thanks for your visit !!! please go on go on ;);) !!!!!
@selwynr2 жыл бұрын
His works are pictorially spectacular and unfailingly interesting in their enigmatic tableaux, yet I haven't once had an emotional reaction to them. Nothing seems to be of any consequence, so an emotional flatness is their final effect on me, as much as I enjoy their wonderful strangeness. This doesn't feel deliberate, rather a consequence of a pervasive and hard-baked cynical satirical 'vibe'. He never paints human beings, they are ciphers - every thing is mock and a complete lack of psychological depth or interiority is what prevents his work being truly great. The greatest figurative painters are without fail psychologically intense but then... they were people of great depth and humanity. Rauch has immense gifts but it remains to be seen if he can evolve imaginative empathy and psychological realism (not pictorial) to make art that touches us on a human level. I wish him luck. If he does, he will be an artistic force to be reckoned with.
@MikeWitmerNatureJournal2 жыл бұрын
Are you reacting to images or the actual paintings? Unless you are standing in front of the paintings you cannot fully experience them.
@selwynr2 жыл бұрын
@@MikeWitmerNatureJournal I've seen about 15 of his whopper-sized paintings but not this show, but it doesn't look like there's any change in his sensibility whatsoever. I admire his work, it's thrilling, strange, enigmatic and spectacular, but I do not love it. I feel no love, no human tenderness or compassion in it at all, technically or psychologically. I do in all the great painters I love.
@nimblenimbus2 жыл бұрын
Interesting point.
@antondavidovic39962 жыл бұрын
@@selwynr Fair enough, but care to name any painters that give you that emotional gratification? I'm genuinely interested because I'm always on the lookout for recommendations. I feel a similar way about Neo's paintings, there is something missing that I can't put my finger on. Its like not enough salt in a meal, or like a joke with a weak punch-line. It remains at the level of "Oh look, some pretty cool figurative compositions"...
@darrinheaton40162 жыл бұрын
@@antondavidovic3996 I think she's talking about painters such as Balthus , Beckmann, or Otto Dix...or Lucien Freud?
@hlavaavalh83732 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this video. Thx and greetz from München.
@italogiardina81832 жыл бұрын
Possible Hegalian influences appear as chimeras within the zeitgeist.
@JohnBrown-be6re2 жыл бұрын
I concur
@sydneygreenstreet97672 жыл бұрын
Thanks again from Christchurch, New Zealand
@conradbo12 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kate for letting James Kalm make the video. Neo Rauch seems to be a very good and interesting artist. I love how thick the paint is on some parts of the paintings. Regards Conrad Bo Superblur from Johannesburg South Africa
@LiquidArtEnergyProductions2 жыл бұрын
House of Der Kunst! (22:06 delicious streaks of Turquoise!) ZITCHIN! Thank you James...and Kate!
@lawcheukyui2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video, James.
@michellesantoro33602 жыл бұрын
Love your work James, thanks again for bringing New York exhibitions home to me in Sydney..
@artbyty2 жыл бұрын
Thanks James and Kate!
@morganrussell63352 жыл бұрын
Loved this, thank you Kate!
@MikeWitmerNatureJournal2 жыл бұрын
One of the better living painters. Such a unique palette like weathered toy blocks or antique postcards.
@anatoos2402 жыл бұрын
That's a lovely way to describe his use of color, can't say I agree he's one of the best though.
@charlywalter21956 ай бұрын
Er hats drauf der neo rauch glückwunsch - 😊 - einer der neue Mythen erzählt und fachlich gekonnt kalligraphiert
@sesvaoffice83312 жыл бұрын
being a well trained academic painter has so many benefits, it give artists more scope for creation - having an additional set of tools to employ to make art. but many art schools have abandoned teaching these skills.
@JohnHoganArtist2 жыл бұрын
I am a naturally born artist, Art school didnt teach me any painterly skills I just knew how to accomplish it
@lovepeace30412 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU KATE
@revrevreviews2 жыл бұрын
I played table tennis with Neo once in Berlin. It's a long story and I imagine no one would be interested in it. Thanks for a wonderful guide, James! I feel like I was there with you.
@eriknieminen2 жыл бұрын
well I imagine you didn't bring it up if you didn't want to talk about it. Go on.
