Iconic Artists and Untold Stories | Perspective Full Episode 

This guy is the best art presenter I've ever seen. He treats it with necessary gravity and seriousness without coming off as pompous

Since recently stumbling upon Januszczak, I’ve been absorbing him in three hour chunks. He conveys much, entertains mightily, never talks down to his audience, and perhaps most refreshingly, never takes himself seriously. His subject yes, himself no.

These documentaries are so brilliant. Informative, educational and witty. Most of all accessible. Waldemar Januszczak is doing us a great service. I agree Mexico city is a must for anyone in the arts to behold. One visit is not nearly sufficient

Thank you for speaking of American art with respect and care.

It's impossible to interrupt this video for a coffee break once you start watching this guy...it's hilarious!

I always say I'm going to go to sleep to a nice doc, and then inevitably I end up going to sleep late because I'm learning so much about art from Waldy

Waldemar, I can't thank you enough. Your perspective and presentation, your incites are truly life changing. I'm always brought to tears by your documentaries. You are a genius.

06:16 is the reason I love Waldermar. What a mesmerising storyteller, teaching us practically every aspect in the most wonderful way.

Magnificent series, We can watch this all they long, 👏👏👏👏Waldemar is the perfect presentar !!!

Brilliant, I loved it. The coverage on Jackson Pollock was much deeper and broader than anything else I've read/watched. Thank you Waldemar Januszczak !

Waldermar, please do a series on Australian art.

This mate knows more about American history than do most Americans.

As a life long and native westerner (American West) I concur with Waldemar, what you see is what you want to see. Made up of dreams, and myths, doctrines and rebellion, with a lot of hooey. Just as we like it.

Amazing series of documentaries. I've never been so interested in art.

It's interesting.....at the time of Jackson Pollock's popularity, I was working in Andrew Wyeth's studio. He was interested in Pollock's splatter style and discussed with me, his egg tempera painting called "Raccoon". He said that if you look closely at the painting that is so realistic from a few feet away, and take a cardboard square and crop to small areas of the painting, they all look like Pollock's splatter technique....yet, at the end of the day, the painting is flawless realism using abstraction as it's foundation.....you may find it interesting if you ever get a chance to see the original painting of "Raccoon".

these series are gold!

After 40 years of being an arrogant artist, I am learning things I never imagined from this marvelous series.

JACK THE DRIPPER! It was worth watching this just for that.

Another brilliant film from Waldermar. His easygoing, slightly irreverent look at art is fascinating

The spiral jetty in the Great Salt Lake. I was the newspaper cartoonist in Ogden, Utah, USA. Love your art documentaries.

waldemar's definition of the reason for art made me cry

I’ve seen so much art and didn’t know what I was looking at. I’m glad to have found these videos to revisit earlier days in a better way.

Excellent 👍 👍 Anyone who's seen this series should be eligible for college credit in Art History. Waldemar uses unforgettable stories to teach the art and artists...

Best. Art. Docos. Ever.

so many gems in this one, thanks so much Waldemar and Perspective

Awesome!!! Keep these documentaries coming. Each is very much appreciated.

whoever came up with ''Jack the dripper '' for Jackson Pollock is a genius

Thank you again. You being the history of art to life, and you explain the links and relationships across art. You make the opaqueness of art crystal clear!

Thank you for this . Interesting. I have chuckled a couple of times and laughed out loud twice to boot!

Always fascinating, informative, fun--big thank you for "Jack the Dripper"--but...the first abstractionist theosophist artist was Hilga af Klint. (Yes, that's how her name is written, and her work is spellbinding.)

I love Waldemar, and this is another fine presentation, I just wish he would not have neglected all the people who were already living in those areas doing amazing art way before the European wave hit.

PERSPECTIVE never disappoints!👍

Your section on Native art (contrasted with cowboys.. chef’s kiss btw 😏) was the finest piece of critique in your entire body of work. I felt briefly like I was watching Sagan’s Cosmos again; I was transported, and my heart ached. It almost redeems you for your Magdalene episode, for which I still believe you secretly intended to be a drinking game (take a shot every time Waldemar says whooor) But yes, the native segment touched my soul and I’m grateful. From this moment I’m so hoping you will visit the Diego Rivera murals in San Francisc, because my great aunt Helen is featured in them. (She was a record breaking diver and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, along with my grandmother and their parents) On my mother’s side, my great grandfather came over from Naples, and unfortunately fought Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Grandpa survived, I had him until I was seven.

Incredible. Very educating and entertaining.

Wow I can NOT wait for this to be OVER!!!

Uhh no the Star Spangled Banner was not originally a drinking song from London - it originated from a poem known as The Defense of Fort McHenry. The drinking song was just the origin of the medley.

Great Series , Bravo !

Waldemar what an excellent analysis of Jackson Pollack! I really appreciate this

It's ALWAYS in the 🎭 ART!

great episode!I enjoyed every minute of it it:thanks,Waldemar.

WJ is thoughtful, colourful and plain speaking whose investigation into the meaning of artworks keep me coming back for more. An original thinker.

Wonderful - as always. Thank you.

Thanks it is great to see you covering American Art. I look forward to all of your videos.

Totally brilliant! Thank you Waldemar

Masterpiece Presentation

Thank you so much This is a great thought and concept of art, new information that I do not know them This is very wonderful

I loved this.I always liked Jackson Pollock but never knew much about where he came from or that he was a model for Benton.I enjoyed watching you create your own drip painting as well.I will be watching more of your content.

