Videos

“The World is My Studio”

In this video series, Philip Pearlstein invites you to travel with him throughout the world, into the locations
that inspired him to create landscapes, and how these places influenced his work.

Part I, The Early Days — Army Training, and Travels

Part II: “Family Trips and Historical Sites”

Part III: “Far West, Near and South East”

Part IV: “Through Japan to Lecture on ‘American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990’ at Five Museums Organized
by John Arthur, 1991 (Part One)”

Part V: “Through Japan to Lecture on ‘American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990’ at Five Museums Organized
by John Arthur, 1991 (Part Two)”

Part VI: “Through Japan to Lecture on ‘American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952 – 1990’ at Five Museums Organized
by John Arthur, 1991 (Part Three)”

Part VII: “Egypt Underground”

Part VIII: “Egypt Above Ground (Part One)”

Part IX: “Egypt Above Ground — Modern and Islamic Cairo, Luxor and Karnak (Part Two)”

Part X: “Egypt Above Ground — Luxor Temple Complex, Valley of the Queens and Colossi of Memnon (Part Three)”

Part XI: “Egypt Above Ground — From Luxor to Aswan (Part Four)”

Part XII: “Egypt Above Ground — Aswan, Philae, and Ramesses Monuments (Part Five)”

Part XIII: “Movable Egypt (Part One)”

Part XIV: “Movable Egypt (Part Two)

Watercolors, 2020—2021 – Part I

Watercolors, 2020—2021 – Part II

Watercolors, 2020—2021 – Part III

In conjunction with the exhibition:
Nudes and Other Landscapes
At Betty Cuningham Gallery
February 27 — June 2020

Painter / Painted: Philip Pearlstein & Desirée Alvarez
Part of the New York Studio School’s Spring 2012 Lecture Series.
Recorded on February 22, 2012 | 01:44:37
Internationally recognized artist Philip Pearlstein in conversation with his model of 12 years, Desirée Alvarez, award winning poet, sculptor and painter. The dialogue explores the nature of Pearlstein’s work process and his intimate relationship to perception. Ms. Alvarez is the recipient of three Fellowship Awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the European Capital of Culture Award, and the American Academy Willard L. Metcalf Award.

WEDU Video 109: Painter Philip Pearlstein
Premiere Date: May 02, 2013 | 06:28
Celebrated painter Philip Pearlstein discusses his 75-year career during an exhibit at The Museum of Art in St. Pete.

State of the Arts: Philip Pearlstein, realist painter
Documentary produced by NJTV
Aired: 01/29/2012 | 10:20
Philip Pearlstein began painting nudes in the early 1960s when it was a radical move, and he ushered in a new chapter in American Realism. Meet the artist at his Highland Lakes weekend home and in his NYC studio, plus visit a retrospective of his work including his high school paintings, nudes, landscapes and cityscapes, and portraits made of his friends and neighbors.


Just the facts: Contemporary Perceptual Realist Painting
A lecture with Philip Pearlstein
Recorded on June 28 2014
Influential American painter, Philip Pearlstein shares his adventures, mishaps, and the many fascinating anecdotes that highlight his more than 60 year career, from his early abstract expressionist landscape paintings to his paintings of static nudes with bewildering perfection. An American master and realist painter, Pearlstein is renown for the steady strength of his work such that many critics say he is doing the best painting of his life today. Since the 1960s, Pearlstein’s paintings of nudes in a room, have engaged viewers as nothing simple or conventional. As critic Robert Hughes comments when speaking of Pearlstein, “Realism, we learn once more, is neither a simple nor an easy matter.” When Pearlstein first began with the figure, he “just wanted to map what was there…to use the model to map composition.” Pearlstein’s mature paintings reveal increasing complexity. The nudes are just enough bigger, the angles and framing subtly intentional to convey something highly charged, a feeling of power. Pearlstein’s work is in over seventy museums collections in the United States, including the National Gallery in Washington, Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of art, the MOMA and the Whitney, among others.