I love the educational aspect of these videos. And I think how long it would have taken to have gotten the same perspective back in 1966. I love the term “uncomfortable.” The fun part is figuring out WHY. The academy artists could always be relied on for a consistency. This one can’t be. Can you get any closer to the why?
What I loved best was the class wandering the Art Institute while the instructor pointed out aspects of the actual paintings. Then, when he’d ripped them to shreds, he told us to forget everything he’d said and just put them back together to see as a whole. Well, that and the fact that our life-sketching teacher made us draw the models without their skin on or upside down.
Some of his figures are so awkwardly together - especially his one of the man and woman embracing. He towers over her and she seems not to be enjoying his embrace but is wanting to get out of that embrace. I don’t see love there - I see a woman who doesn’t want to be where she is. I could also be projecting - given my own history.