really appreciate the work you guys put in, it's helpful, informative and eloquent

I really enjoy all your videos. You guys really execute the description of the pieces of work very well.

nice commentary, kids, really makes it clear, the anger/violence of red and how it flattens the picture........

Just thinking Gauguin and DH Lawrence could be seen as especially linked by this quixotic search for that primordial state, the natural undefiled heaven on earth - but there being a bit of a tragic desperate escapism to this search. I recall Aldous Huxley, who was great friends with Lawrence, remarking on this doomed wandering aspect of Lawrence.

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4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, yes, and many other who were responding to (retreating from) the modern era.

@stalkek

4 жыл бұрын

So to retain that inner integrity but without somehow becoming misled into being a victim of it!

im confused , why it's in a playlist for renaissance?

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5 жыл бұрын

Fixed. Thanks!

Can't believe I'm about to finally find out how to pronounce his name

Jacob definitely took his L in that wrestling match, but he did it with flair, lol. I loved that point about the invented use of the headdresses because that immediately caught my attention (and caught me off-guard). I'm not used to "spectator religious paintings," but it makes me wonder what my expression and posture would've been if I'd witnessed that epic showdown.

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10 ай бұрын

You might find this interesting. Gauguin would likely have had the Delacroix in mind: smarthistory.org/delacroix-sulpice/

@Sasha0927

10 ай бұрын

@@smarthistoryvideos That *was* interesting! I do wonder what that skeptical but respectful artist got from creating his program and those "good long meditations" he had in churches... You know I love my learning about how art is made - "Delacroix had his assistants soak the walls with boiling oil," etc really got me going. I can only imagine that! And "salvific" was a great new vocab word. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

Gauguin was a a real jerk towards poor Vincent Van Gogh.