It wasn't an art museum, but the fire that destroyed the National Museum in Rio made me think of how much we could destroy (in this case, literally fossils and unbelievably important natural history artifacts) by ignoring the preservation aspect and how public policies rarely account for both climate change and the challenges that our urban climates affect the things we want to preserve. That goes for art, history, architecture and so much more that could last longer than it probably will thanks to how most places are currently ignoring climate change and resource shortages. On a brighter note to an otherwise depressing comment: I love Hot Mess so much, it's probably my second favorite PBS channel, after this one. I learn so much from there.
The fire that destroyed the National Museum in Rio was an incalculable tragedy. If you think about how little we actually have left of past civilizations and beings, what has remained starts to seem so much more precious. Digitization doesn't solve everything, but it helps! At least makes the content accessible, even if the objects are no longer with us.
@@theartassignment indeed, accessible content is also something that is often overlooked in policies/budgets as well, but it always helps. I think a lot of the people who worked there are trying to share and preserve what they can, but as it often happens, government investment doesn't go to education as much as it should :/
@@theartassignment Even the arson attack in KyoAni is a big tragedy for the art world. I hope you create a video about them too as countless unreleased art works and artists perished during thay disaster. Also, make a case for anime and video games being art. Please.
in my town there is a water front. theres a little bridge. under it is a little waterway. i took nearby rocks and made a wall out of them. i thought for a while they will stay up, months later i revisted them to see the rocks dispersed everywhere leaving a few lines of straight fashion. i realized no matter how we try to make our mark time and nature fades us away.
The beauty of The Art Assignmemt is that it makes me come back again and again and look for details that I missed. Not to forget the fact that the videos present the art in such a manner that it compels me to go and search and learn more about them. This I think is a way of preserving art; by informing more people about it, the artworks are preserved in our memories. We remember the ones that are lost, and strive to preserve the ones that aren't, even if all that I can personally do is preserve them in my memory. Thank you to the entire team of Art Assignment! I am sending you big hugs ❤
Great video! You always succeed in covering art from a lot of different cultures all over the world, wich is something my traditional art history courses fail me. I always love reading the comments on these videos aswell. Art is made to start conversation and debate, something I think this channel does really well.
Thank you! This series has been really challenging to assemble, but a really worthwhile attempt (for me at least) to try to represent a wider span of cultures and geographies and times. Your kind words are appreciated.
Beautiful video and very informative. A small correction though: the Naiku shrine is dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu. Naiku is simply an independent name for the shrine.
I think of the book New York 2170, a piece of art in its own right, that envisions the city in the year 2170. Kim Stanley Robbins so effectively shows the experience of living in a city that will be mostly underwater that I was forced to confront my own experience of the city, and how I plan to live in it. Art that conveys emotions, experience, or wonder for the earth is art that is showing the constant change of the earth. I struggle sometimes with the "caught-in-time"ness of art, and how it can compare to the ever-changing-ness of life on earth, but it is, as you say, just a snapshot of how we are living. Let us all constantly interrogate how we're living individually, and hopefully (and maybe with some help from truly incredibly art) we can find a way to live better and do less harm to our home.
Amazingly in depth, informative, and interesting video as always! i've recently rediscovered my love of all forms of art so I am so glad I subscribed! Can't wait for the next video!
I grew up in a part of the Netherlands that was reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century, called Noordoostpolder (North East Polder). When you enter this region from the south, along the high way there is a small brik house. The smoke from the chimney canges into waves with a little ship sailing it. Our Dutch polders are under sea level and this art work by Frank Bolink and Gerard Koopman reminded me of that. I was never scared of the water, it just visualized, and continues to visualize that we should respect our environment, because it is always stronger in the end. Link (in Dutch): nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Noordoostpolder
I know that art is hard to preserve, but if you really think about it. It really is hard to preserve art that is millions and millions of years old. Just looking at the navigation charts made back then with twine, shells, and sticks. To be able to chart not only sea currents, but also track islands as well. I’m at a lost for words, but I’m sure the charts are hard to preserve. Climate being shown through art is beautiful and it teaches us a lot about our world. Even climate itself shapes the way our art looks like as we finish it. I never thought about art in that way, how climate could affect it. Not just the way climate can affect the artwork itself, but how the climate can affect us, and the way our artwork looks as a final result. Plus art shows how we face the weather of our world. It may be sunny, snowing or even a hurricane, but art shows us we can push through Mother Nature. No matter what she may throw at us, she knows we can bounce back.
Love your channel.! I think it would be very interesting to see a Video about modern contemporary art which challenges the subject of climate change and the factor we as humans play in it :)
What a tour de force episode! So much I want to say… I’ll limit my comments to the Rebbelibs of which I am in awe, such amazing works they are, absolute beauty born in function. And to note I’m delighted with all the architecture, especially the community aspect of the Bjenné mosque as another form/function beauty expressed through those wood beams. To dive into the conversation you posed at the end, for me drives home the most our impact on the planet is the accidental (yet often feeling artistic) contrasts between our built megastructures and their ‘apocalyptic’ surroundings. Dams with no water, rivers that no longer flow to the sea, bridges and earthworks broken by nature, and cities inundated, wrecked, or ablaze. The original inhabitants of Venice understood, to an extent, the shifting environment around them -- there is evidence of floors being built atop of floors to account for their sinking structures. But all too often we think we’re so smart and can best this massive (and lovely) planet and hold its ‘forces’ at bay, all while at the same time, paradoxically, thinking there’s no way we could possibly effect something like the climate because the world is so big. Double hubris at its finest. :P Seeing images of our ‘glory’ wrecked always works to help keep my hubris at bay, and I hope it helps do the same for others. (Though unfortunately it often has us double down in a “need a bigger hammer” kind of way to do something even more mega next time…)
How is it that no one has stopped the cruise ships from getting close to Venice? It seems like nothing ever changes. It seems a simple thing to do and yet protection remains out of reach.
