Unraveling American Cityscape Art with Waldemar Januszczak |Perspective 

It’s the difference between someone sharing something with you and someone sharing their love of something with you. I haven’t been this engaged for a long time. Thanks Waldemar

I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful Waldemars' art series has been for me. Watching these shows has been time well spent, both learning and being entertained. I don't feel this way when I view Netflix most times.

"something darker. And what that is. You'll have to wait and see." LOVE THIS GUY!!!

Nice to see I'm not the only one smitten with Waldemar! He's a treasure!

These are so good. Not just the American looks but the baroque, impressionist, Roccoco, Muslim, all of them. In these ..times, your obvious love of these artists, their art and the associated architecture is a joy to watch. That you have the means and vocabulary to express it so equivalently is a great gift to us all. Having resigned myself to the fact that I will never be able to travel to Europe, your filming of the great mosques and cathedrals in particular simply gives me peace. Thank you. I have not watched all of your series, but I certainly will. You and Mary Beard may be my favorite people on earth right now.

The best shows on the internet ! I watch them over and over...learning so much.

Best presenter ever.

Some of these paintings put my jaw on the floor

Waldemars' presentations are so well crafted that we, the viewers, are drawn in by the spoken words which illuminate the visuals. Each episode is satisfying on multiple levels. Thank you.

Absolutely enjoyable being informed of art by a brilliant narrator! Can't get enough. So many artists I've never heard of. Delightful!

It will be an understatement if I say that those series and this amazing man saved my sanity throughout the days of confinement when all is otherwise about cooking,working, sleeping and survival. I needed this in my life and Perspective gave it to me graciously. Thank you!

Walden is by far the best art critic on-line .

These are the best art history films I have seen. Waldemar makes the topic accessible with humor and grace. He brings out the stories the art works are telling. The only thing I would like to see is a list of the works discussed so we can study further and perhaps go visit. Thanks for posting these delightful episodes.

Wonderful. Every one of Waldemar's documentaries is superbly entertaining.

Excellent Documentary series . Thank you to all involved who created it. Waldemar thank you for keeping me sane

Waldemar is truly an amazing guy to listen to. How much fun it would be to tour an art museum with him!

I love how Waldemar has introduced me to unknown artists throughout the ages. He did the same with the Rococo and with the Renaissance, wanting to give credit to artists who are great but are now totally unknown, like the terracotta masters of the Italian Renaissance or the porcelain masters of the Rococo. Now he does the same with American art. I wasn't aware of Reginald Marsh, and his exuberant, colorful, tawdry, sweaty art that is almost in diametric opposition to the depressed, muted, cold, stilted art of Edward Hopper. Of course, the modern art establishment goes for the serious depressives and their sad, disquieting art, so Edward Hopper is way more famous now. How I wish it were different.

Thank you for mentioning Arshile Gorky and analysing his artistic legacy! Greetings from your Armenian fan! I just want to add that Gorky witnessed the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and had to flee with his siblings to Russian-controlled lands. The sense of tragic loss of ancestral lands, beloved ones, compatriots, finally, the eternal pain of being physically apart from the Armenian medieval churches and mountainous landscapes of Van region of his childhood, has always been either directly or symbolically expressed in his art.

the magic of these films is that they are about NOT what you know, but what you can learn if you open your mind

Waldemar Janusczak's humorous and acerbic commentaries make for interesting documentary viewing! As a Yank, I don't always agree with his pronounciations, but what an erudite and scholarly person!

At the Rothcoe chapel, where you were so moved by the paintings, I laughed so loud, the coffee came up my nose.

Bravo, Waldemar! Can’t get enough of your films. Very entertaining and unique approach to getting people into art! Keep going!

Yes! My favorite American painter, too. Wonderful.

I would love to see him do photography docs. On famous photographers of New York

Never heard of George Bellows before but I'm already a fan. As a *massive* supporter of both sports and art, the two disciplines seem to be constantly at odds with each other, you're either in one camp or the other. But to see somebody grabbing the sporting world by the scruff of the neck and portraying it in such a fluid yet earthy way is like nothing I've ever seen before. Almost reduces me to tears and it goes to show the two really have a more in common than many want to believe.

Rothko 😍. That chapel in Houston is hard to describe until you've been there. I had a wonderful experience when I visited. So much other great art in this video as well. Thank you!

This was just an exceptional ride across the stratosphere of American art inspired by city life. Truly a wonderful experience, thank you to Waldemar Januszczak for not only talking about the famous artworks, but creating an experience of them as well. I must ask though, what about Georgia O'keeffe's New York city skyscraper paintings?

Waldemar what a character--very unique presenter- An art experience in itself

I love your videos - and this one Even showed a glimpse of you sitting in your office, admiring drawing while telling passionately your observations of art - its just great fun to follow your art videos 🎶💗🎵🌷

This series could be taught as an Art In History college course.

