Ever since "discovering" Waldemar Januszczak during quarantine, I've been hungrily gobbling up his art films, devouring them daily. With this channel, I feel I've hit the motherlode! Woohoo!!

@cherylhutchins-swenson320

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@elirien4264

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@martawapiennik5852

2 жыл бұрын

Same😁

@TheSuzberry

2 жыл бұрын

He’s so much FUN. Welcome to the fan base.

@bessofhardwick9311

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Dear Waldemar your sense of humour and irreverence combined with the immense knowledge of the art history are the secret ingredients that made your videos addictive to me. I can't stop watching them. Thank you so much for making them. I learn and laugh at the same time.

@SihraCreative

2 жыл бұрын

His sense of humour is at its best in his books. You'd love them

@frankaudiffret6959

10 ай бұрын

He writes books? I need to check that out... didn't know that

I started watching the Perspective channel for the sake of learning about Art around the world, but I was in for a big surprise, one of the best Art History storytellers, Big Waldemar Januszczak!! Now I can't go to sleep without seeing and hearing his charismatic knowledge on some topic that involves Art. -Thanks for the upload, Keep them coming...

@harrylaurie8096

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@rockflowerful

3 жыл бұрын

I too, love Waldemar’s programs......he is an inspired teacher. So I do hope there are more to come..I have to admit to watching them more than once,they are so dense with insights into all aspects of art.

@sengarubic

3 жыл бұрын

same, same...

@DNBon.an808

3 жыл бұрын

same, same, same

@judiesuh6858

3 жыл бұрын

Same..(x4)

"Mount Rushmore is seen by many as a sculptural shrine to American values, but it was actually built to be a tourist attraction" I don't know man, building something massive purely to get people to give you money actually seems like a pretty good representation of American values to me

@constancemiller3753

2 жыл бұрын

'Merica! 🇺🇸 🧗‍♂️ My favorites are the lifesize concrete dinosaurs of Cabazon, California. Tourist trap of my childhood.

@pprehn5268

2 жыл бұрын

Especially By A Klu Klux Klan Sculptor

@govindaanand2284

2 жыл бұрын

RIGHT MATE ----THEY'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE NAME TO THE FOUR INCOMES OF MOUNT PAYMORE. HERE WE'RE LEARNING THE TRICKS QUICK.

@sanniepstein4835

2 жыл бұрын

No one else wants money?

This is the best host I have ever seen, engaging, intelligent, witty, educational without being patronizing and so FUNNY!

@rainmanjr2007

3 жыл бұрын

He has what the Car Talk brothers, on NPR, use to have. What Cheech and Chong had, in their most boiled down sense. An ability to stick a finger in power's eye, including the prudish, in a true artistic manner. He knows his art very well.

@lisakilmer2667

2 жыл бұрын

I thought he was very patronizing of the Rapa Nui - he repeatedly called their rituals "nutty". I really enjoy his documentaries, but have learned to double-check his scholarship.

@gerardvila4685

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisakilmer2667 Begging your pardon, but would you mind telling other people what's wrong with his scholarship? And how can you possibly believe that mass producing statues out of sheer vanity, and trashing your own environment, aren't "nutty" things to do? The trouble is, from what I can see our own civilisation is behaving just as stupidly, except that this time it's the whole planet we are wrecking.

@melly1432

2 жыл бұрын

@@rainmanjr2007 you mean Click and Clack the Tapper Brothers! I miss them on NPR; every Saturday at 2 on my way to work I’d listen 😊

From Lithuania to Easter Island it's amazing how they put these together. Waldemar is amazing and charismatic, the depth and breadth of his knowledge of all eras and medium's of art. So glad they've put these together in one place for us to enjoy.

@kiwitrainguy

2 жыл бұрын

A visit to Abu Simbel would've been appropriate as well.

I can't get enough of this host and the series on art history that he so skillfully presents.

LOVE LOVE LOVE The host - Been following him for A LONG time!!! Great to see you back amazing sir!!! Waldemar Januszczak you are so entertaining!!!

@ElektraVersifier

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@guttormurthorfinnsson8758

3 жыл бұрын

best art school ther is.

