itself, not in any commentary concerning it.
Episode 17: Provinciality in Art
July 17, 2017 19:04 - 10 minutes - 9.77 MBTimes have changed drastically. Now, what provinciality is has been turned completely around. It is a state of mind, not geography.
Episode 16: Postmodernism Exists
July 03, 2017 08:28 - 14 minutes - 12.8 MBThis Dr Great Art artecdote concerns the beginning of the period, or transitional subperiod, of art in which we now exist: Postmodernism. It cannot be talked away or ignored, nor should it be worshipped. But we are in it since 1979.
Episode 15: Paradigms and Fuzzy Categories
June 17, 2017 13:20 - 10 minutes - 9.48 MBThis Dr Great Art artecdote is about a form of definitional conceptualization, paradigms and fuzzy categories, and how that is important to understanding art.
Episode 14: Th. Emil Homerin
May 24, 2017 17:34 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBAn artecdote about a person: Dr Professor Th. Emil Homerin, an important, inspiring scholar of religion, especially mysticism, especially the Sufis, with significant thoughts concerning art.
Episode 13: Nine Arts and Nine Muses
May 15, 2017 15:01 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBThere are traditionally Nine Muses and Nine Arts, frequently linked to one another. This is my attempt to concoct a fresh, contemporary version of this system for no darn reason other than pure, cultural fun.
Episode 12: Why 'Dr Great Art' ?
May 01, 2017 14:31 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBA very short 4 minute episode concerning how this podcast, the accompanying performance-lectures in painting-installations, and indeed the art historian and artist Mark Staff Brandl himself came to be called 'Dr Great Art.'
Episode 11: Syncretism, Easter, Mongrel Art
April 20, 2017 19:34 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBSyncretism is the blending, layering and uniting of different beliefs of various schools of thought. Easter is the holiday most evidencing syncretistic thought. Mongrel Art is a syncretistic form or art. Democratic Art syncretistically involves people outside the field of art in artistic processes.
Episode 10: Why Art History?
March 27, 2017 15:41 - 10 minutes - 9.69 MBThe lessons of art history are that they are lessons. That is a tautology, but an illuminating one worth elaborating upon. It is necessary to know history as personal empowerment for artists: to test the present with the often surprising facts of the past, to note how and why "official" history has often changed; second, to discover one's own personal, vital ancestry; and finally, in order to criticize and change art history.
Episode 9: Mannerism is Now!
March 08, 2017 16:17 - 10 minutes - 9.64 MBA short Artecdote about how our time, Postmodernism, resembles and indeed IS a form of Mannerism.
Episode 8: African Art History, the Survey
February 19, 2017 12:47 - 8 minutes - 7.62 MBA short Artecdote concerning the difficulty in teaching an overview, or intro survey to Sub-Saharan African art, plus a free art image bank to download. Image bank link: http://brandl-art-articles.blogspot.ch/2016/10/african-art-course.html
Episode 7: Art Beyond Complaint
January 28, 2017 11:58 - 5 minutes - 4.88 MBA short artecdote discussing how criticism and complaint about the moribund artworld is important, but what positive things we can do to improve the situation.
Episode 6: Genius in Small Things: Chiaroscuro
January 03, 2017 16:46 - 8 minutes - 7.57 MBA short Artecdote illustrating how important innovation often arises in apparently unpretentious discoveries. This is exemplified by chiaroscuro, the technique in paintings of using radical light-and-dark.
Episode 5: Santa Claus's Look!
December 12, 2016 17:46 - 7 minutes - 7.14 MBChristmas time! A podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Fred Mizen, myths like Coca-Cola, Luther, the Orthodox Santa, "Twas the night before Christmas," and more including the Swiss Samichlaus and Schmutzli!
Episode 4: The 'Problem' with Performance and Video Art
December 04, 2016 12:42 - 5 minutes - 4.98 MBThe question: What is the problem with Performance Art and Video Art? Are they really, as can seem, so often so bad?
Episode 3: Pluralism, PluralismS, Schmuralism
November 15, 2016 16:24 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MBRe-historicizing Pluralism in art. It is claimed to be a unique change and to reign right now, yet it is not so new and has a past. Pluralisms have occurred at least 7 times before.
Episode 2: Art Mottos, Modernism and PoMo
October 30, 2016 16:49 - 6 minutes - 5.49 MBThe slogan of Modernism was Ezra Pound's "Make it new. " Postmodernism (supposedly) rejects this. What is its motto and what could come after that?
Episode 1: Illegal to Teach Women Art
October 19, 2016 14:25 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBThere were of course female artists at all times. Most simply have been ignored, or even later removed from mainstream art history. Worst of all, for most of history in the West and the East, it was illegal to instruct or train women to become professional artists at all!