ArtWalk's - 5 Cool Things - 1/21/22
A Weekly Creative Entertainment Newsletter
1) FILM / TELEVISION
THE BATTLE OF SAN ROMANO - by GEORGES SCHWIZGEBEL (Swiss Animation Filmmaker)
Georges Schwizgebel has made some of the most unique short films in the world, spanning several decades. His eye-catching style has won him multiple film festival awards and notoriety. His dramatic re-telling of the featured 15th century painting is something to marvel at in a quick two and a half minute structure.
“The seeds of Schwizgebel’s 19th film were planted in 1962, when, as an art student, he was captivated by the famous 15th century triptych “The Battle of San Romano” by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello while browsing an art gallery in Italy. The set of three paintings depicts the harrowing details of an epic confrontation between Florentine and Sienese armies in 1432. Schwizgebel’s film trades Uccello’s wood panel and egg tempera for acrylic on glass, a technique that brings stunning texture and dramatic life to a dark scene of war.” - Meghan Oretsky
Article on the process of making this short film:
https://vimeo.com/blog/post/the-battle-of-san-romano-georges-schwizgebel/
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2) MUSIC / PODCASTS
ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES - (American Soul Band)
St. Paul & The Broken Bones is an eight-piece soul band hailing from Birmingham, Alabama. Lead by vocalist Paul Janeway, often times sporting a ravishing cape on stage, this band offers a full, go-for-it style attitude with Janeway’s powerful vocals and a range of instruments behind him to round it all out.
These guys are great to see live, and encourage anyone to check them out if they swing through your town. They feature a great catalog of music from upbeat and jammy to vocal lullaby’s.
3) ART
TAKASHI MURAKAMI - (Japanese Contemporary Artist)
“Drawing from traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and the global art market, Takashi Murakami creates paintings, sculptures, and films populated by repeated motifs and mutating characters of his own creation. His wide-ranging work embodies an intersection of pop culture, history, and fine art.” - Gagosian
More information on Murakami can be found here: https://gagosian.com/artists/takashi-murakami/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/takashipom/
4) BOOKS / WRITING
The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan - (American Singer-Songwriter)
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Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
-Bob Dylan (© Universal Music Publishing Group)
5) PHOTOGRAPHY
SUSAN MEISELAS - (American Documentary Photographer)
"The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation"
- Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas is recognized for her work in a warring Nicaragua in the 1970’s and also of American carnival strippers.
More information on Susan Meiselas and her work can be found here:
https://jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/susan-meiselas-2/
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/susan-meiselas/
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