The Great East Window: Brian Clarke | HENI Talks 'Perspectives'

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For painter and architectural artist Brian Clarke, seeing the Great East Window of York Minster as a child was a profoundly formative experience. In this HENI Talk, revisiting York Minster, Clarke weaves his personal experience and narrates a history of the 15th century window, an “immense cliff-face of stained glass” and its enduring power in the contemporary age.
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@DerekHuntArtist Жыл бұрын

One of the best short films on stained glass you’ll ever watch. Not bad Brian Clarke

@itssafeinthecity Жыл бұрын

Stunning commentary on this national treasure. The speaker and the glass.

@stephenlee1756 Жыл бұрын

"When the artist painted a head he would proceed to draw directly onto the glass loaded with pigment like thick mud. The surface of the glass was slippery, offering no 'bite'. The painter had to apply his whole experience of how things would 'read' against the light, right down to he hairline poit of his brush and, like the oriental calligrapher, commit imself to a stroke without hesitation or second thought. The resultant drawing was often superb in its economy, control, and expessiveness, and since the artist was not just decorating a surface but conveying a representation of a man or woman, he would at his best suggest subtlety of emotion or character within the very fine limits ... of the interaction of direct light on line and tone." Lawrence Lee: The Appreciation of Stained Glass. O.U.P. 1977. (John Thornton was one of my father's heroes)