It'll either be cruise ships or massive more flights and busloads of people. People will not stay home, because people have been led to believe traveling the world builds character, is an adventure, and generally there can only be everything gained and nothing to lose by traveling. And so we do. I believe we could solve this issue by virtual reality. Virtualize all Venice city and all its Art. Most people don't know the difference between an original and a replica painting, so a virtual tour should be enough. What do you think?
That Olafur Eliason piece reminds me of something similar here in Denmark but which isn't necessarily a piece of art. It's at Danfoss Universe, a sorta science park made by Danfoss to show off their technology and get kids interested, it's a huge block of ice inside of their building. The point of it is to show off their cooling technology as they sell such products so it's kept from melting even though the building itself is at room temperature but only just so if you hold your hand onto it for a while you can melt the imprint of your hand into it, it'll then reform over time as condensation freezes onto it. It's obviously similar to the Olafur Eliason piece because they both have ice but the thing that strikes me is that this piece is basically the reverse of what he did, instead of taking ice from Greenland and letting it slowly melt in London this is generating ice in Southern Denmark. And like the message to two combined sorta give is that this is a problem we can solve, if we can manage to create permanent ice inside of a building then we can stop ice from melting in Greenland, and to add to all of this meaning Greenland is part of Denmark and Olafur Eliason is half Danish. It's probably also worth mentioning that Danfoss and their sister company Grundfoss are both manufacturers of insulation and heat pumps, both technologies that will be vital in making living more sustainable and the use of these technologies in district heating here is a large part of what makes Denmark such a front runner in sustainability. There of course was never any meaning to any of this, this is just entirely a coincidence but one that happens to feel like fate, despite it not being intended I still want to take meaning from it but what is that meaning? Is it a stark reminder of how incompetent and slow we have been to do anything about climate change, that the technology is right there and totally within our grasp and we still haven't used it. Or is to some degree hopeful, showing us that we can do this, we as a species can achieve miracles and some are taking decisive action. I think it almost depends on where you live, if you're from the US the former sounds a lot more true but for me living in Denmark I sorta think of the latter since we've adopted a strong and ambitious policy that is already being carried out, since adopting the new climate policy we have already brought a new 400 MW wind turbine park online.
Hey, just wanted to let you know that Ise Shrine isn't dedicated to Naikū. The shrine is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu. Naikū is Japanese for inner shrine, so it's the central shrine for the central figure, Amaterasu no Ōkami. I know things like that can be confusing sometimes, so I wanted to make sure anyone wondering had the right info!
I was watching your " Trending artists of the 17th century" video where you use the google trends feature in a very cool manner. I wonder if you ever heard of "Google Art and Culture Experiment", where you choose 5 different colors and google select a ton of works that use those colors. There are so much possibilities of videos that I think you could do using that which I would love to see! PS: sorry if that has non connection with this particular video, I just thought that the probability of you seeing a comment on a more recent video was higher. Love the channel!
Great series and specially great episode, maybe it's because of the episode John made on the Anthropocene Reviewed but I almost cried when I saw the Lascaux paintings
Wait a minute, something's not right, it has been twelve hours since you uploaded this wonderful video, but it only has 6,100 views and 37 comments. Usually there's a lot more of both. Maybe there was a problem with TH-cam showing the new video to everyone. Anyways, I would like to take the oportunnity to tell you, in the most sincere and respectful manner, that you are truly remarkable not only for the content you provide, but also for your natural beauty; not that beauty matters at all, as the things that actually matter are inside, but it's a nice fact nontheless. (I hope my drafting is ok, as english is not my primary language). Looking forward to more great, informative content in here. Have a nice day. :)
Great video giving credence to just how important our respective environment is to the art we humans create. Only one issue I found being that at Ise, I'm pretty sure just the particular shrine is called Naiku, whereas sources I've found indicate that the sun goddess in question is Amaterasu.
I believe there was a small mistake in the video in regards to the Sun goddess. The Sun goddess that is being worshipped at Ise is called Amaterasu. Not Naiku. You are correct that it is about the sun goddess, but you mistook her name. Great videos as always. Source: my 1st-year architectural history notes. as well as a more recent return to double-check on wiki.
I have a strange relationship to art (and most of the world) in that while I love it and I think it’s wonderful to have connections to the past, I also think part of the beauty of things is that everything passes into dust.
I think there's some beauty in that too, but I'd rather there be some preservation (whether by photo or video) so we can still look back to see what our predecessors made
Thanks for this video, absolutely you described and explained how climate change Art ? my point of view was also that but the recent activity in art I have never been seen in the newspaper or books or any print media or internet I agree that you explain above climate change and also so many factor make an important role in art like weather, second world ware, earth quake, and man made changes in a huge scale so people mentality is affect this situation and try to create what they image, how they grasp in their own way and presented in different style which is the main theme. nowadays we are interested in internet and our all activity we can see threw the social media because of it is a new invention in the world and we use it therefore our old theme galleries and museum are in the future will like only the document, but the regular activity will on internet. thank you so much for your information.
Claude Monet's Haystack reminds me of The Broccoli Tree in some ways. The fact that ultimately the Broccoli Tree was cut to aid industrialisation, and deforestation _is_ a primary cause of climate change just emphasizes the fact that we in fact are doomed.
This was astounding, the moment we think we have understood the full picture of climate change we are causing, a new picture, much bigger and much more terrifying comes to us and we are dumbstruck by the hurt humans have caused to earth. But then sadly there are people who say there's nothing like global warming. In a lecture organised under environmental studies in our university, a Proffesor tried to convince us that there's no issue with the climate change and whatever is happening is normal and climate tends to change now and then. He supported his work with facts and graphs, especially telling about how 'the hockey stick curve graph' is a hoax, he further went on to Disregard whatever work was done by Al Gore in his Documentary " The inconvenient truth ", calling it mere propoganda to stop development in developing countries. If people remain so ignorant towards climate change and do adamant on their foolish notions, then how is the mission to save the climate and earth be successful
@@LapisGarter correct. Earth survived much greater threats, but wildlife is fragile. There's no doubt that a lot of species will die and humanity will change drastically.
