How Communities Make Art: Crash Course Art History #10

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Art is often understood as a solitary act of personal expression. But art is also the basis for community from Alaska to Mali - and from gay rights advocates to Frida Kahlo appreciators. In this episode we’ll learn how community is created through art.
Note: While Yayoi Kusama is an incredibly influential artist, she has a complicated legacy. Writer and PhD candidate Dexter Thomas has called attention to anti-Black racism in her published writing, including her 2002 autobiography “Infinity Net.” We encourage you to view Crash Course Art History Episode 5 to hear our discussion about artists with problematic histories and join the conversation.
Introduction: Obliteration Room 00:00
The Great Mosque of Djenné 01:20
The Gelede 03:48
The Chief Johnson Pole 04:58
The Origins of Pride Flags 06:30
The Umbrella Art of Hong Kong 08:18
Review & Credits 09:45
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Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1G...
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@rederik99 6 күн бұрын

CC: Art History is becoming the best part of my KZfaq week. Thanks again!

@Imbatmn57 6 күн бұрын

This reminds me of the corn cob palace in Mitchel South Dakota, they change the mural every so often,using various colors of corn.

@ndemers 6 күн бұрын

Love your brief history of the Pride flag! I guess you had to edit for length, but it's interesting to consider how the original 8-stripe design was brought down to 6 for practical reasons, and the 8 stripes have started popping up again recently in a few places. And in 2015, Philadelphia queer people of colour created a new version, with black and brown stripes before the red, to represent POC and protest racism in Philly's gaybourhood. You could see it as kind of a transitional version, which the Progress Flag built on. Mind you, all the new flags are somewhat controversial, especially with gays of a certain age -- and some who think the progress flag is a design abomination 😁. But I love them!

@Caterfree10 6 күн бұрын

+++ especially to the loving all the versions! There’s even another new one with the intersex flag represented in the chevrons!

@Beryllahawk 6 күн бұрын

Wonderful video! I'm loving this series so much! I'm really hoping we can get a little list (when the series finishes) of all the artists and pieces discussed. Okay, maybe it wouldn't be a LITTLE list, but it would still be mega helpful for revisiting the art and the ideas later! Another small thing - as a musician the discussion of art and community really touches me, especially in the way you've framed that idea. It really IS something incredible and ephemeral and special, when you're making a piece of art with 500 other people on stage, sharing it with 1500 people in the audience, and every single person in that building is experiencing the whole thing just a little differently. It's intense, and quite frankly the closest I will ever come to "heaven." Creating physical art with other people is amazing too - but I've had far more opportunities to sing with people than to create physical objects with people.

@HSScienceStudies 6 күн бұрын

Hello Crash Course! I wanted to thank you all for all the work yall have done. I am studying for various competitions and honestly, your videos can summarize 3 hour lectures to 10 minutes without cutting out crucial info. Thanks so much for everything!

@samwill7259 6 күн бұрын

The changing of the Mosque of Jenne is great and all but I hope someone is making sure to take a picture of it at least once a year, for historical purposes if nothing else

@ethan-loves 4 күн бұрын

I know right, isn't it amazing how it evolves? It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so I'm sure recordkeepers are keeping great track of its annual refresh

@billyfox6368 4 күн бұрын

It will probably be photographed multiple times hourly being so famous.

@Wernouis 4 күн бұрын

03:07 - This made me think about the sampling culture in black american music. Taking songs from the past and adapting to your own storytelling; or going further and adding layers to the original song

@KannikCat 5 күн бұрын

I love every single thing in this episode, and the so many ways that art can bring us together, especially in the participatory way. It's exciting to be with people who often don't think of themselves as artists get to do and create and express themselves and be a part of a collective. The shine in their eyes is just wonderful. :)

@elliottjunkyard2185 3 күн бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Harvey Milk and the pink triangle. So many supposed "allies" want to leave out the darkest part of our history, but our grief is part of pride just as much as our joy is.

@MythicTales993 6 күн бұрын

You always provide such valuable insights. This video is just another great example. Thanks!

