This Is Modern Art / 1 of 6 / I Am a Genius / 1999
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- This Is Modern Art was a six-part TV series written and presented by the English art critic Matthew Collings. It was broadcast in 1999 on Channel 4.
Ep 1 Focuses on the current state of modern art, and looks back at Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol to see how they changed the definition of art. - บันเทิง
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Many thanks for sharing this series. I remember watching it on TV when it aired. Matthew Collings' dialogues and commentary is filled with insight balanced with dry smile-inducing humour. I used to have the book that accompanied the series. Wonderful to see it again.
I saw this when I was a kid and it BLEW MY MIND! Can't believe I've found it again!! wow!
When I was nineteen years old I lived in sharehouse on ANZAC Highway (Australia). In this flat we deep-fried our food to the point that our stoned-selves would leave the foodstuffs frying until the pot of hot oil would catch on fire. We idiotically threw water on it, which caused an explosion.
No direct sun-light shun in this home, our flat was one of many carved out of a dilapidated mansion. We got an awkward slice of it that the sun could not reach. Ten meters away was a brothel and at nighttime, a sense of fear chilled the concrete pathway surrounds.
This was before everyone had the internet (we certainly didn’t) and long before youtube ever existed. You couldn’t just click your fingers and ask your phone to educate you. But us stoners were a little too paranoid for libraries. Many from this era have passed away or remain casualties of addiction.
Late one night in the home who’s lack of sunlight confused us to what time of the day it was, I saw the first episode of the TV series THIS IS MODERN ART. Just as lucky - I remembered to watch the rest of the series too. What it did was challenge my notion of what art was or could be. I was surrounded by art, home-made hip hop, crude offensive cartoons, defacing of Bill Cosby pictures (well before their time) and many things that could be retrospectively called “found art”.
This fantastic series was written and presented by Mathew Collings for Channel 4 UK and something I continued to think about. Its reverberations encouraged me to turn my sketches into paint, pastel, ink blown from a pen and bleach because it was clear there were nor rules. Paint lead to video, which lead to volunteering in community TV and so on. I basically cleaned up my act. Years later I’m part of a video shop/filmmaking collective far away from the bong-soaked carpets and bad food of Plympton. But I keep remembering this 6-part TV series and sighting it as having a lasting impact.
It had been a decade and I feared watching it a second time. Nobody wants their world/memories to crash down around them. What if it wasn’t that great? But revisiting the series actually exposed something even more complex than my memories. Now with a decade in between, I was more familiar with art history and better able to understand some of the grander thesis Collings stitches through the series. Its great to revisit something and be wowed once more and on different levels. How could a 1999 TV documentary about modern art still be so relevant?
I have watched plenty of art documentaries since and worry that they now lack the idiosyncratic thinking, criticism and ideas of past programming like that of Collings and the late Robert Hughes. Instead, such newer programs try very hard for safety in consensus that they have almost nothing to say. Why do we have such consensus about things that are so subjective? This rehashing of tired narratives, often with the same footage has made recent arts programming irrelevant. Sometimes its great for a presenter to have an opinion, a living-breathing thought of their own, regardless of what the popular view is. The whole thing is much more alive when a host confronts the subject rather than just presenting it.
So I just want to thank writer/presenter Mathew Collings for his fascinating, witty journey through the images of the twentieth century and the standout filmmaking from director and author Chris Rodley. It is worthy of retrospective, its insights perhaps truer than ever. As a lost-youth, I was lucky to have this catalyst in my life at the right time. I just hope other generations can expect the same from our public broadcasters.
retter2critical Your story is a testament to the transformative power of art. Glad to hear you found purpose in your life. I really love this series. Matthew shows a great understanding and appreciation for the subject matter. So much can be said about the nature of the creative process by just listening to the individual stories of these fearless artists.