How I wish you had been one of my art professors way back when. You have so many gifts, your knowledge, your passion, your charisma, and your amazing ability to capture people's attention with fantastic stories. I've missed you. Stay safe and happy

The host is great, a fine scholar able to communicate with an audience that does not necessarily knows the history of art.

@dianneledford3681

3 жыл бұрын

I agree 💯 he is such a wonderful host an educational without making someone who doesn't know feel ignorant about it

For all the bombast - much of which is amusing - this man makes art history come alive! Brilliant

As a passionate lover and admirer of sculpture and student of art, this was an homage to the art unlike anything I've ever seen. Bringing forth the contrasting political sides of what sculpture really is, and how it affects people, is a monument to your brilliance as a documentary maker. Bravo Waldemar! When shall we have a monument to you? You deserve one! Maybe we should have an award like the "Oscar" for best documentary, called "The Waldemar"!

Waldemar Januszczak is an international treasure.

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Waldemar, your documentaries are always so captivating, I think, I love you! :)

Januszczak is a very engaging presenter. Sometimes far-fetched, but fun. He very confidently "explains" Easter Island religion, culture, and history with theories that are pretty odd (I've seen lots of documentaries and read a fair bit, and no one ever said the statues were slid down a mountainside). He confidently tells us Goliath was over 10' tall, when most scholars do the math and come up with 9'9". So I take his assertions with some skepticism till I can check them, but meanwhile I really enjoy his presentations.

@evan7743

2 жыл бұрын

He is as much -if not more - an entertainer as an academic.

@kiwitrainguy

2 жыл бұрын

He's following the principle of "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

I love history. I've watched Waldemar's documentaries for years on PBS and enjoy them so much! He is the 1st Art Historian that I felt was speaking to everyone in the average Joe's language. I'm so excited to have found this channel

"If you look like him, but you want to come across like him, there's no use relying on nature...she's already let you down." HAhahahhhaaha I love this guy

I hope Waldemar never ever stops making videos. I could watch nothing but this forever

Waldemar is a wonderful presenter. Great storytelling, fantastic docu series.

Waldemar is the best

I want to be added to the list of fans of Waldemar Januszczak! His presentations teach us aspects of art that make art so relevant and entertaining...hooked!

Regarding the part on Easter Island, there is a great video from the "Fall of Civilizations Podcast" called "Where Giants Walked" that talks about how the civilization of that island once was great and flourishing, but then, as many do, it fell. It also talks more about the big statues and what they meant to the people. Its a little long but well worth it. Link is here, kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZ5kmsmxhcaol8Y.html

@abbyhrabovsky3734

2 жыл бұрын

Fall of Civilizations also disagrees with the explanation given here for why the statues were toppled.

@cruisepaige

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, that’s my favorite podcast!

This show is art in itself. I adore the humor.

@DNBon.an808

3 жыл бұрын

really though

@judiesuh6858

3 жыл бұрын

I agree.. I love his narration, humor and the content!👍👏🤭🙏

@morty_falch8049

3 жыл бұрын

but you get outta wind fat humor ...

I just love the music in these beautiful documentaries they add so much to the brilliance and enjoyment .

17:45 "Look at that huuuuuuuge right hand" yes sir we are all looking at that hand! 😲

Waldemar Januszczak is The Best!!!!

I love Waldemar’s dig at Mount Rushmore.

Love this series .. The commentary by Waldemar Januszczak ... so very enlightening and enjoyable.

I laughed so hard there were tears...genius.

@whitedragon9731

3 жыл бұрын

What’s so funny?

@adamlane6453

3 жыл бұрын

@@whitedragon9731 right? How did that comment get 13 likes?

@giajb6637

3 жыл бұрын

Piss. Hehehehehe

@sprobablycancr4457

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamlane6453 You don't find humour in this? Check pulse.

@andybaldman

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamlane6453 32.

Excellent writing-educational, quirky, transporting. Thank you.

Love this channel. It gives a different perspective than conventional art history. Waldemar is so insightful and appears so approachable, unlike the typical ivory tower academic. Thank you.

my favorite art programme!

