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61. Abstract art | 75 | 02:22 | |
62. Importance of having a sense of color | 67 | 03:37 | |
63. Why color co-ordination matters | 76 | 01:27 | |
64. Unbound by rules | 156 | 00:36 | |
65. Benefits of retrospection | 75 | 01:37 | |
66. All I need is a kitchen table | 75 | 01:33 | |
67. Creating animation | 66 | 01:23 | |
68. Unpredictablity of co-workers | 42 | 01:08 | |
69. Getting the sound score right | 147 | 02:45 | |
70. Having fun filming live action | 47 | 01:14 |
I, I prefer paper, paper. If you're going to do something in oil, it should be at least 40 by 50 inch, you know, of consequence. But in general, I work on paper and that's big enough. I've… I've done a lot of painting, 40 by 60 inches, you know, stuff like that. But I just don't do that, I stay around 10 to 15 inches, 20 inches, you know? Or that stuff I showed you now, in the… stuff… You know? And it's more fun because all I need is a kitchen table. That's all, once I have a kitchen table, I can put something down, I'm off and running. Yeah. But no more 60 inches for… 40. I had oil exhibits 60 inches. Or Acrylic, you know, oil. Yeah. But of course it's fun to have a large painting and it's good. It's very exciting. But the small ones that I've showed you, they're exciting also and they work well. And I can do it in a kitchen, I don't need a… a studio, you know? It's always... I don't know why some painters have to go down to a studio... it's not going to make them a better painter, you know. Because if a kitchen is big enough to eat in, cook or whatever, it's big enough to do a masterpiece on the... you know.
The late Hungarian-American film-maker Jules Engel is best known for his contribution to the field of animation. His work includes the dance sequences in Walt Disney's 'Fantasia' and the creation of 'Mr Magoo'. His films and lithographs are housed in museums all over the world and have won many awards.
Title: All I need is a kitchen table
Listeners: Tamara Tracz Bill Moritz
Tamara Tracz is a writer and filmmaker based in London.
William Moritz received his doctorate from USC and pursues parallel careers as filmmaker and writer. His forty-four experimental and animation films have been screened at museums in Paris, Amsterdam and Tokyo, among others. He published widely on Oskar Fischinger, James Whitney, Bruce Conner, the Fleischers and 200 pages of animation history for an AbsolutVodka website. He wrote chapters for the "Oxford History of Cinema", appeared in several television documentaries, curated art exhibits and received a lifetime achievement trophy from the Netherlands Royal Academy for his work with visual music. He has served on film festival juries and received an American Film Institute filmmaking grant. His poetry and plays are also performed and published. He is a leading expert of Oskar Fischinger and recently published a biography of him. He teaches at The California Institute of the Arts.
Tags: art, painting, animation, canvas
Duration: 1 minute, 34 seconds
Date story recorded: April 2003
Date story went live: 24 January 2008