I will always remember first finding the Robert Natkin book in the 80s and was mind blown by his work. I fell in love instantly and he has remained my absolute favorite artist of all time. And I am a huge art fan. I adore many styles but something about Robert Natkins art speaks to my soul. So happy to have stumbled upon this.
Television such as this isn't made anymore. Thank you for sharing it. Natkin's work is beautiful. He himself was every inch an artist, and found a worthy commentator in Peter Fuller.
I am so thrilled that documentaries like this one continue to exist. I would not have known that Robert Natkin even existed. His story and his work would not have touched my awareness nor become part of my perspective. This is the genuine value of UA-cam. I am grateful that someone saw the need to include it.
"Pollack's paintings are limited" I really don't think so. The Mona Lisa is a mark of a master, but Pollack blows everything away. Love the video because it raises questions of what we want to be and achieve in living.
I like your honest expression of your life through art . I am watching your video and I am so emotional. Thank you for sharing . God bless and keep you continuously .
I find it interesting to reflect on why you are attracted to something - and for me it is about experience as a creation of relation and opening into a deep feelings of joy and beauty and awe entering into the mystery of experience with the living now
Not sure if you’re Bob or Peter’s grandchild, but I had the pleasure to meet Bob in 2004/2005 when I was a college student. He was a man clearly influenced by many artistic movements and extremely talented , but I was most struck by his humility. My college had a show of his work and I chatted with him during the opening reception. It was overwhelming to talk to a professional artist. We were maybe chatting about his Gauguin drawing and the influence of Fauvists in his work and I grabbed an hors d’ouerve that was terrible. He asked me what was wrong and insisted that I spit it out in his hand. He said he was a grandfather who frequently handled gross things and he was glad to do it. I repeatedly declined his offer, swallowed that terrible food, and kept chatting with him. It’s a small thing, but it was a degree of sympathy that you rarely encounter in this world and likely a reminder of where his work gets its power from. Over the years I’ve learned more about his life and I have mourned his death. I hope that more people can cherish him and his work in the years ahead.
I've noticed that most modern artists and abstractionist painters have had challenging upbringings that move them to alternate reality . A good amount of suicides and mental illness is prevalent which would suggest their brains see and work differently which makes their work unique
I am now 51. And I have had a few battles of my own. They were only two, but they were significant. No matter what I paint, those memories are my voices, eyes and emotions which continuously seep through my fingers onto my canvas or paper.
Peter Fuller came to our art school in Vancouver, Canada in 1990, gave a lecture and afterwards was subjected to hostile questions, perceived as a conservative and therefore some kind of a threat to the identities of those concerned. He had founded the magazine Modern Painters, which indeed had a mission of revising art discourse. In April of 1990 he died in a car crash at the age of 32. I suppose that nowadays art students no longer even feel the need to defend any aspect of the dogma because it is so dominant.
Art students being predominantly younger, and still feeling their way through the world philosophically, I would be shocked if they are any different today than in times past. There are always new dogmas at their disposal, not the least of which is the dogma of non-dogmatism. I'm half jesting, but you get the picture.
@@anodyne57 I wasn't necessarily subscribing to everything Fuller was saying, but I remember being shocked at the groupthink, the inability to tolerate someone having a different opinion. That evidently hasn't changed! The dogma of non-dogmatism could be relativism, I suppose, or genuine liberalism, which I don't think that we've ever had, as all forms of transgression have always been directed against some perceived order, therefore themselves ideological and quite illiberal.
Decorative art is not necessarily attached to it's related compositional elements, but are almost always local, not to say that the vase in the window across the street framed through your own window in your beautifully crafted room can't be. . . it's just difficult to be sure the vase, coloured just so, will remain, local.
"I think it's very important to maintain belief but to still realize that you're on quicksand or your feet are clay. I always have this fantasy if I look down I'll see hoofs and they'll be a studio full of goat shit. So in one sense I want to be super-human but in another sense I feel I'm barely an animal; and it's a practice that I think if I don't always maintain, juggle, both of these kinds of reality I could then very easily be done in by the very kind of reparation that I use to make myself and that I hope will help the rest of the world become a better place. I want to become a better place - not a person; I want to become a better place because as a person I'm going to be gone I don't know in ten minutes, ten years. But I want to become a better place."
I will always remember first finding the Robert Natkin book in the 80s and was mind blown by his work. I fell in love instantly and he has remained my absolute favorite artist of all time. And I am a huge art fan. I adore many styles but something about Robert Natkins art speaks to my soul. So happy to have stumbled upon this.
Television such as this isn't made anymore. Thank you for sharing it. Natkin's work is beautiful. He himself was every inch an artist, and found a worthy commentator in Peter Fuller.
I am so thrilled that documentaries like this one continue to exist. I would not have known that Robert Natkin even existed. His story and his work would not have touched my awareness nor become part of my perspective. This is the genuine value of UA-cam. I am grateful that someone saw the need to include it.
What a great man. His work is uplifting and beautiful. I’m glad I found this video. Thanks for making it available.
The advice Robert Natkin provides is vital, particularly for other artists.
