Artist Robert Williams lecture at Oakland Museum of California

Here's part 1 of a fascinating Robert Williams lecture at Oakland Museum of California. Too bad the video's shaky and the sound is so-so, this is a captivating presentation on the history of lowbrow art.

If you ever wanted to learn about how the “Low Brow” art movement started, this series of videos posted by sketchv might interest you. Broken into 11 parts (Part 1 seen above), these videos recorded the lecture of Robert Williams at the Oakland Museum of California a couple months ago that was part of the L.A. Paint show (currently showing still). Although not the best quality, Williams can be heard covering a wide variety of topics as well as talk about over 60 of his paintings. For example, he discusses his masterpiece, Appetite for Destruction, which AM coincidentally saw for sale at Art Basel. This painting was used on the cover of his first book, which was instrumental in coining the term “Low Brow” art - a term that still remains controversial to this day.

The other videos are at the link. Artist Robert Williams lecture at Oakland Museum of California

[#1 posted by minTphresh, January 19, 2009 5:09 PM]

BOB RULEZ!

[#2 posted by Amaranth666, January 19, 2009 5:30 PM]

Oh thank you thank you thank you. You made my day with this.

[#3 posted by Sketch V, January 19, 2009 7:42 PM]

Well, I apologize for the low quality but this video was initially made for my own entertainment and to commerate some great knowledge. It was far from recorded with professional equipment, thats why I tried to spice it up with added visuals.
Still, I think it contains some great info and I felt in the end, it should be shared. Robert himself had no problem with the idea so I hope you can still enjoy this great lecture!
Thanks
Sketch V

[#4 posted by d4g33z, January 19, 2009 7:49 PM]

Actually, even though the audio is shite, the video is mostly the slides from his talk which look fine. And the lecture itself is fascinating too. A real gem...

[#5 posted by d4g33z, January 19, 2009 8:09 PM]

I knew it was more than the original slides! Nice work, Sketch V! Really, really well done.

[#6 posted by Sketch V, January 19, 2009 9:29 PM]

"I knew it was more than the original slides! Nice work, Sketch V! Really, really well done."

Thanks D4G33Z!
It was fun to put together and dig up images to reference Williams dialogue. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!!