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Vanessa Bell, Bloomsbury Artist
This video looks at the life and work of the Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell, exploring the break with the Victorian period and the influence of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Modernism on her work, and her rejection of abstraction and pure formalism in favour of subject matter, of the world created around her, the Bloomsbury group, her life in East Sussex, and her family.
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The Paintings of Joan Eardley (to music)
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Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley experienced tragedy early in her life with the suicide of her father, and ultimately her life ended tragically with the misdiagnosis of her cancer by a homeopathic doctor, but her love for art and the freedom in her painting style mirrored her love for humanity, and the freedom in her own life. Her childhood was one in which she keenly felt a sense of loss, and the...
Why I love Yoko Ono's 'Grapefruit'
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This video talks about Yoko Ono's ground-breaking 1964 collection of conceptual artworks, Grapefruit, a series of written instructions for the reader to create performance artworks. I love the anti-consumerist sentiment of Grapefruit's de-materialisation in general, but I also love the way each work explores different themes. 'Painting to be Stepped On' rejects the modernist notion of art as th...
Yayoi Kusama, 'Undaunted': Art and Healing
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This is a video about the ways in which art can change the relationship between the subject and traumatic events in their past, looking at the art of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
What is Art?
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A short film exploring the role of art in the twenty-first century. Footage is from Camber Sands and Winchelsea Beach in East Sussex, UK. Music is Debussy's 'Sarabande'.
Alfred Sisley in Britain (to music)
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This video shows the paintings done by the French-born British subject Alfred Sisley during two of his three visits to Britain, one in order to paint, in the Impressionist style, around Hampton Court, the other to paint on the Welsh coast.
Antonio Verrio at Hampton Court
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This video looks at the way in which Antionio Verrio, working for William III after the latter's invasion of Britain, was able to turn a mythological ceiling painting into propaganda for a military operation.
Raphael and the Madonna of Bogota
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This short video follows the journey made by one version of Raphael's 'Holy Family with St John the Baptist', as it travelled from Italy to France, then from Spain to Colombia, and then North America.
Bacon & the Pope
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This video looks at a series that emerged from the series of 'Heads' which Francis Bacon painted shortly after the Second World War, and which developed into the series of paintings responding to photographs of Diego Velazquez's 'Portrait of Pope Innocent X'. The video looks at Bacon's postmodernity with regards his surrealist roots, with his damage to images both as a recognition of their untr...
The Architecture of Ukraine
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This video looks at the buildings in Ukraine from the 11th century to the 18th century, and the influence of the South, be it Byzantium or Italy, and the West, from Poland, Germany or the Netherlands.
Art in Paris 1900 to 1925
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This video looks at the various revolutionary movements in art produced in Montmartre and Montparnasse between 1900 and 1925, looking at Fauvism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. Explores Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Chagall, Duchamp, De Chirico, Breton, Miro and Ernst.
Rainer Maria Rilke 'First Duino Elegy'
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This is a reading of part of Rilke's 'First Duino Elegy', a poem begun in 1912 after hearing the first line as a voice in his head. The completion of the elegies was delayed by the First World War, and Rilke's depression, until 1923.
Franz Kafka 'On Parables'
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This is a reading of a short story by Franz Kafka, published posthumously in The Great Wall of China in 1931, dealing with the incompatibility of the finite and infinite worlds. The film footage was shot on Super 8 in the early months of 1995 in Prague.
De Chirico and Nietzsche: Pittura Metafisica
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This video looks at de Chirico's early works, influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, beginning with the period of his revelation in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence in 1910, and continuing until just after the foundation of the Pittura Metafisica movement in 1915.
Jan Vermeer, The Complete Works
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This film looks at Vermeer's life and works, his early influences, his compositional and painterly methods, his major themes, and his development over the two decade period he painted in Delft.
Paul Signac and the South (to music)
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Paul Signac and the South (to music)
Dutch Baroque Painting
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Dutch Baroque Painting
The Eight Impressionist Exhibitions, 1874 to 1886
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The Eight Impressionist Exhibitions, 1874 to 1886
Vincent van Gogh: 'That Infinite Sky'
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Vincent van Gogh: 'That Infinite Sky'
The Barbizon School: Théodore Rousseau
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The Barbizon School: Théodore Rousseau
Reflections on: Nature, and the Barbizon School
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Reflections on: Nature, and the Barbizon School
French C19th Realism: Gustave Courbet
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French C19th Realism: Gustave Courbet
French C19th Realism: Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet
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French C19th Realism: Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet
Anthony van Dyck
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Anthony van Dyck
Peter Paul Rubens
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Peter Paul Rubens
Jan van Eyck: 'Als Ich Can'
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Jan van Eyck: 'Als Ich Can'
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
W. H. Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts', on three Bruegel Paintings
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W. H. Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts', on three Bruegel Paintings
The Altarpiece and the Mass
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The Altarpiece and the Mass
Claude Monet: 'Distilling the Eternal' (Part Two)
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Claude Monet: 'Distilling the Eternal' (Part Two)

