i honestly wish you made a series entirely dedicated to specific art movements and their respective representatives. you really have a fascinating way of explaining how things came to be

@MihneaKiller

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!!

@micu01

5 жыл бұрын

Yess, I'd love that!!

@chrispasion4976

5 жыл бұрын

+1, i love learning about art and the cultures that create it

@charlesgedeon

5 жыл бұрын

Yes please! I tried doing an online art history class and it’s boring me numb. A whole series like this would really be perfect.

@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. And please, go slow. As someone who was never brought into contact with art as a child, all of these things are new to me.

It is no coincidence this all began when photography was invented.

@Apprendre-Photo

5 жыл бұрын

@@hiranya33 Well of all a sudden, you have a new technique that can represent reality better than paintings. So painting can't be about that anymore.

@meatcreap

5 жыл бұрын

Industrially produced paint came around this same time, allowing artists to work more freely out in the world and taking some of the manual labor out of the creation of a painting. Less construction and more curation.

@AirKhan45

5 жыл бұрын

Great point

@stuartwray6175

5 жыл бұрын

That's true but it can be overstated - reductive.

@JotaP1n

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Do you ever just open a new nerdwriter video absentmindedly and then promptly close it and add to watch later because you need to save it for your undivided attention

@hibathebird

5 жыл бұрын

always!!

@intoconjunctions

4 жыл бұрын

I have JUST done that

@ryanb1374

4 жыл бұрын

Jackie Plantier I don’t... Because when I click on one, all other things in my life don’t matter and I pay full attention nonetheless!

@Meh_phisto

4 жыл бұрын

This is my first video on from this channel and I did that.

@jessieeee

4 жыл бұрын

LOL indeed, this video has been in my watch later list for several months now, but today I decided to watch it

I remember seeing a Pollock at the museum during art school. After staring at it for a few minutes my instructor said "I dont get it, you're on your own with this one".. lol.

@juansigamer

4 жыл бұрын

Because there is nothing, it is empty, no direction, no expression, no message, nothing, nothing to say, nothing to show, nothing to ask, just a splatter of color.

@juansigamer

4 жыл бұрын

ON THE OTHER HAND though, maybe its beauty lies in its nothingness, inside its emptiness

@juansigamer

4 жыл бұрын

I'm just tryna play devil's advocate here, don't mind me

@odissey2

3 жыл бұрын

I have to admit that I can no longer enjoy a traditional paintings, consider them "not an art".

@ReportsOnChina

3 жыл бұрын

r/things that never happened

I wonder how much this shift in art was a reaction to the invention of the camera.

@gur262

4 жыл бұрын

I mean. A ton. Imagine you'd only know your president from paintings. Only remember your parents from paintings. The market would be way bigger

@stick-itproductions.3307

4 жыл бұрын

Photography: Exists. Art: Parry this you filthy casual!!

@lstarrtna4288

4 жыл бұрын

Big

@Nada_fr

4 жыл бұрын

Picasso said “photography has come at the right moment to liberate painting, painting is freedom! “

@dildonius

4 жыл бұрын

@@stick-itproductions.3307 *parry

the sound editing in this video is phenomenal.

@bhanning

5 жыл бұрын

the beeps and ambiance are so satisfying. he always does such a good job editing his vids

@soundtubelibrary9570

5 жыл бұрын

Especially the burp at 00:51 😅

@aKugelblitz

5 жыл бұрын

His videos’ attention to subtle detail is as phenomenal as the details he breaks down in the videos

@socialxsheen4554

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Chew so true!

@sam08g16

5 жыл бұрын

With a bit more cowbell would be perfect

Feel like I'm oblivious to fine art. there are always people talking about pieces that made them feel deep emotion and had them standing in awe for several minutes. I've been to several galleries and never felt that. seen a few Pollocks and never felt they were 'staring back at me'. To me they're pleasantly energetic squiggly lines. Frustrating that everyone else sees this profound depth I'm apparently blind to.

@shnpio

4 жыл бұрын

@Stealinbread art shouldn't be judged on skill

@shnpio

4 жыл бұрын

@Stealinbread I'm not saying i like modern art it's not my think but you can't classify art it's about expression

@shnpio

4 жыл бұрын

@Stealinbread yes but you must agree it's a very personal subjective thing, I would be more inclined to judge an artist's ability in a achieving a goal

@Emcostanza

4 жыл бұрын

Stealinbread yeah and artists are supposed to break those rules and many of them do lol

@TheWatchernator

4 жыл бұрын

Because you dont pretend to see the emperors clothes.

“Paintings no longer represent...Today it has become the role of the painting to look at the spectator and ask them: what do you represent?” - thanks so much for introducing me to this quote from Wolfgang Paalen. It’s helped me understand so much of what I’ve felt when looking at the abstract.

@rymdalkis

3 жыл бұрын

In that case the painting is no longer a piece of art. I am.

