Dieter Roth was a prolific workaholic artist, made some interesting contributions to making book-art, with a focus on the viewer's interaction with the book itself, the gallery which focuses on his work is also of definite interest since it shows a huge quantity of work, where composition and the method of which they're displayed has been considered, it also shows parts of his life as an exhibit in his day to day existence. It's pretty interesting and gives me something to think about, fully dedicating you life to art as a passion and the ability to love and live a subject as much as he did. Almost impossible without being a bit mad.

Dorothy here talks about 2 pieces, both are of sharks which have died and then been transformed by her. One is covered on the inside with gold leaf, the other has mount Everest on it's back to show the age of shark in comparison to what we see as these timeless eternal structures.

It's dark but light at the same time, there's some sort of link there between existing forever and yet also being dead since all the works are corpses that we see there, or bronze casts of corpses. 'Don't fear the reaper' comes to my head, since the art is trying to say that certain things transcend death itself, and almost that we shouldn't be as afraid of it, because death can't always erase the beauty of everything.

Frank Stella is considered the Father of Minimalism, His works looks sort of cool. I like the first series he did which were black paintings a lot. those look very modern and stylish to me. A lot of his work I bet would honestly look fantastic in the right spot and lazy and uninspired in other places. His art requires the right environment to be enjoyed and feels like they're often less attention demanding than other art in my opinion, like they're a part of the room and have very little detail to beckon you closer or ask for further inspection and examination. I like it a lot, looks pretty.

Anselm Kiefer is a really interesting sculptor / painter. who's first appearance in this documentary is of him whacking a painting with a machete. Saying he believes art like the one he's making gains some value from being like the universe, to live through stages of construction and destruction, life and death. and that he was in a phase of death at the moment be taring parts away from the painting. This made me pretty inspired to try something similar out in my sketchbook, maybe do a bunch of work, cover it in water to make it bleed, burn it up a bit, then work back into it in a new colour or a white gel pen or something like that maybe.

While I can recognise what Rachel Whiteread is doing with mummifying the air and making things that should be interacted with, blank, plain and wrong by having just a cast of their insides. I don't particularly find it my cup of tea what she's doing. I just sort of feel like "what's the point". i get that a huge effort and skill goes into her work. But i feel like what it all says doesn't speak to me. And make no mistake, i can see that It's speaking, just not to me.

I've never seen some of these techniques in my whole life, makes me wanna give this sort of work a shot in the future, experimenting with oil paint portraiture might be of interest to me not only because it looks different but I might achieve some new interesting perspectives on image making.