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  • @christinek4072
    @christinek4072 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A wonderful lens for examining these artists… great info and insights. Thankyou!!

  • @engleharddinglefester4285
    @engleharddinglefester4285 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks so much! you put some work into this.

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@engleharddinglefester4285 You're very welcome - thanks for the kind recognition.

  • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
    @johnobriensarthistorychannel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    monoskop.org/images/6/64/Ono_Yoko_Grapefruit_A_Book_of_Instructions_and_Drawings_2000.pdf

  • @kacper__sk8
    @kacper__sk8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We boutta pass with this one boys🙏

  • @adamm4926
    @adamm4926 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve got to ask, is this your narration? The voice sounds almost identical to someone else’s 💙 Excellent informative video.

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, that is my voice - there are also some videos on the channel of me speaking to camera. Thanks for posting.

  • @TheMakoyou
    @TheMakoyou 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Korin is not a Ukiyo-e artist. He is an ink painter. Ukiyoe are prints for the common people, so the price was about 500 yen or 3 dollars per sheet in today's monetary value.

  • @jerrybaird2059
    @jerrybaird2059 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could do without the musical intro and conclusion, but otherwise an interesting survey.

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo6490 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don't show text to be read while narration is being listened to.

  • @Ninatx
    @Ninatx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your work, I just found your channel. I'm currently doing a Masters in Art History, but even so, I still really appreciate your videos covering the masters and the sort of "basiscs" of Art History. Your videos feel like mandatory reading that I've somehow missed and feel an absolute need to watch and learn from. So, thank you for the effort you put into these videos!

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many thanks for your kind comments, and you're welcome. Generally the videos are distillation of courses or lessons (or elements thereof) that I've taught at my college, and it's been said that they're probably helpful at undergraduate level, so I'm glad you feel they're filling in the gaps. Unfortunately, I'm conscious of the gaps left by courses I haven't had time to turn into videos, but I hope to do so at some point in the future. Thanks again.

  • @hemanag1020
    @hemanag1020 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aotearoa/New Zealand was settled from the pacific islands. Your map at the beginning is dead wrong. We are maori from polynesia.

  • @DesertWolfSurvival
    @DesertWolfSurvival 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤

  • @johnjones6601
    @johnjones6601 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a find! I've just finished listening to your talk on Corot and Millet. Besides being very informative, you have a very mellifluous voice, which makes listening to your lectures a pleasure.😉👏

  • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
    @johnobriensarthistorychannel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some more Super 8 Kafka from the 90s.... th-cam.com/video/wQ86A1mTJps/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared

  • @noahschniepp7351
    @noahschniepp7351 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For those who have to read slash listen to this multiple times 33 seconds is where the music stops (great video by the way)

  • @JustME-ft4di
    @JustME-ft4di ปีที่แล้ว

    Yours is the best reading of this on TH-cam. Thank you!