@martinebonita2658

3 жыл бұрын

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art represents" or something like that, from the preface of the picture of dorian life

@justustherighteous371

3 жыл бұрын

pretentious as fuck

@Nim-ish

3 жыл бұрын

@@justustherighteous371 Fair enough yo wouldn't understand

@Retrofun69

3 жыл бұрын

Pfffft "its not the artist that must have talent, you must project your own talent into the pointless scribbles!" I know miniature painters that do Dungeons and Dragons figurines with more color understanding and talent than Pollock. these talentless hacks devolved the medium so much I cant even begin to explain it. Imagine hearing the worst traffic noise in the street and then have someone tell you that you "dont get it" when you cover your ears. I just have to laugh.

The time that took to edit the sound in this video is the real art I can feel. Though may go unnoticed, I just think its Beautiful.

@firstprimehunter

5 жыл бұрын

Sound design is what I love about these videos.

@mjolninja9358

3 жыл бұрын

@@firstprimehunter true

@Bald_and_Brown

3 жыл бұрын

@@firstprimehunter agleed

I was surprised how physically large that painting was when I saw it in person

@thomascatty379

5 жыл бұрын

Kamelpasa Could you tell me where it is ?

@zifircin1797

5 жыл бұрын

​@@thomascatty379 I don't know if it is there permanently now but I saw it in new york

@KonstaKokC

5 жыл бұрын

This wasn't mentioned in the video, so the painting is "One: Number 31, 1950" and it's size is 2.7 x 5.3 m

5 жыл бұрын

@@thomascatty379 It's at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And it's not the unique masterpiece of their collection, to say the least.

@kiriappeee

5 жыл бұрын

This comment should be pinned really. Jackson Pollock's stuff is easy to look at and go "so what" if you are just looking at it on a pc or god forbid, a smartphone. These things are huuuuuuuuuge and if you stare into it long enough, you just kind of fall into it so to speak. In fact, this goes for most abstract art on cavases. Looking at them through photos does no justice and in fact robs it of most of it's character. Visit the exhibition. Take a day off and just go do it. Spend time just staring at stuff and enjoying your thoughts with no disturbances. Y'all won't regret it :)

Wassily Kandinsky influenced by: -the impressionists -the fauvisits -music -GEOMETRIC SPIRITUALITY OF THEOSOPHY

@davidaaronartist

4 жыл бұрын

He steal Hilma Van K

@NuanceOverDogma

3 жыл бұрын

GREED

@Ghost-iv9dd

3 жыл бұрын

Hilma af Klint did it first tho

@nekoy2010

3 жыл бұрын

i tend to think artists like pollock and Yves Klein are either on crack or the art is their crack

@nironiro777

Ай бұрын

Great Artist do what?

This reminds me of Chaos Theory. Things going from simple to complex until there is nothing left but uninterpretable static noise.

@misakarancevic8901

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, you have a point. Uninspiring, noisy, egocentric. Me, myself and I. And my precious "emotio s". Empty filth. Naked emperor

@CianHamilton

4 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianhauptmann4253 agreed. I'm not against chaos and complexity. There's definite beauty in it :)

@misakarancevic8901

4 жыл бұрын

Chaos is not "more complex". It's as simple as a low energy set. That's why it's called chaos. Empty and senseless unless you write into it whatever you wish like writing onto a blank paper. But it's not art. It's psycho-trick. Gotcha?

@sebastianhauptmann4253

4 жыл бұрын

@@misakarancevic8901 so you agree? Drip art is not complex. It is mindless noise. It is in fact simple, because no strong will effort is behind it. Art that is meaningful, thoughtful and intelligible can be complex and simple and in both instances beautiful.

@Fisinocean

4 жыл бұрын

I'm the idiot that didn't understand half of what you guys are saying

I like the fast tempo of this clip . The message is so condensed and words synchronize perfectly with the selected images taking us on a quick journey into the making of Modernism . Bravo

@ryanb1374

4 жыл бұрын

Farid Fadel bravo is the world I would use for this whole channel.

@faridfadel655

4 жыл бұрын

@@aadityaarya1816 Modernism with a capital M is an umbrella term under which many isms of the 20th c may be listed

@miguelvidal2335

4 жыл бұрын

Not quite my tempo.

@GVilleAnarcho

4 жыл бұрын

I wish he had slowed down a little. The whole point of how the painting grabbed him would've been better expressed with a smidge slower pacing.

Nerdwriter reminds me of the artistry that the analysis of art can have, possibly just as much as the art being analyzed.

@rmcewan10

5 жыл бұрын

Ekphrasis my dude. If you like this kind of thing, give Walter Pater a look.

@storiestoloseyourselfin2887

5 жыл бұрын

rmcewan10 Cheers mate

@lutze5086

5 жыл бұрын

read some of the collection of essays: "cutural amnesia"

@SneakerSamurai

5 жыл бұрын

After so many rage merchants and "sceptics" bitched and whined about modern art... I find it refreshing to see your take... In other words. Thank you.

