Thank the art world for Waldemar Janusczak as I've never had the life to go to an art gallery and I'm not saying opportunity will never come but my health and mobility isn't so good now. Waldemar has brought art to me and explained the art/artist to me in such a cool way, I get it. Keep doing what you do as they'll be more of us outthere. ☃️👍🖼️🎨👨‍🎨

Waldemar is an amazing art storyteller. He makes me want to learn more. His love for art comes through in every word. He is, as his subjects, an artist himself.

Waldemar is a tour de force, a one man show, a light in the dank and dreary dungeon that could be described as the world of art. One of the few meaningful channels on YT with some intellect and substance. A rare find in such a narcissistic medium as KZfaq/ MeTube. Thank you Waldemar you've taken me places I've only aspired to travel or often dreamt about of visiting & embracing. I hope someday you can present your interpretations of our culturally rich and complex indigenous art throughout the ages in the Americas.

The photography is great....,but the narrative you provide and your vast historical knowledge makes this compelling. A pleasure to watch. Thank you...

So much respect for Waldemar. Thank you

Imagine.. him being your friend. You walk around visiting galleries, and he educates and informs you along the way.. Oh wait, he is my friend. Right here on KZfaq ☺️☺️☺️ I take your hand and travel along..

Waldemar you are the very best !! Thank you. I'm in Chicago and visited the summer 2022 Cézanne Show at A.I many times. Pure Pleasure

Bit of a walk up those steps to the cave, I bet he felt it. Great video 👍👍👍

Waldemar´s documentaries teach me a lot and help me watch art in detail

Christmas with Valdemar🎄Last thing I watched last night. Always love this guy and what he has to say. ❤️

A new video by Waldemar Januszczak! Instant click, play and enjoy. Love this channel.

I love this show! Even though I agree with some others that it is not two “old boys” - it is an older man and a young man. And the older man is not an “old man”, feeble and dependent - he is a middle-aged man, at the height of his power. I love the equation card game = life. The interplay of skill and experience with luck and creativity. What is the role of the divine in this? I have always loved Cezanne, but really knew nothing of his roots. I can really see how his sensibilities were formed by the stonework of the cathedral, the landscape, and the religion he grew up with. Some art history reduces the work to a jaded kind of analysis. Whether or not you agree with all of Waldemar’s interpretations, this video does the opposite - it illuminates the artist and his work. It is educational and a great piece of theater. Bravo, Waldemar!

Thank you. Had not seen the cave where Mary Magdalene is said to have lived. Would not have ever guessed The Card Players was religious art but now can see it. And I like your modified mohawk.

love Waldemars art videos. amazing insites into art.

Wonderful - so much production value in five minutes with you - you're looking GREAT!

I think that the research on Cezanne and his turn toward religion in his later years flows with observed psychology of many people. It is interesting that all the other books and videos neglected the "hidden" religiousity (especially Catholicism) of Cezanne is there. Never read or heard the vaulted arches in the bathers, but now it seems to obvious and more beautiful and depth. The Card Players as the Road to Emmaus gives me hope and a sense of Easter liberation in the modern world.

Always great, thanks!

It is great to see the surrounding context like that...Around his so famous both humble and direct approach.

"Welcome to the modern world." Oh Waldo, you hit the nail on the head with that one.

informative, interesting, entertaining, and well made video!

Thanks!

This is an awesome demo. I always had a problem with the acrylic drying too fast on the palette (even with slow dry medium). I eventually moved to oils. But its awesome to see this

Thank you Waldemar.😊

Watching this as is my ritual. God I love Waldemar

Everytime better !!! Thank you !!!

Best art historian ever. So...is there a Waldemar released a video alert app yet? I'd sign up ... Doesn't matter what it is. Could be a video on how to obtain a lady wife using a piece of cheese or an hour of watching paint drying... Sign. Me. Up. 😂😂

nice use of the Marsailles Tarot !!

Waldemar Janusckzak is a great storyteller ❤

Did enjoy this story! Have seen Cezanne in London. Wonderful!

Excellent

I have often thought that medieval carving might have influenced Cezanne. The slabs of colour and his construction of space and solid structure. Linking him to cubism through Picasso. I wonder, are the box shaped houses in the Pyrenees and the aboriginal sculpture Picasso saw in the Palau’s du Trocadero the other two influences that make up the trinity of cubism and modernism.

If I need to feel OK about the world, Waldemar is someone I can turn to. Thanks, Waldemar.

We love you Waldy!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

Now that I've watched this, I know a lot more about Cezanne than when I started, but I still think it's a bit of a leap to say that this is objectively what the paintings are about.

