I guess it happened to all of us! we all share something similar, I was looking for something on Van Goh and found Waldermar 7 days later I had watched almost every documentary that he's been on RU-vid. He makes you feel like a kid on a tour being hosted by a marvellous storyteller... Kudos to Waldermar and the whole Perspective crew for this well arrange art documentary...Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!!
@@sbennett315 мозг Ван Гога был отправлен токсинами . Он пил спиртное с токсинами. Это шизофрения. Свобода это шизофрения и вседозволенность ? Другой пример . От такой свободы Людовик 14 лишился носа , сифилис сразил его . Свободный секс дал свои плоды ! Ван Гог имел официальный диагноз шизофрения .
People at work ask me what I do on my weekends. I can't decide if I should tell them that I'm enamored with every documentary that Waldemar Januszczak produces and I thusly spend hour upon hour of watching these documentaries. Social life? Who needs it? I have these treasures to indulge upon!
This film is a chef-d'œuvre. The bits and pieces of rococo art, history and art history that I've been studying and admiring for dozens of years suddenly became a whole, skillfully narrated and gracefully illustrated, profound and lucid philosophical story. Bravo!
I have only recently discovered this marvellous person who has truly blown away any cobwebs on my introspective love of art..he is so good and so funny and should be honoured with many an award as an educator to the masses
The host of this documentary is really amazing, he really makes me interested in art history, I love how he uses humor to present the stories being the paintings
Oh, Waldy splayed out on the couch with blue velvet and lurid pink stuff. Omorphia! indeed. Saving me again in these uncertain yet certainly horrid days. A poster would be nice. Thank you for committing wholly.
Anybody else here is a fan of Artsy Waldy? And as much as we love the art for its own value, learning from him adds value to everything we see in his films!
@@45whitedragon First, someday I will learn to spell English-sorry! I typed my previous response in haste. Yes, biases abound, but Waldy is many-sided, and great fun, to boot. Most Art Historians are flat; Waldy is a prism. That’s refreshing to old academic eyes like mine. ☺️
Just reading the first 20 or so comments ,I am pleased to see such intelligent,appreciative, cultured and well spoken art lovers here! This video is excellent,and maybe an era I might have loved to have lived during! I just bought a cheap knock off "tapestry" depicting the ceiling painting in Versailles..I'm on an art Rocco bender now..I'm in love with the style of all of it! So decadent and hedonistic and beautifully soft and feminine! He cracked me up laying on the bed!
I love this documentary, but I think artists like Fragonard (and to a lesser extent Boucher) deserve more credit. They allow troubled people to share their vision of an idyllic life. The world needs more rococo!
I too will paint my finger nail pink to celebrate our modern depravity. Winter in Canada and in a COVID lockdown. You are taking me around the world and dancing through history. Thank you.
I thought the World Health Organization said NOT to lock down...that they don't work and they cause more harm than good? Canadian socialism has bred dictatorship it seems
@@Buggieboo69 My American friend. As a Canadian and speaking for all of my family and friends we would love to know why so many of you folks think we are a socialist country. This could not be further from the truth. We think we know why however. It's because of our paid for medical coverage when we have a medical issue. We are very proud of our Medicare system, it's not perfect but I think it is better than your current system from what all of your country men/women have told me. For example. A guy I met in Michigan a while back was telling me, he and his wife wanted to have there first child. Thankfully he had insurance as if not, it would have cost them $15.000. I almost fell on the floor. WOW I said to him. That's unbelievable. So what if it turns out to be twins ? $30.000 ? In any case, the simple answer/argument is we have a deep believe that as a good human being on this planet, we help another person when they are sick and hurting. I know you guys think the same way. I have visited your great country many, many times for business and for holidays. It has always been a positive trip. For example. A few years ago, my wife and I got caught in a brutal snow storm just past Buffalo NY heading south for holidays. I was barely able to get our car into a motel parking lot where it was buried in 2 feet of snow blocking the in--out lanes. I had no shovel no snow tires. Before I even got out of the car a guy came out of nowhere and started to shovel us out so I could at least move the car further up closer to the parking area. This at least allowed about another 10 cars in and off the road as they were closing the hiway. I could not believe how fast he helped us. The guy didn't even have a winter coat on. I tried to pay him, he said no, I tried to give him a 24 of our high test Canadian 🍺 beer again no thanks. So at the end of the day, call us socialist that's okay, it's all about helping people that are down on their luck and need help with a broken arm or stuck in the snow.
Fragonard's picture, "Young Girl Reading," is one of my VERY favorite pictures (as a retired English teacher/school librarian that makes some kind of sense beyond the aesthetic!). How fun that you've put her into some historical perspective! I had no idea that the artist was so naughty. (I know very little about art or its history: I just know what I like.)
I'm a fashion illustrator, seeing those works by Tiepolo makes my mouth water, literally. He was the precursor for fashion illustration, the economy of line, the complex yet simplistic reduction of shadow, light, and form, the lush almost juicy quality of the figures, not to mention the palpable drama in each figure; It's just an absolute pleasure to see every time. Beyond inspiring.
part 3? anyone? I love this and i LOVE Waldemar. He's so cute & sweet and funny and i just love being taken on his adventures and listening to his....~perspective. He's fab
Thank you so much for your passion and labor of lessons on true art , real history and raw humanity . Amazing what we can learn and enjoy is so limitless
47:37 That maybe was a sad story for those times, but in today's world, it wouldn't be so crazy. Some people have turbulent lives but not many have a life-long companion and friend to move in with and support them. So that's a good ending.