What a wonderful enjoyable way to learn about art and to get rid of many of our faulty former teachings! Kudos!

Very informative. I've seen some of his art programme's on the telly, and read a number of his critiques in the paper. He always has something interesting to reveal. I'd never made the connection between abstract art and the underlying truth's of spiritual reality before.

I love this particular episode

dear Wallie, I think your cartoon of the Chrysler building is much better than the depressive Marsh's! people's art reflects their world view at that moment. As you do, if one chooses light and love and humor, you'll have a much more delightful life!

Januszczak: you're making good information art.

Waldemar is the best!!!! P.x

Again, this series is absolutely fantastic. Thank you Waldemar!

Here Here!

Waldermar’s art documentaries are always wonderful to watch. The more art documentaries I had watch the more I realize SOME so called great art pieces and paintings are overrated and not that great.

There used to be a show that aired on p.b.s. that did this but ,it was hosted by a nun. I loved that show.

I so appreciate the time and love that is put into these films! I love listening to the vibrant explications

What a good autoportrait, Waldemar! It's great listening to you! Can't stop.

LOVE WALDEMAR!! HE IS AWESOME..I'LL WATCH BECAUSE OF HIM!!!

This came on my feed because well I have seen all the good documentaries that youtube has to offer about Art.....but this was something else it taught me so much more than what i expected & this entire Theosophy context to the Modern art movement i did not have the foggiest clue about......now looking forward to the next one & the one before this .....Thank you :)

Waldenar is amazing. I want to buy this collection.

Really beautiful series! Rewatching!

I appreciate that you include Colorist Mark Rothko at the end of the presentation. Post-WWII, an influx of European intelligentsia provided a heady petri dish for the emergence of a dynamic new form of art - Abstract Expressionism, which I venture to say only makes sense if you experience the hugeness of the Manhattan landscape. Like all of the rebel art starting with French Impressionism, it's a question of what you choose not to do instead of going along with convention. Although Rothko's art might be a reflection of Soviet Constructivism, a very radical art form for its day.

For sportsmen in American painting may I suggest it was Thomas Eakins - a few decades before Bellows who pioneered that genre - rowers, swimmers, boxers, wrestlers. Eakins style was a little more on the realistic side, but there was also something else especially in is paintings of boxers (see "Taking The Count" and "Salutat"): unmistakable homoeroticism.

Love Waldemar art and architecture history documentaries!! Thank you so much for uploading. 👍

The distance between people.... hated that. That is exactly why I moved out of New York State in 1970 and swore I would never return, and I never have. No one has ever said what I felt so perfectly. That is what it was that I hated more than anything. Hated that feeling of isolation in crowded places. Hated seeing the dead eyes and departed souls on the buses and trains. I was afraid that, if I didn't get out, and out soon, I'd be like they were. Dead and gone while still breathing. I live out in the wilds of Washington state and the wild animals and pets are always alive ... always aware. A deer and her fawn, a cat owned by a neighbor, a stag with its first rack of antlers, even the annoying skunks...all really present. All ALIVE. My grandparents both sides arrived on Ellis Island but they weren't classy artists, they were Italian peasants,well except the Irish woman but we don't talk about her, do we? Many of them were craftspeople, as I am,but craft isn't the same thing as ART.

I was especially moved about the story of Gorki’s art and identity - 🎶🙃🎵💜🎨

Waldemar perspective is like a light in the dark

Thank you for posting this video 📸 It is entertaining, informative and interesting. Waldemar Januszczak holds my attention and is very light-hearted makes me want to go to The Metropolitan Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, The Frick Collection, The Museum of Modern Art 🎨🎭 and The Museum of Natural History, all in New York City 🌆 also The Louvre in Paris. Waldemar gives me a taste for art to visit all the great Museums of the world 🌎. He makes me want to listen to some of my favorites Bach Chopin, Amedeus and Beethoven. Classical music 🎶 goes well with great art. Thank you for this it was so much fun. And enjoyed seeing all the lovely art 🎨🎭 and The Guggenheim Museum in New York City 🏙️.

Thanks so much for posting

Exactly. I'm a New Yorker and as much as this city has to offer, as many people as you're surrounded by, I've had some of the loneliest times and felt more disconnected in that city than anywhere else. It can be an exciting and wonderful place, I've had the best times ever there, but also the worst.

Waldemar, Robert Hughes and Jonathan Meades. The holy trinity.

My favorite American painters - the marvelous Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Grandma Moses, and Remington.

I love Waldemar.

Thank you again for such a fantastic voyage 🌜🎋🌛Just love 💕 The voice of the city of New York painting 🌹🌿Truly magnificent in telling the history of the time 🦩🌈🍒🗽

Love the affectionate sarcasm. As if Stewart Lee was working as a tour guide.

