Same! When I went to Italy 5 years ago, I've visited some important cathedral that had various artworks displayed and I was stunned by all the colours! The paintings were so lush that it almost made me felt like a sinner. I was thoroughly shocked.
If I knew how to ain’t I would use those colors, as a way of setting the atmosphere most of my painting would have. After all, they are supposed to reflect off your emotions or lack thereof.
"average person eats 3 tacks a year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person eats 0 tacks a year. Tacks Julian, who lives in a studio and eats over 10.000 tacks a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Julian: “ **puts tacks into mouth** this is an old technique whereby the tacks are held in the cheek” Me: “lmao yea right ok” Julian: *doesn’t say “I’m kidding”* Me: wait what ???
The way he considers if future restorers will be able to restore the painting from his work is so amazing...even hundreds of years later, his art, his work, his dedication will hopefully be examined by another of his skill level and care.
Someone else: * puts tacks in their mouth * Me: you idiot wtf Julian: * puts tacks in his mouth * Me: there is no end to this man’s talents and skills. Amazing
That is how you are supposed to do it. What a stupid comment. It's how humans have done it ever since nails and tacks have existed. And likely before then.
@@Luckingsworth Not really. Because most people arent trained to do it, as well as the fact we are taught from a young ass age to NOT put sharp objects in our mouths.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Which world do you live in where you have to be specifically taught how to put a tack or a nail in your mouth without hurting yourself..?
Client, knocking on conservators' front door: Hi, i have an old painting i'd like you to take a look at, i- Julien: **spits 142 tacks in spit-bucket** , yes, of course, let me see here- Client:
I have to imagine a very corpulent black man not unlike big smoke watching this video very carefully and with full attention, commenting this with the utmost vigor.
@@simselchen2293 That's what I was thinking. I've known a few experienced, professional seamstresses who held pins in their mouth, and inhaled them. One woman got a pin stuck in her lung, and she had to have surgery to remove it.
My grandfather, in alarm at seeing the colors radically change: What is he doing?! My grandmother who has been taking care of her mother and grandmother’s paintings for the last 30 years: It’s called cleaning Phillip, maybe you should think of doing that sometimes.
What Julian says: "Someone in the past covered this painting in polyurethane, which is about the WORST thing you could cover it with." What Julian means: *Gordon Ramsey voice* "WHAT the everloving SHIT was going through this person's head?! POLYURETHANE??? A MORON. A FUCKING DONKEY. AN IDIOT SANDWICH."
I don’t perceive it as roasting. I reckon it’s more that the earlier conservational work has been made at a time where the modern day’s materials, techniques and technologies weren’t available or even thought up/invented. My guess is that the lead paint may even be a century old or so (but it’s just a guess).
my favorite part of watching these videos is judging the (bad) past conservation attempts as if I have anything more than basic knowledge of art conservation
Julian: "if it does need to be taken off in the future, it will be much easier than a big lead patch" wow the shade Julian is such a master of subtly dragging the previous convervators
Ok but DOES THIS MAN KNOWS HOW ATTRACTIVE HE IS?!?! His delicacy, he's manner of talking, his hands, his face, his KNOWLEDGE is attractive. Idk if you understand but DAMM
"tacks? tACKS? by far the worst and most inappropriate method of conservation, j u l i a n, staples are the only option" (of course they only know its julian from the neat belgium linen tacking edge held down with tacks)
This man speaks like a lifelong friend who has experienced more than you but never judges your own experiences and only wants to see you do well and improve as a person
Other conservators: polyurethane, staples rabbit skin glue, lead paint patches Julian: hold my conservator grade, fully reversible, water and alcohol soluble, archival adhesive
A real conservator would never put lead paint patches o polyurethane in an art work, but staples can be a very good choice in some cases and also rabbit skin glue is totally reversible. Your welcome
Lucía GC Excuse me, I sought to make a contrast between ineffective, archaic or simple materials and Julien’s state-of-the-art adhesive, not detail what a “real” and “not real” conservator would do. By the way, *you’re. You’re welcome.
Sometimes I get emotional thinking about that original artist who, unknown to them, will have their work be so lovingly treated and whose original vision will be so faithfully followed. As a student training to be a research scientist, part of my job someday will be to leave behind research and data for the next generation to build upon. I can only hope that my own legacy will be treated with such care, and watching Julian work on these paintings has influenced the respect with which I treat my predecessors in my own field. Both art and science are conversations that span centuries, and if you know how to listen, even long-gone masters can have a whole lot to say.
mom, from other room: what are you watching? me: the conservation of a religious painting mom: *walks in to see a man pour himself a handful of steel tacks and eat them*
I mentioned the same thing to him months ago about the amount of cotton swabs used in one particular restoration and a got a smart ass answer, like “a lot”. Ok. 😏
Funny story uhhhh I was helping my uncle who is an electricion He was doing this technic to hold big nails He accidentally swollen around 4 And my uncle grew up in a farm so he refused to go to the hospital So he decided to eat as mush as possible So they could get out naturally and he had around one week of pain from nails that damaged his stomach So my family convinced him to go to hospital then he had to go get surgery So yeah it is painful lol
Can confirm, one of my friends ended up moving to the other side of the world in order to get her masters in art restoration and I refuse to believe she wasn't influenced by videos like this one
"I'm gonna be using a technique called the spitting tacks technique" puts tacks on his hand me: haha what's he gonna do, eat them? him: shoves a handful of tacks into his mouth me: surprised pikachu face
@@caseybouquet not really. Julian is just an exception because what he does takes long no matter what and it needs to be good. If I take a week to finish some quality reports but the deadline was 3 days I'm getting reprimanded or fired. Especially if their not even that good
I felt like a kid who had just been called on by the teacher. I thought he was going to ask me the name of the next tool he was going to use or something!
