“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?” ArtUseMightFormGamesActingPaintingElementsChessVideoClassicProseSomething NewSculpture Author:Sam Lake
“A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.” KidsGamesEnergyBehindsQualityPaintingVideoAffirmationNerdyKids Playing Author:John Currin
“People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.” PeopleTryingNextGonePaintingPhotographySickVideoAnnoyingAlways TryingGroovy Author:Cindy Sherman
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.” WayDifferentFormCreativityCuttingPaintingFindingsPhotographyExcitedVideoLayersNew WaysEditingImmediacyCollages Author:Mickalene Thomas
“I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.” WayWantedPaintingDirectVideoFormationGrids Author:Mickalene Thomas