Jesse Waugh

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Jesse Waugh (born May 6, 1974 in Berkeley , California ) is an American artist who works in the fields of painting, film, writing and music. His short film El Angel was screened at the fifth LA Freewaves Festival, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . In addition, his work has been shown on television and other media.

Artistic career

In the early 1990s he studied at Los Angeles City College , Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College and the City College of San Francisco. During his student days, Waugh began working with different media and combinations of different art forms. His film El Angel , shot in the style of an old silent film , documents the birth, climax and death of the city of Los Angeles with the message of how greed can corrupt art and commerce. The film was shown at the fifth LA Freewaves Festival in 1997. After graduating from San Francisco State University in 2000 and a subsequent time in Europe, returned to the United States Waugh back. Waugh participated in the University of Brighton's Master of Fine Arts exhibition in 2015.

Waugh's short films and his works of fine arts were used to illustrate didactic projects. He created so-called "artistic prisms" which were used as teaching material in the BBC documentary television series Rocket Science in 2009 . In 2012, his film about the Amazon rainforest was used in episode 1 of the Access 360 ° World Heritage series on the National Geographic Channel. One of his paintings, a replica of a painting by Martin Johnson Heade , was used as the book cover for Lauren Walden Rabb's novel The Rise and Fall of the Trevor Whitney Gallery .

Conceptual style

In his art, Waugh refers to the term “pulchrism”, derived from the Latin pulcher (beautiful), which goes back to The Athenaeum and the diaries of John Barton to describe his work. He defines the term as an art theory that aims to "idealize beauty for the purpose of art". This "pulchrism", as Waugh calls it, stands in contrast to the Stuckist movement and the "celebration of the ugly" which he believes was propagated in Anglo-American modernism .

Movie

  • 1997 El Angel , Fifth LA Freewaves Festival
  • 2003 art film Nanay , Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University , Rhode Island
  • 2008 art films El Angel and Hydrophobe , Pill Awards (film award), New York

Visual arts

  • 1997 Solo exhibition Free Exhibition Not Prostitution Gallery , Los Angeles
  • 2015 Group exhibition Posthumous , University of Brighton
  • 2015 Exhibition Butterflies , Ingeborg Verlag, Horn-Bad Meinberg
  • 2015 group show, Beauty Sublime , Grand Parade Gallery, Brighton

Literary works

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Life and Career . In: jessewaugh.com . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  2. ^ A b c David E. James: The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in LA . Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-59213-012-2 , pp. 181-82.
  3. ↑ Ben Kaplan: Each of These Men Has a Secret . In: Marie Claire , January 2002. Retrieved April 17, 2016. 
  4. ^ Catalog of Work . In: University Of Brighton (Ed.): MA Fine Art Show 2015 Exhibition Catalog . September, pp. 46-47.
  5. ↑ Episode One . In: Rocket Science , BBC Two, March 6, 2009. Retrieved April 13, 2016. 
  6. ↑ The Amazon (episode 1) . In: Access 360 World Heritage , National Geographic Channel, September 22, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2016. 
  7. ↑ Lauren Walden Rabb: The Rise and Fall of the Trevor Whitney Gallery . Rabb Art Consulting, November 2, 2014, ISBN 0-9905520-1-2 , S. copyright page.
  8. ↑ Jesse Waugh: Pulchrism: Discovery of a Lost Romantic Word . In: jessewaugh.com . Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  9. ^ Reviews: Lectures on Sculpture . In: British Periodicals Limited (Ed.): The Athenaeum . No. 585, 1839, p. 20.
  10. ^ John Barton: Effect of Paper Currency on Population . In: John Barton Senior Journals . 3, July 30, 1819.
  11. ↑ Jesse Waugh: The Pulchrist Manifesto . In: jessewaugh.com . Retrieved April 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ Luis Campos Baca: Nanay - Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia . In: Brown University (ed.): Nanay . , Rhode Island 2003.
  13. ↑ 2008 Pill Awards Broadcast , ADD-TV. January 27, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2016. 
  14. ↑ Jesse Waugh: EXHIBITION , Documentary Film. Retrieved May 3, 2016. 
  15. ^ Posthumous Exhibition Poster . University of Brighton. 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  16. ↑ Our artists ( German ) Ingeborg Verlag. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ingeborgverlag.npage.de
  17. ^ Brighton MA Exhibition 2015 . In: Artelogical . July 5th, 2015. Archived from the original on April 27th, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artelogical.com
  18. ^ Exhibition Flier . In: University Of Brighton (Ed.): MA Fine Art Show 2015 . 2015.

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SURNAME Waugh, Jesse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California , United States