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@TheCanvasArtHistory Год назад

This video was less than 5 minutes and it felt like a journey. Thank you!

@BiggerR10 Год назад

I know right? It feels like a complete history lesson.

@dtcdragon7164 Год назад

Nerdwriter is a true inspiration and I’m glad you’ve taken off from his work. You guys both make fantastic Art History content.

@MminaMaclang Год назад

I don't believe you've ever made a video that I didn't deem worth my time at the end of it. Another fantastic video essay. I loved every second of it. Thank you again Evan for the stellar work.

@TheNeeenha Год назад

you might like ladyknighthebrave, she's worth a listen. I think she is amazing

@halldorberg Год назад

Reminds of the Chinese art "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" which was painted ~450 years earlier. It captures the daily life and bustling activity of people in a prosperous city during the Qingming Festival, which is a traditional Chinese festival that falls around early April. The scroll illustrates the urban life of the time, showcasing various scenes like a bustling marketplace, crowded streets, a bridge over a river, and people engaging in various activities.

@Jarino507 Год назад

Unfortunately when referring to art history most people tend to refer to the western world, even when most of the actual "firsts" were done in different parts of the world.

@halldorberg Год назад

@@Jarino507 That's true. In this case I didn't mind it so much though, I get what he was expressing in the context of his video. I just thought that if this was the kind of thing that inspires the author and if he wasn't aware of this work, he might be interested to learn about it.

@secularmonk5176 Год назад

@@Jarino507 Discussing "firsts" in parts of the world that don't feed into the European globalizing era are indications of the common intelligence to be found in all human societies ... but they don't really inform the structure of the world we live in today. Sure, the Mayans had a concept of "zero" before Fibonacci imported the Indian/Arab version to Europe ... but did being first "matter"? Many civilizations hoarded innovation in their elite classes, hindering extrapolation ... for some reason, in Europe, the merchant/adventurer class had more access.

@Jarino507 Год назад

@@secularmonk5176 It's more so about the fact several non-white artists/inventors often don't get credit despite being the first ones to do things. Also, since this video is about firsts in art history, I'd say it is relevant? Not dissing the creator of the video in any way, just commenting on the unfortunate aspect of society.

@MartijnPennings Год назад

In the Netherlands we have this romantic image of people ice skating from paintings like these. As it happened, late 16th century was the coldest period in western Europe during what's called the "little ice age", a period from roughly 1400-1800 where it was colder than usual in western Europe. I thought that was mildly interesting.

@mjr_schneider Год назад

Bruegel is one of my favourite artists of all time. I particularly love his style and that of other Early Netherlandish artists because it sits somewhere between the more stylised Gothic art of the Middle Ages and the more naturalistic style of the Baroque era. It gives the scenes of ordinary life he depicts a sense of magic and symbolism that later paintings lack.

@NaomiHoefs Год назад

Thanks for the reminder of our own Dutch history. We take these paintings and painters kind of for granted. But it is really special.

@chrystianaw8256 Год назад

Belgian

@derPetunientopf 2 месяца назад

@@chrystianaw8256 Belgium didnt exist back then. Bruegel predates the modern country Belgium by around 300 years. He was one of the most important artists of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting style. So, yes he is part of the Dutch history. Bruessel is also part of the northern Dutch part of Belgium, so even if he had lived in modern times he would still be part of the Dutch history (well and Flemish too).

@retro2103 Месяц назад

@@derPetunientopf While it is true that the modern nation state; 'the kingdom of Belgium' was only founded in 1831. Belgium or Belgica used to be the more used latin name for the entire Netherlands before the north elected the term 'Batavia' to differentiate themselves. If you look at old maps of this period, they will call the lands from the Yser to the Wadden islands "Belgium" or "nederland" interchangeably, or the latin name for the Dutch colonies in the Americas: Nieuw Nederland or Nova Belgica. Because at the time the differences weren't as set in stone and pronounced as they are today.

@rowdyrudy3761 Год назад

I’d always thought of the Romantic era as being the start of “democratic” art. This was so cool to learn about!