+retter2critical Good job mate. Great rant. A really riveting read. Comments exceeding 55 words tend lose my attention rather rapidly. I can relate to the squatter past life, to which you affectionately referred. For me it is a Jenga tower of memories which both scares and inspires me. In a world where we can be forgiven for thinking that mankind is becoming increasingly void of all original thought, we find so many presenters of art content merely regurgitating. The great thing about the internet is that it gives us more power to choose what we want to view.
1999 was the epicentre year for humanity. I can almost hear Blur's 13 album playing as I watch this series.
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I loved every second of this commentary. Bravo!
nice doc. thanks for uploading.
Excellent documentary, well presented with interesting points of view. Lots of work in all, well appreciated by those interested in art in a no superficial level but to the contrary.
Thank you for this documentary Jemaine Fowler ❤
This is really helpful. Thanks for sharing
I really miss 1999.
Blur Frontman I party like it's 1999
I MISS THE HOTTEST LEGS AT BIBLE COLLEGE...
The best documentary series I have ever seen. And I must have seen at least eleven in my time. I'm not willing to take my socks off to do the maths though.
"steaming" is a very apt word to describe so much of this stuff.
Excellent......
My god one of the smartest quotes about modern art!!! Bravo!
though you could erase the last sentence out cause today its not enough just to look,
you have to read A4 sheet describing the concept so that you can finally understand and cherish what your looking at (sometimes)
"im drunk now , and jet lagged, so im just speaking rubbish." hahahahahah
The thing about art is that it always evolving, it's just getting hard to find something not done before. I'm an abstract painter and quite happy with it because it still has endless scope.. Its how it looks and the way its done thats important to me.
...when the Mona Lisa first arrived in NYC in 1962, society's attitude toward art completely changed at the point. Warhol himself said why not put a picture of the Mona Lisa on display since no body would ever know the difference. People started treating art as a celebrity and what kind of monetary value it can bring based on popularity. Art created after this point became about who can make art that would create both shock & monetary value. The prime example for this was Damien Hirst's piece,..
I see a $1 Per minute painting in the future 2020-2023 called Joseph Charles Colin ...or the guy in comments 4 back
thank you I was looking for inspiration and I think I got it!
meerkatvillage actually this video is an ode to conformism and mediocrity.
Love this guy in Flight Of The Concordes...
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This is so interesting
no art is not just beautiful and look, it is like a poem it is emotion,it is geniality,and ideas,and every work is unik only one original
The only true art movement that this era will be remembered for in the future is grafitti/street art. Some of the work being made across this planet in this medium really are masterpieces. The modern form of grafitti has been around since the 60s and is still evolving and going strong.
Also with the advent of digital art through painter/photoshop and wacom tablets plus the internet 'modern art' in an established sense is dead and galleries are only there to show art of the past.
Duchamp was making a statement. Not all art followed his philosophy, cubism, surrealism, futurism, hyperrealism - they all have separate ideas. Also a lot of modern art follows traditional principles - you cant judge all of modern art on a few statement making pieces. Each movement has strange and fascinating ideas.
Pardon me saying so, ... I love the part starting from 15:38 on ...
Thank you for sharing poiza1.
I'm with you on that about graffiti, I always said that if art was a sport, Graffiti would be an extreme sport.
What other art movement, involved avoiding arrest your liberty, Even your life, with Trains racing past you,live rails,etc.
When Graffiti came to these shores in the early 80's by books like Subway art,&the amazing Docu,Style wars, It just gripped your soul, unlike boring eliteish establishment slamming there posh views about art on us. It was so refreshing, still is 25+ y'rs on.
Oh please, artists of the renaissance were subject to even bigger threats because of the Church .Graffiti is 90% useless tagging .There are amazing Graffiti artists like Farid Rueda, but most of them are not and their art manifestations are nothing but vandalism.
Kaws , Lee,Seen,Geo63, Taggers & Street artist The new Art Gold & Joseph Charles Colins face Painted Art
you havent experienced enough to know. Some contemporary art involved incredible talent and longevity.
