this man singlehandedly saved my art school essay

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I'm here for

Thank you very much for making this videos. It's really nice to get to know this stuff.

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

No worries, glad it was helpful!

Personal realisation: I love looking at Monets. This is in the way of a very personal, subjective response - beyond technicalities, artistry, and even artistic intent. When looking at his individual paintings - they r so open, and vibrant, yet serene. Makes me feel free and happy. And when looking at one of his series - say the haystacks - one painting after another, succesively - that gives the sensation how fleeting moments are and how eternal yet ever-changing time is. And the beauty of the visible world is ever-transient. Makes me want to observe the world. That last feeling is true for Pissaro's Bloulevard Montmart series too, for me. When I look at the afternoon, cloudy morning and spring versions in a loop, it creates this awareness that time is flowing in an eternal ever-changing cycle, and every moment has a unique beauty of its own, waiting to be observed and enjoyed.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, Pissaro in particular is an artist I really admire, his city scenes are some of the first to really capture the bustling movement of city life, They're amazing records to have as well as being artworks

P.S. - Have watched your videos on Cezanne, Manet and Courbet. Will be going through your other videos as well . Greatly appreciate the time and effort you have put into making them. Love and best wishes from India.

Absolutely fascinating information and so much facts! Thank you so-so much! I can't get enough of impressionism and post-impressionism.

art history exam next week, arts hole binge it is.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck with your exam!

@rodrigogomes2064

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 forgot to say, got an 18/20. Your videos helped thanks a lot.

Fantastic overview and storytelling. Thank you!

pretty fascinating. the connection between the rise of impressionism to the push/pull (good/bad) of the contemporary art market is (sadly) something i'd never considered. thanks for the insight. i imagine this is stuff that was mentioned in art school but was never presented in such a clear & concise manner. you do fine work sir! had to go back and say how hilarious the gaugin comment was. brilliant!

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The connection between Impressionism and the art markets is something I've come across a few times and thought was interesting, I wanted to included it at its one of the less talked about aspects of the movement. Glad you liked it and it was clear, i'm always worried about getting lost in the weeds discussing this stuff!

Fascinating, and very well narrated. Thank you!

I love your videos!! Thanks for all the content.

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you like them!

This just blew me off... What a presentation... Hats off to your research and dedication... Subscribed to keep 'art as a cultural Heritage...'

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

super interesting. Thanks.

Thanks for your time, research and cool sounding voice!

excelent material! thanks for sharing!

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video. Thank you! I loved the jokes you peppered in.

Loved this. Thank you

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Thank you so much for this. You just won yourself a loyal subscriber!

@theartshole311

Жыл бұрын

Cheers! Apologies for my late reply, not getting much free time these days, glad to hear you enjoyed it, more videos coming soon!

Once again, thank you so much for the knowledge! I hope you can make more videos explaining each of these movements and the key points/techniques of each style.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

No problem, glad you enjoy them! I'll keep it up, new one up today and more coming in the new year

Thank you for that brilliant video on Impressionism!

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Very informative video! Thank you.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for this.

amazing content, thank you

Subbed Im going to binge watch your videos for inspiration :) Maybe one day you'll talk about one of my favorites, caravaggio

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! Caravaggio is on the list, looking forward to doing that one myself

I am from India .... I really love your art history videos ...such a great

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Fantastic content and a very informative video! Just to be an annoying commenter, the videos implies that the Bal du moulin de la Galette is in private hands whereas it's in the Musee D'Orsay. The one owned previously by Saito is smaller and visually much different from the one depicted in the video. Thank you so much for continuing to make such great videos!

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Not an annoying commenter at all, thanks for pointing that out! Delighted to hear that, have never had the chance to visit the Musee D'Orsay but I'd heard the story about Saito and wanted to include it, very glad to hear the work is on view, thanks for letting me know!

Thank you for the video!

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

thank you! very interesting)

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

The start of the Art Market. Well, you hit the nail right on the arse there.

Thx so very much appreciate you

They way you carry your dialogue is very organized and affluent.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I try to be clear because if I talk as I normally do no one will understand me!

