The Outcast Artists: America's Most Underrated Painters
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Waldemar travels to small town America, and after exploring overlooked and undervalued artists, he examines the leading sculptor of Abstract Expressionism: David Smith.
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Waldemar is a great communicator who besides being sensitive about art and knowledgeable has a tremendous sense of humor that makes it fun to learn from him.I wish he would get more recognition by the academia at large
But that would mean he would have to listen to their nonsense. 😂
He is so smart and extremely witty. He
is so easy to understand and is entertaining beyond what you would ever expect from an art historian!!! Funny and
exciting listening are included throughout his videos!
"I can't imagine Salvador Dali being able to fix a puncture..."
@@ellenmarch3095 no, he just have to be him. They have to bowl !
Please! Leave it alone! Everything is fine.
Goddamn, how many amazing documentaries does this guy have?? I have been bingeing these, and love every one. What a treasure this guy is. How have I never heard of him until now???
Because the algorithm has chosen to reveal him us now....
Me, too! Yes, indeed, Waldy is an International Treasure, for sure. Merry Christmas from Wyoming!😷
@ted kaczynski I love your work too, Ted! Another underrated genius!
@ted kaczynski No, I don't think so.
t's completely unreal, isn't it. The film making in all the Waldemar stories is just awesome, and in every aspect of film making. . I have never seen anything like it. As well as everything else script, story, music, editing, he is a genius in front of the camera. That trademark looking over his shoulder to keep half your attention on the picture or the scene. And catch this character missing his lines, you don't. All except for one thing showing that Waldemar is just another small-minded progressive, the fork into Trumps photo. Small minded ugly and unecessary. Another Eurotwat .
I watched the TV series "Impressionists Painting and Revolution" when it first aired in 2011 and I was hugely impressed with Waldemar Januszczak's efforts as a presenter. In fact, he changed my whole attitude towards art and what was boring and quite incomprehensible became very interesting and exciting with the help of Waldemar's enthusiasm and good storytelling skills. I love his approach to art such as that he sees great things in the smaller details and often focuses on the less obvious (and yet very obvious) that few have previously appreciated. To me, Waldemar is a wonderfully good communicator and presenter of art.
Funny when it takes a Brit to come over and teach us our own history. Well done.
Huell Howser moved from Gallatin, Tennessee to teach us about California.
@@MichaelAndersxq28guy Huh? Those are both in the US, and he was American. Not following you.
I guess... if you're only watching TH-cam for your knowledge.
@@thevet2009 You're right. But most people are watching youtube. Except the other people who get it from Facebook. But show me another tv program that is as well done as this, that teaches British history by an American.
He's an art critic..are you familiar with the term
You people are doing a brilliant thing here . I love art to begin with , and you have lifted my intrest to new levels. It's art , it's history , together. I think this format should be shown in schools
So much gratitude to everyone who made this video and the series possible. The world is a better place!!!
Did Diego depict the Communist collectivist takeover of the Ukraine by Stalin. ...where Stalin starved 6 million Ukrainians.
This guy is the best history teacher I ever had...!
This series and channel have helped me decide to pick Art History as my major
I absolutely LOVE WALDERMAR And these videos
This should have millions of views
I hate to say it being an art history major myself, but I think you should choose a different major. I’ve never been able to do anything with any of my art degrees. I am now a PCA. Just saying go where the money is you live in America, it’s one in 1 million that you make any money doing anything with art it’s an exclusive group. But maybe you’re cooler than me and you’ll get in somehow.
If you have been in the art game at any level for any length of time,and I am just wrapping up 30 years as a professional art potter,you see these vids are delightfully cheeky bits of iconoclasm and maybe just a little bit naughty.If you use them as a starting point for years of academic level serious study, you should choose your institute, your coursework and ultimate series of possible careers with great care.I do not seek to dampen your enthusiasm, just calibrate it.
Do NOT go deep into debt for NOTHING!! I ended up, after being screwed up in school, building and designing houses with zero 'training' in schools, I learned from other builders! Hands on.
Waldemar is without equal. Greatest art critic/historian ever. I watch/read everything he’s done.
