fantastic illustration of ways i hadn't formally recognized ... i've recently realized that great art has all the characteristics of great cinema; story, symbolism, tone, and enigmas that bind us to the works and require diligent use of our powers of observation and imagination
I do not wish to overstep my bounds at all, but your videos are so very helpful that I would humbly ask a favour: Please consider making another video like this one that discusses the differences between Neoclassical and Baroque art forms. Thank you.
I kneel down and absolutely adore your work and channel. You are a blessing in this world. People like you that so masterfully share the beauty of art and history diserve the highest of all respects.
I just discovered this channel and I LOVE IT! Amazing content and so much insight. You've gained a new subscriber. It drives me bananas how so few people go into detail explaining what's going on in a work of art. Everyone in this channel makes it clear and answers all of my questions before I ask them.
What a great video! Especially with northern art of the time it can be difficult to note the baroque charactersitics. Thanks for spending time on that too and for showing a lot of examples! Very pedagogic and very useful!
Thank you so very much for this knowledge, this channel, the involvement and yet subtleness with which you explain everything. So blessed to have found such valuable content to invest time in and learn from . Merci beaucoup P.S : love the jazz music too :D
Just Subscribed! One of my new favorite channels! I find these videos of course educational, but also deeply relaxing and consoling! Feels Wonderfully soothing to listen to these conversations on art! Very hard to find/create them in my day to day! Thank You! If you're open to suggestions I would love a video on the rivalry between Romantic and Classical styles, particularly examining the works and relationship between Delacroix and Ingres! Comparing their style/works would be wonderful to watch! Also I would love to know more about Symbolism! A "How to recognize Symbolist art" video would be Amazing! Again Thank You for the work you've put into these videos, completely joyful to watch/listen too. More Please!
This is awesome. I’m studying for my state teaching exams and we have to know the history of art for multiple subject certification. I got bored of my textbook and turned to RU-vid and I’m glad I did! Very interesting and gave me so much appreciation for baroque art!
I've always been fascinated by Baroque art the most out of all the art movements, especially the work of the Dutch masters but I never really understood why until I watched this video.
I feel that God is speaking to us through art like this. Just as.the gospels were inspired into the hearts of the prophets, images of life were also divinely inspired into the hearts and hands of the artists. In this stunning rendering in stone, God is communicating the fragility and challenges of life juxtaposed against the strength and fortitude of the individual. Prophets and artists are chosen vessels of divine communication.
I especially like how didactic and educational it was! Thanks, very useful video! I absolutely love that it highlights the overarching general characteristics of the style, giving us an overview. Hope to see this kind of video from other styles and geographic locations too!
This video and all the others that you've made have been encouraging me to learn and search more abou Art. So thank you for your disposal and incredible work! :)
I've never seen this side of David and I like it, lol. Both versions, Michelangelo and Bernini are absolutely stunning, but I am so moved by the latter. I love the intensity and power. From what I can tell so far, I'm a fan of the Baroque art style. It did get more challenging to identify the later examples as Baroque (e.g. the Vermeer), but as I'm exposed to more, it'll get easier. :)
thank you very much for this, i am sure that if i get on my bachelor arthistory examination a question about baroque, i will have no problems describing it anymore :) . I would love to see this kind of video comparing baroqe and manierism or baroqe and clasicissm , or also about architecture :) I hope that you will find the time to make these amazing videos. :)
The discrepancy between Italian and Flemish painting in the baroque period makes some art historians question if we could actually talk about a baroque genre in Flemish art (except in the most notorious cases of Rubens or Rembrandt who clearly incorporated an italian influence), because we can't forget that, in the end, the Baroque was a concept emerged in Italy, and most countries have a specific environment of cultural and artistic confluences, which, in the case of Flemish art, are particularly notorious, contradicting even many formal aspects of the Italian baroque canon. Svetlana Alpers in her "Art of Describing" has defended this point, not seeing Vermeer as a baroque painter, and much more as an artist surged in the naturalist and pormenorized tradition of Flemish art, and as we see, his paintings seem much more fitting in the context of the cerebral and quiet vein of a Van Eyck painting than of a Caravaggio one. Saying that, i think this was a very clear and thematically incisive video, and maybe what i'm talking about is a large enough topic for not being included in such a directly explanatory video, but i think it should be questioned more often until what point can we actually frame the 17th century dutch painting in the baroque context.
The problem may be the result of art historians for so long seeing primarily through the lens of Italy (but that is a bigger problem). It should also be noted that that any stylistic rubric such as Baroque (a term that was not used in the same manner when the work was new), will fall apart under careful examination-even within Italy. Such terms remain useful only for introductory investigation.
What an amazing video that I found quite helpful to understand Baroque style. I was also expecting Baroque architecture which unfortunately was not covered in this video but good work though.
I started loving the Renaissance but now I’m shifting towards Baroque....I really like(d) the strong pieces but the delicate pieces are getting my attention now..
Baroque depicts action and motion, while renaissance depicts intention, planning and spirituality. The comparision between the two Davids explains this difference with huge force. Michelangelo shows us the crucial seconds right before the action, those when the action has been planned. In my opinion that's a lot more powerful than the action itself, because this involves the most human attitude: the thinking, the planning. In the renaissance they intended the human being as center of decision, while in baroque it was considered more important to act. (under someone else directives: god, lord, king, pope...)
Very interesting, but I have been a little surprised. I saw Vermeer as sort of a classical painter because his work is so intimate, so far from the violence of baroque.
@@taterazay2302 LOL sorry, forgot I even posted anything like this. I graduated with a straight A. I even picked Baroque painting as a topic of discussion out of all the things!! Time flies, I'm now in my final year of University, studying graphic design. Again, I will be graduating from history of art in a month. So I'll definitely visit this video many times again! :D
