Since recently stumbling upon Januszczak, I’ve been absorbing him in three hour chunks. He conveys much, entertains mightily, never talks down to his audience, and perhaps most refreshingly, never takes himself seriously. His subject yes, himself no.
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them! Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone? Thanks, Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures by Geofonica.
I’ve enjoyed Waldemar’s art history romps for some time now. (His “Rococo: Before Bedtime” on Amazon Prime is worth multiple viewings) but this documentary on American art misses some very important points. Hopefully this is part of a bigger series with more episodes to come. (Whoever funded this should take note.) I have been waiting for a re-do, or one-upmanship of Robert Hughes’ “American Visions” (PBS, 1997) and had hoped this might be it. (You can find Hughes’ multi-part series here on TH-cam) Waldemar is more than capable at meeting this challenge. He’s compelling to listen to and makes his points stick in the mind. (Fat Freddy Remington!) But unlike Hughes, he doesn’t present a broader narrative about American Art. Namely that it’s complex and sordid from its inception. Why sugar-coat it? It’s a rich history, warts and all. It’s no surprise that he ignores many important artists, but do we really need another love letter to Jackson Pollock? American artists aren’t even having that romance anymore, why are historians?
Completely agree. I've been watching as many of his films as possible. There's also a delightful playfulness that I adore with him. I hope he continues to make many more
These documentaries are so brilliant. Informative, educational and witty. Most of all accessible. Waldemar Januszczak is doing us a great service. I agree Mexico city is a must for anyone in the arts to behold. One visit is not nearly sufficient
Uhh no the Star Spangled Banner was not originally a drinking song from London - it originated from a poem known as The Defense of Fort McHenry. The drinking song was just the origin of the medley.
Ah, a music historian. YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them! Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm That he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long and out of perspective; being from the East Coast, I wonder if that affect him with his horses somewhat ?! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone? Thanks, Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures by Geofonica.
It's interesting.....at the time of Jackson Pollock's popularity, I was working in Andrew Wyeth's studio. He was interested in Pollock's splatter style and discussed with me, his egg tempera painting called "Raccoon". He said that if you look closely at the painting that is so realistic from a few feet away, and take a cardboard square and crop to small areas of the painting, they all look like Pollock's splatter technique....yet, at the end of the day, the painting is flawless realism using abstraction as it's foundation.....you may find it interesting if you ever get a chance to see the original painting of "Raccoon".
Always fascinating, informative, fun--big thank you for "Jack the Dripper"--but...the first abstractionist theosophist artist was Hilga af Klint. (Yes, that's how her name is written, and her work is spellbinding.)
Brilliant, I loved it. The coverage on Jackson Pollock was much deeper and broader than anything else I've read/watched. Thank you Waldemar Januszczak !
As a life long and native westerner (American West) I concur with Waldemar, what you see is what you want to see. Made up of dreams, and myths, doctrines and rebellion, with a lot of hooey. Just as we like it.
As an American,this whole country is based on this formula ; the people who govern us want us to see and believe what’s not there “ made up dreams and myths ,doctrines “ but not rebellion ,just acceptance.
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them! Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone? Thanks, Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures by Geofonica.
*IN A FREAKY COINCIDENCE* I just messaged my friend in Utah that I am watching Sego Canyon Utah... "HOW" she screamed? "On my computer" - save the repetition of a 15 minute back and forth... She was DRIVING THROUGH SEGO CANYON at the moment I messaged her - 2.3 miles from the Roc art....
Nice series. As usual in the Pollack history telling, there is a missing key element in the story. The woman behind the man. The woman that saw the talent. The woman that made the ultimate sacrifice of no children, took control of the money, negotiated a loan with Peggy G. to buy a place away from the city so Jackson could stop drinking, to focus on his art. Thank woman: Lee Krasner. without whom, Pollack would have been dead years earlier and we would have never heard of him.
That's the dumbest thing I've read so far. Waldemar has advanced degrees in Art History, so naturally, he should know more about the art subjects. I don't understand your point other than being arrogant and rude.