Hah, I noticed at 4 mins in - "man, is Julian having a rough week? starting to get some scruff on!" I admit it wasn't till I noticed a fair amount of growth on his neck, about 2 mins before he mentioned it, that I realised it was deliberate.
Thats how he so good. He always imagines the old guys from the Muppets talking shit about him in the corner. "Did he just eat a nail?" "With any luck he'll tack him self to the painting. Ahhahahaha"
It happens. There was one time that one of his videos got to the front page of reddit and the top comment was someone claiming to be an expert conservator and criticizing his work super harshly and unfairly. It was obvious that they'd never actually watched or listened to any of his videos because a lot of what they criticized were things that he explains in almost every video.
*Robber walks in thinking he will steal some paintings* Julian: *Turns around to look at them* Julian again: *Starts to spit tacks like a machine gun at the robber*
This comment is making me realize just how many tools are in his studio that could be used against a robber- Julian could fucking home alone anyone who would dare. Hot table, band saw, toxic chemicals. Let's just say it would be damage that would NOT be fully reversable.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how straight his work is on the Bridging technique to hold in that patch... holy crap... They are literally PERFECT and straight...
'Hell yea imma use this knowledge!' But then I realise that I rarely use paint... And that I've been transitioning to digital art for the past three years... And when I do use paint, it's mostly watercolour on a very tiny scale... 'well never mind then'
Julian: *pours tacks into hand* Me: "Ah yes, alrighty, time for the superior tacks, go Julian-" Julian: *puts the handful of tacks into mouth* Me: 👁️👄👁️ ⱼᵤₗᵢₐₙ, ᵢ ₗₒᵥₑ ᵧₒᵤ ᵦᵤₜ 𝓌ₕₐₜ₋
I kinda like the idea that, say, 200 years from now when most of the current records are no longer decipherable, a future conservator will just extract a tack, pop it into their DNA machine and go "....hmmmm, okay, Baumgartner. What do we know about him and his methods?" Intern/apprentice: "well, we know he used Belgian linen..."
"i'm working extremely fast because i sped up the video" oh thanks if this hadn't been cleared up i would still be under the impression that julian is just that fast
Rant: People!...remove your antiques from the room when the room gets painted!!! Or at the very least, cover them up with plastic. I repair clocks and I don't know how many paint dots I've scraped off of antique clocks with my scalpel. 🙄
I love restoring things and using power tools to do it. This video was on my feed and I thought painting restoration?? Give me a break… So I watched a few minutes of it thinking big whoop, but the longer I watched it, the more I began to understand the intricacies of each and every step and the type of personality equipped to manage such a restoration. Your patience, your knowledge and your equipment, blew my mind. Never did I think I would make it through 10 minutes let alone the full length of this video. Bravo my friend… Bravo!
I like fixing things myself but unfortunately I was born without the patience gene I'd crack up after 5 minutes of scraping and put my foot through the painting..
I was taught to do it with panel pins when training as a carpenter many moons ago ,easiest and quickest way.You do end up with bits of crap in your mouth.
Julain: I'll be using a technique called spitting tacks Me: Haha, that's not a thing Julian: *puts tacks in his mouth* Julian: *keeps putting tacks in his mouth and spitting them out* Me: o.O
@@BaumgartnerRestoration I realize that as you say"gotta do what works". However, I thought you might like to be warned that my Father who was an upholsterer, used to do the same thing with his tacks and he died of stomach cancer which was traced back to his usage of this technique.
@@Teesixhundred These tacks are modern stainless steel, the tacks your father used were probably some crude alloy with who knows what in them (probably lead). These tacks are likely as safe or safer than anything you use to cook your food.
Good thing these restorations are online, the future conservators masters will be able to see your methods and the why you used said methods to conserve the paintings. To me it's fascinating the work that is needed and that is put into these projects. Great job Julian !
Hard pills to swallow: Degrees Fahrenheit are the superior unit for the temperatures humans are comfortable in and it's a more precise system without needing decimals. 😎
@@mannys9130 hard pill to swallow : all temperature system are entirely man made and completely arbitrary, there's no superior one, just the one that you're the most used to
@@mannys9130 If it's so superior then why has pretty much every other country switched to celsius? Celcius is much easier to understand, much better way to communicate temperature in a way people can understand intuitively.
Am I the only one that kinda likes those cracks? It just adds to the vibe. You appreciate how old and delicate that painting really is. Of course sometimes those cracks can be very disrupting but overall it adds a certain amount of depth and vulnerability
There's this Japanese show where they show crafters and restorers, honestly, Netflix should either buy it and translate it or make their own version but going around the world and every season is another country dealing with same subjects but within their tradition
@@misteriomisterioso111 just search for japanese book restoration it's the video with at least a 1 million views, i don't remember them showing the program's name in romanian(?) aka writing something with the western alphabet
i have a suspicion that baumgardner subscribers are pretty likely to watch every single upload because we know what we're here for and he delivers it straight up
These videos make me want to be an art conservator so much. It looks like something I could focus on for hours every day for the rest of my life without getting bored. Really makes me wonder what local programs there are near me or how else I could go about learning that.
It's so opposite to what we do in the floor refinishing business. Using a pad after we apply a finish (wax or sealer) will actually bring out a higher gloss shine. You basically use a soft surface pad, and run it on a orbital buffer and it makes a dull floor shiny. I guess felt is more abrasive than I initially thought.
