The lecture today featured painting teacher Mark Shetabi, who is actually my current drawing teacher. He gave a brief history of painting while showing a slideshow of various paintings throughout the ages. Mark discussed his notion that painting produces no progress and that it thrives on skepticism. He also believes photography plays an intimate role in painting. Photographs open up a new way of thinking about time that other art forms are incapable of doing. He showed us a book of space paintings that he thought were pretty "crappy" but they looked really good to me. I am unsure if he just has extremely high standards or was not sure what he was looking at. Nevertheless, Mark finished by talking about ideas meeting reality in the realm of a painting. It was interesting to hear him speak especially since he is one of my professors this semester. He is very knowledgeable about art matters and specifically painting, his obvious specialty. Following Mark, there was a presentation that lasted for about 10 minutes. It included two men, one that was scraping a violin stick against a rock and another that was grasping chains and hitting a symbol. It was quite an odd performance and most of the freshman left wondering what we all just witnessed.
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