I DON'T THINK THE EARTH IS DYING IT'S JUST CHANGING AS IT has ALWAYS DONE.
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@@EnergyAndLightAwakening not this rapidly and pretty sure soaking an entire bay with oil that is wayyy below ground and finding plastic in fish is what the earth has always done. The earth is not dying per se but the ecosystems it hosts are collapsing and so are we.
The clear voices with which environmental artists dare to address ecological ignorance win my respect and fortify despise towards the elitist obscurantism and introspection of "significant" artists 'sucking up to academic elite' and oligarchs' pockets.
I love the work of Texas artist Dornith Doherty and its relationship to climate change. She captures seeds from seed banks in the arctic using incredible photography techniques. Look her up!
I feel like you guys put out videos worth of being shown in classrooms. I’m artistically inclined, but I am a machinist by trade. I hope I can make a machine one day that a sort of people with the taste for it will call art. You guys are inspiring!
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very nice approach - gave me lots of inspiration! THANKS A LOT
Art responding to nature, like a beautiful carpet we can walk on, does convey perspectives we need to survive, and there's hope in that. But what about the "elephant hiding under the carpet," our unified world plan to keep doubling our uses of the earth, called 'growth,' the growing effects of which we keep trying and try to hide... What does the painting of that look like?
I really appreciate the hard work and research that goes into these videos. I find them very inspiring and encouraging. Thank you to all involved with making them.
We have a new main Oslo library opening in 2020. It would be a dream to devote the original "Hovedbibliotek" as an institute, museum of sorts, towards Urban Agriculture. It's purpose has the potential to span multi-facets: art, local historical progress, means for public participation, exhibit the relevance towards local enterprise/greener goals/healthier overall lifestyles. In a way it is a 2nd chapter to other museum institutions such as the Kon-Tiki museum, science museums and botanical gardens. A relevant, functional form of displayed human adaptation in our current state of attempting to become more nationally sustenance independent for the greater goal of reducing our overall carbon footprint. Adjusting and countering our contributions towards global warming will require individual to large scale efforts on as much of a consistent basis as we can feasibly handle. 🙏🏼 If only it could be common sense for all 😔
Oooh, if You're making videos for the AP Art history folks, can you do one for AP Art + Design too? Especially about the synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas? Thanks for considering!
I don't understand why the Marshallese navigating charts should be considered art. It seems like the people who made them were making them for utilitarian needs and not trying to make them look pretty, convey emotion, or convey meaning. I don't understand why they are treated as art rather than just historical artifacts. I'll admit they are pleasing to look at, but I don't think that was the intention.
The marshall navagating charts are considered art from a Modern stand point. Since they were made for local seafarers. Sum might still be made today but I'm sure sum people there use modern navigation. Instead of the traditional ones. They would be art from a outside perspective as a example of traditional Marshall island culture
There are many things in our art museums that were not created with the intention that they be admired as art. Most if not all of the objects in "African art" galleries were made with a specific function in mind, many created for ceremonial use and never intended to even be seen by most members of the communities in which they were made. We also have plenty of "decorative art" galleries, filled with furniture and plates and tea services from other eras as times. They may have been made to be used, but they can also be admired for their formal qualities, their beauty, their material innovation, and also for what they can tell us about the cultures from which they came.
Venice would have been less susputiable to flooding if the rivers had been able to flow through the Area, at tha time Venice waz silting up. Until they dreged tha Rivers and redirected them. So instead of being Marsh land and more stable it is more prone to flooding. The old Venetian's would raise the ground floor from time to time.
I have learned that utah is being more tropical /subtropical than wie would think. As I am able to grow plants from more tropical regions than when I waz little
There is a medieval church in Northern Poland which became famous due to the fact that it is being eaten away bit by bit by the ever expanding Baltic Sea and it is very likely it will be destroyed completely in the following decades. Today only a part of its wall stands on a high cliff overlooking the sea. If not for erosion it would be just another church. Instead, people from around the country come to see it before it's gone. A work of architecture became a symbol of passing and the immense might of the sea. There was a plan to move this remaining wall further inland to protect it... but it did not happen. Maybe we should let it go.
I get very upset when I think about the unspeakable rudeness of invading someone's living space and then scorching it. Other than that unease, I compliment you on the entire series of "The Art Assignment". I found it educational, well reasoned, well researched and entertaining to boot. Chapeau, and thank you for making these. They are up there with "The Fall of Civilisations"
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not. But Naiku is not the sun goddess of Japan. Amaterasu is. Naiku is one of the main shrines in Ise. Please double check your information before posting a video like this that gets thousands of views.
Let Venice go, preserve what we can ex-situ and allow the shifting ecosystem to reach a steady state, rather than enforcing an artifical steady state. Nature needs to adapt to the changing climate, and nature will adapt if we let it; we would both benefit from this. I know it's sad that people would(will) have to leave their homes but they won't be the first or the last, especially withough change
Think about rising ocean levels due to global warming and Amsterdam. Think about all the art that will forever be destroyed. Now ask your self if you really do need a SUV and the next short distance flight and meat for every meal. Is it worth the price?
I own a 4 Claude Monet painting, a afread sisley painting all of them shouw how the weather waz at the time period. These waz painted 110yrs ago -130yrs ago
So, are the evening weather green screen art? Are the lower neck lines of women's clothes also an effect? Art critics name dropping entropy when scientists have a hard time being succinct? Whatever, I just exist in the quadriplegic disdain of normal life
What about the Harrison studio, Frances Whitehead & the countless artist activists who are working in interdisciplinary positions where they’re providing examples of how conversations around larger ecological concerns in art are giant cycling pits of representations. It seems callous to focus on artists who merely represent or arbitrarily intervene in the landscape (Smithson). I wish this channel wasn’t so committed to the western standard of Art History.
