It’s the final episode of the series! Matt and Andrea discuss painting pedagogy from the UK, to the US, to… Bob Ross? We read Daniel Sturgis’ essay ‘Condensed Knowledge’ from 2017, and sections of Mira Schor’s book 'Wet: Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture from 1997.
We talk about the hold that high modernism still has on the discussion of painting in relation to other art forms, Sturgis’ idea of painting as a lens, and Mira Schor’s prescriptions for P.I.S (Painting Illiteracy Syndrome).
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Download PDFs of the texts below
Macaulay, Matthew, and Silvie Jacobi. ‘Painting Education in UK Higher Education: 1950s until Today’. Freelands Foundation, 2025 Download PDF.
Schor, Mira. ‘Course Proposal and Painting as Manual’. In Wet: Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture. Duke University Press, 1997. Download PDF.
Sturgis, Daniel. ‘Condensed Knowledge’. In Teaching Painting How Can Painting Be Taught In Art Schools? Black Dog Publishing, 2017. Download PDF.
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