To have discovered Waldemar late, 'tis better than to never have discovered him at all. (Thank you pandemic[?]) I will, though, take issue with his assertion that Moran's colors were stolen directly from Turner. Without argument of course, Turner - I say - is the actual father of Euro-American modernism in painting and I will suppose that Moran was aware of his art (did he ever travel back to England and see a Turner live?), but those colors out west are what Moran saw. When the Hudson River School painters' works were seen in Europe, Europeans said the colors were fantasy, fake. If you've ever been in the Northeastern US in October's clear light in the afternoon, well, there you have it: real. The same applies to the mineral faces of mountains and river valleys out west. So, perhaps it is the brave painterly influence of Turner rather than direct pilfering...? Nevertheless, "God" bless Polska-Britannia for Waldemar and how he does art hx. I'm right there with you, man.
The birthing rock…”we’ll never know why it’s here”. What? Native indigenous people from that area know the stories of why it’s there and what for. Just ask them
My thoughts: Georgia Okeefe, a nice lady was not main stream or influential in the big picture. She insisted on being isolated to a great extent. She has influenced a few women's artists but even today there are not many feminists taking influence from her work. However, she did pave much of the way allowing women to take a stance. Many would say that other women artist did much more and some women artists are just now being heard of, but again the influence just has not been there so far.
@@robertgiles9124 And you think I'm annoying? I didn't say anything negative about Warhol or O'Keefe or you. And off ya go showing yer dusty baboon. nish nish
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GOD do I hate Waldemar Januszczak as an art educator. He's like the tabloid reporter of art. He tells us how to think, feel, and view art. He also often gets it wrong. For example, he said that the Star-Spangled Banner was originally a British drinking song. No, it wasn't. The *music* was, but the lyrics came from a poem written about an actual battle. These educational shortcuts make me wonder how much of what he says is similarly wrong.
The melody actually came from a German drinking song. And that was set to Francis Scott Key's poem about the shelling of Fort Sumter during the War of 1812. I think Waldemar is legitimate and I think his opinions are informed. The documentary is called Perspective. This is his perspective and I feel like he's inviting you to have your own.
He's an excellent critic with a unique eye who also obviously does his research. My only true criticism -- and rightly gives short shrift -- is not exploring the women artists who were so central to the early days of American Modernism: O'Keeffe is just one. And I'm certain there were artists of color worth exploring.
We have been so marginalized. When I was studying Art History in college in the 80’s, the only female artists in the entire Jansen “Art Bible” were O’Keefe and Grandma Moses!
In the video there's a slight green cast diminishing the redness to Double Negative, Monument Valley and probably Spiral Jetty (I haven't been). (you can see it in Januszczak's black clothing.) What I noticed at Monument Valley is as you approach the area you notice how intense the red in the sandstone is, but by the time you get to the overlook and see Shiprock and the other buttes, that red is muted - but then I looked back at my white Honda and it looked greenish. So a bit of over correcting going on. Film will capture it straight - because film doesn't compensate like our eyes or video. All in all though I love these videos. Januszczak does a terrific service to art and humanity. Footnote: I delivered the biggest rock in one of Michael Heizer's Displaced/Replaced Mass (1969/1977) from Ace Gallery to the collector's house (Yawl St, Marina del Rey). Drove it down Speedway in Venice and Marina del Rey with a large forklift. the forklift wasn't large enough though, so I dragged the bottom of the boulder along the asphalt leaving a mark that lasted until it was resurfaced years later. If I ever took a photo of my own Heizer inspired earth art (1984) I don't know where it is.
Ah, the opinion of an expert photographer, perhaps ? YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them! Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm That he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long and out of perspective; being from the East Coast, I wonder if that affect him with his horses somewhat ?! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone? Thanks, Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures by Geofonica.
Alfred Moran was the main man in this art doc' for me; his work is fantastically amazing; whereas Jackson Pollock's is a load of old bollox fit only for burning in Hell's furnaces.
Then you really don’t understand the word or it’s definition! Art isn’t about exact reproductions, it’s about creating feelings and conversation! No one said every piece is for your direct consumption and your delicate feelings. So Pollock isn’t for you….it’s not your place to deny it to others! That is 1984 level cancellation, just go away quietly so the rest of us can enjoy what WE want too!
I always say I'm going to go to sleep to a nice doc, and then inevitably I end up going to sleep late because I'm learning so much about art from Waldy
@@appletongallery hahahahahaha, go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here. I can't even imagine the arrogance one must possess to think that they have some deep, secret knowledge to which nobody else is privy.
I love Waldemar, and this is another fine presentation, I just wish he would not have neglected all the people who were already living in those areas doing amazing art way before the European wave hit.
