Yes , the subject became a real person that was alive during another age, instead of just an old painting! Fascinating!!

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I think Baumgartner did it better. Like this guy was cutting the original tacking edge with scissors and I was like “WHAT ARE YOU DOING”

It was also an easier restoration. Facial features only needed cleaning, no degraded areas to be restored.

@@Mekratrig the technique was also really weird. Where he used the same solvent and just wiped the whole painting down

I’m glad I’m not the only Baumgartner fan in here.

If this is professional restoration, then Baumgartner is Godly restoration. This process was very stressful to watch. Seems like these are the types of restorers Baumgartner keeps complaining about.

Same!!!!!😊

Who wouldn't think it's an art?

I'd argue that all restorations are an artwork in of itself

Everything is art, whether it be cooking, singing, drawing, or really anything you do in life. It just depends on how you view the meaning of "art."

It's true!

As an artist myself, I was thinking exactly this! It gives me hope

No what he means is that someone owns the painting

I was just thinking I like the idea of the original artist or even the original subject standing behind the person doing the restoring and feeling happy

he isn’t the one who did it, he is voicing over someone else

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Should have cleaned before mounting.

test paint thinner on the letter. Hmm maybe a not so noticeable area like the corner?

They are only temporary Like everything in this world I sadly think The last restoration

The whole "reversible conservator" paints is starting to sound to me like a cope out. The whole rationale is that they are easily removable so that some other conservator can do so at some future date. That frankly seems like no real repair then, if it's literally designed to fail. Keep in mind the isolation varnish layer is already supposed to separate the restoration from the original regardless of paint type.

@@joseroncero8379 isolation layer is there to help saturate the original colours, onto which you paint the conservativation colour. The hue of saturated paint layer changes from "raw" layers, so it makes sense you are trying to mimic the colour to saturated state (which will be achieved with final varnish). The restoration colours are not cop-out, but a recognition that tastes and morals about retouching changes, so restion techniqies are trying to acknowledge it. Ultimately the trend in restorations will change again and it is a moral princeple that you dont touch the precious original, so your (restoration) work can be removed without damaging the original´s artist work.

@@joseroncero8379 oh, also forgot about the most important thing about restoration colours- they do NOT change hue, which every other colour does, so once the retouching will be done, the consistency with original paint will remain. REtouched spot will not darken/lighten and retouching will look good indefinitely.

@@joseroncero8379 there's a world of difference between something easily removable and something designed to fail sheesh

I would have the painting lying down so as not to have to deal with cleaner runs, and dobbed with small rubbing swirls with cotton balls.

yeah, instead he drenched it in gallon of acetone. not much of an improvement

I agree, and now we have seen some threads disappear. Bet the owner wishes he could go back in time.

Yeah and every chemical mix was kept secret, so what did you really learn? You would start with 10% isopropyl alcohol in distilled water and work up in 10% increments until it came clean enough.

From 8:40-8:44... seeing the painting flex against the strainer during cleaning and then seeing the solvent has completely wicked thru to the back of the painting?! Yikes.

I’m absolutely horrified?!!!!!!! He even cut off pieces of the original tacking edge!!!!!

I think it is the fault of the channel, I just watched a violin restoration and it too was horrible. Mind you Julian is exceptional.

Screaming internally intensifies as I watch more.

Indeed!!! I was watching in disgust!

It takes an incredable artist to do this restoration. Amazing & interesting. So much more interesting than some lame movie with equall lame actors!

Baumgartner would not do a test clean on the actual letter. . . he'd do it on a less featured part of the canvas.

I thought the same thing, but for one hiccup. He puts paint where no paint has been lost. I'm not dissing the results cause they're amazing but he really shouldn't be obscuring the original artists work like that.

Artists then: this painting Artists now: dots are art

now random splashes of paint on a canvas are considered art

While yes back then paintings were thriving in more ways than one but do take note back when this painting was made the country was not the best one.

@@bruce2.085 he said an era of art so say things were still normal this century but the art was like art in that era

I try to do actual art not random dots on paper But that doesn’t mean it looks good lol😅

Bruh you just copied @Joseph amanda comment and got more likes... Not cool man, not cool.

