John Seed
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My series "Monday Morning Modernism" consists of a set of 15 videos — each roughly 40 minutes long — that introduce the history of modern art and some of its key artists and movements. I have also posted videos on San Francisco Bay Area art and artists.
My writing has appeared in Art Ltd., The HuffingtonPost, Hyperallergic, Arts of Asia, and other fine publications. My book Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World features the works of 38 contemporary artists who add subjectivity and disruption to their imagery. A sequel, More Disruption: Representation in Flux was released in mid 2023.
- John Seed
Deborah Scott: Painting at the Edge of Knowing - Structural Omission in Contemporary Realism
Rod Penner: Nothing More, Everything Less at Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art
This Should Not Happen: The First Exhibition of Bay Area Figurative Art
Europe and North America 1800-1870
Experimentation and Tradition: the Art of James Weeks
Holly Lane, "Not Enough Time to Love the World", at the New Museum, Los Gatos
William Blake and J.M.W. Turner: Britain's Eccentric Romantics
Roland Petersen: The Visual Feast
European Art (France and Britain) in the 18th Century
Northern Europe 1600-1700: Art and Architecture
Rembrandt Self Portraits
Italy and Spain 1600 1700: An Introduction to 17th Century Baroque Art and Architecture.
Caravaggio
More Disruption at the Oceanside Museum of Art
Italy 1500 to 1600
Northern Europe and Spain 1500 1600
Abstracting the Landscape: Watercolors by John Seed
Italy 1400 to 1500
What Contemporary Representational Paintings Can Tell Us
Northern European Art: 1400 to 1500
Italy 1200 to 1400
More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux by John Seed
Aiden Kringen: Beauty and Chaos
A Visit with Gage Opdenbrouw
A Visit with Sandy Ostrau
Basquiat As I Knew Him
John Seed: My Non-Tragic Backstory
Monday Morning Modernism #14: Postmodernism
Nathan Oliveira Masks
Monday Morning Modernism #13: Pop Art