Critics, I long ago decided, love to tear down the greatest of artists because they have no talents themselves..other than their ability to seethe with jealousy and rage at those who do. I ignore critics of the past and of the present, and decide for myself what I love. This man's work is one of the superb miracles of my life...exquisite!

@giantpurplebrain

16 күн бұрын

At the end of the day we all love the things we love Kathleen - Bougereau brings a lot of joy I agree. Please believe me when I say that on the whole critics aren't on the whole jealous people with an agenda to destroy particular artists - for one thing they're all different. But reading a critic can bring more insight, and more enjoyment, from art - if you find one you like they can be expert and able to make you see something differently. Many simply write well. I'm sure many are idiots also.

Thanks to this channel for posting videos on artists like Bouguerau. I love Van Gogh and Titian, but even your favourite dish will bore you in the end if you gourge it for years, so I appreciate the possibility of knowing other artists like Bouguerau or Ilya Repin .

Fabulous video. Wonderful painter!

The Greatest Painter ! When i was a student nobody talked about the french painters of 18-19th century like Bouguereau. We`ve always skipped to the impressionists and the 20th century. Thats because teachers were bored and only wanted to fast forward their propaganda on how the real art was born after the impressionists, while never talked about painters like Bouguereau. He isnt in any book i know, when i`ve studied. From Rafaelo, da Vinci and Michelangelo .... a moment for Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens and Vermeer... and straight on the 20th century ( as if between 16/17th and 20th century there is nothing important to know about in the world of art ) . The most illogical thing is that abstract teachers teach in classical academic schools, where they told me "classical art is boring and meaningless nowadays, do me some modern - blobs of paint, abstract shapes, ect". More and more people have to speak about Bouguereau. More documentaries about him. Like they do 5 films only about Picasso, in which they say one and the same thing, but in 5 different movies. Or like in Van Gogh - 5 movies, the same story on and on. I am glad that more and more people start to know about Bouguereau. I am not glad when i speak to my modernists teachers about Bouguereau, they dont care about that. They say that thats childish play, and we have to think more "original and abstract"... words, which even they dont understand.

@giantpurplebrain

16 күн бұрын

I think the reason Bougereau isn't more widely discussed is that he was a master of a particular style of painting popular in his time - rather than Van Gogh, Picasso and the usual list of modernists who invented their own styles or languages and went on to influence art not just practise it - and so their names become synonymous with movements and directions in art. Artists like Bougereau do have lots of writing about them but it tends to be rather academic and dry - not the stuff of coffee table books.

A few years ago, a fellow from the Florence Academy gave a 2 week class on fabulous painting - Bouguereau was my choice to copy. I had stopped painting after I saw 4 selfies Rembrandt painted in an exhibition, 20 years earlier. Why I thought things would come out differently is the measure of insanity; repeat the mistake and expect a serendipity. Didn't happen. It must be said that I never had a room in which to paint properly. The iPad changed everything for me, and I've grown other skills of the craft besides the drawing. It is my choice of medium - but oh... there are times when I long to hold a brush.💐 Zeus, he's a master par excellence.

One of my favorite artists. Love the subjects and style. Thanks so much for presenting him.

so serene and pleasant. Thanks for the presentation.

Marvelous Art of a master artist!!!! Great video!!!

I absolutely love this artists work. I have had the privilege of viewing The Elder Sister which hangs in the Museum of Fine Art in Houston. I have a small print of it so I can look at it often. It has always been my favorite painting in the entire Museum.

For me the greatest painter to date, what craftsmanship and observation skills.

One of my favorites.

Magnificent! Wonderfully presented. Thank you.

Brilliant video! Well done

Excellent - thank you.

Swimming in an ocean of ugliness of the, so called, "modern art", the works of classical Painters look like an oasis, a breath of fresh air, full of true natural beauty and splendour, that is so uplifting to the soul ! Because true pleasure relies in nature, not in monstrosities.

Wow that's awesome skills and abilities and I am inspired by this

Great video!!

I've been fortunate enough to see several of Bouguereau's paintings and I'm always amused by those who deride his painting as "too slick." One just has to look closely and carefully at the surface of his paintings to see that while his brushwork is indeed subtle it is also quite lively and surprisingly robust. I remember looking at Bouguereau's portrait of Madame la Comtesse de Cambaceres on display at the Seattle Art Museum from their permanent collection and hearing a passerby who quickly glanced at it and reacted to it by saying "bourgeois" in a mocking tone to his black-clad goth companions as they hurried past. Later I was amused to see him buying the poster to SAM's exhibition of contemporary Japanese art and was tempted to ask him if there was anything more "bourgeois" than buying a poster as a memento to an art exhibition but thought it hypocritical to do so as I was buying the catalog to the exhibition of American watercolors that was also showing at SAM at the time. ;>)

@gammelllackinstitute

6 ай бұрын

Well stated, Bouguereau's works stands alone. A very rare talent, & thanks!

Amazing to me that he was so prolific when having to first produce such detailed preparatory drawings before even applying paint

@andrecruz9188

6 ай бұрын

He worked from 6 to 6 everyday

The impressionists of that day persecuted this genius..jealous of his great ability

@nigellee9824

5 ай бұрын

The impressionist brought in mediocrity......

@giantpurplebrain

25 күн бұрын

@@nigellee9824 The impressionists weren't jealous of Bougereau - they simply had different visions. WAB was the epitome of academic French painting - and his paintings are stunning - but he wasn't an innovator and there are other ways of making great art.

@Daughterofminerva

16 күн бұрын

Honestly I don't think the impressionists persecuted Bouguerau . They just didn't appreciate academic style because they were fed up with the artistic system of their time , that forced painters to paint only in one way and only some themes in order to be considered artists. In fact the Impressionists were admirers of some great masters who came before them , like Delacroix or Velazquez , because they admired the innovations they introduced : painting en plein air , innovative brush strokes, attention to the effects of light. These artists were studied in the Academia too. Consider this : now many people are fed up with abstract art because everyone makes abstract art ,and in fact more "academic artists" such as Ingres or Bouguerau , have been capturing interest again from the public. But in the past everyone used to paint like Ingres or Bouguerau ,so people got bored and were attracted by other styles. Picasso was able to draw like Raphael when he was a boy ( we have some of these sketches that he did when we was a boy), but he decided not to paint in academic style,not because he lacked the ability,but because he was interested in other styles.

dEAR OH DEAR.

This was great, thank you! Anyone know how old he was when he won those first awards?

0:33 "Chausson-Saviem". (bus)

Well narrated, although not disclosing his "painting process."

Compare Bouguereau to Rothko, and tell me who is the better artist and person.

Im doing a bicep tattoo with the virgin mary and angels. Its a symbolic piece that personally represents my catholic roots and origins, and the relation mom son, and actually the fact my mom is called Maria.