@TheMarshmelloKing

5 жыл бұрын

More than the art, actually. As much more thought and care is put into trying to apply meaning to the meaningless. The depth, passion, and complexity of all the flowery language used to talk about art, especially bad art, is infinitely more interesting than the art itself.

"...I don't know that I could describe the feeling, but I didn't have to go searching for it either". You just communicated the essence of experiencing Art mentally, physiologically and emotionally regardless of what type of Art it is. Congrats Nerdwriter1, you crushed it!

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@dianahohimer1107

4 ай бұрын

❤

This is just really well made content. It’s obvious how much care goes into each of these videos.

And now we have arrived to the pinnacle of modern art I II II L

@tsartomato

5 жыл бұрын

@Kurt Barryman ow the edge

@tsartomato

5 жыл бұрын

@Kurt Barryman is that's why they did call you ugly in school?

@TheVeryAngryShrimp

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck you

@MarioFir

5 жыл бұрын

​@Kurt Barryman I don't know if I didn't understood right because english is not my first language or because it was just as stupid as it seemed

@caimansaurus5564

5 жыл бұрын

@Kurt Barryman Enlighten me, how might one arrive at any "objective" definition of beauty?

I don’t enjoy modern art, but from lately what I learned is that I can appreciate it. Thank you for sharing

Robert Florczak, an artist and illustrator, did a test to his graduate students which consisted in: - Analyse the following painting by Pollock and explain why it's good. His students gave him very eloquent answers, full of compliments. But later he told them that it wasn't really a Pollock painting, it was just a close up of Florczak's studio apron.

@philomath6190

4 жыл бұрын

Where did you find this story?

@RafireRocksNRules

4 жыл бұрын

@@philomath6190 A video in youtube by PragerU called 'Why is Modern Art so Bad? '

@thebishopofbathandwells5558

4 жыл бұрын

I watched the video and If you know Pollock's art you could definitly see it wasn't a pollock.

@conornally1317

4 жыл бұрын

@NS I To be fair, you did already know what it was. The students weren't expecting to be lied to.

@IgorQuadrosvmq

4 жыл бұрын

that1s because they were induced to come up with arguments. If they were freely walking in a museum, they would probably ignore the "apron" and expend several minutes in front a real pollock"s .

It kills it for me when i imagine artist just splashing color onto the canvas and not giving a shit if it represents something or if it has meaning...

@ecstaticmeatball8537

2 жыл бұрын

that's abstract art for you :)

@alpacamale2909

2 жыл бұрын

@@ecstaticmeatball8537 brainwashed sheep

@ecstaticmeatball8537

2 жыл бұрын

@@alpacamale2909 pretty ironic cause you think that every art has meaning

@sol___invictus

2 жыл бұрын

@@ecstaticmeatball8537 No, *you* think that. I think you made a grammatical mistake in your second comment that changed it's entire meaning.

I look at that painting, and although I can respect the people who see something in it, I see nothing but a man splashing paint on a canvas and convincing people it's worth something

@alquinn8576

5 жыл бұрын

i think analysis of pollock's drip paintings revealed a fractal nature to the curves within it. it is reminiscent of the branches of a tree that have been abstracted into drip lines. this was before fractals were known mathematically so the instantiation of that in these paintings was based purely on intuition. some people tried to imitate or copy pollock but failed because their paintings lacked the same characteristic fractal structure. disclaimer: i could be mis-remembering a bunch of stuff

@dominicporter2367

3 жыл бұрын

Pollock, and Basquiat were not the ones twisting people's arms into paying big money. That was curators and gallery managers and the people they sold to reinforcing their investment by paying yet more for another work from the same person. Then once that happens you get people like Damien Hirst who actually charges people millions. He's running the racket himself.

@5minuterevolutionary493

6 күн бұрын

For the CIA. Not kidding. Public record.

_I DON'T PAINT, I SPILL MY BUCKET OF ART..._ *~ Jackson Pollock*

@Leivve

5 жыл бұрын

"Sculpting is a barbaric practice that implies mastery of an art that can not be mastered. I merely free the statues from the stone prison that surrounds them."

@Diepvries11

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I hate about abstract art. Abstract art is only valued as "good" when the painter is famous. Famous painters in modern can do whatever the fuck they like and pretentious art snobs will look at it like it's a masterpiece. It's not, it's a load of drops on a canvas. Even Pollock says he just spills his paint to create absolute shite.

@freedomsglory1

5 жыл бұрын

Diepvries11 exactly. It’s only measured by the price someone paid for it. Whereas actual good art can be appreciate by anyone for using the components of drawing or painting ect. Almost anyone can appreciate a beautiful sunset, it takes a special kind of mental gymnastics to appreciate an accident on a canvas.

@dawsdep

5 жыл бұрын

@@freedomsglory1 If you've made abstract art before you'll understand its value. You can let go of your thoughts about where each line is going and let it happen more subconsciously and still end up creating something that captures your emotions and perspective at the time of creating it.