Thanks, Waldo. I enjoy your vids about, "paintingks" and "drawingks" and "FIG-uhs" and "AWW_tists." Very edifying indeed.

Nowhere in the NT does it say explicitly what Mary Magdelene's "sin" was, nor that she was necessarily a prostitute. Great series, this with Waldemar Januszczak, and we give thanks for it.

It is great art that generates so many different interpretations.

Bravo!

This was a lovely journey. Thank you, Waldemar. I do want to add, though, that the "banal" card players underscore to us that Cezanne was born into a luxurious existence, not needing to work at anything else, with a household and grounds staff to meet his every need (including serving as models) and a generous budget for paint and canvas, unlike poor Gauguin, who had none of that, and who died penniless. The card players were real people, people who worked hard and enjoyed their small bits of leisure, although in Waldemar's interpretation, they are reduced to illustrative, perhaps religious props, for a wealthy painter. Bottom line, though: I do love Waldemar's refreshing commentary!

Very good documentary.

Excellent video ! I prefer the videos you make to be 30 minutes or less , palatable enough for one sitting;)

The song is a jam! Even Waldemar agrees!

Wonderful episode; Cezanne has always been one of my favorite artists. He Waldemar how about an episode entirely about the Barnes Foundation?

Well isn't that a story! On so many levels. No wonder everyone is fascinated with Provence with those kind of legends.

I am not convinced by your argument!

This makes me want to play uno ....

Thanks Waldemsr, you’re always compelling but I’m not convinced by the way you connect the themes, interesting as they are. I wonder what Cézanne would have thought of this video?

I watched a video where you talk about sculpture and its importance. Last week here in Boston MA we uncovered what was supposed to be the monument to Martin Luther King. I could hardly wait for it's unveiling. I have kept my disappointment to myself until this moment. Yes, i know nothing about art except for the feeling it evokes in me. The city of Boston paid $10,000,000 it.

Love me some cezanne

He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes So, if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice"

Or it could be a picture of just two card players.

Fascinating .Wish I knew more about Mary and the cave before I visited AIX.Great insights!

What is the song that starts playing in 3:24? I would really love to know, I have been trying to find the answer for couple of years already, ever since they showed this on TV here in Finland.

I love learning about artists and their works. Thanks for that insight. Please, however, check your history on Mary Magdalene as she was NOT a prostitute.

Well, you just have to play the hand you are dealt, ain't it?

Any new Waldemar documentarys coming up

Courtauld Institute of Art - One of the best gallery collection of Paul Cézanne's artwork in London England Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Born: Aix-en-Provence, France Why paint a card game? Saint Miter - A local saint who was beheaded - so now he is the patron saint of headaches 8:15

Happy Easter celebrations friends enjoying fine arts inspirations, from my behalf, every single Museum and fine arts galleries all over the world, a nice Renaissance concert, a nice global hug of loving artistic achievements, let them musicians entertain you some more, let good vibes help everybody feel a lucky survivors, somebody bring in the finger food exhibition & never let any evil dare to harm you guys, fans are always here to backup you always

Mire grandes marabilla de cuadros mas los enmarcos lindo

In what language is the folk song? Is it Roma? Can anyone point me to info?

“As two merge into one” INRI

Card playing isn't ""fun." It's a battle of wits and skills. Serious business.

I wonder if Picasso's Sleeper by the Shutters is based on Cezanne's Mary Magdalene.

Interesting to call out the myths of her intimate relationship with JC as non-biblical but perpetuate the less flattering but no less non-biblical myth. Called her a 'prostitute one too many times. Couldn't get through it.

The Card Players would now be sitting staring at their Smartphones.

Hey People do you think that Cezanne really used Gothic arch from the front of cathedral for the position of threes in his bathers and the position for his card players, or is it just a Waldenars interpretation? 😊

Mary Madeline was never a prostitute, an edit, as *"admitted by the Catholic Church".* (that was another forcing of patriarch). There's are various methods of researching the history of Yeshua/Jesus and Mary Magdalene. But in the era of reference for Cezanne, they would have thought that to be so. Evening imagining the level of influence that transpired, the edits to the History and subsequently for the Religion to support Constatine and his 4th Century vision, desires, to establish a "particular Patriarchal control in in the society and culture", *"Control being the 🗝️"* It would take time, studies, research, and a particular Conscious in Thought Mind, to gain the greater truths. Be that as it may, now is the important element and being Free of "Prescribed Ideas of how One and Society, the Public Collective are to think, believe, and live". Freedom only exists when our Mind, Thoughts, and Perspectives are our Own. ... a Sociologist/Behavioralist Historian

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Waldermar, I am held spellbound by your art history posts, they are informative and enlightening, I am in awe of them. But, your puffing and panting suggest that you should get yourself in shape, otherwise we won't be able to enjoy your convivial company for very much longer! I would suggest regular cycling.