Excellent, as always. One minor error Krishnamurti, was not a Theosophist, at least at the time he was in California. He had been discovered by the Theosophists as a youngster and said to be an avatar of enlightenment but he rejected the whole thing and all the hooha, becoming an independent and very straight forward spiritual teacher of his own vision.
How do you know for the "ancients," that art wasn't to decorate things but to "change things?" Contrasting with Gottlieb and other scribblers was revealing. Perhaps they are all just visual statements expressing what hadn't or couldn't be said with words-like Richard Dreyfuss in "Close Encounters" carefully forming his mashed potatoes into something he didn't understand. Pictorial conclusions to a thought? Isn't all art like that?
Your section on Native art (contrasted with cowboys.. chef’s kiss btw 😏) was the finest piece of critique in your entire body of work. I felt briefly like I was watching Sagan’s Cosmos again; I was transported, and my heart ached. It almost redeems you for your Magdalene episode, for which I still believe you secretly intended to be a drinking game (take a shot every time Waldemar says whooor) But yes, the native segment touched my soul and I’m grateful. From this moment I’m so hoping you will visit the Diego Rivera murals in San Francisc, because my great aunt Helen is featured in them. (She was a record breaking diver and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, along with my grandmother and their parents) On my mother’s side, my great grandfather came over from Naples, and unfortunately fought Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Grandpa survived, I had him until I was seven.
Thank you again. You being the history of art to life, and you explain the links and relationships across art. You make the opaqueness of art crystal clear!
I loved this.I always liked Jackson Pollock but never knew much about where he came from or that he was a model for Benton.I enjoyed watching you create your own drip painting as well.I will be watching more of your content.
Why are Native American contemporary artists never included in any European art documentary? Or ANY American art doc. There are some amazing Native Peoples contemporary artists. Be a trendsetter....
Untrained artist. Used house paint. Could'nt properly prepare canvas. Unstretched canvas paintings over decades have loosened and paint fractured, requiring regular restorations.
I thought it was silly too until I saw some of his work in person. It is stunning. The color sense, vibration, drama is amazing. Before you decide, see it in person!
My son ate a packet of blueberries and a bowl of warm semolina for lunch, after we saw Blue Poles at the Canberra Art Gallery. The next morning he cried out 'Hey Dad, I've just created a Jackson Pollock in the dunny".
I see you carry the same storied thought that Americans wear cowboy boots, at least long enough to make a point, and a Stetson hat. I had a fellow ask if I were carrying silver dollars on my person. We are a long way from the 50’s and not all from the ranchers lands’.
Waldemar, I can't thank you enough. Your perspective and presentation, your incites are truly life changing. I'm always brought to tears by your documentaries. You are a genius.
If you look through Benton's notes on drawing and composition for his students included in his books and worksheets they are also all made up of flowing, abstract, lines which look exactly like early black and white Pollocks and the Guggenheim mural (sans the little bits of color of course). This is probably also the source of Benton's comment that he taught Pollock everything he knew. Instead of starting in opposite spots (Benton in abstraction and Pollock in realism) they likely started in the same spot and just walked in entirely different directions.
Thanks for a great video. Yes American art is underrated. What abouit looking more into William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder? In that order going into modernism.
One of the great western artists not recognized by the official art world is Will James. His human figures aren't much, but his horses are alive and unsugared as few others. His books, too, describe real western life, which had few gunfights.
Thank you Sanni Epstein for mentioning this. As a child I stayed at my Grandmother's, in my father's and uncle's room, with their childhood books. Among them was Smoky by Will James. I had long ago forgotten.
You mean white collar guys and billionaires ignoring the law and constitutions of this country and getting away with everything they want? Yeah lets paint that.
Appreciate the spotlight on the amazing compositions of Benton, a long time favorite. Had not known of close association to Pollock, who fills wall space too, but, with self-centered statements . Not surprising the socialites approved.
True story. Annie Besant, having converted from Atheism to theosophy, tried to enroll Krishnamurti at Oxford. "He is the son of God", she explained. "Madame, the sons of many distinguished men are enrolled at Oxford"
I hope the comic genius behind that line was given a knighthood and a comfortable pension, if not a peerage ... whatever wrong he did in his life, he redeemed himself with that riposte ... !
At 28:36. Yes, the thing underlying the universe and organizing it is called math. I know, I know, it's too obvious. There has to be mumbo-jumbo involved in there somewhere or else it doesn't count. But the architecture and language of the universe is math. These theosophists really liked to over-complicate things, huh?