Stumbling upon Mr Janusczcak was a stroke of great fortune - this chap is really brilliant - super sharp wit , creative genius of presentation - I find myself laughing on a continual basis - were I had been so fortunate to have had him as a school teacher - he shines in dramatics , humor , brilliant verbal delivery with a delightfully informative societal contextual framewrk of presentation - allways a Bravo to this chap !☺ - he's funnier than Maggie Smith - and she's pretty damned funny 😳☺

This guy is amazing in telling stories

This is such an excellent series. Bravo!

My friends, if you ever are in Seattle WA, there is a 16=foot-tall bronze statue of Lenin in the little neighborhood of Fremont. "He" was brought there by a collector who died before plans for display could be completed. When I saw the statue, it was gazing directly-- and wistfully?-- at a taco joint. Wikipedia reports that "the Lenin statue has often been decorated, appropriated, or vandalized with various intentions, both whimsical and serious." Which totally supports the conclusion of this fine video.

Waldemar Januszczak the best there is!

Throwing that rock over the don't throw rocks sign at 3:05. I mean i like interesting history but this simple act has really endeared me to this presenter!

excellent and pleasurable documentary...

This guy always seems to be climbing and climbing, and huffing and puffing! I love spending an evening with Waldy.😊

@ferociousgumby

2 жыл бұрын

He lets me call him Waldy.

One of the most perfect sculptures in history and he finds three things wrong with it, that is hilarious

@rainmanjr2007

3 жыл бұрын

He actually hinted that David has the features of Goliath. That, for me, adds the new dimension of David that he may have been a sarcastic reference to us being vanquishers of our own enemy. A very Catholic idea.

oooh waldemar ... makes interesting topics exciting and really interesting!

It is informative and entertaining, thank you.

What a great work!!!

Wow! From Easter Island to a megachurch. This guy gets around! Gotta love him.

Very entertaining. "Drop kick me Jesus through the goal post of life", what a verse in that song. Thanks for posting.

"When Smashing monuments, save the pedestals, they always come in handy." Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

37:23 now that's art!

Brilliant! I had put this “episode” to the side, and reluctantly turned to it months later, not convinced that I had much interest in gigantesque statues of people such as Stalin - but it turned out to be fascinating. Waldemar steps out of his artistic skin and addresses politics, sharply and unforgivingly. From ancient Greece to So. Dakota, humans have never given up their appetite for grandeur, the more undeserved the better. A little humility would behoove us. Perhaps we’ll acquire it by the time we hit a new planet - or do you think it’s inevitable?

Seems like a nice show they squeeze in between the commercial main event.

So fun thing that's come out since this documentary: the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island didn't cut down trees to move the moai. Instead they used ropes and leverage to rock the moai back and forth enough so they could "walk" it from the quarry to the beaches. The fallen moai are mostly failed attempts to reach the shore.

So irreverent. So knowledgeable. So funny. Thanks for teaching me art history even better than any of my MFA courses.

Brilliantly done!! Thanks for such an informative and satirical programme!! Just the tonic we need in lockdown to keep a good perspective on things!!! I suppose leaders would say: "go large or go home...!!" I wonder if Donald Trump ever saw this programme?????

@billolsen4360

2 жыл бұрын

another democrat. oh joy.

I love this in every way!

Amazing!

Perfect Videography

I'm now all enamoured with Waldemar. So called bitten by the bug. He's so gregarious n is full of charisma. Full of British humour. Haha

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome.

The only thing that could have been added IMHO is the Japanese affection for "non-sculptures" so to speak, that is just beautiful pieces of rock that they display in places of honour in their garden. (It's probably a Chinese idea to start with, but the Japanese are better at keeping up traditions I think.) I was reminded of that tradition when Valdemar mentioned the Anti-Crazy-Horse people who felt the mountain was more beautiful before this guy started blowing it up.

He’s BRILLIANT... very gifted! Makes it fun to learn and wanting more!!!🙋‼️✌🏾😂

Brilliant!

Nice Art Sir. I ve subscribed.

Not only do bigger statues make your detractors madder, but also the bigger the statue the bigger the statement made by tearing them down.

I love your style compadre 🙏

All these sculptures have very chiselled features. 😄

@suecastillo4056

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂‼️

@yengsabio5315

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Well-sculpted, if I may add!