Verry well done , you know your " stuff " . 👍

Thank you soooo very much for this video. I have only recently found your channel... I am not an artist - the extent of my 'production' of art is limited to school life drawing stuff. I have studied literature, and presently teach literature to undergrads. Literature, culture, art, cinema, social sciences are all so very interconnected, and while studying one you naturally get drawn into the other fields. However, unlike the social sciences, it is much more difficult to really study and understand art history and movements on your own. It i s so much more helpful if you are shown the techniques of 'reading' the art pieces. In that sense, it is similar to poetry... I have viewed many videos on these the Modern Art movements, (may be I should say proto Modern Art - ?) beginning with Impressionism. However, there always remained some amount of confusion in my mind. I think that is because none of the videos really connected the art work with the socio-cultural, technological and economic context the way you have done in this video. (may be some points were mentioned in some videos, but the complete grounding was not done) As you said at the end: art does not exist in a vacuum. We say the same thing to students when we teach literature. Unless you understand the various socio-political, economic, technological contexts of a particular artistic/literary movement, unless u can locate a work in its particular age in history, you can not really understand or 'read' it. Thanks you once again for this very comprehensive video. Really looking forward to the rest of the series. One request - please do not abandon the series mid-way. Really counting on you to go all the way from here to Jackson Pollock, Piss Christ, and the other things which I absolutely can not understand at all.

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment, really glad you found this useful. I will of course continue if people are finding these videos helpful, the current plan is to continue with modern art up to the Abstract Expressionists like Pollock. That is a fascinating and complex moment in cultural history but to get us there we have to cover a lot of other things first so bear with me for a bit while we do. Hopefully the end result will be a library of videos that provides a comprehensive overview of modern art that anyone can understand. Once we're done with all of that I'll be moving onto Postmodern or Contemporary art (whatever you want to call it) Like Serrano's Piss Christ, which is itself an utterly fascinating piece that gets a bit of a bad rap. It's a lot of work but I'm encouraged to keep going when I hear people like yourself are finding them useful. Thanks again!

@radioactivedetective6876

4 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 Yes, please, make as many chapters as you need to cover the movements and related stuff comprehensively. There is no point in just doing a hop-jump-skip series to reach Pollock. Every movement, their socio-cultural context, every practitioner, other influences - all of the aspects need a certain time to be explored to understand art history as a connected and continuous flows, not merely compartmentalised movements. I would rather comprehensively understand 2 movements or periods than superficially know 10.

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

No worries, we will cover as much as possible rather than racing through it. Next few months we're covering Matisse and Duchamp who are both interesting(especially Duchamp, one of my favorites). We will also be taking a look back at some older artists who's work is relevant to understanding modernism too, Goya, David, Turner, Caravaggio and some other interesting figures. It will take a while but over time links between them will emerge and give us a much better picture overall.

@radioactivedetective6876

4 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 🙌🙌🙌 Very excited that u're gonna cover David, Goya and Turner. Coz I like their paintings (the few I have seen) and have a basic idea that David's style is Neo-Classical, can recognise Turner's and Goya's style - would love to learn about the technical & contextual aspects in details. Also, if podsible, while doing Goya plz put in a note about the why & how of the difference between Goya's Rimantic style & Fredrick's Romantic style. My understanding of Romanticism is in terms of literature, specifically the 5 English poets, and also Gothic elements in fictiin, etc. Would love to know about the Romanticism in art.

@radioactivedetective6876

4 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 Looking forward to Duchamp and Matisse too... All I know about Matisse is he was a pioneer of Favism, and I know his Lady with the Hat painting. But I know nothing about Duchamp 🙈 I'm stupid & ignorant like that about a lot of art stuff

Great video!

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

very interesting...thank you

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

with 'a point of view'. brilliant!

Bravo Monsieur :)

This video was so good and engaging that I didn't even noticed that my food was burning the whole time

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, glad you like it!

Well done!! :)

@theartshole311

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😀

Could u please do a mini video explaining broken paint method, hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, drybrushing, and sgraffito? Of course, no hurry. Plz continue with ur planned series. If possible keep it in ur mind, and may be, if it won't be too much of an inconvenience, squeeze in a short vid when u get some free time.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

That is a great idea. I've been thinking for a while it would be quicker and easier to demonstrate the techniques than to talk about them. When I get a chance I'll set up and record something to show them. I reckon doing a bit of painting or drawing ourselves can make understanding this stuff way easier and it's quite enjoyable as well.