At one of the partitions of Poland, the Austrian Empress Maria Teresa apparently expressed grief at the act (despite being a participant). Frederick, pithy as always, is said to have sneered, "She cries, but she eats!"
Thanks for putting up this excellent series and getting me through these tough times. Is Part 3 anywhere on this channel? Would love to see Waldemar talk about Goya and his "Black Paintings".
House of pleasure remindes me of dopamine decoration i've seen on tiktok (or where i've discovered a similar thing). The purpose of it, beeing that you're decorating your home with things that give you joy.
I have to admit, Waldemar makes this much more interesting, I love his style. So upbeat and with some awesome points of view. Edit: Was showing this to a friend and he said, he's cool but they show too little of the art itself at times. Don't know if I fully agree with that, but it's a valid point
I was watching this episode of Waldemar being pleasantly intoxicated with red wine (I recommend this point of view). He seemed to be very persuasive, consistently hilarious, and very roccocan. Including hairstyle.
It is of course crucially important to note that while the framers of The Declaration Of Independence did indeed list 'the pursuit of happiness' to be an inalienable right they did not state that happiness itself is an inalienable right.
Is it bad that I binge this ? It’s getting to the point I know a video within seconds of playing . I love the code/puzzle about the palace is AMAZING and so intelligent. I love waldimar (sorry spelling) he is in my top five presenters of these movies/documentaries.
Thank you for posting this entertaining, insightful video. I enjoyed it immensely. I learned a great deal and found it fascinating. Waldemar Januszczak is insightful and entertaining. Thank you.
Excellent video. The narrator has an obvious sense of humor. As an artist, I've drawn ( on location) some of the paintings of watteau . And I loved also Francois Boucher whose work I drew from the Washington meyseum of art ( west building).
A scapular, the forgotten gospel of Thomas the doubter and shot glass are gifts and my best loving memories of my beloved Grandmother who offered, no, no, no, guaranteed me a path to her heaven. I still love her wonderful heart. Her name is Katherine. R.I.P. ...And she is adamantly German! ...as much as my "pig headed"german mother claimed I was a "stubborn german" and still am to this day. R.I.P. you wonderful, beautiful strong ladies.
When he was laying on the couch like the omorphe beauty painting I laughed out loud the Boucher lol I love this man his genius and wit are unparalleled for me ❤
He didn't get the Sans, souci. meaning right. Yes it means "Sans virgule souci point" but the meaning of "je ne me soucie point" in 18th century french is not I don't worry but I don't care. In other words the sentence crudely says : "If you don't have a penis I am not interested". In other words 'i am not into women'.
The spanking game takes the ridiculous to a new level of open self-indulgence. So interesting. I’ve never cared for this period of art, & now I know why. Thanks for the entertaining great video!
Just to be clear: The Declaration of Independence does not say that it is an inalienable right to BE happy, only that it is such a right to PURSUE happiness (even though that pursuit may fail of its purpose).
I certainly enjoyed this video and learned a lot, some of which I doubt is true. Maybe that's just the interpretative nature of art history. Still, some great art, great locations, and entertaining commentary.
I read a biography of Mme Pompadour. She was the daughter of the financier and his mistress, who groomed her daughter to be a king's mistress. Her mother used to say of her, "Isn't she (A morsel for a king) Pompadour first met Louis XV in the Bois de Bologne (?) while he was hunting, and she was invited to the masked ball, hence his appearance as a tree. She did have big eyes, almost protruding.
18:29 of course when he says 'Voltaire stayed here once' he means for a few years. Voltaire had his own room in Sans Souci and Charlottenburg Palace. And while Frederick was ruthless in war and politics he was also the first European king to allow freedom of religion or as he put it 'as long as they contribute to society all are welcome, if they are jewish we will build the synagouges and if they are muslim we will build them mosques'.
I can appreciate the way you usually make an effort to loosen up the teaching of art history to make it accessible to all. I like your casual style, your humor, even your posing as Miss O'Murphy has a certain "charm". BUT, I happen to know a thing or two about French Rococo. And I have to say that this was a very reductive presentation of what the Rococo movement really meant in France. Lascivious, scandalous love. It will no doubt comfort the whole Anglo-Saxon holier-than-thou attitude towards 18th Century French art. (O yes, of course, they love what that stiff of Diderot had to say about Boucher!!) And yet, that is not what made me stop at 27 minutes +. I could also have dealt with the off-the-cuff comments on the "infamous" Madame de Pompadour (as if no other king in world history had had powerful mistresses), and the rest of the sensationalism around Miss O'Murphy's rear-end, and the limited understanding of the art of Watteau and Boucher, and the status of women in Rococo art (Why even suggest that they may have been submissive, only to rightfully negate it in the next sentence?). The one thing that threw me over the edge is at 27:41 when you mention the encounter of the Madame de Pompadour with Louis XV in Feb. 1745, and you show a very well-known bust of Louis XIV (Louis XV's great-grandfather) done in 1679 by Antoine Coysevox, and which can be seen in the King's Bedroom in Versailles. There are dozens of busts of Louis XV. Sorry, this is no way to explain great art. If you really want to know what Boucher and rococo art meant to France in the 18th c. and still does to people who know it, you should read the works of Pierre Rosenberg, the ultimate world authority in all things French 18th century, as well as the former Director of the Louvre, and of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and a wonderful writer who knows how to communicate with his audience, without dry lingo.