  • @EdwardHopperNightHawks
    @EdwardHopperNightHawks ปีที่แล้ว

    ...subtle tone of voice ;)

  • @ClassicalRealism
    @ClassicalRealism ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good film on Vermeer. His paintings were magnificent. I also produced a film on how Vermeer handled edges in his Portait of a Young Woman. th-cam.com/video/grZpd_TG4Sk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Cbw7J-EjSPfS2hoo

  • @michael4250
    @michael4250 ปีที่แล้ว

    Teeny tiny reproductions, all out of focus. Why bother?

  • @michael4250
    @michael4250 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tiny reproductions out of focus. Why bother if you are not really showing the art?

  • @lizeyres3532
    @lizeyres3532 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this really interesting video, John. Courbet built two pavilions, one in 1855 in Avenue Montaigne off the Champs-Élysées and known as the Pavilion du Réalisme, and one in 1867, known as the Exposition Courbet, in the Place de l'Alma. The 1855 one was a smaller structure and the one you show as the 1855 Pavillion du Réalisme at 1:20 is in fact the larger 1867 pavilion. I hope this is of interest.

  • @quetzalcoatlz
    @quetzalcoatlz ปีที่แล้ว

    The first time i witnessed one of the large water lilies displayed at the Cleveland art museum i couldn't get over how big it was! For years as a child growing up in a tiny town in the middle of the country all i had were pictures in art books which wrongfully left me with the impression they were painted on a large canvas. Little did i know how large that canvas was!

  • @kzz2501
    @kzz2501 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a true beginner in art history and frankly, I'm finding these videos hard to digest. What ways and resources of studying would you recommend to me?

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, thanks for the question - I'd say that a good chronological survey like E. H. Gombrich's 'The Story of Art', or H. Honour and J. Fleming's 'A World History of Art' would be good places to get an overview to set all the information in context. Hope that helps.

  • @uhlexseeuh
    @uhlexseeuh ปีที่แล้ว

    this was the exact video i was looking for! so informative, thanks a ton! and patiently waiting for part 2 :)

  • @c.hoedeman454
    @c.hoedeman454 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi John, is there a way to get in touch?

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, please feel free to post any questions here, or e-mail me at obrienjm@hotmail.com.

  • @colcutback4697
    @colcutback4697 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent John. Thank you!

  • @stuartgraca
    @stuartgraca ปีที่แล้ว

    I find it impossible to believe that Vermeer did not do extensive drawings , his precision of form is not what you can achieve by directly designing the image on the canvas. Yet I understand there are no sketches or drawings and a lack of early student works. I have made many copues if his paintings and appreciate how carefully he calculated the composition and the subtlety of the details in telling the story.

    • @paulwoodford1984
      @paulwoodford1984 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you sell your copies of his works ?

    • @stuartgraca
      @stuartgraca ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulwoodford1984 Like a lot of painters there is a desire to feel in the position of the artist, I have given most of my copies to friends, although there was one sketch, painted, of the girl with a pearl earring that I sold because some one was so keen on it, and I also sold a Mona Lisa painting which I had made to recreate the painting as it would have been first seen, clean and bright. Friends in Brazil have a Caravaggio Last Supper and the Vermeer girl with a guitar . In the 1970’s I was a free lance scene painter in London and I recreated quite a few early Renaissance images, like Mantegna and Giotto . Its like furniture, selling my own hand made furniture as always been difficult, but a copy of a Chippendale will sell easily.

  • @jpkatz1435
    @jpkatz1435 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @vivejosephii.
    @vivejosephii. ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the piece in the intro called?

  • @videocatalao
    @videocatalao ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this. Isn't there a painting depicting a woman with a flute ? a painting resembling the one with the woman with red hat ?

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel ปีที่แล้ว

      You're welcome, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, which owns the 'Girl With a Flute' (c.1670), lists it as being by an associate of Vermeer.

    • @videocatalao
      @videocatalao ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you again. But the model has got to be the same. It has to be the same woman, the same face.

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, it appears to be the same model, which is perfectly feasible if the painter of 'Girl With a Flute' was associated with Vermeer.

    • @videocatalao
      @videocatalao ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks again for your time.@@johnobriensarthistorychannel

  • @videocatalao
    @videocatalao ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the walls

  • @Edeskenney
    @Edeskenney ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve seen two of them in Dresden.