@@TheTeacher1020 while searching for new videos from Matthew Collings, just came across this series. Similar humor, both brilliant minds who offer connections that make great sense. Watching non stop.
The juxtaposition of Simon and Garfunkel's "America" with the montage of small-town art at the end was brilliant. Waldermar needs to curate a traveling show of this whole documentary-art, props and music.
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I totally agree with your comment. His use of music throughout paired with the art was great. I have watched many of his documentaries but, until recently, they were all European art. I'm really enjoying his take on American Art. I docent at a University Museum and am always looking to learn more. I enjoy it immensely!
Think of the effort required to produce these videos. The lines have to be written and Waldemar has to learn them, the scenes have to be arranged and they are in diverse locations and most importantly, the presentation has to be an organic whole.
Also effort Waldermar had to put on chewing that corn ;)
A amazing artist and making old things from things to come together and being a great to see if you had time and Trains
Wald the impaler. Should be Biden-Harris at the end of the pitchfork! They are done. Don't blame me, waldemere started it (or his script writers)
And even getting naked and wet
It's called film making.
I love how well he understands the importance of an effectively wielded symbol. He makes you look at the kkk robe, knowing full well you're going to cringe. "This is a symbol. We will now separate the symbol from meaning so you can tell which is which." Also Mary Magdalene's red robe in the boat from another documentary. The man THINKS like an artist.
Thanks so much for these wonderful documentaries. Waldemar is the best. Thank you.
Spectacularly good yet again: The David Smith segment actually bawl worthy with Simon and Garfunkel sing/signing it out. Another Januszczak masterpiece.
Waldemar's modest sophistication is incredibly appeasing. His passion is contagious and his appreciation for these lesser known, obscure American artists is admirable.
I think you meant fake sophistication is incredibly appeasing. 🤪
@@e.macdonaldoutdoors7825 Or appealing?
And sickeningly condescending ......hard to watch.@@e.macdonaldoutdoors7825
My mother was a suffering but inspired artist, working mostly in oils and pastels for most of her life. While undiscovered in her lifetime, she often predicted, perhaps wryly, that she would become famous long after her death. So far, her prediction is coming true nicely.
I found a set of those nifty Charles Sheeler salt and pepper shakers c.1935 available online for purchase. The price: $1750.
in grade nine everybody in my class made a set
"..Diego Rivera was excellently fat..." LOL. Love the phrases this guy comes out with :D
What irony that in 2021 it's a Brit that points out the true value of The Americano art and morality ?????? Good thing no soul-less progressive city folks saw this show, would have ripped it to shreds and burn down those post offices . Brilliantly done mate , hope they make a book some day of all the extra ordinary murals still left in the post offices.
Why so many thumbs down? This documentary is amazing, and as a European I have learned so much from it. Respect!
He is a pompous presenter who pounds pronunciation pointlessly. Perhaps the people protest.
I enjoy the scripts, the subject, but hard to make it to the end.
He should keep his politics to himself. How would he like it if someone put a pitchfork through a picture of his face?
I think it has to do with the overt jab at Trump and Trump´s popularity in small-town US. I love the series and would never give it a thumbs-down,. I also really, really dislike Trump but in this case they are right.
Quite easy, no one gives a shit about his political opinion. He's talking about things he doesn't know anything about ... he's an ass. He should stick to things he might understand, like art.
I left after Trump got pitchforked
love his documentaries, wish he would come to Santa Fe and see our awesome artists!!
Having been born in Dearborn & raised near River Rouge, Michigan I was fascinated with, not only that part of this video but the entirety of it. Thank you for all the Perspective series of art videos!
Give us a break and leave politics out of it.
Imagine how very much different the comments would be if Waldemar stuck a pitchfork through a picture of Obama. You are right. The politics is a distraction to an otherwise good episode.
Pat, in Chicago
From a Limey no less.
Art has always been political
Maybe he's not a trump guy. That's fine..
ok as soon as i seen him use that pitchfork to a trump picture , I though oh no... they are even ruining my desire to watch this film. In a very heated political environment that was pretty stupid.... gave it a thumbs down.
