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Peter Doig: The Street
Artist Peter Doig joins Rail Consulting Editor Richard Shiff for a conversation.
The New Social Environment #1135
Recorded on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 Peter Doig -- Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and grew up in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London to study at Saint Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Since 2002, he has divided his time between London and Trinidad. His work is represented in major public and private collections worldwide. Major survey exhibitions include Tate Britain, London (2008, traveled to ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2008-09); No Foreign Lands, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2013, traveled to Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, 2014); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2014-15); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2020); and Courtauld Gallery, London (2023).
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🚩 Richard Shiff -- Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art and theory. His recent books include Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd (2020), Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1969-2019 (2020), Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul (2022), and Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists (2023). He has published several essays on the art of Peter Doig.
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[@WhenHel]

Great talk. Any chance you guys could change the view so the view of the art is big and the speaker is small? For future talks.

[@jeandupas-q2k]

always a great idea to ask a clever artist to curate his "dream" show, his choices are very peculiar and show how of an art lover he is - but his own art is, at best, Vuillard/ bonnard/Munch derivative, middle of the road decorative expressionism..for sure we all know how it is hard to make relevant figurative painting nowadays after all those massive genius who came before our time..

[@WhenHel]

Lol. You sound cranky.

[@jeandupas-q2k]

@@WhenHel cranky facts probably :D

[@JorgenVonStrngle]

@@jeandupas-q2kI think derivative is a stretch. I wouldn’t necessarily call him the most inventive living artist, and I doubt he would describe that as his ambition. His focus is great painting. But there’s a massive gap between not innovating tremendously and derivation.

[@jeandupas-q2k]

@@JorgenVonStrngle it's the risk doing "expressionnist figurative" painting, it's already been done at each levels possibles of human feeling, moods, psychology and styles, their nothing intimate or personnel worth being painted anymore on this road (imo). that being say each era need its painters i guess, and collectors who are not artists don't care about the relevancy, weight of the works they just throw the classic "oh it's beautiful" and buy.... but fellow artists knows the facts