@carlosimotti3933 Год назад

Romanticism was in the first half of the XIX century, it has nothing to do with the Renaissance which started 4 centuries earlier. If anything, it was against humanism and rationalism by the way. Both have nothing to do with "democratizing" anything, whatever that might mean

@JasperLaureijs Год назад

This makes me think of Fredrik Marinus Kruseman's painting "Joy in the dead of winter". One of my favorites. Beautiful skies, buildings and landscapes with people having fun on the ice.

@willemvandebeek Год назад

Pieter Bruegel is one of my favourite painters. :)

@michaelt7153 Год назад

Recently, you featured two pieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. The Nightmare is on permanent display as well as Bruegel's “The Wedding Dance” in your montage at the end. If you get a chance, pay the museum a visit.

@lecolintube Год назад

Beautiful, and a sentiment that would continue to shock the art world. One of my favourites here is “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet - and amazing to see the impact and repercussions it had during its time. Thank you again.

@PabloAfroSamurai Год назад

Damn, it ended just as it was taking off. Another awesome video, thanks Evan

@souldivider Год назад

I was locked on Hunters In The Snow in a puzzle store like 15 years ago. Have it on my wall now. Love this painter.

@christianwgregory Год назад

A Eurocentric view of art history. “Arguably” and “significant” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Can it really be argued that prior to 1500, no works of art (music, poetry, painting, literature) depicted the common person.

@twokidsmomdad Год назад

one of China's most famous scroll paintings captures ordinary people, and painted over 500 years before Bruegel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qingming_Festival

@chaindead Год назад

3:08 "Dudes, Nerdwriter1 have just uploaded a video!"

@driezzy Год назад

Now I want to buy a print of such paintings. As a Belgian I should appreciate it more, lovely video!

@LilypadOW Год назад

yea such a wholesome evolution from our area, I think you should! Aquiring art is very worthwhile :)

@mitchellanderson2011 Год назад

I just want to say thank you to the Nerd Writer. Over the years you have almost singlehandedly introduced me and made me passionate and appreciative toward art. Thank you!

@JORIS1234HOTMAIL 6 месяцев назад

I walk, live, work in Antwerp, where Breughel once did. Go to see a painting of his from time to time at mayer van den bergh called de dulle griet 😊

@AlastairjCarruthers Год назад

I do appreciate older art, but there's only so much enjoyment I can really get from religious subjects (I'm not religious) and formal portraiture (which can get repetitive). I sometimes say I prefer modern art for this reason, but really the cutoff point is probably here, earlier, where this video examines.

@plasmaWisp Год назад

We're going to Vienna in november and we're super excited to see a whole lot of Bruegels!

@stateoflovebrooke977 7 месяцев назад

I love your art content! Can you do more about John Sargent, he is also my favorite

@omg9261 8 месяцев назад

A very nice essay. So short, but so full of information! ❤

@bernmahan1162 Год назад

Great stuff. People need to know this. Just saw a list of UK public's favourite paintings - No1. Starry Night. No2. A Banksy (?!?!) Piet Bruegel was one of the truly greats, with Bosch and Vermeer. I can stare at his pictures for hours.

@WayTooClose Год назад

It seems technological advancements (you mentioned how art reproduction costs lowered) always lead to cultural shifts. What will people in 500 years say about the internet's effect on society and culture?

@secularmonk5176 Год назад

It'll be a hive mind reflecting on its youth ... there won't be "people" 😀

@callofgears91 Год назад

Really interesting, I wonder if they could be considered as sort of “photographies” of old times? As in, those paintings appear to be a moment captured in time

@LilypadOW Год назад

honestly I really regret never having gotten your book, I feel like that would’ve been a more worthwhile purchase than what I’ve done with the money considering how each of your videos blasts open my brain with color, really love what you do and am gonna check in on it :)

@nckv Год назад

I love your work, just wish that you would disclaim that you are talking exclusively about european art

@Phanyxx 11 месяцев назад

It almost looks like people are playing hockey in some of these paintings

@comradetaco3003 Год назад

Year after year, you have provided us with amazing essays. I am grateful especially this time because I now have 2 new historical figures to explore! Gracias Gracias

@Sunilms619 Год назад

It's fascinating how people equate european art history to world art history so easily. Depicting ordinary folks in art could have happened in other civilizations and in different eras.

