A Supercut of Famous Painters Panting

Ooh, art supercut! Cut from the 1972 film by Emile de Antonio Painters Painting, behold — Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland, Jasper Johns and Larry Poons between words, that is – sighing, hand gesticulating, water sipping, ye-e-eing, de-e-eing, hemmmming, and yes, panting. Reminds you of Sarah Palin’s breaths but without the morally murky creepiness. Just snippets of old artists gulping through a fuzz of distressed videotape, skidding on, cut off right before they’re about to say something enlightening. Talk about context.

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