What is Impressionism? 

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Thanks! The connection between Impressionism and the art markets is something I've come across a few times and thought was interesting, I wanted to included it at its one of the less talked about aspects of the movement. Glad you liked it and it was clear, i'm always worried about getting lost in the weeds discussing this stuff!

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I know what you mean, Pissaro in particular is an artist I really admire, his city scenes are some of the first to really capture the bustling movement of city life, They're amazing records to have as well as being artworks

Cheers! Apologies for my late reply, not getting much free time these days, glad to hear you enjoyed it, more videos coming soon!

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Best of luck with your exam!

@@theartshole311 forgot to say, got an 18/20. Your videos helped thanks a lot.

No problem, glad you enjoy them! I'll keep it up, new one up today and more coming in the new year

Thanks for the sub! Caravaggio is on the list, looking forward to doing that one myself

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Not an annoying commenter at all, thanks for pointing that out! Delighted to hear that, have never had the chance to visit the Musee D'Orsay but I'd heard the story about Saito and wanted to include it, very glad to hear the work is on view, thanks for letting me know!

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Thanks! TJ Clark's Painting of Modern Life is a great book about the Impressionists, goes into a lot of detail about the modernization of Paris and the new class politics that affected the era. Might be hard going depending on your tolerance for this sort of thing though, if you want some more readily accessible stuff the two I usually suggest (while not specifically about impressionism, just about modern art in general) are Shock of the New by Robert Hughes and Ways of Seeing by John Berger, both are good accessible introductions

@@theartshole311 Awesome. Thanks!

Thanks, I try to be clear because if I talk as I normally do no one will understand me!

Must admit I haven't come across him before, he has some great work. Still plenty to cover in regard to Post Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism, all of which he seems to have been involved with so I will make sure to have a closer look at him soon, thanks for the suggestion!

@@theartshole311 Definitely an underappreciated artist. The work I suggested in another comment is definitely his most important work. It's huge too.

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That is a great idea. I've been thinking for a while it would be quicker and easier to demonstrate the techniques than to talk about them. When I get a chance I'll set up and record something to show them. I reckon doing a bit of painting or drawing ourselves can make understanding this stuff way easier and it's quite enjoyable as well.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, really glad you found this useful. I will of course continue if people are finding these videos helpful, the current plan is to continue with modern art up to the Abstract Expressionists like Pollock. That is a fascinating and complex moment in cultural history but to get us there we have to cover a lot of other things first so bear with me for a bit while we do. Hopefully the end result will be a library of videos that provides a comprehensive overview of modern art that anyone can understand. Once we're done with all of that I'll be moving onto Postmodern or Contemporary art (whatever you want to call it) Like Serrano's Piss Christ, which is itself an utterly fascinating piece that gets a bit of a bad rap. It's a lot of work but I'm encouraged to keep going when I hear people like yourself are finding them useful. Thanks again!

@@theartshole311 Yes, please, make as many chapters as you need to cover the movements and related stuff comprehensively. There is no point in just doing a hop-jump-skip series to reach Pollock. Every movement, their socio-cultural context, every practitioner, other influences - all of the aspects need a certain time to be explored to understand art history as a connected and continuous flows, not merely compartmentalised movements. I would rather comprehensively understand 2 movements or periods than superficially know 10.

No worries, we will cover as much as possible rather than racing through it. Next few months we're covering Matisse and Duchamp who are both interesting(especially Duchamp, one of my favorites). We will also be taking a look back at some older artists who's work is relevant to understanding modernism too, Goya, David, Turner, Caravaggio and some other interesting figures. It will take a while but over time links between them will emerge and give us a much better picture overall.

@@theartshole311 🙌🙌🙌 Very excited that u're gonna cover David, Goya and Turner. Coz I like their paintings (the few I have seen) and have a basic idea that David's style is Neo-Classical, can recognise Turner's and Goya's style - would love to learn about the technical & contextual aspects in details. Also, if podsible, while doing Goya plz put in a note about the why & how of the difference between Goya's Rimantic style & Fredrick's Romantic style. My understanding of Romanticism is in terms of literature, specifically the 5 English poets, and also Gothic elements in fictiin, etc. Would love to know about the Romanticism in art.

@@theartshole311 Looking forward to Duchamp and Matisse too... All I know about Matisse is he was a pioneer of Favism, and I know his Lady with the Hat painting. But I know nothing about Duchamp 🙈 I'm stupid & ignorant like that about a lot of art stuff

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Painting techniques even in a style with clear traits like Impressionism can be as distinct as fingerprints. To put it broadly they did mix their colours where needed though usually it was on the pallete in advance. While they had access to more varied pigments than previous painters mixing on the pallet would still be necessary to approximate the hues they needed. The optical mixing would occur from the placement of those prepared colours on the painting, it doesn't mean they would never mix their paints at all. Monet did mix his colours with white through wet into wet painting, preparing the surface with a layer wet white paint and them mixing in the colour on top to create a glowing effect. Others resisted this and mixed as little as possible to maintain the purity of their colours but it really does come down to an artists individual preferred methods.

