I’ve been searching RU-vid for awhile now for documentaries on artists and their art. Yours is the best by far. Thank you and please keep creating more of these.
Soon hopefully, editing is almost done, its sitting on my hard drive more or less ready to go. Only problem as usual is being busy with work! Once I get a day off I'll upload it, should be in the next couple of weeks, been way longer than I would like between videos
This is fantastic! While watching it my reading of kokoschka went from crazy in the beginning, to genius in the middle, to soulful artist with his own persistence at the end. And the transition from one period to another was very natural. Not to say that the expression is full of fun. Really love this!!!
Thank you for all your knowledge and hard work condensed. Really interesting learning about paintings I both like, and don't. You are clearly doing something right ha
Wow, I really appreciated being introduced to Kokoshka. Also, I love your writing style, and how you use so many additional points of history and culture. Also how you use the people, times, and places to show intricate interconnections and the way they influenced everything. Fantastic video and work of art in itself. Thank you for this.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, figuring out a voice for these things is an on going process and I do want to get deeper into those intricate connections as you say so must be on the right track. Will have more coming soon
Hi, I’m taking a film class and was trying to understand Expressionism throughout the arts. Thank for this wonderful video. I’m subscribed and can’t wait to view more. 😎
Love your work!! Lots of respect for the effort and care you put into these videos, I especially adore your subtiče humor along these lessons. You have a long time fan in me for sure!
Thank you very much for your videos. Don't be discouraged by the lack of "likes" or suscriptions. That was expected, given the audience. After all, you're not showing how to send memes through Whatsapp. I don't find justified the bad critic to Kokochka. He's not an academicist, but a product of his era. And he made his contribution. The the so called School of New York wouldn't exit without this kind of contributions.. And the also could be accused (injustly) of épater la burgeoisie as a commercial means. Even as a decorative style. In the modern era, is almost impossible to separate the advances of each school of painting, from the different fashions created for the changing tastes of the consumer market.
16:25 - any plan of doing a video (or videos) on Kirchner, Kandinsky, Franz Marc & company? Also, may be something on the irony of the Nazis banning Emil Nolde from painting.
The allegory of Neville Chamberlain being a crab refers to the crab's inability to move forward - it can only go from side to side, just like Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, side-stepping instead of confronting Hitler. actually, I just made that up and I have no idea what it means
10:45 - is this gray building the one hated by Franz Joseph, opposite his palace? the Reifessen bank building? It actually has a number of decorative elements, including the pillars. I presume it was minimalistic by turn of the century Vienna standards.
09:41 I had not heard of Loos before. I paused the video and looked up his works on google. Wouldn't it be correct to say that his stark, plain, monochromatic walls with rows of large windows (like the one u show at 9:41) is the blueprint for most ordinary buildings in our cities?
23:57 - he was evidently projecting his own expectations from the relationship into his painting, the sleeping Alma being how he would have liked Alma to be and not the real Alma.
Just watched your video on Goya and I am determined to watch every single one of your videos, from start to finish. This is exactly what I've been looking for, thank you! I would absolutely love your analysis of Francis Bacon's work, that is, if you're looking for suggestions! Cheers!
06:28 - I am surprised that the book was published with his illustrations at all! I presumed you would say that his illustrations were rejected by the publishers.
12:36 knowing the subject and overcomming the sense of allienation by being near the subject (letting him walk, being busy, discuss with him and not necessarry posing or listening what says the subject). A person is not a still life, life is born in motion and change and thus to capture the real sense of a person and not just their superficial appearence they must be seen in motion themselve. (C'est peut-être pourquoi j'ai l'impression que ses portraits, que le sujet est toujours en plein mouvement, que l'instant a été capturé parmis une serie d'autres instant - en plus des différents coups de pinceau qui donne une impression de contingence dans/en le sujet - comme si le tableau était incomplet, qu'il se prolonge ou qu'il est destiné à se prolonger dans le temps. Comme si en peignant un sujet quasi en mouvement et à partir d'un sujet en mouvement, Kokochka essayait de dépasser l'aliénation du réel des portraits c'est-à-dire en essayant faire tout le contraire que de représenter un instant, un espace, un sujet figé et indépendant, en dehors du mouvement de la vie comme pourrait le faire des portraits plus traditionnels)
19:20 The State of awarness of vision : a level of consciousness attention wich we experience within ourselves. This experience cannot be fixed; for the vision is moving, an impression growing and becoming visual, imparting a power to the mind. It can be evoked but never defined. Yet the awareness of such imagery is a part of living. It is life selecting from the forms which flow tocards it or refraning, at will. (Consciousness is a "Sea Ringed about by Vision") Kokochka claim to reject distinction such as "you" and "me" in ordre to feel the soul as a reverberation of the universe and the vision as its plastic embodiment.
28:00 he was essentially looking for those realistic sex dolls available these days. Apropos sex dolls, the wikipedia page for "sex dools" mentions Kokoschka under the history subheading. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_doll
10:39 Totally not condoning Loos's holier-than-thou approach to ornamentation; but I must say I like the style of this building, especially because of the creeper plant. Was the plant part of Loos's design? Or added by the home owner or someone else? Any idea?
Loos never drew anything growing on his buildings. Modernists celebrated purity of form, plants are complex. As a later architect (Wright) said "Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects plant ivy." So , no. The plant was not in the plan.
I love your videos, I have a hard time keeping my attention on art history related content usually but your videos are great, I really like the little comments you make
@@theartshole311 Purely by chance. My art teacher allowed me to go life drawing at my local adult Ed centre and there he was. I was very lucky. I was 13 when this started, up until 16.
Wow, what a wonderful experience to have had, hope you learned a lot from him. Amazing how teaching creates these direct links to artists of the past and keeps their skills alive
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