@r4inxs510

5 жыл бұрын

@@Diepvries11 Abstract art is valued (in an emotional sense) on what you as a viewer feel when you see it. Everyone feels something different and since the painting is interpreted through the eyes of the viewer, the value of a certain painting is something that you can only decide for yourself. Pollock did not say that he created shit, he said that he spilled a bucket of art. If for you, the technical skill of a painter is more important then the feelings it evokes in you, then it is obvious that Pollocks paintings seem like absolute shit, but to other people it might be the best painting they ve ever seen. The problem with abstract art is that how do you decide which piece you put in a museum. How can you or even a small group of people decide what is important and what not in an artistic sense, when abstract arts value is determined by yourself? Big museums show what is important in art history and show regularly changing art installations by more well known contemporary artists (a museum is still a buisness and needs to pull in people). Smaller gallery s and smaller museums are for lesser known artists, it is their chance to become more famous and get the chance to see their art in a famous museum If you are a musician you wont be playing in stadiums when you first start out. You play small concerts until you are better known. Luck also play s a big part in this and how much people you pull in and how big your target group is. I don t believe that any black midi or noise musician will ever be considered good in the eye of the mainstream but it still has emotional value to it s listeners and music nerds As in the music buisness there are a lot of problems with the art buisness. As long as money is a concern and you only have a small group of people deciding on what get s shown and what not (it s the same with the people who make the charts or with the people at big music labels who decide which band is worth their time and money. It s a disgusting thing and it get s in the way of the art but everyone wants to make money. Capitalism does not rewarde the best art but the one that makes the most money) We will never be able to showcase every "good" painting. But saying that art is only valued as "good" if the painter is famous, is in my opinion false. As an artist you don t care for the price that somone else put s on it, you care for making art and hoping to be able to sustain your live by doing what you love. A lot of musicians, especially in more abstract genres, dont make music to become famous (although it is always a nice side effect for any kind of artist) but only for the sake of making music. If you go into art only to become rich and famous, you ve chosen the wrong carreer path. So many now famous artists have only started to gain fame after they already died. Some have even been viewed as shit during their time but that didn t stop them from expressing themselves, their feelings and experiences through their medium of choice.

Thank you so much. I just finished a Fine Arts at our school and we needed to do a presentation on an art movement. We heard separately how this movement came to this one, and this other one came from that one. But I really enjoyed looking at all of them strung together into pretty clear conversation. Great work!

i keep coming back to this video... your choice of words, the sound design, the framing, it’s just all so brilliant

"I do believe there is a drive in us to take things as far as they can go, and this century of modern art is and exhilarating example of that. it's inspiring how irrepressible human creativity can be" ...and now we have surreal and deep fried memes. human creativity sure is restless and ever changing.

This video is simply beautiful. From how you transition from idea to idea, and somehow still keep it related to the main title, and how the sound is beautifully integrated creates for a stimulating experience. Thank you.

Incredible video - as a lover of abstract impressionism, I often find that I cannot explain why it speaks to me so much. This video did that! Thank you for your amazing work

bruh this was so good, the editing was amazingly well thought out and the narration was immersive and interesting throughout. ur a legend

I love your videos on paintings, you've always had a way with words but it translates so well to discussing a canvas and physical art movements like in this essay. Keep up the great work

If it wasn't for this channel, I never would have started making video essays myself. Incredibly inspiring, and can make you care about topics you would never think to.

Art started as cave paintings - a tool to represent what's outside. Now that there are better ways to do that, it's evolved to represent what's inside the artist. I think it's simple enough.

@ArtHistorywithAlder

3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said

The painting simply boasts to its observers: *"I am Simplicity, but you cannot copy Me."*

Lucky enough to live in Canberra. Blue Poles is at my local gallery and it is amazing in person. You get lost in the drips but the "Blue Poles" achor you whenever you do but you are still free to wonder in and out of the drips behind. Really beautiful work. Its the only work of non representative art that my friends really like when they see it.

@maggieo

5 жыл бұрын

When I saw "Blue Poles," I was so struck by it, like a fireworks mortar had just gone off in front of me. A big thump; right in my chest. An amazing piece of art.

@jpsplat

5 жыл бұрын

Blue poles is my favorite Pollock and I have always wanted to see it in person

Your commentary focuses my thoughts, a nerdwriter video in the morning and I'm ready for the day.

Honestly, I can’t explain how nice your video’s are. A lot of good information about art, film, music and more. Next to that the entire video is really well made. And really relaxing to watch

Thank you for mentioning Hilda Klimt! Truly a shame how she didn't want to be known at her time and purposefully released her paintings years after her death....

Abstract expressionism is the human brain trying to illustrate itself

@stefan6347

4 жыл бұрын

Key word "trying"

@melam4522

4 жыл бұрын

The point is that what kind of brain is being illustrated? What if the modern human’s brain is anxious and messy?If it is, the production wouldn’t be an expression of art. It would be an expression of madness, chaos and anxiety.