I love art assignment, but i have to say any art at the expense of the environment is ironic?!, eg: the ice glaciers that was transported , which again causes more greenhouse gas emissions , i get why, and the message... but again? Is it worth it? And also about the spiral, i admire both message and its beauty, but changing an environment just so we could get a message in my opinion is unacceptable. If anyone has enough time : “can we justify the cost of art?”, “cost” in the sense impact vs benefit
After 2010 NOT warmest year on record. Those records were in the 1930s. Secondly, they always say ices in Arctic and Antarctic melts In Summer!!! Never say it refreeses in Winter. What is the netto? Never tell us.
What Zen Bullshit Artists Think: Modern art is like 100 years old. *Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.* -- Tolstoy Power comes from the control of energy. Oil made Wall Street banks powerful. Private banks stole public credit 100 years ago. Modern civilization is 100 years old. ie - phones, cars, planes etc.Capitalism, Communism, Propaganda, Feminism, Organized Crime etc. as we know them today are all about 100 years old. These things have been around forever, but were all writ large with the advent of massive banks, mass propaganda, mass electrification, mass transport etc. All came into their current forms because of advanced technology. All our technology came from oil 100 years ago when robber barons of the gilded age stole the credit and currency of the citizens of the United States. The lust for power from oil, and the fear of loss of power to communism, took over the US 100 years ago. We are so far removed from that time that most people do not know about the history of when modern civilization began. The birth of bank power happened at the same time communism was born, which started a war, which fueled a boom, which led to a bust, which led to a war... etc. etc. Power, energy, propaganda have driven the the boom-bust-war cycle 3 times since 1914, through 3 world wars. The 3rd world war started in 1990 as a kinder, gentler war, and in 2001 turned into the sadistic forever war of today. The big banks bought out communist China 50 years ago. When a Canadian clock manufacturer started sending jobs to China in the 1950s, it was the beginning of the end for western civilization. By the 1970s, Canadian ceramic souvenirs were made in China and shipped to Canada, for sale to US tourists. China is now king of the world. Both the US and China want Muslim oil. This means war. That war will heat up in August. The Guns of August -- The Automatic Earth www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/07/dulce-et-decorum-est/ The boom-bust-war cycle is inexorably reaching its logical conclusion, the biggest boom-bust-war of all time. The only thing that is stopping China from complete world dominance is oil and computer chips. China imports 90% of its computer chips from the US. We are at the very beginning of the bust cycle. German and Chinese banks are stretched out beyond their limits, at exactly the time when humanity faces food and water shortages. The 2024 collapse of civilization was predicted 50 years ago. The only thing we know different now is that we are going to kill all life on earth faster than anything earth has ever seen. It took the dinosaurs 13,000 years to die off, we're going to make the asteroid look like child's play because we have ignited an explosive plankton die off event in our oceans. We have also triggered a massive land die off because humans and livestock caused 80% of species extinctions over land. The petro-pharma-chemical wipe out of biomes on land is causing runaway infertility. We are killing and poisoning everything too fast for life on earth to cope. The atmosphere on earth is not a permanent thing and I fear we are accelerating its demise. Physicists say that we may hasten the end of air on earth, and that the vacuum of space will descend to the ground sooner than we like to imagine. Our socio-economic ideologies are not designed for shortages. What this means is that we have to redefine money, power and energy, which is easy to do because we don't even know what money is. We've forgotten. The only way I can even imagine how to do that is to tax wealth and pay 100% of it back in a universal basic income. This will never work because both socialists and capitalists want control, or power, over that money. We have the solution but not the will to do what must be done. The brain poison you see in the news is 100 years old, that's why so many of you don't know this stuff.
I'm so worried about the planet's future. Crafts can be a great way to address this through recycling old materials and fabric and not using any electricity. Consumer capitalism is a driving force of climate change and making arts outside of this system can be quite powerful. Zero waste crafts are great gifts as well. Old picture frames, old fabric, all you need is some time and a good idea 🖌️🌍🌱
It wasn't an art museum, but the fire that destroyed the National Museum in Rio made me think of how much we could destroy (in this case, literally fossils and unbelievably important natural history artifacts) by ignoring the preservation aspect and how public policies rarely account for both climate change and the challenges that our urban climates affect the things we want to preserve. That goes for art, history, architecture and so much more that could last longer than it probably will thanks to how most places are currently ignoring climate change and resource shortages.
On a brighter note to an otherwise depressing comment: I love Hot Mess so much, it's probably my second favorite PBS channel, after this one. I learn so much from there.
The fire that destroyed the National Museum in Rio was an incalculable tragedy. If you think about how little we actually have left of past civilizations and beings, what has remained starts to seem so much more precious. Digitization doesn't solve everything, but it helps! At least makes the content accessible, even if the objects are no longer with us.
@@theartassignment indeed, accessible content is also something that is often overlooked in policies/budgets as well, but it always helps. I think a lot of the people who worked there are trying to share and preserve what they can, but as it often happens, government investment doesn't go to education as much as it should :/
@@theartassignment Even the arson attack in KyoAni is a big tragedy for the art world. I hope you create a video about them too as countless unreleased art works and artists perished during thay disaster. Also, make a case for anime and video games being art. Please.
The Art Assignment is showering us with videos and I! Am! Ready!
in my town there is a water front. theres a little bridge. under it is a little waterway. i took nearby rocks and made a wall out of them. i thought for a while they will stay up, months later i revisted them to see the rocks dispersed everywhere leaving a few lines of straight fashion. i realized no matter how we try to make our mark time and nature fades us away.
