The Cave of Apelles Jan-Ove Tuv & Bork S. Nerdrum

Are we progressing towards a brighter future, or have we lost something important on the way? Should we look at science and poetry through the same lens, or is that one of the reasons why we have ended up with modernism? Philosopher Stephen Hicks sits down with Classical painters, Odd Nerdrum & Jan-Ove Tuv, to discuss the modern belief in progress and whether it is shaping the art world for good or for bad.

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Chapter markers:
00:00 Belief in progress: net negative or corrective to nihilist art world?
10:08 Recycling vs decay and "spiritual racism"
18:36 Cyclical history and modern nihilism
22:24 Only the Greek sculptures are destroyed
25:08 Progress vs unchanging reality
28:53 The universal in the particular
30:15 The fish pudding
35:12 Should painters celebrate scientific progress?
38:15 A piece of burned wood in Leonardo´s hands…
40:58 Melancholy, a gold mine
45:56 Skill, sensuality, desire and poetry
49:09 Meeting people on their weakest point
53:05 Death and resurrection of Rembrandt
57:21 Michelangelo's Pietá vs David
59:34 They developed their whole life
1:04:09 Made by the same person

This episode featured Stephen Hicks, Odd Nerdrum & Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.

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What are the foundational rules of storytelling and can Ayn Rand's philosophy serve as an inspiration to fiction authors? Henrik Knightingale, who just released his first play, is an objectivist with a keen interest for the work of Ayn Rand. He sits down with Jan-Ove Tuv and Carl Korsnes to discuss her ideas about literature and reveals how he went from being a modernist to a writer with structure and a clear goal in mind.

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Chapter markers:
00:00 From unconscious modernist to clear standards
05:25 Forging a plot
10:28 The Climax: a struggle of life and death
21:38 Definition of "plot" & "theme"
22:45 Tragedy vs unfaltering heroes?
29:05 Rand's so-called "cardboard figures"
33:16 Determinism vs Romanticism
40:41 The role of volition
50:04 Balzac, Lucian Freud and Andrew Wyeth
56:00 Disregarding biographical data
58:35 Show, don’t tell
1:02:37 Which authors Rand favored
1:05:12 Life as it can be — and ought to be
1:09:54 My sense of life…?

This episode featured Henrik Knightingale, Jan-Ove Tuv & Carl Korsnes and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts' Hope.

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Professor James Stevens Curl is the author of the book "Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism". He dissects the modernist ideology as a historical phenomenon, which is not independent of the authoritarian social forces that surround it. On the contrary, Stevens Curl demonstrates that modernism became an authoritarian aesthetic ideology from early on, which eventually characterized the whole of Western culture.
Where many academics in Western Europe have taken a nihilistic approach to the dystopian urban landscapes that have risen after the Second World War, James Stevens Curl chooses a firm position. As he sees it, modernism is a deeply immoral and a socially destructive project, which should be actively combated.
Curl has also written extensively about Victorian architecture. Architecturally, the Victorian era was a rich era, with great building activity and saw the construction of many beautiful churches. In his newest book "English Victorian Churches", Curl explains how the European political currents of the time, British religious policy, and local engagement played a significant role in realizing this rich and beautiful architectural period."

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Chapter markers:
00:33 Intro
01:48 Architecture and the surrounding landscape
05:12 “Making Dystopia”: how modernism came about
10:35 Gropius, Miese and Le Corbusier
12:41 Pevsner: “modern architecture should be totalitarian”
16:06 Totalitarian mindset and the Nazi connection
25:42 Modernist bullying and idolatry
32:38 Abandoned churches and falsification of history
44:04 The gothic style
48:33 The language of classical architecture
51:06 Defining beauty
56:56 Modernism: a disaster in every way
1:00:16 Good examples
1:07:03 Modern architecture and sculpture
1:10:26 Modernism and corruption
1:14:24 “Making Dystopia” and Curl's students
1:20:04 The role of architectural history and King Charles
1:26:42 Not just one style

This episode featured James Stevens Curl & Carl Korsnes and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was, on the left: a brown high-rise building
under clear blue sky (photo: Dids) and on the right: St Mary's Church, Studley Royal Deer Park.
(photo: Nicks-2017)

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Sturla Ellingvåg is the historian behind @VikingStories .
He is is currently collaborating in DNA-projects with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and is convinced that history has to be studied in a broader context than current fashion allows.
He traces the roots of the Viking Age back to the Bronze Age and beyond, and also sees the earliest Viking raids as a pre-emptive defense against the onslaught of the "sword Christendom" of the Emperor Charlemagne. Ellingvåg takes us through Norse mythology, its connection to Greek mythology and society and how it may reflect reality in unexpected ways.
Were the Norse Gods actually historical human beings and did the Vikings become more resilient through their stories? Join us as we delve into the Norse sense of life and discuss the power of their stories.

