VIDEO PORTRAITS
Kenneth Lochhead
Video clips © CCCA &
Linda Corbett_Eyeris Inc. 2005
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Approach
Ken Lochhead discusses his studies at the Barnes Foundation in
Philadelphia, where students handled and studied directly from
original works in the collection. Touching on the Emma Lake
experience in Saskatchewan where he invited the New York critic
Clement Greenberg to conduct workshops, Ken stresses, "it was
the best thing that ever happened in Canadian art was to open the
doors to international concepts and ideas and biases".
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Eclecticism
Ken defends his eclectic approach to art. As a student he met
Picasso, "the one closest to God at the time". The inspiring
encounter made him realize that the master, "robbed, he stole
from art history" - a true eclectic approach.
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Philosophy
Ken works freely when he paints, welcoming the influence of variety,
chance and the "play factor, being able to play".
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Decoration
Words like "decoration" have fallen out of fashion in today's art
schools yet all great art possesses decorative qualities.
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Vocabulary
Describing a class assignment Lochhead set for students at the National
Ballet School, he examines the "power of the word". We live
in a "strongly dependent narrative society" where focus on the noun
(subject) comes at the expense of the adjective (intuition) and the verb
(New York School of abstract Expressionism).
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