You got that wrong sir... most of what people know as the american was was part of spain, then mexico in 1803... it was until the end of the us-mexico war that mexico conceded the land to the us., around 1846
Big Sky, Big Art, Big Dreams: Art Made in the USA Episode 1: From The Wild West To Jackson Pollock: America In Art (Art History Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Wild West to Abstract Expressionism Episode 2: Exploring America's Most Famous Art (Art Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From The Big City to Rothko Episode 3: America's Most Underrated Artists (Art History Documentary) | Perspective Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Small Town to David Smith
What about Helen frankenthaler. I read an article that said she was better than pollack and the only reason he’s famous or more famous than she is, is bc her bf was a major art writer and wrote about pollack not her. Idk, but it was an interesting article.
What nonesense. What got me interested is the stack of WESTERN HORSEMANs I have. Featuring the COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA. Who paint real life in the west. Cowboy country. The beef cattle industry. A rodeo, topping off a bronc cattle drives, its real life. Try Bill Ownes, Herb Magerbly and others. Their standards of accuracy and authentiicity in the drawing, presenting the proper tack and methods of training. This is the standard I cut my teeth on., and I expect it to be honered. I enjoy Perspective y9u taught me a lot, but on this one you got wrong.
Excellent film, but absolutely no mention of Charles Scheeler, or Charles Demuth, and their Precisionism Movement. To say that Abstract Expressionism is the first truly American art movement is simply incorrect. Maybe he has another film up, cos there's no mention of Hopper or Grant Wood either ?
Makes me sad to hear SPRINGSTEEN escorting Waldemar's art program to its finale. I suppose it's apropos, however... THE BOSS'S Rebel Soul has been SOLD OUT: SPRINGSTEEN'S SELLING JEEPS WARREN ZEVON- THE ONE TRUE REBEL SOUL OF ROCK 'N' ROLL WOULD BE HORRIFIED TO SEE HOW COMMERCIAL HIS BUDDY HAS BECOME. NAH...WAZU IS UNDOUBTEDLY LAFFING HIS ASS OFF.
Here in New Mexico I can walk right up to the petroglyphs and see them from mere inches away, no barriers. There are hundreds of them. To me what they seem to say is, “Hello! I was here!” But those wall paintings Walder showed…they are fierce, and do seem to speak of other worlds.
Mr. Waldemar, you have your thoughts, ideas, and prejudices: and you express them well. If you check out the comments, you will see everyone else does just as well. Few agree totally or perfectly. But it's all interesting. For me, an American, it's always good to revisit some of America's artistic output- good, bad, or otherwise. Thanks. I hope you enjoyed your visit "bumbing around" in the USA!
Glad he had the sense to call it "wild west" art. Foreigners eternally make the mistake of thinking the U.S. is ONE place. Never was, never will be. Easterners whose ancestors came here 400 years ago have a RATHER different sense of what America is--its art (specifically, what landscape means--where's the Hudson River School, from which those colors and Romanticism proximately derived, not Turner?), its culture, above all its literature. That stuff on the west coast, and that awful place in the south--as different from the northeast as France from Russia.
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone ?
You should see my teenage led Zeppelin renderings and croaky sketches! Amazing what an eighth-grader clear through Senior high School, created , drawing realistic Led -Zeppelin renderings without the least bit of schooling . Jackson Pollock , he's was just a hoper and wisher . And not to mention there's not even a concept. As an adult I paint pop art images of sexy cowgirls with shotguns now that's a concept . Not Jackson Jackson Pollock's hoping and wishing and the erratic movement of a brush. Anyone can smash their ass with paint onto a canvas!! P
Excellent 👍 👍 Anyone who's seen this series should be eligible for college credit in Art History. Waldemar uses unforgettable stories to teach the art and artists...
At 31:35. So...there are maybe $50 to $100 million dollars worth of murals in this courtyard, totally exposed to the elements? I hope the Mexican Ministry of Education starts thinking quickly about rescuing these Diego Rivera masterpieces and stashing them away in a climate-controlled place. I would hate to see one of their biggest assets frittered away due to lack of care...
Hey Wally Yosemite is the first national park -- an act passed by Congress and signed by Lincoln in 1864. They got the idea for Yellowstone cuz of Yosemite.
Magnificent series, We can watch this all they long, 👏👏👏👏Waldemar is the perfect presentar !!!
