Saturday, September 25, 2010

One way of seeing it is on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI&feature=related

A four episode documentary series on art.  The final episode, which compares oil painting to photography, is especially interesting.

17 comments:

  1. Quite old but still worth watching!

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  2. I've seen that series and I really enjoyed it

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  3. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/3347071779_de14e90296.jpg

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  5. Watching all four parts of these right now, should change my mind on a few things and create some arguments.

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  6. That's great, thanks. I'm always on the lookout for good documentaries.

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  7. Oooh, exciting!
    I'll add this to my 'must-watch' list

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  8. I think I watched this in one of my art classes back in the day.

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  9. I watched this a few days back, its a very good documentary

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  10. John Berger you da man. You taught me art, and I love you for that.

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  11. Really neat. I've been trying to educate myself more on art lately after seeing Exit Through the Gift Shop. Good stuff.

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  12. When he started to cut up the painting I was like "dude, what the hell are you doing?!" lol. Good documentary though.

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