Your channel is a delight for amateurs as much as it is for seasonal art enthusiasts. Thanks for engulfing us in this world of arts!
The beauty of The Art Assignmemt is that it makes me come back again and again and look for details that I missed. Not to forget the fact that the videos present the art in such a manner that it compels me to go and search and learn more about them. This I think is a way of preserving art; by informing more people about it, the artworks are preserved in our memories. We remember the ones that are lost, and strive to preserve the ones that aren't, even if all that I can personally do is preserve them in my memory.
Thank you to the entire team of Art Assignment! I am sending you big hugs ❤
Great video! You always succeed in covering art from a lot of different cultures all over the world, wich is something my traditional art history courses fail me. I always love reading the comments on these videos aswell. Art is made to start conversation and debate, something I think this channel does really well.
Thank you! This series has been really challenging to assemble, but a really worthwhile attempt (for me at least) to try to represent a wider span of cultures and geographies and times. Your kind words are appreciated.
Beautiful video and very informative. A small correction though: the Naiku shrine is dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu. Naiku is simply an independent name for the shrine.
holy snails this video is so great.
I think of the book New York 2170, a piece of art in its own right, that envisions the city in the year 2170. Kim Stanley Robbins so effectively shows the experience of living in a city that will be mostly underwater that I was forced to confront my own experience of the city, and how I plan to live in it. Art that conveys emotions, experience, or wonder for the earth is art that is showing the constant change of the earth. I struggle sometimes with the "caught-in-time"ness of art, and how it can compare to the ever-changing-ness of life on earth, but it is, as you say, just a snapshot of how we are living. Let us all constantly interrogate how we're living individually, and hopefully (and maybe with some help from truly incredibly art) we can find a way to live better and do less harm to our home.
I think this is my favorite episode so far!
Amazingly in depth, informative, and interesting video as always! i've recently rediscovered my love of all forms of art so I am so glad I subscribed! Can't wait for the next video!
I grew up in a part of the Netherlands that was reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century, called Noordoostpolder (North East Polder). When you enter this region from the south, along the high way there is a small brik house. The smoke from the chimney canges into waves with a little ship sailing it. Our Dutch polders are under sea level and this art work by Frank Bolink and Gerard Koopman reminded me of that. I was never scared of the water, it just visualized, and continues to visualize that we should respect our environment, because it is always stronger in the end. Link (in Dutch): nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Noordoostpolder
We need a part II about climate art!!
I know that art is hard to preserve, but if you really think about it. It really is hard to preserve art that is millions and millions of years old. Just looking at the navigation charts made back then with twine, shells, and sticks. To be able to chart not only sea currents, but also track islands as well. I’m at a lost for words, but I’m sure the charts are hard to preserve. Climate being shown through art is beautiful and it teaches us a lot about our world. Even climate itself shapes the way our art looks like as we finish it. I never thought about art in that way, how climate could affect it. Not just the way climate can affect the artwork itself, but how the climate can affect us, and the way our artwork looks as a final result. Plus art shows how we face the weather of our world. It may be sunny, snowing or even a hurricane, but art shows us we can push through Mother Nature. No matter what she may throw at us, she knows we can bounce back.
Love your channel.! I think it would be very interesting to see a Video about modern contemporary art which challenges the subject of climate change and the factor we as humans play in it :)
Which poems did you reference at the beginning of the video?
Art is amazing. I love historical pieces.
Where are the other 65 shrines?
Missing you Art assignment
What a tour de force episode! So much I want to say… I’ll limit my comments to the Rebbelibs of which I am in awe, such amazing works they are, absolute beauty born in function. And to note I’m delighted with all the architecture, especially the community aspect of the Bjenné mosque as another form/function beauty expressed through those wood beams.
To dive into the conversation you posed at the end, for me drives home the most our impact on the planet is the accidental (yet often feeling artistic) contrasts between our built megastructures and their ‘apocalyptic’ surroundings. Dams with no water, rivers that no longer flow to the sea, bridges and earthworks broken by nature, and cities inundated, wrecked, or ablaze. The original inhabitants of Venice understood, to an extent, the shifting environment around them -- there is evidence of floors being built atop of floors to account for their sinking structures. But all too often we think we’re so smart and can best this massive (and lovely) planet and hold its ‘forces’ at bay, all while at the same time, paradoxically, thinking there’s no way we could possibly effect something like the climate because the world is so big. Double hubris at its finest. :P Seeing images of our ‘glory’ wrecked always works to help keep my hubris at bay, and I hope it helps do the same for others. (Though unfortunately it often has us double down in a “need a bigger hammer” kind of way to do something even more mega next time…)
I didn't want this video to end
How is it that no one has stopped the cruise ships from getting close to Venice? It seems like nothing ever changes. It seems a simple thing to do and yet protection remains out of reach.
They are stopping it. They will be able to get close but not right up on the city. Still, it's absurd that it was ever allowed.
It'll either be cruise ships or massive more flights and busloads of people.
People will not stay home, because people have been led to believe traveling the world builds character, is an adventure, and generally there can only be everything gained and nothing to lose by traveling.
And so we do.
I believe we could solve this issue by virtual reality. Virtualize all Venice city and all its Art.
Most people don't know the difference between an original and a replica painting, so a virtual tour should be enough.
What do you think?