So true, and proven over the years, in painting, literature, music
nice documentary i'm an artist my self from moldova
I love this I'm sucking up every thing about modernart that I can my brain is like a sponge I picked up a paint brush 2yrs ago and fell in love art is my lover my best friend my soul art is who I am it only took me 47 years to discover it where can I get my work shown
even Egyptian, African and Mayan drawings/paintings found enabled us to decipher what it was these people were thinking, feeling and doing at that given point in time. Modern artists such as Picasso or Matisse were merely trying to break down techniques from the Old Masters to reflect the new way to look at the world. In fact, these changes were happening right at the time of the Industrial Revolution all the way to man's first successful flight.
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His blue period and rose period are considered second rate, because of the legend his 'modern' paintings have. His 'genius' isn't determined by his paintings but by the way he painted, Just like Pollock. Les demoiselles d'avignon (and the others) made the paint more important than the paintng, the first pieces of art to do that at the time. His blue/rose period didnt. Thats about it really....
That said I love his blue period a lot. : Some of my favourite 'classical' pieces. D
Interesting and insightful take on Picasso's periods.
I love the intro song.
Val Pulido yes that shit was hard
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Silver pillows is so cool!
Maybe it is all about attitude and awareness. What is important in life? How do you want to be present? What are you open to? What do you communicate? What does the art World and each artist bring to awareness? And what does the publick bring? What experiences are of importance for people now?
Hard to watch. No matter what Collings talks about, I get the feeling he's talking about himself. The whole series seems an indulgent self portrait.
Indeed. He certainly is not much of a successor to Kenneth Clark or Robert Hughes.
Producer did a great documentary
1:37 "Hey look, it's a painting by me!"
Finished.
Soz didn't tag you in the others. It isn't a pyramid, but from a casual art point of view it is, 'everyday people' tend to follow trends in art and that means having to like all the big guns. Your points are completely valid, true in fact, you seem to know more about art history than I do, but I tend involve myself in the commercial analysis of the art world, because it REALLY pisses me off, I dont want the art world ending up like the music world with a 'repetitive style'
Favourite artist?
Only mediocrity avoids ridicule
but going back to our times, most of the artwork i see in galleries today are indeed bordering on juvenile and to put in simple terms, "WTF." There are a few modern work that resemble classics like Rembrant or Vermeer. But for the most part, it seems gallery owners, connoisseurs, & collectors today love the flamboyant, abstract expressive, non representational stuff.
you guys HAVE to watch "Burden of Genius"
Picasso me encanta !
"Vindaloo" said Hirst. Savage.
Modern art is completely different than what most people are talking shit about, that's contemporary art.
even after the presenter told many things about the beautiful crossed paint ... I didn't get what the exact piece of he told about... " I'm not genius "
>>>>>0:00 to 31:00, that's when Warhol stepped in & I stepped out ! Thank you Matthew Collings, for all the rest !
Look at takashi murakami dragons, or Ran Ortners paintings of waves - these are both contemporary art, but they both required time and skill.
Opening track in Cassette by Fridge !
"For the Love of God" a piece that comprised of a skull completely ornamented with diamonds which he had others do most of the work if I'm not mistaken. But in spite of this new ideal, art can still serve a purpose in our modern world: Dying cancer patients were known to find solace when making art. Children in art therapy revealed things to psychologists that they're not able to communicate with words. Historically, it's said our prehistoric ancestors painted animals in the hope of better hunt.
when someone creates an "Object" that does not fall into any standard category ie: functional, utilitarian, it's called "ART",
that way it can be sold to some Peggy Guggenheim clone, and windup on some museum wall for the public to gawk at like
a urinal, bicycle wheel, bicycle seat with handle bars, and the beat goes on !