Remember this show was made for a U.K. TV channel. And Trump is not very popular in the U.K. So most people would find it very appropriate.
As a person from a small town…yeah. It’s very Trumpish, small minded, and unless you want to marry out of high school and sell scented wax in a pyramid scheme, work for a bank, insurance company, hairdresser or feed store you should probably leave. I had no idea people like me even existed until I left and realized I wasn’t weird for liking books, art, and democrats.
I live in Iowa, not so far from Mount Ayr, and I've been there a few times, and it's almost surreal to see it in an art documentary.
Also, it hurts my corn belt soul to see Waldemar take a bite out of a raw ear of corn without any salt or butter like that.
from centerville here...right between Eldon and Mt. Ayr.
Tip: cooking helps….
I'm not even from Iowa and I cringed. And again when he threw it over the bridge. I thought, "Feeding the fish?"
How do we know it was raw? It may have been cooked. However if it was raw then I guess Waldemar was "suffering for his art".
@@kiwitrainguy It just LOOKED raw. Shinier.
It was the government that first urged the farmers to plow in straight lines and to plow up the hedge rows thus causing the dust bowl in the first place.
Waldemar is my chubby, waddling, art history ..... HERO! ❤️
Actually, like anybody cares, my grandparents and mother lived through the dustbowl on the South Plains of Texas. My grandmother told me a lotta things for a 7 yr old boy. Well, anyway, she called them Black Northers, when the dust storms came through. I've never heard the term Black Blizzards but it's a good term. We still get bad ones every spring but not as often. And usually they are red. I should upload one that happened about 6 years ago. The sky is so freaking red it looks like we're living on Mars.
Great to see, but I would have loved to have seen some *women!!!* too! Freed slave Harriet Powers was well-known for her excellent quilts. Also I'd like to wedge Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) in there but maybe Arcata is just too big and the 1970s are just too late.
Thanks for more awesome content!
Why was a pitchfork shown being jammed into a picture of President Trump? Would the BBC have allowed a similar action with a picture of Obama? What was the implication? Please tell.
Imagine how different the comments would be if he had stuck a pitchfork through a picture of Obama.
Pat, in Chicago
It’s called hypocrisy and the woke left reek of it.
Love Waldemar. His perspective is always fresh and thought provoking. Saw his series on the Baroque--I never understood it as the Catholic Church's sensuous, seductive answer to drab, plain Protestantism before. I wasn't interested at all in the art. seeing it through Waldemar's eyes made if fascinating. American art he discusses in this series, I love. I'm from the midwest; I've driven miles across the prairie in a snowstorm, I've tasted that Iowa corn, I've walked through those empty, devastated rustbelt towns. And I love this art. It is so profoundly American. Thank you WJ!
How disgusting to bring politics into an art documentary and align them with small town values as an example of why small town artists can’t be successful. The hypocrisy is that it’s that very mindset of exclusion and prejudice that is claimed to be present in such small town values are actually on display in this very documentary in such a way that if a more liberal political opinion isn’t displayed and had by the artist, then they cannot be successful, it should not be taken serious as an artist. You should be ashamed of yourself, that’s bigotry, hypocrisy, and heedfulness and its purest form.
Waldemar Januszczak - my favorite documentary host. And now Perspective has has embarrassment of riches in Waldemar Januszczak videos. I've died and gone to heaven. Thank you, Waldemar; thank you, Perspective; thank you Universe for letting me find these documentaries!
I have always loved the grand, noble murals in any post office I've ever been in, although many are now in need of cleaning.
A brilliant look into modern American art. Thank you, Artwaldy, and Perspective.
Waldemar, I can't thank you enough for covering our small town story❤❤ It's my story...my origin myth... growing up in The Ozark Mountains of Arkansas...traveling the world with 'different' view and finding myself back ..."like a frog and it's pond."🤭🤪
About American Gothic - I believe the man is a father who sees his home, family, and religion as all one indivisible piece. It's completely reasonable to him to put a "church" window in his house, because this is a place he has built for God-fearing righteous folks, as he sees that to mean. But in this moment, his daughter has told him something that shakes his world to its foundations. She's pregnant out of wedlock, or gay, or an atheist, or something equally unfathomable to his understanding of his religion. She's looking to him for some reassurance but she is increasingly aware she might not get that from him. He is still processing and can't even look at her right now.