"Pollack's paintings are limited" I really don't think so. The Mona Lisa is a mark of a master, but Pollack blows everything away. Love the video because it raises questions of what we want to be and achieve in living.
I love the thought that the word luxury comes from light - and to create art can become a walk into intenselight
Just excellent in every way. Thank you.
Timelessly great!
I like your honest expression of your life through art . I am watching your video and I am so emotional. Thank you for sharing . God bless and keep you continuously .
Beauty is both comfort and magic and it can and does transform the living now into deep experience
I love this so much, thank you very much..
It is wonderful.. Thank you
Gorgeous, extremely emotional
I find it interesting to reflect on why you are attracted to something - and for me it is about experience as a creation of relation and opening into a deep feelings of joy and beauty and awe entering into the mystery of experience with the living now
Good to finally hear my grandfathers voice. Wish I could have met him.
Not sure if you’re Bob or Peter’s grandchild, but I had the pleasure to meet Bob in 2004/2005 when I was a college student. He was a man clearly influenced by many artistic movements and extremely talented , but I was most struck by his humility. My college had a show of his work and I chatted with him during the opening reception. It was overwhelming to talk to a professional artist. We were maybe chatting about his Gauguin drawing and the influence of Fauvists in his work and I grabbed an hors d’ouerve that was terrible. He asked me what was wrong and insisted that I spit it out in his hand. He said he was a grandfather who frequently handled gross things and he was glad to do it. I repeatedly declined his offer, swallowed that terrible food, and kept chatting with him. It’s a small thing, but it was a degree of sympathy that you rarely encounter in this world and likely a reminder of where his work gets its power from. Over the years I’ve learned more about his life and I have mourned his death. I hope that more people can cherish him and his work in the years ahead.
@@kwamewebb3018 Peter's
@Steel Stunners, apologies for your loss. Glad the internet can connect you with his legacy!
Such beautiful raw intimacy!🦋👩🎨🐾❤️
Excellent documentary and presently inspiring a body of work about which itself, one day, will entail a documentary of significant comparability
wishful thinking, perhaps
I've noticed that most modern artists and abstractionist painters have had challenging upbringings that move them to alternate reality . A good amount of suicides and mental illness is prevalent which would suggest their brains see and work differently which makes their work unique
I am now 51. And I have had a few battles of my own. They were only two, but they were significant. No matter what I paint, those memories are my voices, eyes and emotions which continuously seep through my fingers onto my canvas or paper.
Meer That's the best place and the best way to express what you feel.
Robert Natkin, artist, born 7 November 1930; died 20 April 2010
Wow. Never heard of him before but he's really cool. He's a dreamer just like me.
Peter Fuller came to our art school in Vancouver, Canada in 1990, gave a lecture and afterwards was subjected to hostile questions, perceived as a conservative and therefore some kind of a threat to the identities of those concerned. He had founded the magazine Modern Painters, which indeed had a mission of revising art discourse. In April of 1990 he died in a car crash at the age of 32. I suppose that nowadays art students no longer even feel the need to defend any aspect of the dogma because it is so dominant.
Art students being predominantly younger, and still feeling their way through the world philosophically, I would be shocked if they are any different today than in times past. There are always new dogmas at their disposal, not the least of which is the dogma of non-dogmatism. I'm half jesting, but you get the picture.
@@anodyne57 I wasn't necessarily subscribing to everything Fuller was saying, but I remember being shocked at the groupthink, the inability to tolerate someone having a different opinion. That evidently hasn't changed! The dogma of non-dogmatism could be relativism, I suppose, or genuine liberalism, which I don't think that we've ever had, as all forms of transgression have always been directed against some perceived order, therefore themselves ideological and quite illiberal.
Exit music: Brian Eno
Decorative art is not necessarily attached to it's related compositional elements, but are almost always local, not to say that the vase in the window across the street framed through your own window in your beautifully crafted room can't be. . . it's just difficult to be sure the vase, coloured just so, will remain, local.
"I think it's very important to maintain belief but to still realize that you're on quicksand or your feet are clay. I always have this fantasy if I look down I'll see hoofs and they'll be a studio full of goat shit. So in one sense I want to be super-human but in another sense I feel I'm barely an animal; and it's a practice that I think if I don't always maintain, juggle, both of these kinds of reality I could then very easily be done in by the very kind of reparation that I use to make myself and that I hope will help the rest of the world become a better place. I want to become a better place - not a person; I want to become a better place because as a person I'm going to be gone I don't know in ten minutes, ten years. But I want to become a better place."
Did he ever pick up of the phone?
There's a lot of weird styles that some painters just can't quit...I assume they sell maybe...
Check out Maggi Hambling
31:49 - on Pollock
fart
smelly fart
Sniffy sniffy
Oooye. That smelly.
Is art a lie or the truth? I am so confused!
Paraphrasing Picasso Art is a lie that helps us realise the truth
And I see art as a dialoque with experience of life - at the very root of creativity -
Short story
Gonna b honest most of his work looks like my early stages in graffiti fill ins