Helluva intro
modern art is like a football club, sometimes is wining other is loosing, everybody has strong feelings about it, almost nobody understands it. we just need something to be entertained with
You are right, we are told (and im a degree student so I can vouch) that his cubist work is more important and those pieces fit into the art cliche timeline (Im assuming I dont need to list it) I respect his cubist work but I'm like you, I him and Pollock a bit... dull.. maybe that's because of the cliche?? I dont know.. I found Pop art more of the groundbreaking movement (In a popular culture point of view).
Well...a long reply is necessary: as an "artist" myself, and I grew up thinking I WAS one, I have to say that my inclinations towards picasso's blue&rose periods are related to my own work. I DO do artwork thats more like that...a "pre-kandinsky" if you like. BUT tthat isnt to say I dont like abstraction, i always like some, even some mondrian, even though my own work isnt like that. I was actually an abst. expressionist at one point. But I like illustrations and pictorial art,
Warhol definitely WASNT the only Pop artist or wasnt solely responsible for collapsing low culture into high.
The beginning a super confusing art, should I just say no or should I just do it. I don't know when to say when and when to leave well enough alone, must we all go figure it out on our own?. Indubitably yes.
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I was surrounded by this sort've bollox in Art College when my heart wanted to be back in 18th century London or Paris.
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I like sculpture, particularly the artdeco period. The best works by Fritz Ferdinand Preiss, and Demetre Chiparus are just exquisite. In stark contrast, modern sculpture is of extremely low quality if not crudely made. which equates to ugly.
interesting
This video's thumbnail is portraits of Mr Mao?!
My bullshit meter needs servicing after watching this
What is the opening music, please?
Is there any way t remove the soundtrack? It has nothing to do with the art...
And you've hit the nail on the head, it's opinion (But as iv said 'opinion' is becoming less important these days) I have respect for his cubist work but I don't find it that great (I went to the tate exhibition) but sat in awe at the Da Vinci (Yes I queued up at 7 in the morning for it) But I agree that it's a pain to be told to love something, Like what is it with us contemporary artists having to love, Hirst or Emin?? I hate being applied with this 'contemporary' stereotype of what my art is.
WHEN U MAKE A MUSIC RECORD, IT IS REGARDED AS GOOD MUSIC IF THE PUBLIC LIKES IT AND SPENDS MONEY ON IT. IN MODERN ART, THE PUBLIC'S OPINION DOESN'T MATTER AS MUCH.....MAYBE BECAUSE IT IS NOT THEY WHO SPEND MONEY ON IT, BUT THE SECRET INVESTORS.
I STILL BELIEVE THAT DODERN ART'S VALUE SHOULD BE JUDGED BY THE PUBLIC.....NOT EVERY CONTESTANT FROM AMERICAN IDOL ARE GOOD, NOT EVERY MODERN ARTIST ARE GOOD ALSO. SOME OF US ARE CREEPY AND WIERD.....IT'S NATURES LAW OF AVERAGES.
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everything in our modern world relies heavily on art: the design of our mobile phones, the pixelation graphics on our computer screens, even color schemes and compositions affects our appetite when we see food presented in restaurants. But these are applied arts. If we're talking modern art, i somewhat agree with your statement. Cause I think modern art for the most part helps the artist first. When i saw a documentary by Robert Hughes on the aftermath of how art is looked upon when the Mona...
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You are wrong. Everything doesn't rely on modern art. Everything relies on modern aesthetics. Now go back and give some examples.
ugh! couldn't make it past the first thirty saeconds...annoying.
I found it cool
I have great respect for people like you who are not afraid of showing their vacuous side
Why add the fn ringing ti the Audi ? Is it supposed to be some stereotypical component? It is stupid if it is intentional. .
big question for pollock, why still using brush just for pour painting...?
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Não vale a pena, legendar este documentário, eu vi uns 15 minutos dele e achei uma porcaria.
Art is very subjective.The age old question, what is art? Ask ten people this on any street in the world, and you'll get ten different answers. Personally I quite like a lot of modern art. I think almost anything can be art. Why impose limitations? Wherever you are in the world, you are surrounded by many different forms of art, and it is a basic part of the human condition to want to create something.