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Chapter markers:
00:31 Introducing Ellingvåg
01:04 Thinking across time
04:57 The Pre-emptive warfare of the vikings
10:27 Vikings: Democracy and Individualism
16:06 Elite marriage and "blue blood"
19:01 English Law is Norman Law
22:06 Starkad and the viking mentality
27:57 Scandinavian-Mediterranean contact
36:25 Scandinavian virgins at the Oracle of Delphi
43:51 Height differences and the sun winning over darkness
47:37 Norse gods: actual historical peoples?
53:57 The blood brothers Odin and Loke
56:15 Catastrophes cemented in myths
59:47 Metamorphosis of gods over time
1:05:31 Odin's search for knowledge
1:10:03 Shamanic journeys and living like animals
1:13:47 Genetic memory and canalization
1:19:53 Reconnecting through mythology
1:24:45 Ragnarok & Regeneration

This episode featured Sturla Ellingvåg & Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a reproduction of the painting "Tor's fight with the Giants" (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge.

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Jan-Ove Tuv sits down with Jannik Hösel and William Heimdal to discuss how symbols should be treated in a narrative painting

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Chapter markers:
00:00 Symbolism must be grounded in reality
03:03 Can you paint dragons and angels?
10:58 Psychological tension without obvious symbols
13:56 Faithful to biblical stories?
22:05 The case for illustration
26:49 Andrew Wyeth and the miracle of the everyday
27:44 Follow your character
32:39 The mythic potential of the motif
34:18 Archetypes and manipulating proportions: a platonic approach?
38:41 Natural, not intellectual symbols
45:52 Allegories
48:07 Theophanes' icons and contour lines
50:40 Paradise is present
54:46 Attributing symbolic value to things
58:48 Sometimes the face is enough (Olga Boznanska)
1:01:45 Why masterpieces are always calm
1:07:11 Christ crucified… in Eden

This episode featured Ruben Hanssen & Carl Korsnes and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a photograph of Azaria Civic Hall in Cayala, Guatemala by Ruben Hanssen.

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Stephen Hicks is a professor of philosophy at Rockford University, U.S. and the author of several books, including the best-seller Explaining Postmodernism, which details the philosophical roots of today’s cultural climate. Mr. Hicks highlights Immanuel Kant's role in undermining objectivity and reason, showing how his ideas remain the corner stone of Post Modernism and "Fine Art" to this day.

Giving an overview of Kant's aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology, the conversation further explains how this cocktail necessarily cripples classically minded people:
If we cannot know reality then the act of painting it becomes naive. If nothing is objective then we cannot trust the rules of any craft and if nothing is universal then we become estranged from the mythic perspective.

You can listen to Hicks' lecture How Art Became Ugly or check out his appearances on various podcasts including his own Open College Podcast.
His official YouTube-channel is CEE Channel (Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship).

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Chapter markers:
00:30 Introducing Stephen Hicks
01:13 "Explaining Postmodernism" & the Enlightenment
04:59 The "Counter-Enlightenment" defense of irrationality
08:54 Dissolving reason and the individual
12:46 Postmodern philosophers
15:58 Arthur Danto, Clement Greenberg & Jackson Pollock
17:35 Kant's Metaphysics: we cannot know reality as it is
23:34 No voluptuous women, no muscular men
26:12 Turning concepts against themselves
27:07 Kant's Epistemology and the devaluation of classical painting
33:31 Quotation mark bonanza
35:30 Munch's green sky
40:01 Modernistic art: a grooming ground for Kantianism
41:26 The representational project must be abandoned
43:21 Kant's Aesthetics: the sublime
49:15 The sublime lets us access "real reality"
50:50 Romantic art and the sublime
52:59 Anti everything & the greatest compliment ever!
55:20 Kant undercuts the possibility of being classical
56:38 Jack Unterweger: a mass murderer genius?
59:58 Expressionism and Cubism: products of Kant?
1:03:08 Originality hinders your development
1:07:03 Aesthetic indifference negates the eternal perspective
1:10:59 Thou shalt not make any "graven image"
1:14:44 Disintegration and destruction of classical values
1:19:23 "Spirituality" or "reality"?
1:22:35 Read Kant to break out of the modernist box
1:30:05 The painter who stopped painting after reading Kant
1:30:33 Aristotle is the greatest philosophical genius of all time

This episode featured Stephen Hicks and Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a reproduction of Johann Christoph Frisch's 1768 oil painting of Immanuel Kant.

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