@z_PSOC Күн бұрын

Thanks for featuring the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong! I got a chance to see that in person - and man, that was remarkable!

@SevenUnwokenDreams 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful. I'm weeping.

@ethan-loves 4 күн бұрын

This is so well done, wow! I'm going to have to go back and watch the whole series

@isacami25 6 күн бұрын

community art moves me like no other

@sonowgetup 5 күн бұрын

I read the title of this video and thought 'Hm, community art, doesn't sound that interesting.' But I'm so glad I clicked on it because this was fascinating, thank you so much! 👏

@user-rh6ru5oz2o 6 күн бұрын

The umbrella is still a symbol of the democracy movement for HK

@erraticonteuse 6 күн бұрын

The black stripe on the Progress Pride flag also represents those we've lost to AIDS and hate crimes

@lorenabpv 6 күн бұрын

this reminds me of something that's been happening locally to me: the brazilian flag/jersey had been co-opted by neofascists in the past few years. queer artists and overall progressive people have slowly been trying to claim it back. this year, we had a hige uptick in people wearing jerseys and flags at the madonna concert (free/very much progressively oriented) and at pride. it's still a little weird, ngl, given the past decade or so, but it was also heartwarming to go to pride and see the national symbols mixed with queer and feminist symbols (oftentimes literally, people remixed the flag a lot lol)

@sambitnes 6 күн бұрын

Beautiful!

@kainingyao7873 Күн бұрын

Interestingly enough, the new progress pride flag not only manages to pay tribute to the original gay pride flag by including pink and light blue (which were omitted for practical reasons), but also it includes all the colors of the nonbinary flag (with yellow, purple, black and white) as well as the transgender flag it was intended to represent. That is a pretty genius design to maximize inclusivity. And don't forget that there is another variant of the progress pride flag that also includes a circle to represent intersex people too.

@renevelation6586 6 күн бұрын

I love this. Looking forward to it every Thursday at 6 pm.

@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061 6 күн бұрын

Kahlo is a controversial figure, though... (Latinos who Lunch covered this well--it's a podcast)

@usvanovomkraju 6 күн бұрын

Sarah ❤❤❤❤❤

@mairamarques3107 6 күн бұрын

Love learning more about art ❤

@Mhark127 4 күн бұрын

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@Surax 6 күн бұрын

3:15 It's interesting that you say that painting over a Frida Khalo would not go over well. In the last few years, there have been a string of attempts to vandalize paintings by the protest group "Just Stop Oil." There have been detractors to this protest of course but at the same time, it could also be seen as the same kind of collective expression you're describing.

@Luischocolatier 6 күн бұрын

No, the Just Stop Oil people are a group funded by the Climate Emergency Fund, an organization that was founded, among others, by Eileen Getty of the Getty Oil Industry family. And she has "renovating old flats into luxury apartments" as a hobby so I don't think her intentions nor the ones from Just Stop Oil are genuine or interested in getting rid of Oil. They seem closer to be doing as much as possible to give bad rep to environmental activists.

@AlisonLeighLilly 6 күн бұрын

Especially since usually "Just Stop Oil" protesters make sure to use non-permanent methods that will not actually damage the art (something that, if reported at all, gets included as a side note after a lot of finger-wagging in the mainstream press). This was particularly ironic after the most recent incident when protesters sprayed orange chalk-dust onto Stonehenge just before the summer solstice to call attention to climate change. Reporters quoted folks who worried the non-permanent, non-toxic chalk might harm some of the rare lichens growing on the stones, but failed to acknowledge that the reason those lichens are rare today is because climate change has threatened their very existence.

@ShizProduct 6 күн бұрын

There have been 0 attempts to actually vandalize these paintings by the protests. The point of the protest you're referring to was to show that we as humans protect these artworks better than the planet we live on. No one thought after the tomato soup hit the glass in front of it '"Damned, there's apparently glass in front of it!".

@sunitinelson5564 5 күн бұрын

All the same, this push and pull of dialogue around art shows how co-creation & activism are inextricably linked. Activism is one of the main ways that symbols and the meaning behind changes over time.