Hi. Chris . I aslo like so much art. Can
we talk about it?
Chris Thornley ....I think we need to define “modern art” before we discuss it.
What is being produced in the present is called Contemporary Art.
This phase of art began in the 1960s with installations, minimalism, land art etc.
“Modern Art “ as an era, began in the mid 1800s with the Impressionists.
It includes a wide range of styles.
Over and over, in these docos on modern art the presenter is forced to an admission, roughly: "This piece means what it means. What it means is for the observer to say."
Isn't the corollary completely obvious? But I'll state it anyway: If the meaning is in the mind of the observer, then the piece itself is MEANINGLESS."
What on earth is so difficult to understand about this?
ART IS GENERALLY MEANINGLESS... THAT DOESNT MEAN ITS NOT GOOD ART... MOST OF THESE FOOLS FAIL TO GO AT ART WITH THE RIGHT PART OF THEM.. THEY GO WITH THEIR MIND WHEN THEY SHOULD GO WITH THIER ART... THEY 'THINK' ART AND NOT 'SOUL/FEEL/EXPERIECE' IT.
Most modern art just makes me angry. Is that the point of it?
QuixoticQuaver No, not at all. Its really just people experimenting. You're not expected to like most of it - but occasionally you might find something you quite enjoy.
QuixoticQuaver In a way, Yes. Good Art, in general, is supposed to incite a reaction- Good or Bad, Happiness or Anger, it doesn't matter, as long as there is some sort of Reaction. Art can only stir what is Already inside you.
orada415 Interesting insight. I haven't stopped to think that it might be saying more about me than the art itself.
Modern art does include van Gogh, Matisse, Derain, Banksy
gavin Reid Right you are. Should I say Postmodern? Or maybe contemporary? I'm talking about 1950s onward.
Picasso knows he got his influence from his African art collection
Yes, actually from his visit to the local run down little African art museum in Paris around 1907.
i get it
garden varieties but wears well for 20 years
This episode treats of Picasso, Pollack, Warhol and a bit of Damien Hirst.
2 min 20 sec. Collings suggests that van Gogh painted naked women models. Never happened!!
Iv had artists come to lecture us, and they've openly told us that they get told to carry on doing the same thing, or make it more like.. some do, some don't, I hope I never have to. And it was a clear progression he switched between the two, I guess both are integral to each other. Yeah. I'm not too keen either.. I despise Rothko, I just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel, I stare but don't get anything back.. Innovation, People's votes, Money.. Sadly, art has become commercialised..
I am the new Art form ( View Modern Art )
its a real deal for those artist who specializes realism, they have pure jealous in there heart. they extent to the point questioning the Client's taste! a genius artist as a human he thinks how he sell his paintings. imagine billions of people around the world, and everytime they want to buy painting they have no choices all of them doing realism. and then out of nowhere picasso broke that chain. if people love a cartoon looks then what if i put in a canvass and name it a cubism. and boom... it clicks!!!!
if you study the behavior of a collector. they just collect what they want with out questioning the looks or image. they collect insects,shoes,bags, newspapers,coin,old appliances, old cellphone, pictures, etc...anything they want to collect regard less of looks and price if they want it they buy it. now if they like abstract paintings don't question their taste, don't force them to buy realism. put your self on them, what if you have billions in your pocket???? what will satisfy you? well simple you can not bring that in the after life so buy what you want, anything you want, you can not spend that money in your whole life after all.
Realism is boring. That's why it's not selling good. It's boring, and we simply don't need that.
Why did the narrator say Picasso never made art from nature "he just made it up out of his head". No, The narrator forgot that cubism arose out of Cezanne's influences and Picasso, Modigliani , etc., used African masks as influence...
Draftmanship has very little to do with contemporary art, that doesn't mean it's died out or nit valued or that you can't /ake money off it etc.