  • @ioncodrescu2889
    @ioncodrescu2889 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you.

  • @normanmikalac739
    @normanmikalac739 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoyed it thoroughly.

  • @annangel4828
    @annangel4828 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 15th century?

  • @spactick
    @spactick ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine living in that time with no TV, no radio, no automobiles, no airplanes, no telephones, no refrigeration, no running water etc; YUCK! NO THANKS, great that good ol Jan left us some incredible paintings but I'll take this period over that any day of the week

  • @henkmarks8856
    @henkmarks8856 ปีที่แล้ว

    You mean Johannes Vermeer.

    • @AHydrant
      @AHydrant ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, using Jan for Johannes is like calling Albert Einstein, "Bert". The Essential Vermeer site says "His Christian name "Johannes" (or Joannis or Johannis) was favored over the prosaic "Jan" by Catholics and upper-class Protestants. Vermeer never used the name Jan."

  • @jsb7975
    @jsb7975 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't imagine that only now I found your channal. Your vids are among the very best on internet. Pleasing to see all this beauty in clear perspectives ! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @gowanhewlett745
    @gowanhewlett745 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent presentation.......simply excellent. Thankyou

  • @stevechmilar1215
    @stevechmilar1215 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for making this video. Pieter Bruegel was my first true inspiration when I discovered his work through art books in about 2007. Well into the mid-stages of my art career, I still look to parts of his work for inspiration. I can tell that he was having a lot of fun while painting. It comes through in the finished spirit of the work.

  • @jackkomisar458
    @jackkomisar458 ปีที่แล้ว

    The astronomer and the geographer may be portraits of Leeuwenhoek, but I doubt it. Portraits of Leeuwenhoek, whom we would now call a microbiologist, exist, and they don't look like the man in these pictures. Among other things, Leeuwenhoek had curly hair and a small mustache.

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm inclined to agree with you regarding the resemblance, although in the Verkolje portrait of c.1686 from which the engraved copies derive, Leeuwenhoek was generally though to have been wearing a wig, and was nearly two decades older than when the Astronomer and Geographer were painted in 1668, so the moustache could have been grown after the Vermeers. However, Leeuwenhoek being willing to act as executor of Vermeer's will is one thing, but sitting for him as an anonymous model when already an important Chamberlain in his own right seems incongruous. Many thanks for posting.

  • @bubbletrouble7268
    @bubbletrouble7268 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you🙏

  • @НаталіяКовальова-ю9н
    @НаталіяКовальова-ю9н 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much! 💙💛

  • @ryanerickson6064
    @ryanerickson6064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent analysis! Thank you for making this!

  • @joshuakalmar4646
    @joshuakalmar4646 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video! Thank you kindly!

  • @GKP999
    @GKP999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't find part 2.

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apologies, part two hasn't been made yet; I hope to do so in the new year.

    • @GKP999
      @GKP999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnobriensarthistorychannel Thank you for part 1. And I look forward to part 2. Take care!

  • @carlosthomas6717
    @carlosthomas6717 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Part 2 give the people what they want

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I completely agree with giving the people what they want, although with PhD deadlines looming and courses to prepare, it just might not be quite when the people want. Sorry to test people's patience, but hopefully soon in the new year I'll have time to finish this one off.

  • @CalvinAndHobbs
    @CalvinAndHobbs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    super excellent video. thank you so much for this. subscribed & looking forward to more videos

    • @johnobriensarthistorychannel
      @johnobriensarthistorychannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Many thanks for the kind comment, and thanks for subscribing. I'm hoping to put up a video on Art in Germany 1900 to 1938 quite soon.

  • @elviradonaghy6425
    @elviradonaghy6425 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He had a very deep insight spiritually for being very aware of the Victory of the Eucharist. The Victory of the Church. He saw way into the future.

  • @MARKCC1330
    @MARKCC1330 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bravo! Good to see more of you.

  • @bagpiperpermarcovitaloni
    @bagpiperpermarcovitaloni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    💖💖💖💖💖💖💖