@tonsfocus2 жыл бұрын
Nice quixotic spoken-word ska band at the top, in the as-it-was-always-thus doleful Cooper Union Square! James' latest Rauch show review is simply tip top! So many fetching pearls of wisdom, so many wonderful accounts of art history, personal or otherwise. I have a 2002 catalog (PDF) of his work titled "Bonnefantenmuseum" by Hatje Cantz, and it shows many dozens of his first career-phase works. They are more pop, flat, and graphic. I've always much preferred those to his later more theatrical, somber, 18th-century-ish classical works, replete with mucky shadows and finicky detailing. In this show, it almost feels like he's shifting back a little to that earlier breeziness. Thank you so very much James, this video did not disappoint! Thank you, and thanks be to Frau Kate!
@jameswarhol4422 жыл бұрын
Ska? More punk-funk rap fusion.
@tonsfocus2 жыл бұрын
@@jameswarhol442 That sounds more accurate - I defer to your better categorization. :-)
@kimwilkie98192 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kate!
@barbarajohnson14422 жыл бұрын
He's my contemporary GOLDEN BOOK of Dream Drawing master! They are such illustrations of mysteries, thanks for this,James, and for the Wickids ! Why do I think of Max Beckman, the archetypal rituals I guess?
@TD-qi2rw2 жыл бұрын
I always LOVE your reporting ! Thanks Kate !
@danielkunkel36302 жыл бұрын
Mr. Kalm- Could you do a review of the "On The Bowery" show please? There are a couple of really nice Loren Munk paintings in there you need to see!
@jameskalm2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I've had many requests to cover that show, and I've heard the Munk paintings are fantastic...(hehehehe)...
@danielkunkel36302 жыл бұрын
@@jameskalm Lol...Actually they are very cool...
@meltdowngrfx9692 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review. Wished there was some insight into the imagery Rauch uses.
@eriknieminen2 жыл бұрын
There isn't, though. It's all very enigmatic. Almost impossible to penetrate.
@reaganwiles_art2 жыл бұрын
For years I had thought neo rauch to be a category of painting, no shit! I did not know it was a person's name. Hahahaha
@darrinheaton40162 жыл бұрын
haha!
@barbarajohnson14422 жыл бұрын
You know, Odd Nerdrum talked a lot about Kitsch
@danielkunkel36302 жыл бұрын
So: Stir together a Balthus and an Immendorff and you get a...well, a painting that is not quite as good as either. Hell yes these must have been fun to paint, but what about us? Neo: The lane you are in has already been spoken for. Let's push your considerable painterly talents further next time- you can't (or shouldn't) stop on an occupied space...Thank you James, thank you Kate!
@eriknieminen2 жыл бұрын
he does get a bit repetitive at times, but I don't think he cares. He has a huge market, yes... but also seems cerebral beyond that.
@TD-qi2rw2 жыл бұрын
maybe I need a new monitor......
@thegraciecat12 жыл бұрын
Wow jk. u are showing an artist with technical skills......thanks so much!
@kyhxx2 жыл бұрын
. nice ^
@TD-qi2rw2 жыл бұрын
almost looks similar to David Salle...............
@nuritdavid33482 жыл бұрын
He was so exciting in the end of the 90s but now his paintings seem to be so dry and contrived, or rather tired.There is nothing more boring than the routine of the extraordinary . Thank you anyway . On the other hand I love his anti PC interviews .
@katemetten54682 жыл бұрын
I am very impressed by Neo's paint handling and imagery, but am noticing that all his figures are white... seems somewhat out of date in that sense.
@eriknieminen2 жыл бұрын
maybe he doesn't want to get into the whole racial debate. Imagine he suddenly puts a person of colour into his painting now... it changes everything, it becomes solely about that, in today's climate. He may be interested in other things.
@danielkunkel36302 жыл бұрын
Not out of date at all. It is your focus on skin color (which is the definition of racism) that went out of fashion decades ago. Move on.
@johnlegrand51272 жыл бұрын
Maybe he's a white guy within a predominantly white culture ever think of that?
@jimhresco17282 жыл бұрын
Wow Kate! Really?!
@Cam2Art2 жыл бұрын
The biblical portraiture, postures and crucifix reference are anachronistic, where would you hang these paintings, maybe in a barn with the cows and hay,