Well Cezanne is too dark for me. Poor dude was unhappy. Lighten up Paul but I love the tour of Aix wow very cool.

Mount Fuji may be the most depicted mountain in art maybe?

Weird, I thought Cezanne's "Card Players" was sold just a couple of years ago in an auction for a ridiculous price...

Love and appreciate you! But... the dual thesis is really a stretch. I think 2 different vids would have been much clearer. 1 on the card players series and the POSSIBLE influence on C of the Gothic statuary and 2 on the Mary Magdelene painting and her supposed final years in the cave. To propose that of his hundreds, if not thousands of paintings of stoic faces, is absolutely directly attributable to the Gothic stues of his town church is a real stretch. Still love everything u do!!!!

10:12 The original stove was not there. 17:26 No, he did not sit there, it was near a pillar behind that area.

Waldemar! Meow.

I prefer the "Card Players" in New York to the "Card Players" in London.

Why the tarot cards in the beginning?

Symbolism the mysteries.

I would guess that is his son playing cards with him at the end.🃏

Оригинальная идея - играть колодой Таро,

They did know what to make of him and did).

Another interpretation: It is a painting of an old man and a younger man, (not "two old boys")a father son relationship, a possible reflection of his own relationship with his father. Notice the different size hats and the more 'senior' is smoking a pipe - superiority vs inferiority. I suggest that The 'older' and the 'younger' men also reflect the inner turmoil of Cezanne between his younger self and his now older self. The 'older' man does not have much light on his face compared to the brightness and beauty on the face of the 'young' man. You either win or lose at the game of life - in Cezanne's case it is the 'Old Man' who will win because it is he who will die. While it was a 'younger' man who died (murdered) on the Cross. Theologically, God the Father and God the Son are the real players of human life.The shadowy figure (a milo de venus shadowdy look alike) in the painting behind them is the Holy Ghost who is passively (armless) overlooking the card game between the 'Father' and the 'Son', ultimately the game of life. Yes Cezanne became 'dark' in his later years because he lived by the theology and canonicals of a dark and frightening religion. I suspect that Cezanne was fearful that his final 'redemption' would be determined by a game of chance. The influence of this most dark of religions and the concurrent fear it generates in its followers is also depicted in Cezanne's very dark painting of Mary Magdalene who supposedly lived her final days determined by a patriarchal dark religion where being a man is far more powerful and important than being a woman. And this holds true today in the theology and canonicals of that still dark religion.

For those who are without sin cast the first stone…

Are you sure you may bring Mary Magdalene into this?

I wonder if painting of the Mary Magdalene in the cave who looks like a man, which was painted when Cezanne was young, was a kind of self-portrait? His paintings became lighter as he got older, Waldemar said.

Pictures are pictures.....but if you don't understand, then those are pictuctures........

I want to know if Waldemar was playing cards with his own son. If that was his son, is the lad a budding art critic as well?

Lezen 1Corinthiers 3:10-15 ( een smeltkroes )

I enjoyed this the 1st time. Recycling seems a little misrepresentative.

Just imagine of the thousands of paintings by famous artists hanging in the homes of so called royalty, aristocrats and very wealthy people never to seen by the public. It is ironic that these same artists were usuallly destitute. The ones we see in galleries are said to be stolen. Thank God for the thieves. The ones hanging in the homes of the rich were acquired by money from exploited peasants etc. How do you define theft?

robię równie ambitne malarstwo i bardzo trudno mi je sprzedać

My ex was Mary 😮

What ???

I’m of more than two minds regarding all the comments that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute. On the one hand, what people in that time and place believed was that she was a prostitute. This is context in which Cezanne was working. Despite believing that she was a prostitute, the people there revered her. She is the patron saint of Provence. Jesus accepted her into his inner circle - this was radical just because she was a woman. Jesus set an example of compassion, kindness and love for everyone, even if their role in society was lowly and despised. Mary Magdalene symbolizes this attitude. She represents sorrow, devotion, faithfulness, endurance, love. If she was a prostitute, well, she was just trying to get by. If she wasn’t a prostitute, she was lucky. Either way, Jesus accepted her - he loved and respected her as an equal to men. If she is the patron saint of Provence, if this is their ideal - Wow.

Mary Magdalene settled in southern France. She wasn't a prostitute.

All the symbolism. All the interpretation. Maybe the guy just wanted to paint some guys playing cards...

Music is too annoying.

Maybe the experts are reading way too much to these paintings.

As far as I understand Mary M rehabilitated wayward women and taught they them skills for a better life..

Waldemar=how to explain art without pedantic onanism