Since recently stumbling upon Januszczak, I’ve been absorbing him in three hour chunks. He conveys much, entertains mightily, never talks down to his audience, and perhaps most refreshingly, never takes himself seriously. His subject yes, himself no.
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them!
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone?
Thanks,
Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures
by Geofonica.
I’ve seen so much art and didn’t know what I was looking at. I’m glad to have found these videos to revisit earlier days in a better way.
Yes I agree with some one else waldemar would be great at Australian art documentary’s
I’ve enjoyed Waldemar’s art history romps for some time now. (His “Rococo: Before Bedtime” on Amazon Prime is worth multiple viewings) but this documentary on American art misses some very important points. Hopefully this is part of a bigger series with more episodes to come. (Whoever funded this should take note.) I have been waiting for a re-do, or one-upmanship of Robert Hughes’ “American Visions” (PBS, 1997) and had hoped this might be it. (You can find Hughes’ multi-part series here on TH-cam) Waldemar is more than capable at meeting this challenge. He’s compelling to listen to and makes his points stick in the mind. (Fat Freddy Remington!) But unlike Hughes, he doesn’t present a broader narrative about American Art. Namely that it’s complex and sordid from its inception. Why sugar-coat it? It’s a rich history, warts and all. It’s no surprise that he ignores many important artists, but do we really need another love letter to Jackson Pollock? American artists aren’t even having that romance anymore, why are historians?
This guy is the best art presenter I've ever seen. He treats it with necessary gravity and seriousness without coming off as pompous
Perfect. 💥
Yup. Absolutely agree.
Completely agree. I've been watching as many of his films as possible. There's also a delightful playfulness that I adore with him. I hope he continues to make many more
Couldn’t agree more! Spent a lot of hours in Art History class in art school… he is so much better!
Totally agree.
These documentaries are so brilliant. Informative, educational and witty. Most of all accessible. Waldemar Januszczak is doing us a great service. I agree Mexico city is a must for anyone in the arts to behold. One visit is not nearly sufficient
Uhh no the Star Spangled Banner was not originally a drinking song from London - it originated from a poem known as The Defense of Fort McHenry. The drinking song was just the origin of the medley.
Ah, a music historian.
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them!
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm That he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long and out of perspective; being from the East Coast, I wonder if that affect him with his horses somewhat ?! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone?
Thanks,
Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures
by Geofonica.
Thank you for speaking of American art with respect and care.
It's interesting.....at the time of Jackson Pollock's popularity, I was working in Andrew Wyeth's studio. He was interested in Pollock's splatter style and discussed with me, his egg tempera painting called "Raccoon". He said that if you look closely at the painting that is so realistic from a few feet away, and take a cardboard square and crop to small areas of the painting, they all look like Pollock's splatter technique....yet, at the end of the day, the painting is flawless realism using abstraction as it's foundation.....you may find it interesting if you ever get a chance to see the original painting of "Raccoon".
I have always thought that almost any square inch of a Rembrandt would make a wonderful abstract painting.
I suppose I could be clearer. Any square inch blown up to a much larger image
Wyeth and his family were so talented, Jackson's stuff is rubbish.
how exciting to have been there!
Emperor has no clothes...
Always fascinating, informative, fun--big thank you for "Jack the Dripper"--but...the first abstractionist theosophist artist was Hilga af Klint. (Yes, that's how her name is written, and her work is spellbinding.)
Waldermar, please do a series on Australian art.
Why, he'd just screw it up too!
Yes please!
Brilliant, I loved it. The coverage on Jackson Pollock was much deeper and broader than anything else I've read/watched. Thank you Waldemar Januszczak !
"much deeper and broader"...go back to third grade finger-painting! You sound like a liberal New York Times columnist!
@@MAC-ws8fz What has life done to you to speak so lowly to a total stranger!
@@infinifi2910 I must have struck a liberal nerve"
Don’t flatter yourself
@@infinifi2910 emperor has no clothes....
As a life long and native westerner (American West) I concur with Waldemar, what you see is what you want to see. Made up of dreams, and myths, doctrines and rebellion, with a lot of hooey. Just as we like it.
As an American,this whole country is based on this formula ; the people who govern us want us to see and believe what’s not there “ made up dreams and myths ,doctrines “ but not rebellion ,just acceptance.
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them!
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone?
Thanks,
Lynda Faye's Little Blue Mermaid Video of sculptures
by Geofonica.