Only foreigners ever bother to go see those sculptures! By the way, did you measure your output. Remember, intake and output should roughly be the same. Don't eat too much salt. Take lasix if necessary. The original sculpture of the David is in the Accademia Gallery of Florence. The second copy of the David is located in Piazza della Signoria (Duomo Square), just opposite the Palazzo Vecchio (Old Palace). The third copy is in the middle of Piazzale Michelangelo.

Another interesting programme almost destroyed by too many bloody adverts!

Amazing.

Love how he keeps joking about Midwest taste of art

@anthonylemkendorf3114

3 жыл бұрын

Think the point is- it’s the same world over ..Bigger is Better. “it stops people on the Highway”😊

@jilliegirlie

2 жыл бұрын

The snobbery of the English amuses me. Without the patriotism of the American boys, the UK would be speaking another language.

@billolsen4360

2 жыл бұрын

Why is that?

There was Franklin Roosevelt who served two terms during the most tumultuous world war in a wheelchair due to polio...

When I was a boy, I imagined the Moai were a direct product of tribes of central and south Americans who fled to the island escaping the sacrificial death cults that were hunting people for appeasement to the gods. This would have been done on anything from great rafts, canoes or anything that was seaworthy. On their arrival, Easter Islanders erected these statues as a warning to invading tribes from the continent who might think the Moai were giant warriors. The size of the statues might give invaders a second thought partly because of their mysterious appearance and because of their shear size [ie: not transportable by canoe]. As time went by and the land was depleted of resources, a rebellion may have occurred and the looming threat of anihilation, to give the remaining tribe a faint, if not an entirely rational hope of access back to south and or central America. All this, even if it meant capture and even certain death by removing the visual threat to invasion as they may have seen it , in the Moai.....possibly a more preferable option than a slow lingering death from starvation and feuding......but then, I was just a boy.

Thanks for the very entertaining perspective on sculptures, specially David.

Must watch.

As humans we are insignificant, hence the need to create idols and deify humans

I have watched this narrator with pleasure, never able to catch his name but when he speaks everyone listens. JohnnyMike

40:47 The real-life Crazy Horse monument doesn’t appear to match up with the mock-up. The opening in the mountain looks too far over to the right. (Maybe it doesn’t matter because it’s difficult to imagine that the monument will ever be completed.)

Waldemar is the best 🔥🔥🔥.....the Soviet songs 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@billolsen4360

2 жыл бұрын

soviet union sucked

Hi, reformed scholar here. I understood it to be that the trees on Easter Island disappeared during a drought, and the men disappeared to slavers, taking their oral history with them. So I guess I need citations. Thanks though; I love the vids.

@gypsygirl3255

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct. They didn't use the trees to move the statues. European diseases and slavery ruined their lives.

"...there stood, for over a thousand years, a colossal statue of the Emperor Nero." That's not what Wikipedia says. According to Wikipedia, the statue was built between 64 and 68 A.D., and was last mentioned in the Chronography of 354 A.D., or possibly in a poem by Bede (c. 672-735), who wrote: "As long as the Colossus stands, Rome will stand, when the Colossus falls, Rome will also fall, when Rome falls, so falls the world." That still doesn't mean that the statue lasted for a thousand years.

I respected him throwing that rock right in front of the sign 3:06

Some of the " leaders " are best at being sculptures. It means they have finally passed on and can do no more damage and cause untold deaths... The sculpture is just there, to teach us a lesson, on the off chance that we might actually learn from it...

@allenhanford

3 жыл бұрын

Of the four, Lincoln was the best and Roosevelt was the worst. Roosevelt was determined to make the U.S. an imperial power and we would have been better off minding our own business. Washington and Jefferson unfortunately were slave owners but at least wanted to participate in the greatest experiment of the enlightenment.

From 'Standing Bare' to 'David', they uncover it all.

Nice.

Here in the USA of 2020, our petulant juvenile-in-chief unironically says he wants his mug on Mt. Rushmore. The curator told him, sorry, there's no more room.

@sanniepstein4835

3 жыл бұрын

Tone deaf humorless leftist.

@pauleohl

3 жыл бұрын

@Laura Streeter But we don't know if a future President will be destructive enough to rescue Trump from the abyss.

Do we have this documentary with french subtitles ?

Love it, love it, love it - why I haven't known this before - shame on me!

@sengarubic

3 жыл бұрын

soooo.... funny, working as an art historian in GERMANY, this will never happen here!

