From Pop Art to World Peace with Bob Marongiu - a podcast by Carol McQuaid

Pop Art Painter Bob Marangiu is our guest today.  His Picasso-meets-Murakami works will make you smile, but there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye.  Listen in as we talk at the street café just outside his studio about the role of painting in a social context, the importance of happiness, and yes, bob’s brilliant and possibly viable recipe for world peace.

Our Guest Artist:  Bob Marongiu http://www.bobmarongiu.it/en/ (www.bobmarongiu.it/en)Our Host Artist: Carol McQuaid http://carolmcquaid.faso.com/ (www.carolmcquaidart.com) 

Now follow me to Cagliari where I know you’ll enjoy his stories as much as I did. Cheers In this episode you’ll hear about:


The role of happiness in Bob’s artworkFilmmaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovanotti (Lorenzo Jovannotti)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3 (Joan Miro) in Londonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera (Hanna Barbera)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner (Wily Coyote)Pink Floyd Producer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ezrin (Bob Ezrin)

His standing date as the background painter on the famous Sardinian TV Show “http://www.videolina.it/articolo/video/2017/03/16/come_il_calcio_sui_maccheroni_2016_2017_puntata_8_parte_8-80-579360.html (Come il Calcio Sui il Macaroni)”How his career began with a show in Costa Smeralda

Breaking through that definition of ‘real artist’ and how he thought he’d be a showman or a singer rather than a visual artist (ed note: you’re also a wonderful showman Bob)The joy of live painting, and how it’s more important meeting and showing people that if they have a dream they can achieve it. Rather than saying “Look how good I am, how nice my paintings are” he has a bigger dream

The importance of nature and trading off New York exhibits for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin (Gauguin) style time in natureThe upside of moving his studio back into his house

His current work, based on his vision of lush SardiniaThe consequences of messing with nature, dams and clearcutting in Sardinia

The book https://www.amazon.com/Silenced-Rivers-Ecology-Politics-Enlarged/dp/1856499022 (Silenced Rivers) by Patrick McCully

His plan to build an Arts Industry alongside every Arms Industry around the worldThe http://granitimurales.org/ (Graniti Murales) Artist in Residence program in Sicily 

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