He just had to do anti Trump thing in the beginning..... uuuuuuuugh!
They say God made the country and man made the city, but the Devil made the small town.
Oh boy a recent art documentary with waldemar in it!! Always get excited when he appears
Its Mauve, Yes Mauve.. LOL. Waldemar is a treasure.
Please never stop making these inspiring documentaries.Thank you.
Waldemar and this channel are the best company I have. Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Oh my God. I can't even watch a documentary on art without being bombarded in the comments section about Trump. Won't we EVER get over him? Will he haunt us even after he's dead? He lost. He's out of office. He's nobody now. Give it a rest, please.
Some say he is still chewing on an Iowan corncob.
I usually love his stuff, but I think the Brit got some things a bit wrong about America. Still, thanks for traveling over to give us a look see. 💕🐝💕🇺🇸
For the Love of God. Please do not bring politics into art. America is so saturated with politics a lot of people just want to find safe haven in a medium that does not concern itself with politics. And art is that medium.
They are trying to saturate every outlet with politics from art to entertainment, video games, just any area you can think of and it sucks ass so much. So sick of politics and the chaos it creates along with those who are to blind to see we are being programmed in every aspect. No escape. smh
So those salt and pepper shakers by Charles Sheeler, well you too can own them. You're most likely going to be paying upwards of a thousand dollars though. They are highly collectible.
Sir, thank you for deeply different takes on current subjects, always a great twist in research and presentation, and a terrific and wacky sense of humor!
Absolutely first class, brilliant insite , well done.
Ford brought Mexican Diego Rivera to Michigan to paint murals and now Fords are mostly made in Mexico.
Grant Wood's painting of the car and truck on the road abot to crash look a lot like early Disney art. Particularly Mary Blair and Ervynd Earle.
I've seen a few racing car photos from the early quarter century. Those taken from the side can be quite cartoonish. The way the camera slide exposed the film meant that the bottom was exposed first towards the top. In the photo the result was that the bottom of the wheels are further back than the wheel tops. The car tires thus learn forwards. Fortuitously looking quite racey, but also like something out of Disney.
Lean forwards rather. Wood's red truck wheels would also be true to this effect. If taken in reference from a early photo, the bottom of the wheels are exposed to film a fraction further back on the road than the top of the wheels.
@@Divertedflight It probably isn't camera distortion. Early autos had swing axles, and wheels wouldn't always be upright. The original VW beetles were still made with swing axles for the rear wheels well into the 20th century. When my mother's Bug was up on a lift, the bottom of the wheels would tuck towards each other under the car. VW even ran some ads with photos showing that. Following another Bug down the road, my mother would comment on how much rear passengers or cargo must weigh, based on which way the wheels were leaning. If there was a heavy load in the back, the wheels would spread apart at the bottom and lean into the car at the top. There are some sobering articles on the internet about how when early cars took tight curves at high speed, a wheel could tuck under the car and the axle would snap! That red car in the painting could have been headed for trouble even without the truck coming the other way.
@@JJoy-bk8yr That's true, as it's a head on view of the lorry, its probably just wing axle movement.
My Ex-wife is from Van Meter ,Iowa. Gotta say, the corn is good. The fair is fun. Good hunting... Ummm... I'll never see it again, but it was interesting at the time. I kinda grew up in a small town in Ga. 2 very different, but similar, experiences. Capt.Bob ,SV (Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl. PS: I love this series... Thank you.
Thanks, Waldy. Great podcast too.
I love his documentaries. I am from Southeast MI and most of my older male relatives..to include my husband.... Dad and mother in law and varioys cousins...worked at Fords River Rouge plant at some time during their working years. The murals at the DIA are incredible to see in person too. Many of my relatives are retired Ford emoyees and thise are the only vehicles we drive.
I am amazed & brokenhearted at the number of very skilled American artists of whom I've never heard their names.
And thank you for using the Woody Guthrie music.