That Olafur Eliason piece reminds me of something similar here in Denmark but which isn't necessarily a piece of art. It's at Danfoss Universe, a sorta science park made by Danfoss to show off their technology and get kids interested, it's a huge block of ice inside of their building. The point of it is to show off their cooling technology as they sell such products so it's kept from melting even though the building itself is at room temperature but only just so if you hold your hand onto it for a while you can melt the imprint of your hand into it, it'll then reform over time as condensation freezes onto it. It's obviously similar to the Olafur Eliason piece because they both have ice but the thing that strikes me is that this piece is basically the reverse of what he did, instead of taking ice from Greenland and letting it slowly melt in London this is generating ice in Southern Denmark. And like the message to two combined sorta give is that this is a problem we can solve, if we can manage to create permanent ice inside of a building then we can stop ice from melting in Greenland, and to add to all of this meaning Greenland is part of Denmark and Olafur Eliason is half Danish. It's probably also worth mentioning that Danfoss and their sister company Grundfoss are both manufacturers of insulation and heat pumps, both technologies that will be vital in making living more sustainable and the use of these technologies in district heating here is a large part of what makes Denmark such a front runner in sustainability. There of course was never any meaning to any of this, this is just entirely a coincidence but one that happens to feel like fate, despite it not being intended I still want to take meaning from it but what is that meaning? Is it a stark reminder of how incompetent and slow we have been to do anything about climate change, that the technology is right there and totally within our grasp and we still haven't used it. Or is to some degree hopeful, showing us that we can do this, we as a species can achieve miracles and some are taking decisive action. I think it almost depends on where you live, if you're from the US the former sounds a lot more true but for me living in Denmark I sorta think of the latter since we've adopted a strong and ambitious policy that is already being carried out, since adopting the new climate policy we have already brought a new 400 MW wind turbine park online.
Hey, just wanted to let you know that Ise Shrine isn't dedicated to Naikū. The shrine is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu. Naikū is Japanese for inner shrine, so it's the central shrine for the central figure, Amaterasu no Ōkami. I know things like that can be confusing sometimes, so I wanted to make sure anyone wondering had the right info!
This is one of my favourite episodes!!! You have such a talent of explaining complex topics really clearly and interestingly
I'm doing an essay for uni on nature in art, and this was so helpful. Thank you so much!
I was watching your "
Trending artists of the 17th century" video where you use the google trends feature in a very cool manner.
I wonder if you ever heard of "Google Art and Culture Experiment", where you choose 5 different colors and google select a ton of works that use those colors. There are so much possibilities of videos that I think you could do using that which I would love to see!
PS: sorry if that has non connection with this particular video, I just thought that the probability of you seeing a comment on a more recent video was higher. Love the channel!
This 5 video series is so good!
Great series and specially great episode, maybe it's because of the episode John made on the Anthropocene Reviewed but I almost cried when I saw the Lascaux paintings
Those charts are brilliant
i learned about some of these in my art history class and this is so exciting!!!
such an important discussion for all of us...
this commentary so beautifully articulated ...a pleasure ...
This show is so good!
Beautiful art in this video, reminds me of sum of our pictures
Wait a minute, something's not right, it has been twelve hours since you uploaded this wonderful video, but it only has 6,100 views and 37 comments. Usually there's a lot more of both. Maybe there was a problem with TH-cam showing the new video to everyone. Anyways, I would like to take the oportunnity to tell you, in the most sincere and respectful manner, that you are truly remarkable not only for the content you provide, but also for your natural beauty; not that beauty matters at all, as the things that actually matter are inside, but it's a nice fact nontheless. (I hope my drafting is ok, as english is not my primary language). Looking forward to more great, informative content in here. Have a nice day. :)
Great video giving credence to just how important our respective environment is to the art we humans create. Only one issue I found being that at Ise, I'm pretty sure just the particular shrine is called Naiku, whereas sources I've found indicate that the sun goddess in question is Amaterasu.
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I believe there was a small mistake in the video in regards to the Sun goddess. The Sun goddess that is being worshipped at Ise is called Amaterasu. Not Naiku. You are correct that it is about the sun goddess, but you mistook her name. Great videos as always.
Source: my 1st-year architectural history notes. as well as a more recent return to double-check on wiki.
New videos..yeah! Brilliant so many thanks, so helpful with both my studies and general knowledge x
I have a strange relationship to art (and most of the world) in that while I love it and I think it’s wonderful to have connections to the past, I also think part of the beauty of things is that everything passes into dust.
I think there's some beauty in that too, but I'd rather there be some preservation (whether by photo or video) so we can still look back to see what our predecessors made
Mono no aware... art is as ephemeral as nature itself. There’s beauty in that.
Very heavy on the 2018-19 AP art history works and so informative.
Not a coincidence! This series will be all tee'd up and ready when the next AP Art Historians get to work.
Amazing! Thanx for this mindful nutrition!
Thanks for this video, absolutely you described and explained how climate change Art ? my point of view was also that but the recent activity in art I have never been seen in the newspaper or books or any print media or internet I agree that you explain above climate change and also so many factor make an important role in art like weather, second world ware, earth quake, and man made changes in a huge scale so people mentality is affect this situation and try to create what they image, how they grasp in their own way and presented in different style which is the main theme. nowadays we are interested in internet and our all activity we can see threw the social media because of it is a new invention in the world and we use it therefore our old theme galleries and museum are in the future will like only the document, but the regular activity will on internet.
thank you so much for your information.
Ap art kids next year are set lmaoo
Art work in the right side of the frame,.. does anyone know the Artist?..
any article recomendations on the matter?
Ahhhhhh - John talked about the cabe paintings on the anthropocene review.
The first episode ever that talk a lot of architecture world than others episode.
Please make a video about art and architecture.
Amazing video.
I live this channel 😍
~Enthralling video on an important topic💮☺💮
Also draining the ground water lowered the land Venice sits upon
I also haft a wood block printed picture from 1830 made by the same artist of the great wave. I even haft a kimono wit tha great wave on it.
Claude Monet's Haystack reminds me of The Broccoli Tree in some ways. The fact that ultimately the Broccoli Tree was cut to aid industrialisation, and deforestation _is_ a primary cause of climate change just emphasizes the fact that we in fact are doomed.