The statue of David is absolutely proportional. There is a family of Italians who's bodily proportions are exactly the same as David's. I have seen a boy just like him (the statue of David) with my own eyes.

Best host ever

love it all, well done, but less ads would be nice

@fleur7891

2 жыл бұрын

I have been on KZread long enough to remember when there were no ads at all here, sigh, now I hate the intrusion.

Massive entertainment 👌 👏 All interesting and different What a story - the birdman. Drowning Jesus! Crazy horse!!

As a lover of art, I must say that watching this film was painful. I had never thought of sculpture in this way although I do understand this particular viewpoint I must admit that there are other viewpoints as well. Political art is one thing, decorative art is another and is just as valid. It was interesting to know of another facet of the same jewel though I for one prefer the beauty over the political. Thank you, Mr Waldamer J. for opening my mind to another point of view yet again, all of your films do that even when my personal taste does not agree.

34:00 "Throw it here! I'm open!"

Where Waldemar goes, I go.

The power of Wiley Waldy is supernatural. Waldy is a brilliant arty-farty freak.

Deep Purple is not heavy metal. It is Classic Rock!

@patrickf.4440

3 жыл бұрын

Of course, in its day, we didn't call it classic rock. Not until we got older. Pat, in Chicago

You got to get your name in the title ! New glasses and a hair cut ,. I missed this for 30 days or more , great ! Goode ! An glorious ! More longer !

There was a crucial error in the story of Rapa Nui. The Moai walked. They were not transported by wooden sleds nor any other vehicular means, they walked. Also Make Make co-existed at the same time. When the island were named "Easter Island", white man had already been there, several times, and brought diseases and maniacs with guns with him. These diseases and bloody encounters had wiped out most of the population within a few years, and the leftover populus turned against their protectors, the Moai, toppling them down for not protecting them from the White Death. Walking the Moai was a group effort, where the whole island, probably all the islands, gathered and worked together. If the walk was successful, it would bring fortune, but if the Moai fell mid-walk, it would bring misfortune. The "Bird Man" Make Make, was a local Hero, an athletic celebrity, and these two events, swim to the bird island and walking the Moai were the key festivals to keep the society united. The difference between western colossuses and Moai is; Colossus is a display of power, a picture of god, the great divider between mortals and the elite, Moai is a group strentghtening exercise. Everyone had to take part to the walking of the Moai. There were no classes in the society of Rapa Nui. There were only elders, who became the Moai after death and the younger generations, who competed in the bird race, and became elders when got old enough. The size of the Moai was a direct comparison to the size of the elder it represented. Because the features were almost identical, the size told to the viewer, which elder was in the statue. I understand that it is hard for a westener to picture a society without ruling class and a slave class, but the great sailing nation of the pacific, which the Rapa Nui and Tahiti are parts of, demanded a full on equal distribution of wealth and power to prosper.

@JohnDoe-vv3id

2 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro 😎

They've been working on the Crazy Horse monument for as long as I can remember and I haven't seen any progress at all.

@megancrager4397

3 жыл бұрын

I think there's argument over whether to even touch it and change anything

People need to build a lot of scaffolding in order to have the perspective of Waldemar Januszczak.

After the recent unpleasantness over statues as historic patterns of slavery and oppression, I am left to wonder if there could be Any personalities who could be recalled in grand fashion such as a Rushmore or Jefferson's tomb. Even Ghandi, Desmond Tutu and Lincoln had their detractors as did many of the Christian saints. Must we find Humans of perfect character and comportment or is it just a lost cause all together? Thoughts?

@daveh3997

3 жыл бұрын

The statues in the late "unpleasantness" were put up at the height of the Jim Crow era. They were funded by unreconstructed rebels and southerners intent on presenting the "lost cause" myth of the Confederacy. The general intent was to glorify the rebellion, justify treason, and remind all the African Americans in the South just who was still in charge. Icons are risky. Those who set them up, usually ignore all the negative traits of their heroes and accentuate (or even make up) their good points.

@Cubroncs03

2 жыл бұрын

Think you have to admit there's a pretty big difference between being able to find a flaw in Gandhi's character and people not wanting statues of Confederate Presidents and generals in public places and even government buildings in the United States.