Yes!!!!!

Yess, I'd love that!!

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

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.

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.

@@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.

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.

Great point

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

Exactly

always!!

I have JUST done that

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

r/things that never happened

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

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

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

@@stick-itproductions.3307 *parry

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

Especially the burp at 00:51 😅

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

Joshua Chew so true!

With a bit more cowbell would be perfect

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

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

pretentious as fuck

@@justustherighteous371 Fair enough yo wouldn't understand

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.

@Stealinbread art shouldn't be judged on skill

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

@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

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

Because you dont pretend to see the emperors clothes.

Sound design is what I love about these videos.

@@firstprimehunter true

@@firstprimehunter agleed

Kamelpasa Could you tell me where it is ?

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

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

@@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.

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 :)

He steal Hilma Van K

GREED

Hilma af Klint did it first tho

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

Great Artist do what?

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

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

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?

@@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.

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

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

rmcewan10 Cheers mate

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

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.

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.

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

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

Not quite my tempo.

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.

Agreed!

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@Kurt Barryman ow the edge

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

Fuck you

​@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

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

"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."

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.

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.

@@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.

@@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.

that's abstract art for you :)

@@ecstaticmeatball8537 brainwashed sheep

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

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

Where did you find this story?

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

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

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

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 .

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

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.

For the CIA. Not kidding. Public record.

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.

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

Beautifully said

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!

Luchism

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!

@@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.

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

I thought I saw a Stormtrooper.

I saw a dolphin.

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.

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

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

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

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

Nausicaä ♡

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

Key word "trying"

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.

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

This is a bit pretentious

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

Dudes got crazy drip

you do great work!

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

Just subbed I'll check your vids after this one

Just subbed, cool channel

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

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

more like: interpret reality

@@flo84floflo84 nah

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

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

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

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..

@@coastaf take your meds.

Damn that’s crazyyyyyyyyy

Would be sooooo great!!

Turner predates this.

Agreed! They are very inspiring!

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

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

my apologies, it is 2:29

UWU :3

Absolutely. The man is good.

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