@freckleheckler6311 11 месяцев назад

The reason for that is because painting and drawing has its greatest affinity of quantity and quality to Europeans. It is from western artistic tradition that pervades throughout the world because it’s most admired. The art produced and generally likened by the rest is not derived from east Asia, South Asia and the Middle East but from Europe and it’s extensions.

@raphaferrari7361 Год назад

Dear Evan, each video of yours is a true and precious lesson of knowledge. Thank you very much indeed!

@Scoots1994 Год назад

I knew it was going to be Bruegel from the thumbnail. I love his Blind Leading the Blind.

@rashirai3020 Год назад

Please post videos regularly. Love from India.

@CreativeSteve69 Год назад

Another fun video essay there NerdWriter. It was really well done and thought out. I enjoy these 5-10 minutes of fun essays. Just the right amount to keep me engaged. Keep up the great work.

@dejanmarkovic3040 11 месяцев назад

Any chance of making one for Dürer?

@CoCreeed Год назад

I just knew him from the Fleet Foxes Album Cover and from Melancholia. But didnt know he was such a revolutionary! Thanks for this video :)

@wfd87 Год назад

Hey, I'm taking an art survey class right now, great timing!

@brugo Год назад

Thank you so much!

@hairyneil Год назад

@2:53 I'm guessing there's some significance to what can be seen in the small mirror but I can quite make it out on my phone

@doplarn Год назад

nerdwriter + art is my favorite type of video

@TheThinker39 Год назад

Beautiful and very interesting. Thanks.

@MSordernature Год назад

Amazing work. I wish this style remained popular amongst modern artists

@Reinindiereuse Год назад

The death of icarus is easily his best painting! Can you do a "understanding art" video about it?

@tumblingrosesstudio Год назад

Bought your book!!!!!!!!!

@david.dh819 Год назад

Thanks for the video. I would love to see one about Jheronimus Bosch!

@benjaminl429 Год назад

@Nerdwriter1 when is your book coming to Audible?

@imdiyu Год назад

3:41 isn't that painting featured in Tarkovsky's Solaris?

@awatercolourist Год назад

2:26 does anyone know the name and publisher of the book where this page comes from? I’m specifically looking for this book.

@awatercolourist Год назад

@@go_to_sleeep Hello! Thanks; I already found it on Internet Archive.

@t3chn0kiwi1 Год назад

as someone who was born and raised in a town named after brueghel near where bruegel was born this was an immediate click

@peaduh9713 Год назад

he's back, baby

@davidsanders1170 Год назад

LOVED YOUR BOOK! Also everyday just gets a bit better whenever I have a chance to watch one of your videos!

@omg9261 8 месяцев назад

Want to see more videos like this one❤

@omg9261 8 месяцев назад

So I'm going to write many comments

@omg9261 8 месяцев назад

For the algorithm to improve my recommendations

@omg9261 8 месяцев назад

I really hope I'm going to be recomended more videos like this one

@GarrettFrechette Год назад

Yes, please.

@PilgrimVisions Год назад

I'd put a big asterisk on the primary claim of this video. No question that Bruegel is important for the Renaissance tradition of painting and engraving. But one has only to browse the Luttrell Psalter or the Fecamp Psalter or any of a number of late-medieval Books of the Hours (which surely influenced Bruegel) to find non-satirical depictions of common people in labor and leisure. You will find countless more examples if you allow religious scenes, which after all, mainly depict not kings and nobles but peasants and ordinary tradesmen, albeit in elevated circumstances.