Request, could you do an episode about the painter Jan Sluijters? Love his work and his work is criminally underrated.

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Must admit I haven't come across him before, he has some great work. Still plenty to cover in regard to Post Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism, all of which he seems to have been involved with so I will make sure to have a closer look at him soon, thanks for the suggestion!

@cyrilio

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 Definitely an underappreciated artist. The work I suggested in another comment is definitely his most important work. It's huge too.

U are great. Love you

This was great, thank you! Do you have a book recommendation for a bit of extra reading on impressionism? Or other killing books about art?

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! TJ Clark's Painting of Modern Life is a great book about the Impressionists, goes into a lot of detail about the modernization of Paris and the new class politics that affected the era. Might be hard going depending on your tolerance for this sort of thing though, if you want some more readily accessible stuff the two I usually suggest (while not specifically about impressionism, just about modern art in general) are Shock of the New by Robert Hughes and Ways of Seeing by John Berger, both are good accessible introductions

@EirikSvela

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 Awesome. Thanks!

Was listening to a lecture on Impressionism - by a historian, not an art historian. He said something which I found very interesting: he said that one reason why impressionist paintings are still so popular, even to this day, is perhaps because they have "so few barriers to legibility". He was delivering Impressionism from the perspective of someone outside the core world of fine art academia, and may be I could relate to his observation bcoz I share the same position as viewer outside the art world... Also, seems to me, the same phrase "few barriers to legibility", can be applied to so many of Van Gogh paintings and their enduring popularity. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYmGo7Ocibung7w.html check @ 11:15

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

That's a very good point that people within the arts(myself included)often forget. You can get very used to looking at things a certain way and forget how they appear to an outsider. I think a big part of Impressionism appeal could well be to do with its legibility, and we're definitely going to be dealing with that as we go forward and become less readily readable

@radioactivedetective6876

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 The appeal lies in the ordinariness of subject matter I think - just snippets ordinary scenes, of regular people going about their everyday life - it is readable and it is identifiable. And the mundane is at the same time mysterious - coz u look at the expressions of the various faces, and u wonder what emotions are behind the expression captured by the artist at that moment.

@radioactivedetective6876

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 The lecture also has a segment on "impressionism and the city" - which I found interesting. In literature too we explore the role of the city - how the city itself becomes a character - in Modernist literature... And the speaker briefly explored the anonymity that the artist, or any individual, can experience in the city, and the artist as the anonymous observer - interesting to think of the urban-scape and cafe/bar scenes and the various faces that appear in Impressionist works.

Hello, by any chance do you have any references or resources on the information displayed on the topic? It would be very much appreciated.

I love tbis video a lot, but it only let me play th3 vidoe in 480p sadly

I would love if you posted the sources for your videos!

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Apologies! When it comes to good scholarship i am a complete mess but I willl be making an effrot to do so in future. Frequent sources i use are the excellent Art in Theory Books published by Blackwell Publishing, these are anthologies of key texts for different periods of art and I generally use the texts in them for a lot of stuff. Other ones i use a lot would be Art Since 1900 which is a ponderous tomb of a yolk but has some good insights here and there and E.H Gombrichs The Story of Art. Apart from that it's a lot of googling, Jstor papers and hunting for exhibition catalogues with decent essays on Archive.org. In future i'll include proper links in the description to stuff I use and any otuer useful resources

@ozzo870

2 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 No problems! Love your videos nonetheless! Became a subscriber :))

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Delighted to hear that!

So, here's a stupid quedstion - did Monet, Renoir, Pissaro *only* use colours directly from the tube or did they do some mixing in their palettes? I read or saw (can't remember which) that Monet mixed white with his colours to make them bright. Now that's something I have not come across anywhere else - coz mostly Impressionism is connected with optical mixing and use of complimentary colours. Am I misunderstanding stuff? Or taking things too literally regarding no colour mixing in palette by Impressionists?

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Painting techniques even in a style with clear traits like Impressionism can be as distinct as fingerprints. To put it broadly they did mix their colours where needed though usually it was on the pallete in advance. While they had access to more varied pigments than previous painters mixing on the pallet would still be necessary to approximate the hues they needed. The optical mixing would occur from the placement of those prepared colours on the painting, it doesn't mean they would never mix their paints at all. Monet did mix his colours with white through wet into wet painting, preparing the surface with a layer wet white paint and them mixing in the colour on top to create a glowing effect. Others resisted this and mixed as little as possible to maintain the purity of their colours but it really does come down to an artists individual preferred methods.

