I feel like we take these artist's techniques for granted, considering stuff like photoshop wouldn't come in until the very late 1900s, so it's impressive to see his editing skills put to amazing work. My favorite piece has to be the spread toast piece he did, looks really well put together honestly

legitimately one of the most under rated youtube channels i've come accross. i've never considred myself to be interested in art, but channels like yours have help me come to appreciate them more. thanks for all the work you put into the channel, hope to see more to come.

Thank you for helping me realize I love art. What you are doing is so important!

I'm glad I found this channel. Talking about art from a left-leaning lense is definitely something that fits all my niches.

It's so interesting that he would change his name in protest to anti-British sentiments. I've heard of American immigrants changing their names to to avoid anti-German sentiment, so something a bit like the reverse surprised me.

Thanks for introducing me to Heartfield's work. I can't believe that somehow I've missed it all these years. The impact of his work is staggering when you realize he was going up against the most monolithic human hate machine of modern times. Damn, that's absolutely heroic.

The balls to publish the art at this time. really really great

The way you make content - amazing! Thank you for such great topics in your videos.

Hi! Can you pls do a video on the Australian gold rush painting 'Down On His Luck' it is my single most favourite Australian painting and its one of the most saddening paintings out there! As an Australia this will mean a lot to me and no one of KZfaq has really done a break down of it! Thank you! Regards, Charles Begley

The image of John Heartfield cutting the Berlin police chief image and your description is by far one of the most interesting things I heard in a while. This channel is making art more interesting for me.

i didn't know i needed a channel in my life that delved so deeply into historical art and taught me about the important cornerstones that came from it. as a long time artist who feels like they don't know enough about art history, you're extremely good at captivating me and making it easy to want to listen and learn. really enjoying all of the content i've been coming across from your channel. i hope you grow exponentially and get the recognition you've more than earned from all of the effort you put into these videos.

The performance art by actress Kathy Griffith, where she held up the Trump mask, simulating a severed head, reminded me of Heartfield's 1929 self portrait.

I got really into poster art & wheatpasting during the anti-war protests in the mid 00s and came across Heartfield's name. I remembered looking him up after SOAD's first album. Reading about a guy who made anti-authoritarian propaganda and had to jump out of a window to get away from the cops felt relatable. The phrase "the hand has five fingers, with all five you grab the enemy" is so powerful, its a call to action that demands my participation in the struggle 100 years later. His contributions are so under-appreciated and its a shame so many people have never heard of him. Thank you for this video.

just got recommended to your channel today, and wow. i am so blown away, i look forward to watching your video essays for years to come! Also super excited about your artist residency project!! May it flourish in the coming months 🙏

Thanks for the video! I’m not only learning about artists and their paintings, in some videos I can really picture myself and compare the artists thoughts and your thoughts with my own thoughts about the world and the way I see things! I’m exploring my self and my inner thoughts and I’m learning a great deal about myself! Thanks again for the video😁

Wish there were more channels like this. I've been searching for a long time. Love the content. Please keep it coming

Amazing video! The amount of fascist-apologists in this comment section is astounding though...

Your narratives are absolutely brilliant! Have learned so much from watching your channel. Thank You for sharing your knowledge!🤙

I've discovered this channel lately and it sparkled an interest in me for paintings and stuff. This one is also a necessary political video. Congrats!

i found out about your channel literally today and i’m so happy i did. the quality and research put into your videos are incredible and i can’t wait to see the channel grow

C'est passionnant ! Depuis que je connais ta chaîne, je dévore les vidéos les unes après es autres. Merci beaucoup.

Thank you for reminding me of Heartfelt! I was randomly assigned him as a pioneer of design back in my university days and the images I studied stick with me today.

Beautiful video, I love the art criticism with interspersed history

Interesting, thank you. Btw, Heartfield joined the KPD (Kommunstische Partei Deutschlands), not the 'KDP'.

I feel like im learning so much from your videos. Its like a really interesting school lesson.

love your channel bro, 70k already is crazy.

Just found you on accident and I super adore this channel so far ! Getting my art nerding on, love it

This is my favourite video by you! Brilliant! ✊

Just found your channel recently, I've been loving the content. Thanks for the effort and great execution

My photography course visited an exhibition with his art last year and it was incredibly interesting! One guy even did a project on him later that year!

Thank you for the amazing & informative videos, you always create informative, yet digestable and intriguing content!

Amazing channel, can’t wait to see your KZfaq influence grow

Thank you--I did not know what Dadaism was. Great work here, by you and Heartfield. It made me wonder if Terry Gilliam was influenced by Heartfield, and it also reminded me that I created a photomontage in my early twenties, a scathing re-mix of a Virginia Slims advertisement. (You've come a long way, baby! Ha!)

What a brave man Heartfield was! Being openly against the Nazis has been deadly for many Germans at this time.

tysm for this perfect video!! I am currently making a school presentation for english class about him since he was such a big inspo for me and the way he made his political art really spoke to me since nobody i knew was really into it. This video helped me group my thoughts so easily!! Definitely subscribing

Incredible showcase, story telling and execution of it all. I subscribed too. Hope you are doing well and are eager to make more of this great content.

This literally is my favorite channel for art.💙

thankyou so much for making this video...made my final project for 12th grade on it and it turned out too good.

8:33 You ignored the best part of the "Sinn des Hitlergrußes" poster. "Motto: I am supported by millions" This pun is genius. Millions of what? Not Germans, as Hitler would claim, but millions of Mark from the capitalists bankrolling Hitler.

thank you for making such interesting and instructive videos! thank god we still have some people who make those on youtube these days...

