Man vs. Art

Poet Christopher Luke Trevilla and Artist Raul Aguirre Jr. go deep into the artist rabbit hole and explore the mind of the artist.

Man vs. Art Podcast Episode 81. Raul sits down with old friend and colleague From Disney, animation artist Larry Flores who just got laid off from the Dreamworks ill fated "Me and My Shadow" film. Larry talks about his 20 plus years in and out of the Animation business.

My submission to the 2013 San Diego Comic Con Souvenir Book celebrates Superman's 75th anniversary. I drew an illustration with Sketchbook Pro on my Cintiq of Superman and submitted it. My intern from the animation studio I work at interviews me about being a storyboard artist, I give advice to a listener in the UK about drawing out of your head, and I have a run in with the FBI.

Raplh Bakshi needs our help to help traditional 2D hand drawn animation. Time is short! Get over to Ralph's Kickstarter page and help him produce " The Last Days Of Coney Island" 2D Traditional Hand Drawn Animated short!

Today I'm joined by Veteran Web Cartoonist and Animation Instructor Krishna Sadasivam to discuss among other things, a $600.00 solution to the $2000.00 Cintiq problem. Have you always wanted a tablet monitor?, but couldn't spare the the 2 Grand needed? Tune in and get the scoop on the Yiynova MSP19 tablet monitor. It's about time someone gave a little wake up call to Wacom about their over priced Cintiq

On today's show I'm joined by my friend and colleague the phenomenally talented Carol Wyatt. In the span of her 29 year career in animation Carol has contributed greatly to countless productions with her expertise in color and design. She can draw, paint, supervise, develop, design, art direct, and juggle chainsaws. In addition to being a devoted wife and despite not being Latina, she is the mother of 5 awesome kids.

Traditional 2d animation artist Andrew Sharp from way up in the Yukon spends some time on the Man vs. Art Podcast talking about artistic influences, animation production pipelines, and home studio set ups!

Luis is an old friend of mine from my art school days. We both got jobs in the animation business at about the same time in 1994. I went to Walt Disney Feature Animation and Luis got on the Simpsons where he still works today as a storyboard artist. Luis is obsessed with drawing and has developed his own theories about drawing at his new site The Drawing Website www.thedrawingwebsite.com , a place specifically created to help teach people how to draw. Then the next segment of the show is the story of a young artist in search of the answer to the eternal question of every artist. How do I become a better artist? His journey takes him to the ends of the globe where he meets the Old Wiseman of Art Mountain. Finally I wrap the show with a story about a bad experience I recently had on Facebook.

Homage Parody and Pastiche. What gives? Are artists just stealing shit? Plus why Man vs. Art thinks 50 shades of grey blows. Not in the way you think.

Somebody restored the fresco. By "Somebody" I mean an 80-something year old lady Cecelia Giménez who is NOT an artist, and by "restored" I mean totally fucked up beyond all recognition. Her attempt to "restore" a century-old oil painting of Christ in a Spanish church resulted in popular uproar, and amusement.

    Frida Kahlo  was born July 6th 1907 in  Coyoacán Mexico.  Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's art is known for it's pain,passion, and  extremely vivid colors. Her work is recognized in Mexico as a symbol of indigenous tradition and worldwide by feminists for its powerful interpretation of the female experience. The culture and tradition of Mexico are themes that dominate her work. Her art has been described as Naive or Folk art as well as "Surrealist". Frida experienced long term illnesses  resulting from a traffic accident in her teen years.  Frida's art was about her life experience, emotional and physical pain, and her stormy relationship with Diego. She created 143 paintings, 55 of which are self-portraits. When asked why she painted so many self-portraits, Frida replied: "Because I am so often alone....because I am the topic I know best." After her  accident, Frida spent over a year in bed recovering from a fractured spine, collarbone, ribs, shattered pelvis, plus shoulder and foot injuries. She underwent more than 30 operations throughout her life and during her long recoveries in bed, she began to paint. At 22 she married the renowned 42 year old Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Their wild, passionate marriage managed to survive infidelity, the demands of their professions, separations, remarriage, Frida's bi-sexuality, her bad health and her inability to have kids. Frida once said: "I suffered two grave accidents in my life…One in which a streetcar knocked me down and the other was Diego."  The streetcar incident crippled her body,  and Rivera crippled her emotions. Frida has been described as: "…one of history's grand divas…a tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, bi-sexual that hobbled about her bohemian barrio in lavish indigenous dress and threw festive dinner parties for the likes of Leon Trotsky, poet Pablo Neruda, Nelson Rockefeller, and her on-again, off-again husband, muralist Diego Rivera." Today, more than 50 decades after her passing, her works of art bring more money than any other female artist. She is more popular now than ever and continues to inspire us.  She may be gone, but her legacy will continue to live and grow forever. This is why I would like to welcome Frida into the Man vs. Art Pantheon of Awesomeness.

Where do artists get their Ideas? From their sketchbooks! By keeping a sketchbook you will always have a place to go when staring at a blank piece of paper!

On today's podcast I talk about the Cintiq 21UX and how I am using it to do freelance storyboards from my home studio. Plus I give my review of the Avengers film.

The flawed development system. Developing and pitching ideas for animated TV shows to networks and studios is a tough way to go. I have been going at it for seven years. I've managed to sell one property, my short Hero Heights at Nickelodeon. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours developing other shows and pitching them to all the networks only to be rejected time and time again, usually for silly reasons. Plus all of this development work is done for no pay

It’s not just a bunch of pictures on a wall -- rather, the entire collection is itself a work of art. "The Barnes Foundation would attack the enemies of intelligence and imagination in art, whether or not those enemies are protected by financial power or social prestige!" Dr. Albert C. Barnes Barnes was an American self made millionaire and art collector. He founded the Barnes Foundation, a private art gallery and school near Philadelphia. The school houses the Barnes Collection, one of the most mind blowing and important Post-Impressionist and Early Modernist art collections in the world! It is valued at over $30 Billion dollars and belieive it or not, it was stolen! The paintings in the Barnes collection are so important that they are the envy of every major art museum in the world. Louvre, Moma, Metropolitan, Guggenheim, Getty, eat your heart out bitches! Within a few years Barnes's collection grew to house 181 paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 69 by Paul Cézanne (There are more cezzanes in the barnes collection than there are in the entire city of Paris!) suck on that Frenchy! 59 by Henri Matisse, 46 by Pablo Picasso, 21 by Chaim Soutine, 18 by Henri Rousseau, 16 by Amedeo Modigliani, 11 by Edgar Degas, 7 by Vincent Van Gogh, and 6 by Georges Seurat. In addition, the collection holds numerous other masters, including Giorgio de Chirico, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Jean Hugo, Claude Monet, Maurice Utrillo, William Glackens, Charles Demuth, and Maurice Prendergast. the concentration of these artistic masters is unrivaled people!