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I really enjoyed your academic review of the painting "El Velorio" by Francisco Oller. This video enhanced my understanding of the work. I find it to be a beautiful work of art. I enjoy how he combined different styles of painting he studied in Europe in the work which serve to emphasize many of the items in the painting. A baquiné (the wake for a child) would be a festive and raucous occasion of high importance to a local community. Roasting a pig, while a daily occurrence today, would only be done at very special occasions in the past such as to celebrate Christmas. While the lines of the painting draw your eyes in many directions, Oller made sure your eyes would be drawn to the roasted pig to highlight this importance. One comment is not accurate. Puerto Rico was under a letter of autonomy from Spain since 25 November 1897. The US invaded Puerto Rico on 25 July in 1898 and conquered it by military force in August under the false claim that Spain sank the USS MAINE. This is hardly "Puerto Rico seceded from Spain and the U.S. took over in 1898."

My FIL bit my shoulder when he danced with me. His SIL laughed. What horrible people. I did not stay married to his cowardly son. I moved a thousand miles away to get away from all of them.

Children were often bought to take care of a master's child. Fredrick Douglas did that when he was younger. Sometimes there were only a few yrs difference.

Thank you so much for this informative little video about a painting I have always loved, even as a young boy. It, and " Nighthawks " are my two favourite paintings. Well done " Arts of Earth ", I truly appreciate your work. From Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This painting scares me. My interpretation is that they are going to attack me because I am different ...😢. Always I look at them always the same filling. The picture and characters are full of violence and anger for me

Ha ha l love it when art has mystery

This is quite possibly the saddest scene I've come across. If there are ones sadder, I don't know that I want to see them.

I wonder if he witnessed the scene, did nothing and then felt bad enough about the incident to do this incredible painting. That's what i'd like to think.

Very interesting

I always thought of them as being storic like my grandfather.

Thank you for the background info. Growing up in the 50's i saw this in cartoons and skits. I am planning on visiting Chicago to see it in person one day .

Thank you for an excellent video about this artist, one I had never heard of before. I do know a little about two of her contemporaries -- Artemisia Gentileschi, also of Italy, and Sofonisba Anguissola of Spain. Your channel is fantastic, and I'd love to see a video you'd make of these other two Renaissance painters!

It is more than probable he was killed during the civil war since thats when his trail stops. Since he was of black decent his death at that time unremarkable and in the midst of war just covered somewhere in an unmarked grave. Therefore unfortunately never able to obtain freedom sadly.

I'm Creole born and raised in Louisiana. Creole means mixed race or multiracial I read he was of mixed race and a child of the Father with a slave woman he and that oldest daughter have the same profile wonder why he was painted over trying to hide hso existence im sure ut was racially motivated some family secrets no one wanted known.

Great video, love the editing style

Thank you for your thoughtful, clear insights into a painting I had never seen by an artist I had never heard of. (I always thought it was odd that the Christian Dante chose the pagan Virgil to guide him through the Christian afterlife.)

Thank you

Is this the level of hell called "complaints"? Honey you being a presenter for a commentary on fine arts was a mistake. You are no Peter Ustinov. Also, it's Pooo Saaan. Not Pisson.

The guy with the “machete” is Francisco oller. He did paint his own self in the art.

Normally I would never advocate for AI but this womans voice is so annoying its the only answer or someone else narates !

What if I told you, the algorithm said this was a thing, but in actual life it’s just a meme, nobody needs an art history lesson for a meme

Segue is pronounced seg'-way. Unless you are AI. But anything but "segoo."

Masterpiece ⭐️ Saludos desde su isla, Puerto Rico.

Love this channel. Just wondering what you think (honestly) of the artwork of Carnal Diafragma - The Garden of Earthly Delights 2024 ?

Why does this seem like another very specific channel? Seems like her style and quirkiness. This is weird.

What a silly analysis. You seem to be on the point of giggling.

Snorsville yall

I think you meant: "Since gypsies taught their entire families, for generation after generation, to roam around and live by theft and other crimes instead of any form of honest productive work, people often rightfully distrusted them."

An excellent video! I've subscribed. Thanks! You've convinced me that these are gypsies, rather than the usual interpretation of their being prostitutes with their madam. One point, though: it is a common mistake to think that Caravaggio invented his "Caravaggesque" look. He didn't. The look is known as Tenebrism, and painters were painting this way 140 years before Caravaggio was born (van Eyck's Self Portrait of 1433, for example-a dark background against which the light shapes jump out dramatically). Caravaggio was trained under Simone Peterzano in Milan, and Peterzano was a follower of the Venetian way of painting-check out Titian's portrait of Aretino, or any one of several portraits by Tintoretto. What Caravaggio brought to Rome was the use of mirror projections that gave an added realism to his outlines. This is why his studio was painted black, and why he banged a hole in the roof (mirror projections need a strong spotlight). His landlady famously sued him for this.

None of those women are gypsies Hieronymus, not hei

I was intrigued by this video up til the mispronunciation of "conjurer." Stupid.

I think it is the well dressed lady that is the most interesting. It's her husband and she sees the opertunity to get a bit of money or pay back and blaming it on the gypsies.

Looks like a Caravaggio? Really?

I tried positioning my arm like the model here. There was no way I could do it, so I started to think about why Sargent chose to paint it that way. As I see it, Madame Gautreau's arm adds to the erotic hint of her portrait. Looking at the shape and pose of her arm now, I can imagine a viewer just watching and waiting for her shoulder strap to slide right down. And Kudos to the Madame X for cocking a snook at the Establishment by commissioning her own portrait the way she saw herself.

I had never heard of De La Tour before today. After seeing this, I'm going to look him up and see more of his work. Congratulations on such a fantastic video!

I was born in Cedar Rapids. When this painting gets famous we’ll be the new Mecca of the arts! 🎉

this is scary

Ok. Where did this narrator come from? It sounds artificial and is frankly unlistenable.

Sad but truth😢. Wonder if today's psychiatry and medicine would be able to help them...

Dis -- hevelled... just one of the many ludicrous mispronunciations! It's just too annoying to listen to this!

Who is "Tit-e-in"? Did you mean Titian? Your AI reader needs a bit more schooling.

It Is One Of My Favorite Pieces Of Art By Itself But The Whole Series (2 Series) Are Full of Images Just As Skilled

Describing 71 as “really old” says a lot about the age of the video’s creator.

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Love it! ♥️

My mind went to some kind of disorder. This is what I found. medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/smith-magenis-syndrome/ I posted this before the Pagets Disease segment. I think what I found is closer to the painting.

There is absolutely NO controversy over this painting, except in your own head. CLICK BAIT

That's an ermine, not a stoat. It's in the name of the painting.

rad video man!

Arts of Earth - As the story is told (or you tell the story), when Grant Wood first saw the house, he thought the Gothic-style window "a structural absurdity". So we have a painter constructing a composition using as the background something he considered "absurd". How could this be anything but a parody? Here are two definitions of 'parody': 1) A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. 2) Make a spoof of or make fun of. Despite quotes from Wood's biographer, or Grant Wood himself - let each viewer decide or discern what he or she may. That this painting was instantly controversial speaks to its 'cleverness' - AND that it deliberately contains mixed messages. No matter what the painting means - and to whom, thanks for compiling some interesting information about this painting. Best, Jim