@iiCookiie7xd

4 жыл бұрын

melika amiri art is an expression tho so wtf ru saying?

@patxielosegi

4 жыл бұрын

This is a bit pretentious

@jacobloving6765

4 жыл бұрын

Only in the moment(s) the art is made, then comes a new try or representation

I think the "modern abstract" art is clever way of shifting the focus on to the spectator, like saying - okay now let's see who can come up with most eloquent descriptions and appear smart 😄

@callumbreton8930

Жыл бұрын

@@GeneSargentArt of course, he's not saying it isn't art. He's saying it's terrible art

When I see Pollocks paintings, I always have to think about Nietzsches quote "if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you".

I once was cleaning an old wall and had to scrape off some rust, old paint, and bird crap. It looked just like that except maybe the staine had more structure.

Perhaps a video on Cubism? When I saw it flash up I particularly thought it was interesting in relation to other mediums such as photography and film. However there may not be much of a story here for a video aha so just projecting. Nice Vid man!

@capuchinosofia4771

5 жыл бұрын

There is a big history to paintings and photography, when photography became a thing realistic portrayals of the world with painting lost its meaning, ¿Why try to replicate the world around us when a camera can do that? That's when some artistic movements were born, and that's totally video material! That's a great idea, I'd love a video about cubism!

@tsartomato

5 жыл бұрын

Luchism

@thearthistoryhappyhour4214

5 жыл бұрын

I'll definitely be posting a video regarding the evolution and impact of Cubism in the near future, please feel free to subscribe and be sure not to miss it!

@ircesekk6635

5 жыл бұрын

@@capuchinosofia4771 Several comments says that because of the photography invention, realism was not longer necessary, and therefore art had to change, this is a generally accepted idea, but to be honest is a little bit false. Realism was still popular around that time, and portraits were heavily used by the elite, even today, royals still use paintings instead of photographs, the truth is that the contact with asian and african art played a huge part. Manet, Degas and Monet used to collect japanese ukiyo-e art, Van Gogh said that all the impressionists loved japanese paintings. Also he would say that all his work was based in a certain way in the japanese art. The goal of japanese art wasn't photorealism as the european one, the style of the ukiyo-e was a big influence for them. Is well documented the huge african role in the cubism movement, images.app.goo.gl/dNYf2EfHe2HAqTEE9 images.app.goo.gl/La2PC8K1zaxrYnYH6 . Geometric works of art had a long history in asia and africa, way before the first abstract painters in europe, The first abstract painter Hilma Af klint, used to have certain practices, which had influences from other continents, those practices included meditation and sometimes comsumption of hallucinogic substances. The artists who did that kind of sessions often made geometric works. Kandisky was aslo involved in similar movements. Also the idea that the concepts and styles of the varguards have never been used before is not totally correct, this 1566 painting from G. Archibold could easily pass as a surrealist piece, images.app.goo.gl/AJcgHXGBszkfAuZU8 Some surrealists even thought that the 16th Manierism was their predecessor movement.

The conclusion to the video moved me on a spiritual level. Thank you for doing what you do.

Old art: Emulate reality New Art: Distort reality

@weatheranddarkness

3 жыл бұрын

Reality as one would describe it via a photograph? The philosophy of photography is a deep subject on its own.

@lisah6172

3 жыл бұрын

I'm writing a thesis on something similar. A good way to understand is that there is two modes of thought; critical and logic thinking vs visionary and fantasy thinking. These abstractions are an artist's attempt to engage with the fantasy function in it's most simple form. The act of painting becomes focused on expression and play as opposed to depicting the real and external world. Its cool

@flo84floflo84

3 жыл бұрын

more like: interpret reality

@oapeleftherotisaftistisepo9540

3 жыл бұрын

@@flo84floflo84 nah

@Nim-ish

3 жыл бұрын

But why is distorting reality a bad thing`???

I use to hate his paintings, but recently, they're are starting to grow on me.

@mickybebb3313

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone says that after not liking Pollock. Even my Dad!!!

This video and the words and the art that you used, gave me almost 7 minutes of complete happiness!

I’m so so happy you mentioned Hilma Af Klint, bless you

I am telling my son, my 16 year old artist, in the morning to watch your videos: for education, for history, for the experience. Thank you for your videos. What a gift.

Thank you for making me understand the bigger picture of “that one painting” everyone said they could have done

We need more content such as this, thanks Nerdwriter, I love this!

Jackson Pollock drips the hardest

@alechall7082

5 жыл бұрын

Dudes got crazy drip

Holy fuck, the cut at 4:50...Nerdwriter, I think you're the most talented editor on this website.

@tiagomichel

3 жыл бұрын

Nausicaä ♡

The Pollock reminds me of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) image. So it struck a chord when you mentioned it was like/felt like pure energy. Great vids.

Nerdwriter: It has no objects from our world at all Me: *spies vulva"

@pacingBlue

4 жыл бұрын

There is also clearly a head in there? (combine those two)

@dem8568

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I saw a Stormtrooper.