Man I'm so glad I found your channel

Will you also make videos about beksinski's art? love your content

Hey! I am loving your channel, your content is so well made. I humbly recommend the garden of earthly delights for one of your videos. It tells such a deep story.

This channel deserves millions of views, quality content, keep up the good work man, greetings from Argentina!

2:27 May day communist party 5:33 propaganda Vs propaganda 7:22 the meaning of Geneva AIZ 9:40 socialism Vs fascism 11:50 Heartfield is still fighting

Amazing and very insightful!! Going to look up more of his work after this :)

Well done! May we all keep fighting as long!✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

This is an amazing channel wow!! Thank you! Right on man! ❣️Really interested in your artist residency!

Never been here before but I’ll certainly be back. Fantastic presentation

So glad I got reccomended this channel. It's actually crazy how the photomontage of attention bombardment is just as relevant today as it was back then.

I am 4 minutes in and fascinated, its like design school, but cooler.

Thank you. I'm new to this channel and I am eager to explore your videos

Excellent and well read video as always

Thank you for doing this work. very important. Love this channel !!!

I love love love your channel! Please keep the great content coming:)

Great video, glad to contribute

Great video! u should make one about Zdzisław Beksiński

Love your videos! You definitely deserve more subs!

Can you make a video about "The garden of earthly delights (hell)" painting? This thing is so interesting to me. I would like to know who made this creature and why. I would be so greatful, if you do so :))))

Ho avuto la fortuna di vedere una mostra su J. Heartfield ( Herzfelde) a Londra nei primi anni '90. Le copertine di A.I.Z. ( rivista illustrata per i lavoratori) erano/sono straordinariamente efficaci ancora oggi.

Excellent piece!

Fantastic content. 👍

the quality of this art is outstanding

I like and enjoy the information you provide of art and the artist as well thank you

Heartfiled is also one of my favourite artist, he is above art, above fight for manipulated people, above all criticism and every other "ism". So strong in his thoughts and so brave in his interpretations. Infinite glory ❤

Thank you so much for your videos. They make me very relaxed but they also have showed me that art is still beautiful even after some trauma i got in Art School, and i really am thankful for this channel and all your work 💜

This artist reminded me instantly of the famous picture of Woody Guthrie in '43 -- 'this machine kills fascists' written on his guitar. It's sad, but Heartfield and Guthrie are still significant today.

he was hard hitting, and still worthy work today.

Not even a minute in and John Heartfield sounds like the coolest person to ever live

Could you make a video on complete list of drawing materials and art genres (op art, futurism, retro - there are so many interesting types of visual forms) - just a beginner who is interested in the subject 😁😁

I'm so glad I found your channel

Very good. Quite a discovery (the man and the channel).

Thank you. Keep up your good work.

Thanks! Good content!

A great video lesson!

I'm 4 months late to the party and haven't been thru all the comments, but I would recommend looking at the influence JH had on British artist Peter Kennard. You may not recognise the name but I'm pretty sure you'll have seen some of his work.

congrats on 100k subs

And the relevance lives on and on

Now I finally understand the brutal truth about fascism. Thanks for your video!! Kind regards from Ásgeir in Iceland.

Great presentation …good luck on the residency

Very well done! Thank you for teaching me something today. 🙂

In German school we do learn about some of his pictures but never about him as a person which is a shame

I feel like his artstyle was picked up by later German satiricists. Especially the Titanic. I wonder if you know about them and how much they reflect Heartfield and satire in general.

gleaned several timely insights into fascism's love affair with capitalism. thanks very much

One of my favorite artists as well.

This is something I love about art. I can’t fight h!tler, I can’t stop global warming, end corruption, end world hunger, end inequality, or anything else my teachers force me to do. I’m not that strong, or smart, or anything really, but as long as I can draw, I can pretty much do anything through my art

Excellent, completely forgot about him... thanks!

That magazine cover reminds me of this summers issue of 2600 where they made a mock ai generated set of images of SCOTUS judges

This art is extremely inspiring as we are seeing the rise of fascism again

I think that you should have added, that he also criticized the funding of the nsdap/hitler/nazi Party often. I feel you misrepresented the piece „millionen stehen hinter mir“, as it portrais that not millions of people were behind him, but millions of funding. This funding came mostly through German industry, but was ironically funded by US and UK involvement and business. This is also clear in his piece „wir beten an die Macht der Bomben“. I think heartfield was ahead of the times, and what he expressed way before the war started was neglected and kept going until the end of the war. And then it was supressed by the winning parties. Sutton wrote a book about the Financial involvements in the 70s i believe.

It's interesting how the word 'propaganda' has a strongly negative connotation now. It doesn't appear to have been so in the past. I like how this video goes into that concept. (I also happen to be a huge lover of WWII and cold war propaganda movies - every time I watch Edge of Darkness I'm ready to pick up a rifle and join Errol Flynn in fighting the Nazis myself!).

Really great informative video

Super informative, lovely overview. The history of modern art and surrealism and abstraction in art has such strong roots in anti-capitalism, pro freedom of expression. Im a queer leftist trans girl in america, and, learning about this helps me feel not so alone. The absolute suffocating hatred of queer people, poc, the glorification of police brutality and billionaire oligarchs in america makes giving up or giving in feel like an easy option at times, but, the dada movement is a tool of fighting against it, of refusing to let ones reaction to oppression follow a playbook. I kind of feel a kinship with that. Thanks again for your video.

i love your chair. please dont change it. :)

Thanks!

A fascinating look at the original Meme-meister.

Extremely thoughtful 👏

Love older artists, what a brave dude

This feels so much like Brasil on the last few years, it's so sad.

Just found the channel through this video :) I wonder if I can use any if Heartfields work as album cover art? Would be great to revive some of his images in these troubling times