Wolf Kahn - 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape

There's a 2002 Forum Network lecture by Wolf Kahn - highlighting 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape - in which he discusses landscape painting.

Wolf Kahn, an influential modern landscape painter, explains why people become artists, despite the apparent impracticality of art.

Wolf Kahn - 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape

His lecture is organised around the six reasons he puts forward which are:

1. There's no ideology these days to back up landscape painting
2. It's all been done
3. It's far too polite - it ends up in hospital waiting rooms and corporate boardrooms
4. You're mistaken by the public to be a lover of beauty
5. You're mistaken to be an environmentalist
6. There's no politics in landscape painting

There's a link which indicates you can download the audio file of the lecture to listen to as a podcast.

Thanks to Loriann Signori who highlighted this on her blog today.

The lecture is on The Forum Network which is a public media service of WGBH in Boston

So - did you listen to the lecture?  What do you think?