@garcalej

4 жыл бұрын

I saw a dolphin.

@flyboy1c

4 жыл бұрын

A high wall with a huge crowd of people running toward it, similar to World War Z. Closed my eyes and opened them again and saw a pirate ship. Each time I opened my eyes I saw something completely different... every time.

@marshmellowash

4 жыл бұрын

Congrats! That's apophenia. One of the beginning stages of schizophrenia.

“How we got from wisecrack to nerd writer” Jackson pollock.

Your explain more in a 5 minute video than most people would if they had hours. You really deserve an award for making such high quality, fascinating and thought provoking content :)

I wish you put the names of all the paintings you used in this

I love your videos about artists! Please do more! Frida Khalo or Margaret Keane would be awesome to do videos on, their art relating to their lives is a rich subject. My favorite art video of yours is about the painting of Jupiter eating his children, honestly bone chilling when you said “chewing” at the end. Keep up the good work and AMAZING editing!

@TOAOM123

5 жыл бұрын

Love Keane but im sorry i am not a fan of Frida.... Respect your opinion though 👍 Favorite artist is klimt

@thearthistoryhappyhour4214

5 жыл бұрын

If you love learning about art and artists, I hope you'll subscribe to my channel for full on art-centric content!

@junnaredd9912

5 жыл бұрын

Was it Jupiter or Saturn? I read in Greek mythology that Saturn aka Chronos ate his children.

Thanks for hooking me onto Chris Zabriskie. My study playlist just got bigger

I come back to your videos not just because of the content but because of how you present it. Your videos about art are art themselves. Thanks for the great content!

Wowie Zowie! Very well done! 👏👏👏 What a brilliant distillation of the history of art in just 6 minutes! I’ve watched thousands of KZread videos and this is probably the first comment I’ve ever written, lol.. that’s how impressed I am. I knew a lot of this stuff, I work in the arts myself.. but to be presented so succinctly yet clearly is a real testament to you all. Thank you, and bravo!

I hate paintings asking me "What do YOU represent?" Especially if they do not represent anything in particular.

@thegardenofeve

3 жыл бұрын

They are a visual representation and encapsulation of the vibrational energy of the maker when he/she painted it, mirroring your own vibrational energy. The art of allowing is helpful, but feeling nothing or negative emotions from a piece are also valid insights. Skill is different than representing energy. Although the latter also requires a lot of insight from the artist. It's like mucisians who see colour when they hear music or create music with a colour pattern in mind... the artist tries to convey energy through colour and shapes on canvas.

@nightrider6136

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegardenofeve well, yes, there is abstract music as well. The abstraction offers the ultimate freedom of expressing oneself, no strings attached. By the way, I very much like your answer. My problem with this kind of art is that there is no mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of the word. I need some kind of mimesis. Too much freedom for the artist leaves me with too little freedom to interpret the result.

@thegardenofeve

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightrider6136 I can imagine. It can be very uncomfortable when there are no restrictions. It's like when people have total freedom they fear it because it means they have to take responsibility and everything feels uncertain. I don't mean to frame this negatively on you, because I feel much the same. I know that restrictions in life can give us a feeling of comfort and ease, because we have a reference point and boundaries. Very interesting concept and feelings to talk about.

@thegardenofeve

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightrider6136 hmm. After some more consideration, would you agree that the mimesis in such abstract art is the energy of the artist and the energy of the witness, instead of previous realist artforms (or even abstract art but with figures) where the mimesis is a representation of what we can see with our eyes? I mean, realism is a representation of what we perceive is outside of us, and the more abstract a work, is the more a representation of what we perceive is inside of us?

@nightrider6136

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegardenofeveah, well, i am not sure there is a good answer to this. However pure 'energy' does not seem enough to count for mimesis. And I am not talking about just realism. Take surrealism, impressionism, Berlin secession, fauvism, expressionism, pop art, even Hieronymus Bosch would do - they all communicate with recognisable shapes and forms. Communication works with recognisable signals. Otherwise you have just colors and sounds. Good enough in themselves but communicating nothing apart from what they are. It is like writing a novel with random words - a very possible piece of art but how many of them would you like to read?

you should be on netflix! 45 minute NW episodes!

@nah3609

4 жыл бұрын

Would be sooooo great!!

Pollock's drip paintings to me is like when you look up at a your popcorn ceiling and start to see patterns and your brain just imagines a story or a face. When ever I see one of his paintings I get that feeling.

Photography and modern technology will never make me change my art. My paintings are where I live and I don't want it to look bizarre because of money.

Painting: "what do you represent" Me: "ambivalence, I guess?"

One of my favourite videos of yours, thanks!

If a piece of art grabs you and draws you in, makes you question, then that's what it's all about for me.

Best video I have seen to show someone about modern art.

“I could feel it looking at me.”

@geslinam9703

3 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Only way that would happen for me is if I tripping. Otherwise, it is what it is. Paint drips.

