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Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor, Politics!

Dr Mark Staff Brandl

Dr Great Art! (Sometimes even with a "?"), Art History, Visual Metaphor, and a dash of politics. Through his podcasts and performance-lecture installations, artist and art historian Dr Mark Staff Brandl takes viewers inside visual art, art history, and visual metaphor theory. Entertainingly, yet educationally and aesthetically he presents and discusses stimulating tidbits of knowledge. Brandl stands for an understanding of art in which art historical knowledge and aesthetic pleasure merge into a new

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All Episodes

10:42

Episode 25: Exhibition Comics and Iconosequentiality...

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/11/03

A new artistic development: Exhibition Comics and a new compositional form: Iconosequentiality.

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Episode 24: MIA Marietta Tintoretta

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/10/16

An artist who greatly needs to be rediscovered. Not only her name, but her works! Marietta Tintoretta. The daughter of Jacopo Rubusti, aka Tintoretto. Renowned as a great artist in her time, the Late Renaissance, now disappeared.

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Episode 23: Genius in Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/09/25

The concept of "genius" in art has rightly been criticized for its sexism, exaggeration and more. However, it is possible to retain its useful aspects by redefining it as the level of achieved pervasiveness of an artist's metaphor(m).

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Episode 22: Representationalism in Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/09/17

What constitutes representation in a work of art? The representational nature of visual art is one of its most important, fruitful, and intriguing elements --- yet for very particular reasons.

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Episode 21: Giotto and Halley's Comet

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/09/03

Giotto, the painter who made the crucial change from the Medieval style thus beginning the Renaissance in art, painted a picture of the Star of Bethlehem which is an image of Halley's comet!

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Episode 20: Mongrel and Democratic Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/08/27

Mongrel Art! Democratic Art! This Dr great Art Artecdote is a description of and plaidoyer for a (Post-Postmodernist) art that is anti-purist, syncretistic, and creolized, unifying a variety of artforms, disciplines, tendencies and philosophies. Artworks involving popular or democratic and street artforms outside the "standard" fine art ones, yet also not eschewing either so-called time-honored, nor technologically "new" disciplines, as it seeks to revitalize and transform them all, while opening

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Episode 19: (No) Rules in Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/08/18

This Dr Great Art Artecdote concerns supposed rules in art, especially painting. It describes how there are really no rules in art, and it decries the obsequiousness of those who believe there are rules and who seek to follow them.

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Episode 18: Meaning is in Artworks Themselves

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/07/31

The meaning of every artwork lies in the object itself, not in any commentary concerning it.

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Episode 17: Provinciality in Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/07/17

Times have changed drastically. Now, what provinciality is has been turned completely around. It is a state of mind, not geography.

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Episode 16: Postmodernism Exists

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/07/03

This Dr Great Art artecdote concerns the beginning of the period, or transitional subperiod, of art in which we now exist: Postmodernism. It cannot be talked away or ignored, nor should it be worshipped. But we are in it since 1979.

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Episode 15: Paradigms and Fuzzy Categories

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/06/17

This Dr Great Art artecdote is about a form of definitional conceptualization, paradigms and fuzzy categories, and how that is important to understanding art.

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Episode 14: Th. Emil Homerin

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/05/24

An artecdote about a person: Dr Professor Th. Emil Homerin, an important, inspiring scholar of religion, especially mysticism, especially the Sufis, with significant thoughts concerning art.

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Episode 13: Nine Arts and Nine Muses

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/05/15

There are traditionally Nine Muses and Nine Arts, frequently linked to one another. This is my attempt to concoct a fresh, contemporary version of this system for no darn reason other than pure, cultural fun.

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Episode 12: Why 'Dr Great Art' ?

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/05/01

A very short 4 minute episode concerning how this podcast, the accompanying performance-lectures in painting-installations, and indeed the art historian and artist Mark Staff Brandl himself came to be called 'Dr Great Art.'

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Episode 11: Syncretism, Easter, Mongrel Art

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/04/20

Syncretism is the blending, layering and uniting of different beliefs of various schools of thought. Easter is the holiday most evidencing syncretistic thought. Mongrel Art is a syncretistic form or art. Democratic Art syncretistically involves people outside the field of art in artistic processes.

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Episode 10: Why Art History?

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/03/27

The lessons of art history are that they are lessons. That is a tautology, but an illuminating one worth elaborating upon. It is necessary to know history as personal empowerment for artists: to test the present with the often surprising facts of the past, to note how and why "official" history has often changed; second, to discover one's own personal, vital ancestry; and finally, in order to criticize and change art history.

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Episode 9: Mannerism is Now!

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/03/08

A short Artecdote about how our time, Postmodernism, resembles and indeed IS a form of Mannerism.

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Episode 8: African Art History, the Survey

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/02/19

A short Artecdote concerning the difficulty in teaching an overview, or intro survey to Sub-Saharan African art, plus a free art image bank to download. Image bank link: http://brandl-art-articles.blogspot.ch/2016/10/african-art-course.html

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Episode 7: Art Beyond Complaint

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/01/28

A short artecdote discussing how criticism and complaint about the moribund artworld is important, but what positive things we can do to improve the situation.

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Episode 6: Genius in Small Things: Chiaroscuro

Dr Great Art! Art, Art History, Visual Metaphor,... ·

2017/01/03

A short Artecdote illustrating how important innovation often arises in apparently unpretentious discoveries. This is exemplified by chiaroscuro, the technique in paintings of using radical light-and-dark.

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