JACK THE DRIPPER! It was worth watching this just for that.
I giggled over that for the rest of the video
Awesome..
All it needs is a few more ads every 2 minutes.
Amazing series of documentaries. I've never been so interested in art.
these series are gold!
*IN A FREAKY COINCIDENCE* I just messaged my friend in Utah that I am watching Sego Canyon Utah...
"HOW" she screamed? "On my computer" - save the repetition of a 15 minute back and forth... She was DRIVING THROUGH SEGO CANYON at the moment I messaged her - 2.3 miles from the Roc art....
Nice series. As usual in the Pollack history telling, there is a missing key element in the story. The woman behind the man. The woman that saw the talent. The woman that made the ultimate sacrifice of no children, took control of the money, negotiated a loan with Peggy G. to buy a place away from the city so Jackson could stop drinking, to focus on his art. Thank woman: Lee Krasner. without whom, Pollack would have been dead years earlier and we would have never heard of him.
That would have been no loss.
06:16 is the reason I love Waldermar. What a mesmerising storyteller, teaching us practically every aspect in the most wonderful way.
Entertaining like no other art presenter I've watched. Love him.
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This mate knows more about American history than do most Americans.
That's the dumbest thing I've read so far. Waldemar has advanced degrees in Art History, so naturally, he should know more about the art subjects. I don't understand your point other than being arrogant and rude.
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@@jilliegirlie I think that's a little harsh. On a side note, if that is truly your picture, you are striking and incredibly beautiful.
Stop fucking complaining about ads on a free video.
Waldermar&crew have clearly worked hard as hell to produce all this.
To have discovered Waldemar late, 'tis better than to never have discovered him at all. (Thank you pandemic[?]) I will, though, take issue with his assertion that Moran's colors were stolen directly from Turner. Without argument of course, Turner - I say - is the actual father of Euro-American modernism in painting and I will suppose that Moran was aware of his art (did he ever travel back to England and see a Turner live?), but those colors out west are what Moran saw. When the Hudson River School painters' works were seen in Europe, Europeans said the colors were fantasy, fake. If you've ever been in the Northeastern US in October's clear light in the afternoon, well, there you have it: real. The same applies to the mineral faces of mountains and river valleys out west. So, perhaps it is the brave painterly influence of Turner rather than direct pilfering...? Nevertheless, "God" bless Polska-Britannia for Waldemar and how he does art hx. I'm right there with you, man.
The birthing rock…”we’ll never know why it’s here”. What? Native indigenous people from that area know the stories of why it’s there and what for. Just ask them
What about Georgia O'Keeffe?
My thoughts: Georgia Okeefe, a nice lady was not main stream or influential in the big picture. She insisted on being isolated to a great extent. She has influenced a few women's artists but even today there are not many feminists taking influence from her work. However, she did pave much of the way allowing women to take a stance. Many would say that other women artist did much more and some women artists are just now being heard of, but again the influence just has not been there so far.
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And you think I'm annoying?
I didn't say anything negative about Warhol or
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Really amazing performance artist
Wonderful content and don't mind supporting the artists with ads, but every 3-5 minutes? It's a bit ridiculous.
Get adblocker. I get no ads at all, except from the pitchmen in the videos.
@@ferociousgumby The only problem with adblockers is that the video maker doesn't get any revenue. Not an issue for this channel but a lot of the smaller channels are reliant on the revenue.
I've just unsubscribed for that very reason
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I really dislike ads but without them there would be no 'free' stuff for people to gripe about and say "adblocker" to everyone. Get enough people using adblockers and you'll get the same result.
Thank you for this . Interesting. I have chuckled a couple of times and laughed out loud twice to boot!
GOD do I hate Waldemar Januszczak as an art educator. He's like the tabloid reporter of art. He tells us how to think, feel, and view art. He also often gets it wrong. For example, he said that the Star-Spangled Banner was originally a British drinking song. No, it wasn't. The *music* was, but the lyrics came from a poem written about an actual battle. These educational shortcuts make me wonder how much of what he says is similarly wrong.
The melody actually came from a German drinking song. And that was set to Francis Scott Key's poem about the shelling of Fort Sumter during the War of 1812.
I think Waldemar is legitimate and I think his opinions are informed. The documentary is called Perspective. This is his perspective and I feel like he's inviting you to have your own.
