Here are some excellent YouTube clips of one of my favorite current painters, Brice Marden. The comments are entertaining- people are affronted when you talk about art as if it matters.
To weed out the kids, we’ll start with something hard to watch from when he’s younger- great insight if you can ignore the alcohol and the fedora:
Contemporary clips from his studio and a museum visit after the break:
On Asian art and the development of his own work:
On Pollock:
On Rothko and Barnett Newman:
On Cezanne:
On painting: