Painting Now

Painting Now

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

NAACP March, PTSD Research, Painting Now, Media Privacy

Episode: NAACP March, PTSD Research, Painting Now, Media Privacy

  • Aug 20, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 7:17 mins

Guest: Suzanne Hudson, PhD., Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California  In this age of digital images, photoshop, and high-tech animation, old-fashioned paintbrush and canvas art feels a little dated. Irrelevant, even. How would Van Gogh or da Vinci be received if they were painting their masterpieces today? Art historian Suzanne Hudson argues in a new book called "Painting Now" that painting is absolutely still relevant – and that its significance continues to grow.