{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 372: Painting, photography, and hard but necessary decisions: Claire Witteveen, an artist in Amsterdam","description":" In Episode 372, the 1st half of the conversation with Amsterdam-based painter and photographer Claire Witteveen, she talks about: Her putting off painting initially in favor of photography, for reasons both practical and related to insecurity, partly based on her mom being an artist who juggled that and being a mother; how she can feel completely disconnected from her photography (mainly when it\u2019s a commercial object), but at other times, especially taking portraits, she feels very connected to her subjects; and how with painting she sees it as a monologue, whereas photography is more of a dialogue; how one photography job, combined with painting sales, can sustain her for the year; the complicated nature balance of making good work, and maintaining integrity, while also making a living, or enough income from the artmaking to survive on; the wide swings she can go through in the studio, from thinking she\u2019s re-inventing the wheel in the morning to thinking she\u2019s a total hack later that day; the nuanced factors that make a painting interesting, instead of just good, and an anecdote in which a collector at her opening asked what one of her paintings was about, only to find that it didn\u2019t really matter what she said, because it already \u2018spoke to his soul;\u2019 how she connected with her gallerists in Paris, whom she feels very lucky to have and very supported by; the transformation of her work(paintings) once they entered the context of the gallery; and why one particular painting in a show that was in a catalogue and getting so much attention during the run of the show\u2026didn\u2019t ultimately sell.  [Claire has a show opening in Paris at Atelier Berg\u00e8re on April 3rd, which will run until May 1st.] ","author_name":"The Conversation Art Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/theconversationpod.com","html":"