I like the imagery of Warhol's, but I don't see a mastery of color, though. The way he does art, it's easy to come up with the chromatic choices that he used.
In the words of the great Steve Jones "If it's so easy, why aren't you doing it?"
I don't do 'contemporary art' or conceptual art BECAUSE it is so easy.
What is difficult about assembling random objects, calling it an "installment", giving it an obscure title and writing something incomprehensible
as a 'statement' describing your intention??
Then saying it means whatever the viewer THINKS it means ?
This is art?
Renzo You won’t know what’s difficult about it unless you try to do it
Easy to do or not, the Conceptual art that I have seen (and being connected to a museum, I have seen a Lot) ,does not succeed either as art or as a medium of communicating ideas.
And dropping names like The Tate Modern or Gagosian Gallery does not impress me either. Curators are mortals and can jump on rickety band wagons and be conned like anyone else.
Oh my god, doesn't the presenter look like that British panel show contestant?
Its ok you don't have to try and convince me. I just think is crap. You can like it though to each his own.
love the freshness, love the rhythm, love the spontaneous line. Love the creative idea. All nice selling words to try and sell you garbage with no genuine art skills. Bit like an unskilled piano player bashing a few lines and critics saying how wonderfully executed Lot of modern art takes 5 minutes to produce which is very typical of our throw away society which no longer values quality, Skill, patience, understanding the medium, in producing something of everlasting value.. Throw a piece of shit on a a canvas and put Piccasso name on it and say how wonderfully creative it was thrown on the canvas and idiots will spend millions. How stupid. Do you think people will be going to Art galleries in 3 or 4 hundred years to look at this stuff. What we need is a new Renaissance in all the Art forms.
Reinaissance is so boring. Take a photo, and that is even faster than what you claim modern art to be made.
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Hi Jimmy Sk8 or9 You go and look at pink square on red square for 4 hrs mate and I will look at a Rubens or Rembrandt for 4 hours and we will see who will be pulling out his hair with boredom
Well I happen to love minimalism, so lets say 6 hours, alright?
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Jimmy you talking about minimalism, you can contemplate your little weener for 6hrs and 6 hrs of Rembrandt would be sheer ecstasy for me.
I really don't see why you dislike modern art. It is so creative and about thinking and making art in different ways. Rembrandt is so bloody boooooring....
This is a very dull comment. I hope the next one you read is more entertaining. Have a terrific day :)
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Good doc. But i have a love/ hate relationship with collings.
Warhole did not paint the elvis pieces they were screen prints
My Modern art Is Priced by Views & likes ! First in the World !
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"Is what is loved by the gods, 'just' because it's 'just'? Or is what is 'just', 'just', because it is loved by the gods?" From 'The Republic' ( c.380bc ) Plato ( 429bc - 347bc )
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my opinion is that we should leave them behind and make something NEW!!! as they did with the established art of their time... so, there you go.. do it... ;)
Crikey...Pollock is included but Still is left out..."Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who continued to paint in figurative-surrealist styles well into the 1940s" to include Pollock and not include Still is in my opinion a MAJOR mistake. This is a nice enough video but it lacks the spark Collings has say for artists such as The Masters. For those of us who "get" Abstract Expression and love it above all other forms this is a major faux pas. Even if one doesn't love Expressionism its importance is profound...the lack of feeling of its importance in these series left me a bit dry. His previous art critiques say on Titian are just dynamite but his disdain for Modern Art seems to peek through a bit...and he generalizes way too much. Sure Pollock was a drunk and depressed as was Rothko...but de Kooning? Picasso has many joyful pictures...Still's colors can be explosively joyful. I wish he'd done more research before he did this piece. Starting with Pollock and not Still is a major mistake for me.
Would you be so kind to recommend a documentary series or a book that in your view does this subject justice? Something that covers the history of art from the impressionists onward and explains the essence of these numerous different styles and movements to a lay person?
what's the intro song?
Opening track in Cassette by Fridge !