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This was astounding, the moment we think we have understood the full picture of climate change we are causing, a new picture, much bigger and much more terrifying comes to us and we are dumbstruck by the hurt humans have caused to earth. But then sadly there are people who say there's nothing like global warming. In a lecture organised under environmental studies in our university, a Proffesor tried to convince us that there's no issue with the climate change and whatever is happening is normal and climate tends to change now and then. He supported his work with facts and graphs, especially telling about how 'the hockey stick curve graph' is a hoax, he further went on to Disregard whatever work was done by Al Gore in his Documentary " The inconvenient truth ", calling it mere propoganda to stop development in developing countries. If people remain so ignorant towards climate change and do adamant on their foolish notions, then how is the mission to save the climate and earth be successful
*The planet is dying. Make art while we still can.*
The planet isn't dying-- we are.
@@LapisGarter correct. Earth survived much greater threats, but wildlife is fragile. There's no doubt that a lot of species will die and humanity will change drastically.
I DON'T THINK THE EARTH IS DYING IT'S JUST CHANGING AS IT has ALWAYS DONE.
@@EnergyAndLightAwakening not this rapidly and pretty sure soaking an entire bay with oil that is wayyy below ground and finding plastic in fish is what the earth has always done. The earth is not dying per se but the ecosystems it hosts are collapsing and so are we.
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The clear voices with which environmental artists dare to address ecological ignorance win my respect and fortify despise towards the elitist obscurantism and introspection of "significant" artists 'sucking up to academic elite' and oligarchs' pockets.
I love the work of Texas artist Dornith Doherty and its relationship to climate change. She captures seeds from seed banks in the arctic using incredible photography techniques. Look her up!
I feel like you guys put out videos worth of being shown in classrooms. I’m artistically inclined, but I am a machinist by trade.
I hope I can make a machine one day that a sort of people with the taste for it will call art. You guys are inspiring!
very nice approach - gave me lots of inspiration! THANKS A LOT
And of course art is made of emotions and personality 😌everything is allowed 👌
A M A Z I N G ! This is such good video-commentary !
Art responding to nature, like a beautiful carpet we can walk on, does convey perspectives we need to survive, and there's hope in that. But what about the "elephant hiding under the carpet," our unified world plan to keep doubling our uses of the earth, called 'growth,' the growing effects of which we keep trying and try to hide... What does the painting of that look like?
I really appreciate the hard work and research that goes into these videos. I find them very inspiring and encouraging. Thank you to all involved with making them.
We have a new main Oslo library opening in 2020.
It would be a dream to devote the original "Hovedbibliotek" as an institute, museum of sorts, towards Urban Agriculture. It's purpose has the potential to span multi-facets: art, local historical progress, means for public participation, exhibit the relevance towards local enterprise/greener goals/healthier overall lifestyles.
In a way it is a 2nd chapter to other museum institutions such as the Kon-Tiki museum, science museums and botanical gardens. A relevant, functional form of displayed human adaptation in our current state of attempting to become more nationally sustenance independent for the greater goal of reducing our overall carbon footprint.
Adjusting and countering our contributions towards global warming will require individual to large scale efforts on as much of a consistent basis as we can feasibly handle.
🙏🏼 If only it could be common sense for all 😔
as a painter I had to sub after that
Oooh, if You're making videos for the AP Art history folks, can you do one for AP Art + Design too? Especially about the synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas? Thanks for considering!
so good
I've got a print of *the great wave* from david bull
I don't understand why the Marshallese navigating charts should be considered art. It seems like the people who made them were making them for utilitarian needs and not trying to make them look pretty, convey emotion, or convey meaning. I don't understand why they are treated as art rather than just historical artifacts.
I'll admit they are pleasing to look at, but I don't think that was the intention.
The marshall navagating charts are considered art from a Modern stand point. Since they were made for local seafarers. Sum might still be made today but I'm sure sum people there use modern navigation. Instead of the traditional ones. They would be art from a outside perspective as a example of traditional Marshall island culture
There are many things in our art museums that were not created with the intention that they be admired as art. Most if not all of the objects in "African art" galleries were made with a specific function in mind, many created for ceremonial use and never intended to even be seen by most members of the communities in which they were made. We also have plenty of "decorative art" galleries, filled with furniture and plates and tea services from other eras as times. They may have been made to be used, but they can also be admired for their formal qualities, their beauty, their material innovation, and also for what they can tell us about the cultures from which they came.
Venice would have been less susputiable to flooding if the rivers had been able to flow through the Area, at tha time Venice waz silting up. Until they dreged tha Rivers and redirected them. So instead of being Marsh land and more stable it is more prone to flooding. The old Venetian's would raise the ground floor from time to time.
I LOVED this series!!!
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I have learned that utah is being more tropical /subtropical than wie would think. As I am able to grow plants from more tropical regions than when I waz little
There is a medieval church in Northern Poland which became famous due to the fact that it is being eaten away bit by bit by the ever expanding Baltic Sea and it is very likely it will be destroyed completely in the following decades. Today only a part of its wall stands on a high cliff overlooking the sea. If not for erosion it would be just another church. Instead, people from around the country come to see it before it's gone. A work of architecture became a symbol of passing and the immense might of the sea. There was a plan to move this remaining wall further inland to protect it... but it did not happen. Maybe we should let it go.
Toughts on Helen Beard?
I get very upset when I think about the unspeakable rudeness of invading someone's living space and then scorching it.
Other than that unease, I compliment you on the entire series of "The Art Assignment". I found it educational, well reasoned, well researched and entertaining to boot.
Chapeau, and thank you for making these. They are up there with "The Fall of Civilisations"
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not. But Naiku is not the sun goddess of Japan. Amaterasu is. Naiku is one of the main shrines in Ise. Please double check your information before posting a video like this that gets thousands of views.
