Kendric Tonn: Seeing the World as a Painter

0:00 – Intro: oil painter Kendric Tonn
0:40 – Painter versus artist
1:41 – Classical training in a 19th-century French style
2:24 – Seeing Michelangelo's David in Florence
3:22 – Two years studying at a Florence atelier
4:57 – Michelangelo, St. Peter's, and papal patrons
7:44 – Léon Bonnat, Sargent, and Alma-Tadema
8:58 – Artist rivalries: Michelangelo on Titian
10:19 – Steve Martin and the "my kid could do that" critique
12:41 – How to look at Rothko and Pollock
15:01 – Picasso and the pioneers of modern art
15:50 – How a painter sees the world
19:00 – Lou's hours in the Prado
20:54 – Working with models and a ballet dancer
24:44 – Dance, athletic bodies, and beauty in art
28:46 – Self-portraits and Rembrandt's honest gaze
31:21 – A life-size memorial cutout
33:15 – Tim's Vermeer and the David Hockney optics thesis
36:36 – AI and the future of visual art
40:25 – Why oil paintings are hard to 3D print
42:03 – One-offs, prints, and copies
43:07 – You don't need $10 million to collect art
46:37 – Art collecting as memory and date night
48:04 – Stop complaining and support the art you want
50:24 – Where to find affordable art: schools and cafes
52:04 – Andre the Giant mural and buying art to get a date
53:35 – Where to find Kendric Tonn's work
54:41 – See paintings in person and wrap-up