He's an excellent critic with a unique eye who also obviously does his research. My only true criticism -- and rightly gives short shrift -- is not exploring the women artists who were so central to the early days of American Modernism: O'Keeffe is just one. And I'm certain there were artists of color worth exploring.
I agree, it is a wonderful documentary but I also kept waiting to see O'Keeffe's New Mexico landscapes to appear. She would have been a perfect fit.
We have been so marginalized. When I was studying Art History in college in the 80’s, the only female artists in the entire Jansen “Art Bible” were O’Keefe and Grandma Moses!
It's a very abbreviated history
In the video there's a slight green cast diminishing the redness to Double Negative, Monument Valley and probably Spiral Jetty (I haven't been). (you can see it in Januszczak's black clothing.) What I noticed at Monument Valley is as you approach the area you notice how intense the red in the sandstone is, but by the time you get to the overlook and see Shiprock and the other buttes, that red is muted - but then I looked back at my white Honda and it looked greenish. So a bit of over correcting going on. Film will capture it straight - because film doesn't compensate like our eyes or video. All in all though I love these videos. Januszczak does a terrific service to art and humanity.
Footnote: I delivered the biggest rock in one of Michael Heizer's Displaced/Replaced Mass (1969/1977) from Ace Gallery to the collector's house (Yawl St, Marina del Rey). Drove it down Speedway in Venice and Marina del Rey with a large forklift. the forklift wasn't large enough though, so I dragged the bottom of the boulder along the asphalt leaving a mark that lasted until it was resurfaced years later. If I ever took a photo of my own Heizer inspired earth art (1984) I don't know where it is.
Ah, the opinion of an expert photographer, perhaps ?
YES, HE IS EXCELLENT at adapting to each and every different "realm" of his videos ! ALL of them!
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm That he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long and out of perspective; being from the East Coast, I wonder if that affect him with his horses somewhat ?! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone?
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Alfred Moran was the main man in this art doc' for me; his work is fantastically amazing; whereas Jackson Pollock's is a load of old bollox fit only for burning in Hell's furnaces.
Then you really don’t understand the word or it’s definition! Art isn’t about exact reproductions, it’s about creating feelings and conversation! No one said every piece is for your direct consumption and your delicate feelings. So Pollock isn’t for you….it’s not your place to deny it to others! That is 1984 level cancellation, just go away quietly so the rest of us can enjoy what WE want too!
I always say I'm going to go to sleep to a nice doc, and then inevitably I end up going to sleep late because I'm learning so much about art from Waldy
Another brilliant film from Waldermar. His easygoing, slightly irreverent look at art is fascinating
@@appletongallery hahahahahaha, go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here. I can't even imagine the arrogance one must possess to think that they have some deep, secret knowledge to which nobody else is privy.
Way to many ads. This seems to be the norm on You Tube these days.
I love Waldemar, and this is another fine presentation, I just wish he would not have neglected all the people who were already living in those areas doing amazing art way before the European wave hit.
Excellent, as always. One minor error Krishnamurti, was not a Theosophist, at least at the time he was in California. He had been discovered by the Theosophists as a youngster and said to be an avatar of enlightenment but he rejected the whole thing and all the hooha, becoming an independent and very straight forward spiritual teacher of his own vision.
How do you know for the "ancients," that art wasn't to decorate things but to "change things?" Contrasting with Gottlieb and other scribblers was revealing. Perhaps they are all just visual statements expressing what hadn't or couldn't be said with words-like Richard Dreyfuss in "Close Encounters" carefully forming his mashed potatoes into something he didn't understand. Pictorial conclusions to a thought? Isn't all art like that?
Ted Clemens. Tim Clemons 🤔😂
@@timclemons8719 a gentleman and scholar you must be! :-)
Your section on Native art (contrasted with cowboys.. chef’s kiss btw 😏) was the finest piece of critique in your entire body of work. I felt briefly like I was watching Sagan’s Cosmos again; I was transported, and my heart ached.
It almost redeems you for your Magdalene episode, for which I still believe you secretly intended to be a drinking game (take a shot every time Waldemar says whooor)
But yes, the native segment touched my soul and I’m grateful.
From this moment I’m so hoping you will visit the Diego Rivera murals in San Francisc, because my great aunt Helen is featured in them. (She was a record breaking diver and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, along with my grandmother and their parents)
On my mother’s side, my great grandfather came over from Naples, and unfortunately fought Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. Grandpa survived, I had him until I was seven.
