Employing Symbols in Paintings - What to Do and Avoid to Make a Credible Story on the Canvas
Jan-Ove Tuv sits down with Jannik Hösel and William Heimdal to discuss how symbols should be treated in a narrative painting
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Chapter markers:
00:00 Symbolism must be grounded in reality
03:03 Can you paint dragons and angels?
10:58 Psychological tension without obvious symbols
13:56 Faithful to biblical stories?
22:05 The case for illustration
26:49 Andrew Wyeth and the miracle of the everyday
27:44 Follow your character
32:39 The mythic potential of the motif
34:18 Archetypes and manipulating proportions: a platonic approach?
38:41 Natural, not intellectual symbols
45:52 Allegories
48:07 Theophanes' icons and contour lines
50:40 Paradise is present
54:46 Attributing symbolic value to things
58:48 Sometimes the face is enough (Olga Boznanska)
1:01:45 Why masterpieces are always calm
1:07:11 Christ crucified… in Eden
This episode featured Jannik Hösel, William Heimdal & Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts' Hope.
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I love the opening shot as well as the overall vibe of the scene
Great episode. Good to see Mr Heimdal and Herr Hösel together. Representing young painters today and to hear their ideas and opinions. And Mr Tuv as always steadily leads the episode forward for us listeners holding it firm together. and never loose us.
This is the best art talk Ive ever heard. And Ive heard hundreds maybe thousands. Thank you gentlemen. I love how it was ended by "Amen".
God samtale. Hva er musikken som spilles helt på slutten?
i never thought of Wyeth painting the divine. i saw him painting the sensual. In fact, artists should paint the sensual. even if that sensual is traditionally called ugly. artists, whether to show themselves or the viewer the perfect sound, smell, taste, touch, and rendering are painting the now. it's not in the past or the future. if we are traveling through time at the 67,100 miles per hour (30 kilometers per second) around the sun. and, we arrive from the past and go through to the future that painting is the shroud image. it is not divine but rather a sensual essence of now. almost like wiley coyote going through an image painted on a rock. paintings are the thin veil between was and will be.
44:50 -- That is, in this new phase of Odd Nerdrum it becomes clear that the Earth is made of heaven.
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I believe dragons were real and renamed dinosaurs ..as many old scripts show snakes and dragons as symbols of evil and temptation and often the old scripts showed things people had actually seen ...