2nd Artist Review

Art Lecture with Shawn McCarthy

Shawn McCarthy is an artist who graduated from Yale University. What he considered art and an inspiration to him, were comic strips and cartoons. In his lecture, McCarthy talked about some works of art that he really enjoyed. For example: Forever Free by Michael Ray Charles, and the Houndini Album cover by Frank Kozik. He was also influenced by Henriette Valliem who did French comics.
McCarthy hated Philip Gustons work but later on during his career, he began taking some of his ideas and formed them into his sketches and eventually got into etching. Most of his sketches have a story/narrative behind them. He mentioned that he listens to music when he draws, and listens to Podcasts while using ink. Also he sometimes uses sculpting to make 3D sketches.
Overall I thought his presentation was informative and somewhat personal, but I felt that his reasons behind some of his paintings were more perverse and immature. He also seemed very nervous, and that didn’t help him out either.