Analysis of Dou's 'Portrait of a Woman' in the Cleveland Museum of Art. ‘Painter’s paintings’ fascinate artists even though museum-goers pass without a second glance.

Analysis of van Goyen's 'View of Emmerich' in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and a discussion of van Goyen's career, the Dutch Golden Age, genre painting, history painting and tulip mania.

PDF of paintings used in the podcast episode:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgmcfpYZJn97uwQX9YzAuTob_srjchg9/view?usp=sharing

I discuss the great Dutch Golden age artist David Teniers.

Link to companion PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QA4_jTFLALdQUxzic7eWQRa-7U7vA-rY/view?usp=sharing

The PDF contains illustrations of all the paintings I discuss.

Where and when did modern art start?

I talk about the history of the French Academy of Fine Art and defend it from charges of kitsch. Artists mentioned: David, Manet, Courbet, Watteau, and Fragonard among others.

I pick up last episode's discussion about Clement Greenberg and the avant-garde and kitsch, and talk about academic art. Artists mentioned: Gerome, David, Bouguereau, Ingres, and Thomas Couture.

In this podcast, I look at Clement Greenberg's influential article from 1939, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch.'