@@clintonda5976 who even cares? It’s a comment with literally no value whatsoever

@@clintonda5976 who gives a shit?

It's never too late for anything I think

You people are right.about how much time you have left.doing something you may want to do before the end of time.at least this is not hardcore physical or cardiovascular work.it seems to be very chill and leisure-like activities!!!it is not Evil Knevil stunts or go bungee jumping off the empire state building.if you have the mentality that you can,then you can!age is not a number like many people would say.in reality everybody will eventually will get old.i say just take it slow to be relaxed in life.there is no problem if you say "yes" or "no" what really matters if you really want to or not in anything in life.despite of the aging human.

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That one time the guy messes up. So who’s gonna tell the owner?

@@fizzcat3321 no

I agree, this is not proper restoration.

Came here to say this.. Julian would have a thing or two to say about this.

Baumgartner was the first thought I had watching this. It would be fun to hear what he thinks of this restoration.

Julian was the first thought I had too, specially in the beginning of the video the guy putting the painting on the floor and how rough he handle this 3 century painting

It’s termed pointillism.

same... Julian never does this

I would not be happy with that

It's not reversible without powerful solvents that might damage the painting.

And turpentine to thin the paint… pretty sure it’s oil paint he used as well. Resin paints do not use turpentine. This one gets a huge “Yikes!” from me. :-/

@@ragnes18 . Oh, really? Are you a consevator or your knowledge comes only from Baumagartner? Plenty of conservators use wood filler, moreover, so does Baumgartner, his filler is only combined with white pigment, so it looks white. 90% of fillers are just wood fillers with pigment.

I sense your irony.

Your language is so beautiful

I seriously doubt he would critique any but the the most incompetent restoration job. We know that Julian would not have reattached the canvas to the stretcher until he performed the other steps up to prepping for retouching and the actual work of retouching. Additionally he would have put it on his hot table to eliminate the crease caused by the stretcher. I would not have been happy seeing this had I been the client.

Julian has better things to do than to comment on this.

@@alise4041 I watch another restorer who lives in Europe, learned at a different school than Julian, doesn't have a huge studio like Julian but his methods are near identical to Baumgartner's. Because of the ethics they hold to. Yes, each restorer has their own approach but they all come from the same viewpoint. So, if this made so many people cringe, there is a reason why. Julian isn't the end all, be all. But his ethics are.

that’s Exactly what i want to see. the material he uses over holes is a completely different method. the filler he uses is wood? many other small things are different. love to hear what Julian thinks!! 🤔🙂🌷🌱

@@oltedders The removal of the crease would make the painting look newer and not aged which is against the requested job by the client.

Omg that is so cool! That’s like a once in a life time thing!

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Exactly. Baumgartner is just a showman. And he is highly critisiezed by professional conservators. But for most of the audience here, he is like a God.

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​@@lavendelblue4368 yeah? Show proof, bc I'd never saw or heard a bad word from any pro conservators

Cutting off tacking edge isn’t restoring, it’s replacing. Also, there’s a very visible crease on the painting. Wouldn’t have happened if he followed Julian’s restoration to the letter

@@CausingChaos. who tf is julian

@@Lovangeline Baumgartner restoration.

@@CausingChaos. ah ok

@@CausingChaos. i am now a fan of baumgartner restoration

As you should

Go watch Baumgartner Restorations…HE is a professional.

I've never seen any of his other videos, so feel free to correct me, but he did mention the person who owns the painting wanted it to keep an old-ish look. So, maybe that's why?

@@kittenpounce Too many people here seem to have forgotten or otherwise ignored what the client originally requested, and want original restoration as some other guy's channel does. As far as the above video said, it's a privately-owned piece, not a museum item.

@@invalleria It's not just this problem on video. The guy doesn't even have tongs for stretching the canvas, not to mention the fact that the conservation of the canvas has not been completed. And where, instead of professional gesso, wood priming is used, I have already begun to laugh.

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