Icarus: How Visual Artists Such as Myself and Bryan Larsen Steal, Borrow, and Originate
Schipperheyn’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The nude in art is one of the greatest means of expressing individuality. It bypasses the status of clothes and symbols and drives the focus towards character through body and facial expression. The nude asks the viewer to share their deeper, more personal thoughts about how they feel about who they are, their dreams, and their deepest beliefs.
Future of Art by Rick Barker, featuring the work of Michael Newberry
This was lecture by Rick hosted through the ICC Speaker Series on the Future of Art as he saw it and featured the work of Artist Michael Newberry. This was taped at the beautiful Creekstone Inn in Idyllwild, California, January 14th, 2016
The Art of Illusion by Brett Holverstott
How Michael Newberry rediscovered the role of color in creating the illusion of depth and space
Update on my WIP Model in the Studio
Today’s update on Model in the Studio, wip, oil on linen, 42x56” It is very interesting that there is a war going on now in the humanities, arts, and in politics. Essentially it’s reason, perception, truth, science, human values, benevolence, resolution, sense, and evolution vs. misinterpretation, manipulation, lies, opinion, ignorance, snark, malevolence, arbitrary, senseless, and devolution. I could not be happier and I chose wisely. Everything in this painting is in the first group, the 2nd group is post modern crap. Hard work and flourishing or bitter rage? Apparently for many people it’s not an easy choice.
Ep 10 Da Vinci Drawing Newberry Aesthetic Evolution 12/12/2019
Da Vinci shows us in his drawing humanity, science, discovery, empathy, light, and beauty. All can be metaphors for life.
The Cult of Oblivion: CIA, Abstract Expressionists, and Kant
In the mid-20th century these three forces––Kant's philosophy, abstract expressionists, and the CIA––congealed ostensibly to champion freedom and originality, instead accomplished an undermining of art and consequently humanity. The connections and machinations are so complicated and obtuse it is hard to take them seriously, but it does make a difference in understanding them, at least in the sense of whether or not our culture evolves.
Want to Know What Your Future Is? Examine the Art You Like and the Art of Your Time
The future awaiting you is to be seen in the art you engage with. Will I have beauty in my life? Am I doomed to depression? Will justice prevail? Will I be happy? Will I be cut up by a chainsaw? Will I throw myself over a cliff or find exaltation in living in the present?
Ep. 9 From an Emotion to an Artwork, Newberry Aesthetic Evolution 11/20/2019
What does the feeling of lovemaking look like? Where can/do visual ideas come from? Michael Newberry discusses the genesis of his recent pastel Reclining Nudes.

