Matthew Collings: An oral history of western art — interviews

AN ORAL HISTORY OF WESTERN ART NO 1. CAVE ART The Stone Age cave paintings we know today were done by the Cro-Magnons, who lived from about 50,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. The most well known examples are at the Lascaux site in France, and Altamira in Spain. These paintings, mostly of animals, but also schematic hunters and big-breasted erotic females, possibly images of worship, date back 25,000 years. An even more ancient site was discovered relatively recently: the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc cave in France. Archaeologists believe the paintings here to be at least 32,000 years old.

Interview with Ug, Ugrug, Gog, Gug and Grog.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_1_cave.html

Matthew Collings has created a new body of work that skillfully combine his role as critic and artist:

NO.2 THE PARTHENON

Interview with the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_2_parthenon.htm

NO.3 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

Interview with the Lord Jesus.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_3_jesus.html

NO.4 THE MOSAICS AT RAVENNA

Interview with Bishop Maximian.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_4_ravenna.html

NO.5 CAROLINGIAN MANUSCRIPT ILLUSTRATIONS

Interview with the Holy Roman Emperor.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_5_manuscript.html

NO.6 ICONS

Interview with Andrei Rublev.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_6_icons.html

NO.7 MICHELANGELO

Interview with Michelangelo.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_7_michelangelo.html

NO.8 BOTTICELLI

Interview with Sandro Botticelli.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_8_botticelli.html

NO.9 RUBENS

Interview with Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_09_rubens.html

NO.10 REMBRANDT

Interview with Rembrandt van Rijn.

http://www.emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/03_ideas/03_10_rembrandt.html