Golub: The Canvas takes Shape

Leon Golubs massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see mercenary killings, torture, and death squads. Golub offers not simply a profile of a painter with a political conscience, but an investigation into the power of the artist to reflect our times and to change the way we think about our world.

This one-hour film juxtaposes scenes of violence and political repression around the world, statements by American politicians and others, the responses of viewers to Golubs exhibitions and an extended sequence capturing the artist at work. In his New York studio, he creates a huge canvas that depicts a brutal assassination a reminder, he says, of U.S. subsidized activity in El Salvador.

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[slumber56]

It would be great if you could post the entire movie!

[Kartemquin]

@slumber56 Watch the whole film for free at Snag Films - just search for Golub - or buy it on DVD from our store!

[55ella2007k]

What a farce! Golub's work is NOT mysterious in the least. They are not exactly 'anatomical' studies in terms of getting something 'correct' on the canvas. This vid is a complete joke + utter distortion of Golub's work: namely the human psyche.. and the abuses against human rights. Golub didn't paint pretty shit, and he could care less whether any of his stuff is exibited at high class museums. Golub abhors this shit. And every serious artist, the world over, will pick up his tab.

[Kartemquin]

@55ella2007k Watch the film and then see if you feel the same way (we guarantee you will not). It's free online at Snag films - just search for Golub.

[konzwambii]

Enjoyed the quick glimpse of a Goya. Now THERE'S an artist.

[fuktface]

i wanna see mMMOOORRRRE!!!!

[EdgeworthJohnstone]

very interesting film.

[MKUltra3]

@55ella2007k - yes Golub's subject matter is marginalized here in favor of the boojie obsession with how an artist makes his art (with the accompanying, barely hidden question of, 'why bother?'). Still, I think though that artwork this attacking and ugly is always seditious, especially in the digestive mausoleums of the approved art world