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“But there were other artists who thought that abstract art was sheer pretension – absolute bunk. They wanted to make art out of Coke bottles, commercials, comic books – all the unromantic objects of their real lives. They were interested not in what they felt, but what they saw and did. And it was called ‘Pop art!’” —Sister Wendy Beckett
Everyone’s favorite art–historian/TV–star Carmelite nun, Sister Wendy Beckett passed away on December 26, 2018, at the age of 88. An accomplished academic (J. R. R. Tolkien oversaw her finals at Oxford), and sometimes hermit, Sister Wendy became what Frank Bruni at the New York Times then called “the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television” through her erudition, utter guilelessness, and infectiously enthusiastic appreciation for art. In this video, as an ongoing part of our Warhol Mania, we have a clip from the BBC’s Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting where she visits America to discuss post-war greats, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol.