Let Venice go, preserve what we can ex-situ and allow the shifting ecosystem to reach a steady state, rather than enforcing an artifical steady state. Nature needs to adapt to the changing climate, and nature will adapt if we let it; we would both benefit from this. I know it's sad that people would(will) have to leave their homes but they won't be the first or the last, especially withough change
It was the best of times and the worst of times.
Charles Dickins.
Think about rising ocean levels due to global warming and Amsterdam.
Think about all the art that will forever be destroyed.
Now ask your self if you really do need a SUV and the next short distance flight and meat for every meal. Is it worth the price?
It's not really individuals that contribute to climate change, it's big corporations and governments that support them.
I own a 4 Claude Monet painting, a afread sisley painting all of them shouw how the weather waz at the time period. These waz painted 110yrs ago -130yrs ago
ap art history kids rise up
WOW HOW COULD YOU NOT MENTION ANDY GOLDSWORTHY??/!!!
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@@pareidolia1 Aaaaah it went by so fast I missed it lol. Thank you.
when i saw the girl painting glaciers it reminded me of an artist from my hometown: Helmut Ditsch
So, are the evening weather green screen art? Are the lower neck lines of women's clothes also an effect? Art critics name dropping entropy when scientists have a hard time being succinct? Whatever, I just exist in the quadriplegic disdain of normal life
shiner bro what u even talk bout
Just commenting to boost viewer participation
thankyou! i do #climatestrike and make art with mostly recycled or upcycled materials. will check out hot mess =]
What about the Harrison studio, Frances Whitehead & the countless artist activists who are working in interdisciplinary positions where they’re providing examples of how conversations around larger ecological concerns in art are giant cycling pits of representations. It seems callous to focus on artists who merely represent or arbitrarily intervene in the landscape (Smithson). I wish this channel wasn’t so committed to the western standard of Art History.
I love art assignment, but i have to say any art at the expense of the environment is ironic?!, eg: the ice glaciers that was transported , which again causes more greenhouse gas emissions , i get why, and the message... but again? Is it worth it? And also about the spiral, i admire both message and its beauty, but changing an environment just so we could get a message in my opinion is unacceptable. If anyone has enough time : “can we justify the cost of art?”, “cost” in the sense impact vs benefit
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After 2010 NOT warmest year on record. Those records were in the 1930s. Secondly, they always say ices in Arctic and Antarctic melts In Summer!!! Never say it refreeses in Winter. What is the netto? Never tell us.
Why would they lie about this? What is their gain?
Breath of. The wild anyone?
Hm.
What Zen Bullshit Artists Think: Modern art is like 100 years old.
*Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.* -- Tolstoy
Power comes from the control of energy. Oil made Wall Street banks powerful.
Private banks stole public credit 100 years ago. Modern civilization is 100 years old. ie - phones, cars, planes etc.Capitalism, Communism, Propaganda, Feminism, Organized Crime etc. as we know them today are all about 100 years old.
These things have been around forever, but were all writ large with the advent of massive banks, mass propaganda, mass electrification, mass transport etc. All came into their current forms because of advanced technology.
All our technology came from oil 100 years ago when robber barons of the gilded age stole the credit and currency of the citizens of the United States.
The lust for power from oil, and the fear of loss of power to communism, took over the US 100 years ago. We are so far removed from that time that most people do not know about the history of when modern civilization began.
The birth of bank power happened at the same time communism was born, which started a war, which fueled a boom, which led to a bust, which led to a war... etc. etc.
Power, energy, propaganda have driven the the boom-bust-war cycle 3 times since 1914, through 3 world wars.
The 3rd world war started in 1990 as a kinder, gentler war, and in 2001 turned into the sadistic forever war of today.
The big banks bought out communist China 50 years ago.
When a Canadian clock manufacturer started sending jobs to China in the 1950s, it was the beginning of the end for western civilization. By the 1970s, Canadian ceramic souvenirs were made in China and shipped to Canada, for sale to US tourists.
China is now king of the world. Both the US and China want Muslim oil. This means war. That war will heat up in August.
The Guns of August -- The Automatic Earth
www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/07/dulce-et-decorum-est/
The boom-bust-war cycle is inexorably reaching its logical conclusion, the biggest boom-bust-war of all time.
The only thing that is stopping China from complete world dominance is oil and computer chips. China imports 90% of its computer chips from the US.
We are at the very beginning of the bust cycle. German and Chinese banks are stretched out beyond their limits, at exactly the time when humanity faces food and water shortages.
The 2024 collapse of civilization was predicted 50 years ago.
The only thing we know different now is that we are going to kill all life on earth faster than anything earth has ever seen.
It took the dinosaurs 13,000 years to die off, we're going to make the asteroid look like child's play because we have ignited an explosive plankton die off event in our oceans.
We have also triggered a massive land die off because humans and livestock caused 80% of species extinctions over land.
The petro-pharma-chemical wipe out of biomes on land is causing runaway infertility. We are killing and poisoning everything too fast for life on earth to cope.
The atmosphere on earth is not a permanent thing and I fear we are accelerating its demise. Physicists say that we may hasten the end of air on earth, and that the vacuum of space will descend to the ground sooner than we like to imagine.
Our socio-economic ideologies are not designed for shortages.
What this means is that we have to redefine money, power and energy, which is easy to do because we don't even know what money is. We've forgotten. The only way I can even imagine how to do that is to tax wealth and pay 100% of it back in a universal basic income. This will never work because both socialists and capitalists want control, or power, over that money.
We have the solution but not the will to do what must be done.
The brain poison you see in the news is 100 years old, that's why so many of you don't know this stuff.
Bad day?
I'm so worried about the planet's future. Crafts can be a great way to address this through recycling old materials and fabric and not using any electricity. Consumer capitalism is a driving force of climate change and making arts outside of this system can be quite powerful. Zero waste crafts are great gifts as well. Old picture frames, old fabric, all you need is some time and a good idea 🖌️🌍🌱
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Abolish capitalism