Video Discription |
This short tutorial seeks to educate and empower viewers to use mindfulness to connect with art in meaningful, powerful ways. Art is NOT just for the rich and elite: art is for EVERYBODY, and we all have the capacity to engage with art of all cultures, countries, and epochs. We just need to exercise a little mindfulness :)
If you like what you see, check out my other mindfulness art videos on Instagram (@agartadvisory), and on YouTube (my channel is Avant-Garde Appraisals & Art Advisory). And if you’re interested in my services as an advisor for buying, selling or appraising art, drop me a line at hello@agartadvisory.com.
Art and images, in order of appearance:
Morris Louis, Eta, acrylic on canvas, 1961. Private Collection.
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, oil on canvas, c. 1893-94. The Getty Museum, Los Angeles (photographed by Emily Casden).
René Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), oil on canvas, 1952. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (© Charly Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York).
Male Figure (Moai Kavakava), Rapa Nui people, wood, obsidian and bone, mid- to late-19th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow, Red, Blue, oil on canvas, 1925. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Ma Yuan, Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring, ink on album leaf, c. 1190. National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, gelatin silver print, 1978. (In several public collections.)
Buddha, Thailand, bronze, c. 15th century. Image taken from the internet.
Caspar David Friedrich, Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog), oil on canvas, 1817. Collection of Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
“Contemplating Rothko (Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960, SF MoMA),” photograph taken November 8, 2012 by Adam Fagen, from Flickr.com.
Meditating Buddha from Gandhara, schist stone, c. 3rd – 4th century. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Misbah the Grocer Brings the Spy Parran to his House, Folio from a Hamzanama (The Adventures of Hamza), attributed to Dasavanta, illustrated manuscript, c. 1570. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jacques Louis David, The Death of Socrates, oil on canvas, 1787. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Potsdamer Platz (Potsdamer Plaza), oil on canvas, 1914. Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Researchers at the Morgan Library, New York. Image taken from the library’s website.
Screenshot of website on German Expressionism. Image taken from the internet.
Example of a Museum Label. Image taken from Wikipedia.com.
Emily Casden contemplating a Robert Motherwell painting, New York, 2019. Photograph by Sabrina Wirth.
Man contemplating a painting. Image taken from Artsy.net, photograph by Igor Miske.
Pablo Picasso, Femme assise, robe bleue (Seated Woman in Blue Dress), oil on canvas, 1939. Private Collection.
Anish Kapoor, Shadow II, etching (edition of 35), 2008. Image taken from Artsy.net. |