Awesome.. All it needs is a few more ads every 2 minutes.

More, please. First we learn ‘em W-I-N-D-ER , then we goes out an does ‘em. Fantastic series! Some things I’ve seen & some not in my life travels but seeing everything again for the first time is wonderful!

Life would be greater if good art videos had LESS ads on them.

He is the best at his job as an art historian.

Thanks so much for posting

Love those boots Waldi..you look like a true Texan!!

He is delightful. "Your heart would go boom-bitty boom-bitty boom."

Really good presentation into the "how it all came about" into the world of abstract expressionism.

Thank you for making these films, I love them.! What a way to pass the covid Times. Oh how I loved art history as a student.

Where waldemar goes, I go. Best show and information.

Excelente travesía histórica y artística.

In the video there's a slight green cast diminishing the redness to Double Negative, Monument Valley and probably Spiral Jetty (I haven't been). (you can see it in Januszczak's black clothing.) What I noticed at Monument Valley is as you approach the area you notice how intense the red in the sandstone is, but by the time you get to the overlook and see Shiprock and the other buttes, that red is muted - but then I looked back at my white Honda and it looked greenish. So a bit of over correcting going on. Film will capture it straight - because film doesn't compensate like our eyes or video. All in all though I love these videos. Januszczak does a terrific service to art and humanity. Footnote: I delivered the biggest rock in one of Michael Heizer's Displaced/Replaced Mass (1969/1977) from Ace Gallery to the collector's house (Yawl St, Marina del Rey). Drove it down Speedway in Venice and Marina del Rey with a large forklift. the forklift wasn't large enough though, so I dragged the bottom of the boulder along the asphalt leaving a mark that lasted until it was resurfaced years later. If I ever took a photo of my own Heizer inspired earth art (1984) I don't know where it is.

I love this man and his art videos. Such a great voice and intelligence that I have learned about art I have studied, thought I knew all about it.

Artlife always i2f the artist...one love...blessings

Yay! New Waldemar vid

The Carl Sagan of Art. I love him.

Thank you Waldemar, that was breath takingly beautiful & insightfully knowledgeable.

Thanks!

Benton's use of light is extraordinary.

Here in New Mexico I can walk right up to the petroglyphs and see them from mere inches away, no barriers. There are hundreds of them. To me what they seem to say is, “Hello! I was here!” But those wall paintings Walder showed…they are fierce, and do seem to speak of other worlds.

Easy to relate and listen to to,brilliant as always erudite

My favorite so far!

Love your cowboy boots, Waldemar!

I enjoy your work so much. Thank you.

Very informative , no ads with RU-vid premium .

Hilma af Klimt was a theosophist too. She preceded the American abstract expressionism movement. I never realized that the American abstract expressionists were also theosophists. I’ve taken many art history classes and never knew about this! It really explains so much!

Appreciate the spotlight on the amazing compositions of Benton, a long time favorite. Had not known of close association to Pollock, who fills wall space too, but, with self-centered statements . Not surprising the socialites approved.

Mr. Waldemar, you have your thoughts, ideas, and prejudices: and you express them well. If you check out the comments, you will see everyone else does just as well. Few agree totally or perfectly. But it's all interesting. For me, an American, it's always good to revisit some of America's artistic output- good, bad, or otherwise. Thanks. I hope you enjoyed your visit "bumbing around" in the USA!

I love that a lot of the artists were free spirits … and broke and wild and free.

This is great

Nicely done man... great storytelling🍻

*IN A FREAKY COINCIDENCE* I just messaged my friend in Utah that I am watching Sego Canyon Utah... "HOW" she screamed? "On my computer" - save the repetition of a 15 minute back and forth... She was DRIVING THROUGH SEGO CANYON at the moment I messaged her - 2.3 miles from the Roc art....

wow!

I don't know if you'll see this comment but I wanted to thank your for your videos!!

Perfect.

Bravo! I hope at some point all of Waldermar’s videos can be purchased on DVD!

Enjoyed the humble privilege adding the 900th like.; Thank you for sharing. Thank you Waldemar Januszczak. 17:55; 41:25; (my favorite bits)

Your presentation is mind blowing

simply amazing work :)

Fantastic show ! May we have more, please ?

I hope you kept your Pollock Waldemar, it's brilliant! re comments below It's amazing people haven't heard of adblock!

Wow...so cool you talked about THB. He is a big deal....thank you for talking about him....

Thank you for this video

My son ate a packet of blueberries and a bowl of warm semolina for lunch, after we saw Blue Poles at the Canberra Art Gallery. The next morning he cried out 'Hey Dad, I've just created a Jackson Pollock in the dunny".

Lots and lots of ads. But they are set perfectly (almost) to create cliffhangers to the documentary.

Excellent, as always. One minor error Krishnamurti, was not a Theosophist, at least at the time he was in California. He had been discovered by the Theosophists as a youngster and said to be an avatar of enlightenment but he rejected the whole thing and all the hooha, becoming an independent and very straight forward spiritual teacher of his own vision.

The ads are so disrupting to the flow of this wonderful documentary!!

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Excelente video

One of the great western artists not recognized by the official art world is Will James. His human figures aren't much, but his horses are alive and unsugared as few others. His books, too, describe real western life, which had few gunfights.

brilliant if everyone watched there would be an ah ha moment in understanding artists and art

God bless America.

I want to paint a portrait of Sir Waldermar. How did he know all these???! Master storyteller is an understatement.