@radioactivedetective6876

3 жыл бұрын

@@theartshole311 Thanks a lot. U know - I very well know that even in comparitively compact and organised movements with manifestos & stuff e.g. French Impressionism or English Romantic lit, individual practitioners really vary in terms of both subject matter and style. I know that. Yet, unconsciously we (I mean I, in case of non-literature stuff) tend to club together individuals and try to get a generalised understanding with bullet points of features, and then try to match up individuals by seeing if they tick of the boxes. I know that isnt how literature, art or culture works, but the brain has this unconscious tendency to fall back on clear-cut compartmentalisation while exploring new fields. I guess this may be cause in childhood we are taught to understand and remember things in clearly deliniated blocks - u know, the sub-heading way of learning - which works then, coz upto high school level it is pretty simple stuff - but we do that for so many years that our brains get accustomed to it as the default way, and unconsciously gets to simplifying, generalising & compartmentalising, making binaries and trying to get rid of nuances, overlaps, contradictions, stray individual elements. Like here, I have noticed how Monet & Renoir & Pissaro are so different, yet when I read "Monet mixed white..." my brain involuntarily and unconsciously went "ah, but how can that be, coz he was an Impressionist, and they worked with paints directly from the tube, and went for optical mixing - that is so confusing" - stuck in the box. And just as I read ur reply, I thought, but of course, Monet will have his own thing, and it'l change over time, and he can do multiple things, why was I thinking so narrowly. Sometimes our minds get stuck. And putting questions, discussion & communication help in learing, coz a new perspective, and even a hint gets ur mind out of the rut, and u notice new things... I am really really thankful to you for your patience and time and for taking the effort respond to all my comments and questions. It has really, genuinely helped me a lot, not only in understanding the topics u've covered, but also to better understand other videos, lectures on art. Thanks a ton 💞

Is it the same as Figurative and Contemporary painting?

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Contemporary painting is a very broad term which generally gets applied to everything that comes "after" Modern art, though those disticntions are pretty blurry and often quite useless to be honest. Impressionism definitly qualifies as Figuritive though, loads of figures in there!

Now that NFT's have come, I can't stop thinking what art will become. I wish people could start making real movements to show how the NFT affect how we will see artist has the time go. Bunch of invester...

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Might do a video on NFT's if there is interest in it, thought i must say I am very skeptical of the whole thing so my opinion will probably be less than kind. Doesn't help that I keep getting offers from various leeches to put ads for their NFT's in the videos. Not a fan!

What about art today? The way i see it there are two categories: banksy's social commentary and anime fan art. But there must be more, right?

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

While it does seem that about 90% of all visual art produced is indeed anime fan art, there are as many different kinds of art out there as there are people to produce them. Once we get through all the Modernist stuff I intend to start covering Contemporary art too so bear with me and I can hopefully answer that question in more detail

Modern ært

is it Art or Ert you are talking about ? :D

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

😂 perhaps starting a channel based around a word I can't pronounce was a bad idea

Huh??? Moulin de la Gallet is in Musee D’Orsay !

@theartshole311

3 жыл бұрын

Oops, what did I say? Must have got something confused, sorry!

so this is where red yellow and blue becomes the traditional colors...

Aart

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Eeert

There's nothing more comical and tiresome than art that shits marble and spouts classical values from on high. There is nothing more fascinating even compelling than directly observing the honest inquiry of a brilliant highly skilled observer who is obsessed with painting light not telling stories while employing, and experimenting with, color theory and optical perception. Mixing paint directly on the canvas. Wow!

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it's amazing what counts as an advance back then, it's incredible just how restrictive the academic model could be.

Darling the word "art" is spelled "aart" not "ert" as you are spelling it correct your pronounciation

aren’t you the talking head for a ultra conservative newspaper? Making up conspiracy after conspiracy? I was disgusted with your lack of facts. And that’s a fact.

@theartshole311

2 жыл бұрын

I may be partial to an odd conspiracy here and there but nope, I've no affiliation with any ultra conservative newspapers (never thought I'd have to type that sentence)

"Modern Art" still sucks