Facing Now: Why Portraits Still Matter with Simon Schama | Sotheby’s and Intelligence Squared
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2023
- Join historian Simon Schama, curator Eleanor Nairne, and Sotheby’s expert Helena Newman on an exhilarating journey through the fascinating world of portraiture. From the ancient origins of portraiture in Graeco-Roman Egypt to celebrated artists like Rembrandt, David, Klimt, Freud, and contemporary figures such as Jenny Saville and Julianknxx, this talk explores the enduring allure and complexities of portraiture.
Using a stunning collection of images, Schama, Nairne, and Newman invite us to examine their chosen portraits with fresh eyes. Does portraiture serve as a way to confront our fears of mortality and impermanence? How do we unravel the dynamics between the artist, the sitter and ourselves as viewers? And in an era of shifting identities, does the traditional notion that a portrait captures the essence of the sitter still hold true?
This event was produced by Intelligence Squared and took place on Monday 19 June as part of Sotheby’s celebration of portraiture, to coincide with the reopening of London’s National Portrait Gallery in June 2023. Highlights from Sotheby’s Summer Season include a loan exhibition, Portraits from Chatsworth (30 May - 4 July) and the London Sales (20-27 June). Visit sothebys.com to find out more.
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Loved Eleanor Nairne's presentation. More please
While Eleanor's contribution is significant, I find her eclecticism borders on a mixture of of things including political considerations and non-aesthetic notion that are not essentially aesthetic, though important. However, I find Simon Schama's contribution to ANY discussion of Art/ History/... should NEVER BE DISREGARDED. The deliciousness with which he articulates what he sees/feels/thinks/understands/KNOWS is truly astonishing. ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREATS!!!!!!!!!!!
This video would be so much more enjoyable if the commentary accompanied the fixed image for the viewer to make sense of what you're saying.
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Moderator's incessant smiling distracts from Schama's talk.
Nowadays women try to behave like men. I do not think I am being unpolite saying that I am sure curator Eleanor Nairne is an admirer of the late Rik Mayall, and talks and looks like him. Touching but also upsetting.
What an utterly bizarre comment.
Savile is a third rate poster painter
Have you seen how amazing the portraits AI is painting are? They’re perfect in every way. We don’t need painters anymore.
Well, maybe if you like your portraits looking like the movie posters they were styled from. Spendy training those Ai on image-sets and why so much of it is same-same. If you think clip-art is an improvement over portraiture, then you’ll love the coming age of schlock. Our collective global super-organism demands human creativity be reduced to a menu function set firmly at ‘good enough’. Perfect for bosses and ‘crats looking to replace skilled workers with 80% quality. Riddle-me-this: when the orbital accountant Ai only hires the very-best robot labor, what will you do on a corner with souse snd whelps looking up at you hungry?
Some of us enjoy painting. Some of us enjoy giving and receiving paintings. We don’t need many things anymore, yet we have them. Like chat-bots that leave commentary: we don’t need your ideas on Ai artistry, but we have room for them.
If you believe art and portraiture is only celebrated through its aesthetic value, replication of reality and functional utility, then you completely disregard the element of transcendence in art. Painting should have died with the arrival of photography. Yet figurative art is about the human experience, about the joy of living, and exploring all the intricacies of consciousness. Your narrow-minded thinking does little, do you realise you are just as replaceable in whatever you do. Whether you're a homemaker, a bank teller, heck, even if you're a surgeon, you can and will not be needed anymore.
The art of painting has never sought “perfect” duplication. It seeks expression.