Wow, I thought that I had a serious sugar habit.. sugar on lettuce!?! Hmm, it's an idea. Grant Wood had a _real_ sweet tooth. 🥠🍦🍨🍭🍬🍫🎂🍪🍩🥧🍯🍮🍧 I'd bet he had a drinking problem as well.
_Cannot_ stop gasping at that beautiful Duesenberg [uncertain of the spelling, sorry!]
Uh, really don't understand what Trump has to do with "America's most underrated artists"?
I would rather live in a small town than a crime ridden covid struck big city
Waldemar has made the pandemic easier, and inspired my voracious appetite for art history. Love you!!!
Impossible.
I’m the most unknown underrated artist.
This guy’s always missing the artistic mark!! 🎩
I’m right there with you. He’ll do another episode one day - about us.
Excelent, as always...!!!! Thank you..!!!
Being alone and Isloated during the pandemic, I began to watch some wonderful programmes about pictures from the national Gallery In london. Then by chance, I hit on one of Waldemar's documentaries. I am now an addict. I think them the most fascinating and informative and memorable documentaries I have seen. I have watched some of the programmes three times without getting bored. A treasure trove of wonders.
He started off with 'Corn Is King' in Iowa. I'm greatly disappointed he didn't hit the Corn Palace in Mitchell South Dakota. It's a momument to both corn and folk art.
Really…..you had ti dig on Trump from the get go?! Typical
Here’s to small town America and its Artists…🥂 Cheers!
I like how he carried around the corn and then chucked it at the rust belt. Very funny! Oh and the art history is not bad at all. :)
As soon as he stuck the Trump poster I left. I don’t care for Trump but I also don’t care for editorializing where it doesn’t belong.
He knows his audience. And you ain't it. Bye!
@@andybaldman Actually not quite true. I have loved everything he’s done.
@@doc2146 Then you ain't it. Sometimes it just takes a while to find out.
Why doesn't editorializing belong in this documentary by an art critic? Editorializing is largely what art critics do.
@@bigwildonion Spot on. I think it's more just that he didn't like it. But as Trump supporters love to say, 'Fuck your feelings'.
try FORKING BIDEN
I love his diction while expressing/narrating these documentaries. 'This is an infomed famah'.
When you're listening to a Lou Reed song, you know you hate it and you have to turn it off.
Would like to have seen a bit of coverage on Robert Henri and his effect on the Ashcan School. The Art Spirit book is a profound legacy to be admired.
Agree. The Ashcan School, sometimes referred as "The Eight". . . led by Robert Henri, also included William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn John Sloan, George Bellows, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast.
This is absolutely amazing video, I've loved every minute of it, many Thanks.
I have to start by assuring you that I am a fan and admirer of your work. Lou Reed forever. Sheeler is a photographer from whom I have stolen some of my best photographic ideas. You might have mentioned that the Shakers were so godly that the extinguished their sect by not reproducing....ever. I spent my adolescence in the Mid West. We did not refer to that space as the Corn belt; it was the Bible belt. The intolerance of anything new or different was so total that you could cut it with a knife. In 1961, when I was about 15, I read a long article in the Chicago Sun Times (Sunday edition) telling readers about how dangerous it was for young people to have sex....at all....ever
The Rivera murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. It's almost worth a trip to Detroit to see. The DIA's surprisingly good collection and another world class museum, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, make Detroit a must see stop on any museum lover's itinerary.
Do you know the Rivera - Rockefeller Center mural story?
@@eecortese No I don't. I didn't know Rivera had a mural in Rockefeller Center.
Waldemar Januszczak is a great narrator, and teacher. He is also an authority on culture!
I stopped watching in the first few minutes as soon as it went from art to negative political commentary against the viewpoints of the majority of rural Americans. Where I live we get retirees from big cities but I’ve never heard anyone from small towns deciding to retire and move to a big city. So the snobbery of big city folks against rural residents is just that, snobbery. The fact is we live a much better life than those in the cities.
It's too bad you stopped because you would have seen a great tribute to the artists of small town America.
