Wolf Kahn Lecture: Control & Letting Go

[@pleinaire8698]

Wolf Kahn and his awesome oil paintings that explode with light and color inspired me to get back to oil painting in 1997 when he visited Reno's NEVADA MUSUEM of ART!!!THANK YOU WOLF!!

[@3243_]

Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason are inspirations to me, not only as painters, but also for the fact that they have stayed together for so long as a married couple and are still together. That gives me hope.

[@Arthur-ek7nd]

Wolf is my grandfather. He and Emily were both amazing painters and great grandparents. Very loving family to grow up in.

[@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631]

I love close of the artist.

[@andrewwalkerpatterson3843]

Thanks for posting this, I've enjoyed his paintings for years but this lecture really gave me a sense of him as an artist and enhanced my enjoyment of his work.

[@mylesjordan9970]

The David Soyer anecdote is interesting in that, because he was part of a great string quartet, his dedication to specifically performative clarity, times four, came off as a kind of tyranny. One assumes that that’s especially true in the context of a talk on loose brushwork, the flow of experimentation, etc.-but for a performing musician, the word “amateur” is a very loaded one (George Bernard Shaw’s famous quip, “Hell is full of musical amateurs,” from “Man and Superman” illustrates the case vividly enough). You bring up an important divergence in fundamental aims between the creative and re-creative or interpretative arts. There’s a big difference between musical amateurs and professionals-and a huge gulf between amateurs and artists-that’s immediately and painfully obvious to audiences, no matter how uninitiated. Van Gough’s lousy drawing skills are viewed as unimportant, but playing out of tune is.