@@theartshole311 Thanks a lot. U know - I very well know that even in comparitively compact and organised movements with manifestos & stuff e.g. French Impressionism or English Romantic lit, individual practitioners really vary in terms of both subject matter and style. I know that. Yet, unconsciously we (I mean I, in case of non-literature stuff) tend to club together individuals and try to get a generalised understanding with bullet points of features, and then try to match up individuals by seeing if they tick of the boxes. I know that isnt how literature, art or culture works, but the brain has this unconscious tendency to fall back on clear-cut compartmentalisation while exploring new fields. I guess this may be cause in childhood we are taught to understand and remember things in clearly deliniated blocks - u know, the sub-heading way of learning - which works then, coz upto high school level it is pretty simple stuff - but we do that for so many years that our brains get accustomed to it as the default way, and unconsciously gets to simplifying, generalising & compartmentalising, making binaries and trying to get rid of nuances, overlaps, contradictions, stray individual elements. Like here, I have noticed how Monet & Renoir & Pissaro are so different, yet when I read "Monet mixed white..." my brain involuntarily and unconsciously went "ah, but how can that be, coz he was an Impressionist, and they worked with paints directly from the tube, and went for optical mixing - that is so confusing" - stuck in the box. And just as I read ur reply, I thought, but of course, Monet will have his own thing, and it'l change over time, and he can do multiple things, why was I thinking so narrowly. Sometimes our minds get stuck. And putting questions, discussion & communication help in learing, coz a new perspective, and even a hint gets ur mind out of the rut, and u notice new things... I am really really thankful to you for your patience and time and for taking the effort respond to all my comments and questions. It has really, genuinely helped me a lot, not only in understanding the topics u've covered, but also to better understand other videos, lectures on art. Thanks a ton 💞

Contemporary painting is a very broad term which generally gets applied to everything that comes "after" Modern art, though those disticntions are pretty blurry and often quite useless to be honest. Impressionism definitly qualifies as Figuritive though, loads of figures in there!

That's a very good point that people within the arts(myself included)often forget. You can get very used to looking at things a certain way and forget how they appear to an outsider. I think a big part of Impressionism appeal could well be to do with its legibility, and we're definitely going to be dealing with that as we go forward and become less readily readable

@@theartshole311 The appeal lies in the ordinariness of subject matter I think - just snippets ordinary scenes, of regular people going about their everyday life - it is readable and it is identifiable. And the mundane is at the same time mysterious - coz u look at the expressions of the various faces, and u wonder what emotions are behind the expression captured by the artist at that moment.

@@theartshole311 The lecture also has a segment on "impressionism and the city" - which I found interesting. In literature too we explore the role of the city - how the city itself becomes a character - in Modernist literature... And the speaker briefly explored the anonymity that the artist, or any individual, can experience in the city, and the artist as the anonymous observer - interesting to think of the urban-scape and cafe/bar scenes and the various faces that appear in Impressionist works.

Apologies! When it comes to good scholarship i am a complete mess but I willl be making an effrot to do so in future. Frequent sources i use are the excellent Art in Theory Books published by Blackwell Publishing, these are anthologies of key texts for different periods of art and I generally use the texts in them for a lot of stuff. Other ones i use a lot would be Art Since 1900 which is a ponderous tomb of a yolk but has some good insights here and there and E.H Gombrichs The Story of Art. Apart from that it's a lot of googling, Jstor papers and hunting for exhibition catalogues with decent essays on Archive.org. In future i'll include proper links in the description to stuff I use and any otuer useful resources

@@theartshole311 No problems! Love your videos nonetheless! Became a subscriber :))

Thanks! Delighted to hear that!

While it does seem that about 90% of all visual art produced is indeed anime fan art, there are as many different kinds of art out there as there are people to produce them. Once we get through all the Modernist stuff I intend to start covering Contemporary art too so bear with me and I can hopefully answer that question in more detail

Might do a video on NFT's if there is interest in it, thought i must say I am very skeptical of the whole thing so my opinion will probably be less than kind. Doesn't help that I keep getting offers from various leeches to put ads for their NFT's in the videos. Not a fan!

😂 perhaps starting a channel based around a word I can't pronounce was a bad idea

Oops, what did I say? Must have got something confused, sorry!

Sometimes it's amazing what counts as an advance back then, it's incredible just how restrictive the academic model could be.

I may be partial to an odd conspiracy here and there but nope, I've no affiliation with any ultra conservative newspapers (never thought I'd have to type that sentence)