When I have to receive an explanation of what a painting, statue or song is to understand it, then it fails as an art expression

So well said. I had the same reaction to that pollack. Id always had a hard time understanding modern art and abstract expressionism until I stood in front of that painting. It floored me. Thanks for picking apart that experience for my brain to comprehend

@autodidact537

3 жыл бұрын

What really explains Jackson Pollock is that he was a drunk.

i believe that the editing and sound design of this video deserves a video about itself

Thank you for mentioning Hilma af Klint. Even if mentioned only briefly, your acknowledging her work is a start to recognizing female artists while stepping towards correcting inequalities in the art world and in its history.

@thatoneguy07

Жыл бұрын

Damn that’s crazyyyyyyyyy

I really liked this! It also reminded me of how rapid and prolific meme content/creation has changed across social media platforms over time.

"The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal"... brilliant! never heard it said that way... abstraction as a concept described so "clear and direct"

@coastaf

3 жыл бұрын

aka Advertising. It’s spooky because the slippery slope (of possibly CIA funded, but it wouldn’t even have to be to prove the capitalist drive) of hyper minimalist - ‘mere, conceptual’ AB/Expressionism into ‘mere’ signifiers in a marketplace. Possible trickle down culture from conspicuously consuming logo-art to logo brands include: socialites getting reality shows, tik Tok kids identifying via 5-10 commodities, the Oval Office occupied by a guy steeped in NLP rewarded for manipulating the false qualifications that all his gilded high rise signage implied. Conceptual art is great, but when we play into the hype (media, but also through this nonsense “personal brand” content creator” influencer” that reduces us all to commodities) the very marketplace with excludes most of us (as multi-story, working, imperfect, asymmetrical, messy, dynamic and importantly- Poor in ways that will not be exploitable for “clout”) til these things are millions dollars and the mostly men that are celebrated for making them (aka coming up with the concept that nameless PAs actually fabricate) are too powerful to be touched when they’re violent and the loki ‘genius’ they are perceived to have becomes an elusive thing for less cynical folks still effected by a messy, asymmetrical, sensory world..

@allicanseeissh1t118

2 жыл бұрын

@@coastaf take your meds.

You should consider longer format videos. You are thoughtful as expressed in your voice. You know your stuff. The more of you, the better.

It's because of videos like these that I decided to make videos on art! Thank you so much Nerdwriter!!

@AcolytesOfHorror

5 жыл бұрын

you do great work!

@TheCanvasArtHistory

5 жыл бұрын

@@AcolytesOfHorror Aww thank you! That's much appreciated :)

@TOAOM123

5 жыл бұрын

Just subbed I'll check your vids after this one

@rileybracelin4274

5 жыл бұрын

Just subbed, cool channel

I heard once while watching a documentary that Pollock painting was a mathematical insight into what is known as **fractal**. where repeated random pattern emerges in every dimension and every zooming in or out! it was then used in computer graphics and studios to produce what we see today in movies like mountains, terrains, jungles...etc. which follow no distinctive pattern, just randomness!

Last weekend I sat down with my toddler nephew and a few little bottles of paint, and we made a masterpiece just like this one.

you helped me revise for the entire modern art history for my exam on wednesday, you did amazing, do more videos like this!

Your art views videos are my favourite. I love these. I learn so much. Thank you.

@TheCanvasArtHistory

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed! They are very inspiring!

Personally i just don't understand abstract art. That's not to say that there is only one understanding, but it just totally goes over my head.

@micahkafka

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say it's going over your head. It's less about understanding and more about feeling. If it doesn't make you feel anything, that's fine. We all experience life differently. Maybe someday you'll find one that does. Maybe not. That's one of the beauties of art. We all get to experience it differently.

@itcouldbeworse5851

5 жыл бұрын

@@micahkafka Thanks, that's a good way to look at it.

@FoxdevilswildUnic

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to "understand" it, then take an artist that interests you and start reading about them. A lot of the early 20th century artists also wrote tons of letters to friends and each other, explaining thought processes and what goes into their art, their philosophies and so on.

@kanacubana827

5 жыл бұрын

I love abstract art as much as I love impressionism. For me personally, its all about something looking aesthethically pleasing. Surely, there's a lot of very talentless rubish among abstract art in the past few decades (being that it can be just an excuse to make a smear in a canvass or something along those lines), but guys like Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and actually even Pollock himself were all good, inovative artists who had something new to offer, and were all obviously talented (check their non-abstract works if you doubt it). But again, I can only speak for myself and my own tastes.

