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Artists scientists

By: Editor February 6, 2020February 6, 2020

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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention Watch: https://www.artfilms-digital.com/…/trimpin-the-sound-of-inv… or purchase the DVD/subscribe : https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/trimpin-the-sound-of-invention Artfilms streaming service: https://www.artfilms-digital.com/subscribe Trimpin is a sound sculptor, composer, engineer, and inventor. A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing instruments ranging from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer. His work integrates…

Pierre Soulages – Black Light

By: Editor October 16, 2017January 28, 2020

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“I don’t work with black,” says Pierre Soulages, who, for over 60 years, has injected poetry into radical abstraction with paintings comprised of a single material, black paint. “I work with the light that reflects it.” “When speaking of light, in connection with black, this sounds paradoxical. However, in reality, black is a colour of light.…

DAVID HOCKNEY – PLEASURES OF THE EYE

By: Editor October 2, 2017

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One the most original creative talents of our age, David Hockney believes it is his duty as an artist to give pleasure. Filmed at his home in California and at exhibitions of his work in London, Rotterdam and Munich, Hockney gives a thoughtful exposition of several aspects of his work, relating specific examples to both…

Jonas Mekas: Walden

By: Editor September 18, 2017

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Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the ’60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

DAVID HOCKNEY – JOINER PHOTOGRAPHS

By: Editor September 6, 2017September 6, 2017

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“In the early 1980’s, English painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs. He then switched to photo lab-processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he…

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

By: Editor August 10, 2017

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An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics.