A fun and frustrating story: My grandfather had a store in Tønsberg, an hour away from Oslo. One day a crooked and shoddy figure showed up to buy paint and brushes.. but he had no money and offered my grandfather some paintings as payment. My grandfather said no, and since he felt sorry for this man, he gave him the paint and brushes for free. That man was Edvard Munch, and my family would be rich today if he took those painting.. Damn you, grandpa!
Genuinely, the war on drugs and its effects on predominantly black communities siphoned off into the US prison complex to create unpaid manual laborers, paired with Snoop Dogg’s ability to smoke weed in public uncontested and unpunished for decades as both a sign of his status and also as a subtle revolt against that system is likely worthy of examination right now, even without hindsight.
Congrats to you and Lissette on your new chapter in life and thanks to both you for contributing so much on youtube via Nerdwriter, Seeker News, and Dnews. These channels make a healthy part of my regularly balanced newspaper-read routine. Cheers!
I interviewed many drug addicts once for a project. One of the common statements about cigarettes is that they were anchoring. Even in the midst of hallucination or paranoia the cigarette, independently, remained stable and anchored in reality. By smoking the drug addict could keep something of a grip on the real world. Nicotine is a useful drug when removed from the harm of the tobacco leaf. Keep 'em coming.
Nicotine beyond the smoking aspect does appear to ground one, even in the midst of creative endeavors. I read something about a month ago on the writers for franchises like Star Wars and Marvel and others. They found a boost to the creative process when working together on scripts, seemingly helping them ground exotic stories in our commonplace world.
The issue is the tar in the tobacco is the absolute worst thing for you. If anyone actually cared about the health of smokers, they would hand out e-cigarettes to all the world's smokers.
Carolyn Lozan I understand the hesitancy when it comes to e-cogs. They're new and untested, and a lot of people don't know if they actually. But, anything is better for you than a cigarette. Cigarettes are literally the worst thing for you; Heroin doesn't kill you as painfully and meth doesn't make you feel as awful ( hypothetically speaking, trust me, I hypothetically know ). The fact is, I would rather have people smoking flavored water that tastes almost exactly like the real thing than the kind of tar that could be used to fill in potholes.
Just a side note, when Munch is describing an “infinite scream passing through nature” there is speculation that it’s possible he was looking at the volcanic ash of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption was so great it was heard for over a 1,000 miles and caused a tsunami. The cubic volume of ash ejected into the atmosphere was enormous and would have caused redder sunsets around the globe.
Art Curious I think that was in 1818 and partly inspired Mary shelley to write Frankenstein due to the year without a winter. Her group of friends wanted to write a ghost story that became the work known as Frankenstein
This makes sense, because where i live in Turkey sky turns dark oranges, blood reds time to time. I was thinking like "why people made a big deal about this red sky, it is normal??" (But i love this painting.)
I like how you offhandedly mention stuff with the visuals without incorporating it into the script. like briefly showing a picture of oscar wilde and allowing the view to make the connection. it makes it more enjoyable and rewarding for attentive viewing yet keeps the attentiveness optional - the video can be enjoyed at whatever level you choose. im sure i would have enjoyed it on another level again if i had known all the art that was on the screen so i could have linked my understanding of them to the ideas in the video. top notch
it's nice to see you replying as well as listening. I've always wondered if RU-vidrs who make these types of videos actually care about what their fan base is thinking about their videos and if they even will act on constructive criticism. The only thing that saddens me is that eventually the crowd will become so large that individuals become like a drop in the bucket.
"Attacked pretty much every kind of art that wasn't up to his moral standards as poisonous and corrupting." Ugh, every generation has one of these, doesn't it.
max nordeau was a very weird individual to the point that he would consider the eradication of all other races but European/caucasion. this man was a zionist nutcase to begin with.
People do still care, and art is called corrupting to society often, but in different forms. Think movies, music, even television shows. They are still an art form that people still often consider corrupting.
I know, what I'm saying is paintings aren't the only form of art. Just because there are more popular forms of art today than there were 100 years ago doesn't mean that people just "don't give a shit about art." Art does not equal painting. Art is expression that can take many forms and people care very much about it still today. Paintings aren't as much of a force on society today because they are not as easily accessed by the majority of society, not because people don't care about art.
No one will probably read this, but this was damn touching. Touching in that realm between reason and feeling. All explained with a damn cigarette. Thank you Nerdwriter1, I will no longer look away
Evan, great video. I would love if you could do a video on modern art. Me and my friends got into a fierce discussion about modern art; me arguing for it's merits, and my friend argueing about its "pointlessness" and "meaninglessness", it's empty attempt to be as edgy as possible. I am far from an art expert, i'm not even that knowledgeable at all about it, so I would love to hear your viewpoint about it. Regardless, great video and keep up the good work!
I agree. I've recently studied the painting "Melancholy" by Munch as well as "Vampier" so when they showed up, it connected with me and said a houndred words without him saying even one about it. (P.s. I apologize if this comment showed up twice, I was logged in to a different account and had no control over the comments...)
+Key | iamSmexx idd or by PragerU. modern art is not art.. they did studies on modern art and showed a close-up of a mixing pallet and of IKEA art. lol you should have heard all those posers talking about it.
+Rothnacum1 well not all. I agree that random splashes of paint and doodles are kinda pointless but I've also seen some pretty amazing modern art, aesthetically speaking, that requires a lot of effort and skill to make
+Harry no maybe it doesn't in English. u in Latin is oo and in Germanic languages it's a uh like in München not und (oond) i guess it doesn't exist in the English language..
Nerdwriter: "Munch uses the cigarette as a symbol of the bohemian lifestyle and mental health issues arising in the period" Munch: "Idk, I thought it looked cool"
Edward munch and his bohemian contemporaries can generally be categorised as a people who completely immersed and lost themselves into the world of art, perceived in their own way, so that they don’t feel any sort of existence other than their artistic expression. This gives an impression about falling into the artistic insanity, a part which is present in each and everyone of us, but in this case conquered all of their mental state giving rise to their complete loss of them self and immersing themselves in their art. Can this be considered as a sort of artistic existentialism?
An idea: when finishing the video, soon after all the reflection, put the painting of the episode at the end. I think this is the best time to enjoy painting.
Wow! this one really resonated with me. I didn't know this painting. They never mentioned it in art school and I never looked into Munch's work either. I will message you privately and send you a painting I made and I think you'll understand why This one really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing this work and your insights on it. This (among many other reasons) is why I love your channel and the work you produce. Thank you! and Congratulations on your anniversary, it's just the most wonderful feeling when you realize you've finally met "That Person" who changes it all for you, eh?
And thank you for posting that comment! Awesome art you have there. If it is ok, can i ask you for how long you are painting? the "raised all wrong" one looks so detailed and perfect, that i think that you are doing this for a long time. keep it up, your paintings are awesome. i hope that one day i can get that good!
I watched this video years ago, but it stuck with me and last month I got to see this painting at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris as part of a Munch exhibition, and I was so grateful for having watched this video, as it gave me a lot of context. Munch is definitely one of my favorite artists..
As a medical student interested in art, I loved this video about Munch. For me, Munch has always been one of the greats. An artist who understood his suffering and relayed them through his art. The raw emotions displayed from his early paintings to later in the career is a testament of how Munch's psyche shaped his work.
Wow, this was crazy insightful. I wonder if this in any way connects to me and my feelings as of some time. Recently I feel like I've been my whole life in thoughts, doubting myself, but since I've gotten to grow up, I'm starting to process a lot of my childhood and my surroundings. A lot of these feelings unload in creative actions. I fear, that I will never have the raw talent of the great people in this world, but I'm just used to putting myself down. That's why I'm trying to knock this idea out of my head. I feel like it's something that happens if you bottle up your feelings. It's nice to know this solitude is just an illusion and even great artists shared these irrational doubts.
I find it amazing that he could expose and express his inner self. I think we all feel the way he seems to feel in his self portrait. Maybe a little scared and confused, maybe not knowing why we are even here. He might be becoming my favorite artist.
Awesome, thank you, however- I will say that I can't seem to find it either. Both on RU-vid and Google. I've done the search without certain words (like w/o "11th symphony", or his name, "Augustus Schwimfer")
I don't know if anyone will ever read this but I really like this video! I recently choose this Self Portrait to make it into something new, so I photoshoped some air pods and a smartphone into his hands. It fits surprisingly well. I felt like I kinda destroyed the art but at the end of the day that's what art is. A never ending remix of what's already there. The popcultural elements of a certain time will always inflence art and will always have impact of what people interprate into it. I think the self portrait as a format for a image of ones self is the equivalent to what we call a selfie today but the difference is that, before cameras were available to the mass, far less people had even the option to think of that. A self portrait was something else tho, artists made them to express their emotions and reflect their lifes they painted themselfs, not how they saw themself but more how they felt.
Chris Stuckman already did one on this movie, pretty much everything has been said already. He would just fall into repetition. That's the great thing about this channel, everything is original and hasn't been done before.
I enjoyed the way you moved from topic to topic in this videos. Cigarettes, bohemian lifestyles, art, and mental illness. I thought it tied together nicely. Learned a lot, as always.
Muteteli Harvey i can tell you at least one is a painting from Akseli gallen-kallela called "symposion" (or officially: "probleemi" or "Kajustaflan"), a painting featuring finnish composers/conductors Oskar Merikanto, Jean Sibelius and Robert Kajanus. I'm also fairly sure I saw a self portrait of Vincent van Gogh there
1:38 "At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1:47 "Karl Lueger at a ball in Vienna City Hall 1904" by Wilhelm Gause 2:55 "At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 3:34 "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" by Edouard Manet 3:53 "Grainstack (Sunset)" by Claude Monet 5:03 "Self-Portrait, 1889" by Vincent van Gogh 5:22 "Symposium" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
hey evan. I'm a student from germany, trying to figure out myself, man, society and just life in general. So there's a lot going on in my head. Which is why I would just like to thank you for the content you give me, for every new video you release is a gift, allowing me to spend at least a couple of minutes just looking at culture and the world through your eyes, and not that mess of mine. So... thanks. A lot. Your work is beautiful and, above all, necessary.
Nerdwriter1 is a man who literally can impact and change your mind. You delicately pick up the words and blend them into pieces. Thank you for your work and being sincere in all means!!!
I love Munch, he is one of my favourites, I'm just disappointed by how the scream is often the only considered painting. He ha been so avantguard, such a great landscapist, symbolic, a surrealism that trascended realism for emotional, existential reasons. He truly represents one of my guru.
Very incisive and engaging analysis. I love how the convergence of so many things (mental illness, existential dread, class friction, adventurous art) is explored so accessibly.
something in particular i find interesting about that painting is what appears to be some sort of blue aura around his hand, which overlays very close to his heart. I think it shows both how his sadness is at the core of who he is and that to him, everything he touches he ruins or he speads sadness to everything he touches.
coming back to this video i've come to realise that most artists paint what they like not knowing what the painting projects in some kind of way the viewers fill whats needed to make a story out of a portrait
It's always interesting clicking on a video about a subject to which one is unfamiliar. As always this channel blows me away with its content, quality, and subject matter. Keep it up.
Or he simply loved smoking..you'd have always seen him holding a cigarette, so he thought "well, the cigarette has to go in the there"...This is coming from an artist. We don't always consciously throw in symbolism. Following intuition and doing what feels right are more dominant. Most of the time, it starts with the desire to draw/paint a subject, then we throw in other elements (it feels right, makes sense and makes the painting more interesting) and finally think of a story to go with it because people today are more interested in the story than the art itself!
Please make a series where you analyze the intricacies, societal issues and art techniques underpinning influential paintings I've yet to encounter a RU-vid channel consistently making beautiful infotainment on any specific painting. Please do, viewers will love this
Analytical interpretation is somewhat amazing to me. It's different for each viewer depending on so many things that apply to what makes sense to them. Having created some surrealistic/realism & listening to others critique it, not knowing I am the artist, their explanations and interpretations showed me things I never in my wildest dreams would have thought about. As long as it gave them a sense of satisfaction about it, who was I to spoil the party. Many things can be found in a grain of sand.
beautiful, could you maybe (possibly a bit of a stretch) do a video on the beatles and thier music/image etc. and why they were so popular?. love the videos, thnx
_No doc has ever summed it up perfectly, but here are my favourite:_ - *The Beatles Anthology* Multi-part series - *George Harrison: Living in the Material World* by Martin Scorsese - *The Compleat Beatles* - *The Beatles - a musical appreciation* by Howard Goodall - *Nowhere Boy* a dramatisation of Lennon's youth and keep an eye out for Ron Howard's upcoming Beatles Film!
You really have mastered the video essay - well produced, fascinating, and informative in a way that can interest me in things I did not know I was interested in
Happy anniversary to you and your girlfriend! Thanks for the upload always love watching these, I find that my university lectures are always quite dry and the information is hard to absorb. You make the information easy to digest! Also I'm wondering what the picture at 5:42 is from.
I subscribed to your channel for your videos on film, but I keep coming back for the ones about painting. These videos are so well made, I hope they help modern audiences appreciate painting more.
I absolutely love your videos. No matter what topic the video is about, after watching any video of your channel I feel so deeply inspired to think and research more about things. The way you showcase things, the emphasis on each word captivates me immensely. Always looking forwards to your videos.
This remains my favourite piece you've done. It's a wonderful glimpse into a world I would've otherwise passed over. I especially love the complicated sense of awe and reflection the musical pause at the end of your video evokes. Really hope you do more of these.
Also notice how he used light in this painting. Munch is looking directly into the viewers eyes so thats what we look at first. But the light is coming from a lower point so our eyes are lead downwards too, resting on the white cigarette in the lighted hand. Great video!
painters don't (or at least didn't) integrate elements into their paintings "just because". i think what he said in this video about cigarettes is really smart
RU-vid recommended one of these videos and keeps doing so. I love watching them. I’ve always wondered my whole life what people saw in paintings cause I didn’t know. I didn’t see anything. I’m 66. Now I’m starting to learn. Makes me want to go to a art showing with someone and stand in front of a painting pointing out things and make people think I’m a real art critic. Ha ha. It’s fun to learn something new. Thank you.
hey man. I'm kind of going to break off into a digression but here goes: RU-vidr Channel Criswell is going through some rough times what with copyright infringement on one of his recent videos (his stanley kubrick one from february to be exact.) now the reason i'm commenting on your video is because i believe you have the growing fan base and the potential knowledge to help his situation. from everything i know, he is in the right. he doesn't know what to do at all. his videos are spectacular -- just as yours. his videos open up the mind in the most natural sense of the word and allow for his audiences to truly consider and reconsider every sort of factor in the beautiful time-spelling art of film making. it is understood that you are a youtuber and he is a youtuber and you both use this wonderful platform of youtube to dispel wondrous information to the public. but you can help out too. if even just a shout out to his cause in one of your coming videos were to dispense, the context of the situation would radiate throughout and we could all democratically help each other, you know? thanks
A very good and insightful view both art and the influences that inspire it. The Scream has been a good identifier in explaining to others what anxiety often feels like. It may not be my perfect representation but it is something that is illuminative. I appreciate this as someone who has experienced the harness of the mind and as an artist who tries to express the wonders of the mind. Thank you.
There is a correlation in addiction, particularly in tobacco with mental problems (eg. Schzophrenia) physicians back then were probably making some (though unscientific) accurate observation. But they are very much wrong since correlation is far from causation.
Speaking of anxiety, Nerdwriter's video-essays are therapeutic in themselves. They're each crafted just so, with every image and sound picked out and ordered, and when I watch them I'm taken out of my own mind a bit. The video pulls my attention and places it on topics larger than life, just for five or ten minutes. It's very nice.
I probably shouldn't have clicked on this video. Decided to put a break on smoking for one-two months and I've been feeling like crap these past few days. The image and numerous mention of cigarette makes my craving much worse hahaha.
I love your videos. Anyone can look up to see clearly the top of a high building. But not everyone can look at a piece of high art and make others see what is clearly going on. You do.