Agreed. Brits and people from cities like NYC think they're so forward-thinking compared to those of us who live in small town U.S.A. We still have some freedom left and aren't controlled by over-bearing government and group-think. They think like everyone around them- the only acceptable way to be in the city, but believe they're more intelligent.. In any case, instead of being offended we should do what my husband does and spread the word that small towns are terrible and one should NEVER move here from the city.. They all come out here and try to make it more like the place they just moved away from.
@@amyconway9035 Found the KKK member.
@@saptakmukherjee7615 LOL. Racist. The go-to insult for the small-minded.
@@amyconway9035 didn't you hear me? I said Trump lost lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why can an outsider see more clearly than one standing right next to a brilliant work of art? Enjoyed the production and the images!
I was anticipating Grant Wood's painting of the "Daughter's of Revolution" It reflects the snootiness of today in believing to be better than others due to heredity... But he didn't mention it. :(
*Big Sky, Big Art, Big Dreams: Art Made in the USA*
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I love you. The way you tell about art is just enjoyable.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO!!!
Thanks for all these films. I don't want to miss any of them:)
During FDR's time there were also some wonderful bridges built as well as buildings that are landmarks now in the US.
Don't forget Hoover and Grand Coolie dams.
Ovid was exiled to Roman province, aka small town, as a punishment.
It was painful being by himself.
It's D.W Griffith not "W.D" Griffith! Gah!
Thank you & well done. i enjoyed every bit of it. 1 hour Programm , but a decade of history mankind. Beautifully put together the Artists & Art- Lovers. Appreciate your efforts & many success to you for making more of a kind. Cheers🍻
My cat loves watching this man, he won't sit down and watch anything but him! and lucky me because I enjoy watching him too!
Thanks, Waldemar, for these great documentaries. There are many I still need to see and I'm wondering if you visited the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota for you series on America? It is an amazing counterpoint to Mount Rushmore 30 miles away.
I appreciate the bites of corn in hd audio.
A Rudolf Bauer recently sold for 400.000$.
Finally found a backtrack that matches the videos ;) as a rural Midwesterner who loves both the good and bad of our histories,
Well done :)
Wow, that post office in the beginning of this video looks just like the post office in Norway, Maine. Totally laid out the same! I don't go in much but will look to see if there's a mural on the walls in there.
I know where that Doozy car is here in Maine! Very cool. The owner died in 2020.
The man never sleeps!
After the despicable pitch fork stunt we turned you off because that kind of behavior is a huge turn off. I will unsubscribe and we won’t be watching anything you have anything to do with
agreed. unnecessary. there was no good reason to include that. it immediately turned me off.
bye now.
You tell us to keep our comments respectful 🤔
And you let this most disrespectful garbage on here🤮 how about practice what you preach.
You're yelling at TH-cam, they bought this film & your watching habits told them you wanted to see it or it wouldn't have suggested it to you. Anyway, Trump sucks & isn't president for much longer, thankfully.
@@tamarab5751 Get ready for the red wave coming to a congressional district near you & a Trump victory in 2024. The last election was a fraud. Let’s go Brandon.
When was this filmed!?! What a terrific look at American art.
Within the last 4 years apparently, w/ the references to Trump.
My guess is around 2016-17 with its references to Trump´s popularity in small-town US.
Thank you FDR for helping to create the
Modern american style. America has always been better when we ALL do better. Not just top 1/10th of 1%
People in the US are always aghast at communism but those Post Office murals are typical of what you would see in a communist country.
Thank so much for opening my mind 🇺🇸🇵🇷🖼
There is a government initiative painting in the Post office in Pleasant Hill, MO. It is titled "Order # 11" and it depicts a family who has returned to their burned down farmstead in the Civil War era. Order #11 was a Union Army directive put into effect to burn and destroy everything in rural Bates, Cass Jackson and northern Vernon Counties.
8:57 is a filmed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Notice the Andrew Wyeth, as the shot moves in, towards the Sheeler. I was a Museum Technician, at the DIA, for many years. I installed those paintings, as displayed here.
I love WALDERMAR! Waldy FTW!
I'm so happy I came across this video! Fantastic stuff.