@VampireHeart518

5 жыл бұрын

@Anja Martinez Ah, a good ole' 'if i don't get it, it's not legit'. So are all its enjoyers either liars or brainwashed somehow? :)) Also, not being something specific to 'understand' doesn't make it a scam... For some of us the 'real' stretches beyond the recognizable objects we see with our eyes (well, I'd even go so far as saying that I don't really believe there can be any true 'abstractness' manifested visually, as all possible shapes have some correspondend in reality. With music, for instance, it's a whole different story...) I for one love the work of Kandinsky. It's very lively, I see stories there, energy, the relationship between shapes and colours, his compositions are so... tight? I find it a bit hard to put into words. Compact and elastic all at once. Sometimes there's movement (there's one with a shape reminding me of a pendulum and when I watch it I feel its weight, momentum, the sound it makes...) Btw, I really recommend his book 'On spirituality in art' :) Also, there's a big something to be said about experiencing it LIVE. Figurative, abstract, it's so wholly different to stand in front of the work - not just for the colours and textures that cannot be fully replicated in a photo, but for the SIZE, proportion, how you relate to it in space

This is so brilliant. I somehow never put together the timeline of these developments. That’s really wild and inspiring.

holy shit i'm taking a history of modern art class, and this video just pulled so many things together for me. this seriously might be the most helpful youtube video i've every watched.

From what I've seen, Whistler's "Nocturne" series which started at 1869 was way ahead of it's time, and I see it as the true start of abstraction in art.

@gavinreid8351

5 жыл бұрын

Turner predates this.

New Nerwriter video means I drop everything and have to watch it :3

@tybo6376

5 жыл бұрын

UWU :3

@JoseBYOB

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. The man is good.

@-yourandyoureare2different612

5 жыл бұрын

G2

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Thanks for sharing your feeling for what you see!

I learnt so much from this thank you! I'm doing a piece on symmetry/reflection for my final exhibition this year (IB Hl art), and I've been trying to find an artist to be inspired by, without you I would have never found Hilma Af Klint

Real art doesn’t need explanation

Pollocks drip "paintings" are a wonderful scam that stand as a testament to the sheer gullibility of a class of people that could serve up a cat turd in a martini and call it wonderful because of the quality of the glass.

What is amazing is that, do you see the paint and canvas. Maybe what you see is that there is no canvas, just layers of depth. Have you ever as a child looked up at night and seen the stars. In years gone by you could actually see stars that would go on for hours and never be the same. Slowly you would notice the stars have moved and new ones were suddenly in front of your face. This is what this art does, with out moving the art changes as you look at it. Clear your mind of the daily mosh pit, slow down and look at the spot in front of you and as you focus you see more and more stars than you noticed before. Witness the stars in amazement and understand that we are by our self and yet not alone.

the editing and sound design in this video is on another level

I felt the same way when I saw a Rothko in person for the first time. I gasped and then held back tears. I had seen his work in books and on screens, and I loved it, but seeing one of his works in the flesh was *so much* more than I ever imagined. It was also the first time I saw a Pollock. I have kinda hated Jackson Pollock since the first time I knew about his art style - again, just in books or on a screen, it seems flat and lazy. “I could do that!” But I saw Sea Change at the Seattle Art Museum, again, same place I saw the Rothko, and I saw the texture and nuance of the painting and it moved me a little. I got it. This museum was also the first time I saw something I really liked and got by Andy Warhol, and the first time I saw some large kinetic Calder’s.

Ayyy I saw you sneak Night Cafe in there ;)

@ryanyesman7664

5 жыл бұрын

Night hawks? Or is that a different painting? Lol. I didn't see it

@user-uu2cj9ct3j

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryanyesman7664 He means the one with the pool table at 2:27, Nerdwriter did a vid on it a while back.

@user-uu2cj9ct3j

5 жыл бұрын

my apologies, it is 2:29

@Nerdwriter1 : I reserve your videos for late night watching to give my undivided attention... always worth it ! Always my favourite youtube channel.

"I'm the shit, ooh I need a mop to clean the floor, it's too much drip, ooh" -- Jackson Pollock in the Savage remix

Its evolving just backwards

At best pollocks paintings looks like static on a tv

@julyol119

4 жыл бұрын

Or like those frilly carpets that were so popular at the start of the 2000s.

@jameson8682

4 жыл бұрын

The number of people in this comment section pretending like they can feel anything from a Pollack painting is hilarious. Saw a video of an art professor who would show his students a picture of a Pollack and ask them to explain it. After they were done talking about what emotions they "felt" and how the artists raw passion exploded onto the canvas, he'd zoom the picture out and show them that it was actually just his painting apron which was covered in splashes and drips. Scribbles aren't art, these people are just pretentious hipsters, high on their own farts.

@JamesV1

3 жыл бұрын

@@jameson8682 or maybe you're 34 years old and too closed minded to accept that people perceive art differently to you. One video proves nothing, ignoramus. I kind of feel bad for you.

@wirly-

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesV1 I agree with him. And yes some people have different opinions about art and they are wrong. That doesn't make me close-minded.

@robradical7213

3 жыл бұрын

@@jameson8682 Just because you are a jaded sociopath, doesn't mean you have to comment on KZread videos to try to deter strangers on the internet from appreciating something that you see no value in, simply because you see no value in yourself and your own life.

Excellent quick overview of modern art! Great work!

The music and editing in this video is amazing