@timotheecaron852 Год назад

Parfait format, merci

@matieking Год назад

Beeldenstorm translated literally is the Statuestorming, a very literal name for what was happening

@antoinettemiles5741 Год назад

Is it weird that I see a line from Brugel to Where's Waldo

@fonya_thee3026 Год назад

Art is everything

@ryodark Год назад

Will your book be available in audiobook format? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

@losveratos Год назад

I didn't know that some form of hockey was that old. Cool.

@mukundgarg2461 Год назад

Can you make a video differentiating beautiful, picturesque and sublime?

@ddberes1031 Год назад

You should revisit your video on SUCCESSION now that the series is over

@FlamraFire Год назад

Did you retitle the video? I liked the old one...

@lamecasuelas2 Год назад

And now we're back at that shit

@lamecasuelas2 Год назад

@@Dimitris_Half i know ,but i was not refering to taste though..... More about gatekeeping

@ghadabennasr1453 Год назад

Hey nerdwriter, patiently waiting for the Oppenheimer's review

Год назад

the unbridled eurocentrism of this video overshadowed how well put together it was

@m_i_c_h_a_e_l Год назад

Yeah, it needs a, “. . . In European Art,” needs to be added to the title

@peterbellini6102 Год назад

"The Hunters in the Snow" and Caravaggio ;] I see the alignment NW.

@rakibhasan8016 Год назад

It's always worth the wait for our videos.

@TimBuktu666 Год назад

you threw us the Bruegel out

@claudiazg9932 Год назад

AAAAAAAY my boi is back

@guidor7177 Год назад

I miss when your videos were longer and not only excerpts from your book. Great material nonetheless.

@brooksy362436 Год назад

I always pronounced Bruegel as 'Broy gull', not 'Broo gull'. But I'm not Dutch, so I could be wrong.

@Matthijsklaassen Год назад

Am Dutch. Can clarify. The last name is still around, but spelled differently than in the 16th century. Now it is spelled as Breugel. However, it is unlikely the pronounciation has changed. The eu sound is as in the french word for fire: feu.

@TL-qy1op Год назад

Great Video, though one nit, you might want to state that your view is centered on European art.

@BrianMcInnis87 Год назад

0:36 'and'?

@MrHappy299 Год назад

hey nerdwriter I have been watching your video since the beginning, I love your work. However I find your exclusion of eastern art and art from other culture other than western hemesphere (especially early eras before 1900s) rather disapointing. I think if you want to tell a full story about art and culture only representing western artist is rather disleading. thank you if you spend the time to read this.

@chilaquilesdemanny Год назад

as my good friend once said, “no thoughts just vibes”

@MadDunhill Год назад

"not a phone in sight. just people enjoying the moment."

@vb2388 Год назад

Can you please do a video on Kim Noble? Her Characters and Paintings needs to be admired and respected by the wider generation in the public eye

@171QA Год назад

Neat.

@shadbakht Год назад

How the sacred become the profane

@DannySullivanMusic Год назад

Ah the proles

@blufudgecrispyrice8528 Год назад

Great video but pls list ALL the art you're using.

@rogeriosantos1788 Год назад

I love your videos but I miss subtitles

@MrAmazingAwesomeness Год назад

What about in non-European art? Were there dipictions of common people there?

@mcgrud Год назад

For the algorithm. ✊

@nightryder21 Год назад

Have you seen Andor yet?

@JenksAnro Год назад

Arent there loads of medieval paintings depicting ordinary people? Edit: Yes, there are hundreds... Im guessing this video is taking a narrow view on what counts as "significant" art

@ripvanstinkle 2 месяца назад

👏👏👏

@AustinKrommenhoek Год назад

That's it?

@artcanhelp Год назад

I love how concise this is! I agree that the broadening of artistic subjects is good but I would love to hear why you think it is good.

@LilypadOW Год назад

i think it’s a purposefully open ending as he went on to describe the state of art prior, what comes after is basically everything we know today.

@artcanhelp Год назад

@@LilypadOW yes I agree it is purposeful. But, it is presumptuous to assume that broadening the bounds of art is always good. Is there not a subject matter either too sacred or too debased for art? Which is the nature of my request. I would love to know where and if nerdwriter draws a boundary