Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2010-03-20T06:01:25Z http://podcast.northwestmuseum.org/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:podcast.northwestmuseum.org,2009-09-25:2452307 Jim Danner 2009-09-25T08:13:21Z 2009-09-25T08:13:21Z George and I studied at "The School of the Art Instute of Chicago" I am the proud owner of an original piece of his sculpture. It is unsigned and wish that he would remember me and do me the honor of signing it. tag:podcast.northwestmuseum.org,2009-08-12:2348968 John Donnelly 2009-08-13T03:38:03Z 2009-08-13T03:38:03Z Excellent interview. Intriguing to listen to even knowing little to nothing of tempera. The artist articulates with such alacrity, it grabs and engages the imagination to dive in. Clever to juxtapose the grit of deep urbanization with the medium and techniques perfected through centuries of trying to render portraits of divinity that were to motivate a person to prayerful meditation. It reveals how possible it is to redeem matter, even something as hard scrabble as a Brooklyn intersection, by focusing the conscience into a suspended animation. I liked his example of not needing to portray a beautiful unspoiled wilderness in a painting as it is already in a sacred state, but rather by focusing the attention on what at first appears somewhat decrepit, one can begin to sense a grace in what at first glance smacks as corrupt and in decay. Doug Safranek delivers an engaging interview. I would love to have him as my tour guide through his world of classical art.