Sidney Hurwitz, Resident Artist Lecture 1967

Sidney Hurwitz gives a lecture talking about the current moment of contemporary art examining a wide range of movements and artists. Hurtwiz tells the participants that the greatest gamble an artist can take is presenting himself as unequivocally serious for they risk making a fool of themselves. Hurwitz then starts talking about his artistic practice, which spans watercolour, painting, and printmaking. Some of the ideas that Hurwitz is interested in are the relationships between moving figures, space, and landscape. Hurwitz is also interested in the slowness that his watercolours in particular provide him, and he continues to be able to enjoy the freedom of just being able to work on one watercolour at a time without having to correct anything. Hurwitz also states how water-colour prevents him from going beyond a certain scale, and these restrictions continue to prove to be an enjoyable challenge for him. Hurwitz ends his lecture by telling the participants to always draw from the models and life around them. Once they obtain deep practice with this, they will be trained to always draw fruitfully from their imagination.