Waldemar; He is a complete art form to himself. You will see how he works clearly and slowly at his diction. Make sure you see his Impressionist series. The whole "Perspective" team is first-rate The story, the script, camera work and filming. The editing is better than anything I have seen anywhere. Note the cross-references back and forth in the script. There is a giant and whimsical intellect at work here.The man is brilliant he keeps your eye on the subject by often facing the subject and talking backwards clearly and strongly .Notice the blond woman spectator who keeps fleeting through with different hair .

For the first time originality is stated as a 'thing' .. before it was fine to ut your own take on Baroque or 'do a madonna' or whatever .. now we have 'derivative' ... I wonder sometimes at the idea of 'sounds like' in music and how much iss copying .. what is synthesizing (rhetoric)? really .. they all did it .. in music, art painting and so on .. in some periods you were 'supposed to', I think .. whereas, especially today, alleged originality is essential ... if not possible to achieve. (Watching too many Waldemar videos means that one even writes in his spoken style..lol). I watched all these on telly years ago and am now thoroughly enjoying myself (binge) watching them again, whilst in lockdown .. :-) .. Thanks to Perspective channel, you tube, Waldemar and the makers of these progs.

Wonderful video. As an artist it makes you respect so many different approaches to art.

Infamous Ellis Island?! How 'bout AWESOME Ellis Island!

Very well explored and very much appreciated, thank you.

Thanks!

nice work Waldy!!

hello and thank you for your excellent art guide. You describe a magnificent polyptych , you describe altar wings as " four predellas" , predella is another part, the horizontal part of an altar underneath. Usually depicting a row of saints and martyrs. Very often apostles or evangelists.

One of the greats

très intéressant. merci

Really enjoy your channel! Fantastic stuff!

In 1974 I lived in Married Student Housing in Austin TX. My friend and I visited the Rothko Chapel, She had no understanding of art and she tried to suppress her laughter when we went in. I was horrified. Today, Jan 2022, my daughter at 46 would understand the art. Ruth Z Deming

These Art Documentaries are extraordinary! The best of their kind ever made. But who is the Red Headed woman in every show?

I love the way W says "caw-TOOOON-ist" and it turns out.. he is/was one.

_The Painted Word,_ Tom Wolfe

This is first time I’ve ever heard Ellis Island being described as “infamous”. 🥺

FLW was a Unitarian, which does have similarities to theosophy. Well, my newfound admiration for Rothko has been unexpected. Really, really love those canvases starting around 55:35.

Waldmar, these docs are the bees knees, fabulously, simultaneously erudite & enteraining, all the fun of humorous asides & specific cultural references & anecdotal bio bring so much to the experience of art in the chaos of over wrought art history. Merci beaucoup, splendid, well done. EXCEPT the aggresive, uncivilized, moronic, repetitive, jarring interjection of banal, repetitive, mind-numbing, OH S**T, over-the-top, hostile butchery & interruption of educational content by commercials & ADS. Ruination of our minds by screen time.

very learning, erudite, expertise

THANKSALOT AGAIN .................KEEP ON KEEPING ON

I had no idea Rothko was into the esoteric wow. But I liked his color fields best , they echoed the law of vibration and frequency , So it makes sense .

Love James Terrell! I agree one if the most amazing working artists today. Love Rothko. Sadly alcohol doesn't make you less unhappy.

Love all your vid's. Just an FYI, for a period in the 70's early 80's Leroy Neiman was Huge?! He primarily painted sports stuff and most people if they didn't know him by name= absolutely knew him by his work.

Wow! you pry open my mind.

Wonderfull♥

brilliant doco

*Big Sky, Big Art, Big Dreams: Art Made in the USA* Episode 1: From The Wild West To Jackson Pollock: America In Art (Art History Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Wild West to Abstract Expressionism Episode 2: Exploring America's Most Famous Art (Art Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From The Big City to Rothko Episode 3: America's Most Underrated Artists (Art History Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Small Town to David Smith

This makes me proud to be an artist and very sad at the artist I am.

Oh no, we didn't get to hear about American Gothic!! 🥺And here I spent an hour waiting to hear about it! 😩

Anyone else crave watching West Side Story when that song came on?

Good art

Check out any Brian Eno art installation in the last 4 decades. The most beautiful music in the galaxy with motion paintings, stuff like that. Waldemar would be surprised.

Merci

very good movie...congratulation

I think that a problem in Rothko paintings is thatThe color disappears over time. I thought that the color in Harvard Rothko paintings disappeared

Joseph Stella is insanely compelling, good and exciting. Rothko is merely Decorative by comparison. I love Waldamar but also love Tom Wolf's The Painted Word.

super la vide

At 33:00, he really should have spoken about Hopper’s wife, their relationship, and her partnership. In many ways, the art is about them and made by them jointly. She’s the model in all his paintings.

This is way good.

On the theme of American art: Robert Henri's influence on other artist is worth looking at.