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Thank you again. You being the history of art to life, and you explain the links and relationships across art. You make the opaqueness of art crystal clear!
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926)
That 10 Grand he got for the painting would have bought ten very nice houses at the time.
I loved this.I always liked Jackson Pollock but never knew much about where he came from or that he was a model for Benton.I enjoyed watching you create your own drip painting as well.I will be watching more of your content.
I will never understand haw the pictures of Pollock can be called art. This is the biggest art ripoff.
Why are Native American contemporary artists never included in any European art documentary? Or ANY American art doc. There are some amazing Native Peoples contemporary artists. Be a trendsetter....
You brought the American Indian artists up, dude, take the initiative and a camera and make documentaries about them yourself.
Where you dudes been there are many vids on N. American arts. CHEERS
Thanks for the info.
whoever came up with ''Jack the dripper '' for Jackson Pollock is a genius
Inspired by linoleum.
Thank you so much This is a great thought and concept of art, new information that I do not know them This is very wonderful
Is anyone else thinking that digging channels in a mesa is just wrong?
"Next level" hubris. As if modern/Western/industrial-age 'man' hadn't interfered enough with the natural world ... smh ........
Why does Pollock's 'art' remind me of the emperor's new clothes?
Untrained artist. Used house paint. Could'nt properly prepare canvas.
Unstretched canvas paintings over decades have loosened and paint fractured, requiring regular restorations.
Because it’s a pathetic illusion. The unconscious does not express itself in mad, meaningless chaos.
I thought it was silly too until I saw some of his work in person. It is stunning. The color sense, vibration, drama is amazing. Before you decide, see it in person!
The spiral jetty in the Great Salt Lake. I was the newspaper cartoonist in Ogden, Utah, USA. Love your art documentaries.
My son ate a packet of blueberries and a bowl of warm semolina for lunch, after we saw Blue Poles at the Canberra Art Gallery. The next morning he cried out 'Hey Dad, I've just created a Jackson Pollock in the dunny".
I see you carry the same storied thought that Americans wear cowboy boots, at least long enough to make a point, and a Stetson hat. I had a fellow ask if I were carrying silver dollars on my person. We are a long way from the 50’s and not all from the ranchers lands’.
Did you not see the ending? He confronts this exact subject.
please keep your sarcastic political opinions out of your videos
Lots and lots of ads. But they are set perfectly (almost) to create cliffhangers to the documentary.
On PC? Get adblock and they're gone..
Waldemar, I can't thank you enough. Your perspective and presentation, your incites are truly life changing. I'm always brought to tears by your documentaries. You are a genius.
Nicely done man... great storytelling🍻
PERSPECTIVE never disappoints!👍
jeez looks like he brought the clouds abroad with him
, the whole world only knew the west through the drama that buffalo bill brought to them through the wild west show... it was all in his imagination
If you look through Benton's notes on drawing and composition for his students included in his books and worksheets they are also all made up of flowing, abstract, lines which look exactly like early black and white Pollocks and the Guggenheim mural (sans the little bits of color of course). This is probably also the source of Benton's comment that he taught Pollock everything he knew. Instead of starting in opposite spots (Benton in abstraction and Pollock in realism) they likely started in the same spot and just walked in entirely different directions.
Where are the women artists such a Georgia O'Keefe?
"...the story of Missory..." - missed a good joke mate. Pronounce Missouri like story.
Thanks for a great video. Yes American art is underrated. What abouit looking more into William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder? In that order going into modernism.
Thanks it is great to see you covering American Art. I look forward to all of your videos.
Odd selection of artists.
so many gems in this one, thanks so much Waldemar and Perspective
One of the great western artists not recognized by the official art world is Will James. His human figures aren't much, but his horses are alive and unsugared as few others. His books, too, describe real western life, which had few gunfights.
Thank you Sanni Epstein for mentioning this. As a child I stayed at my Grandmother's, in my father's and uncle's room, with their childhood books. Among them was Smoky by Will James. I had long ago forgotten.
We need a artist that will paint just what America has and is becoming, painting Crime scene,
You mean white collar guys and billionaires ignoring the law and constitutions of this country and getting away with everything they want? Yeah lets paint that.
Awesome!!! Keep these documentaries coming. Each is very much appreciated.
Appreciate the spotlight on the amazing compositions of Benton, a long time favorite. Had not known of close association to Pollock, who fills wall space too, but, with self-centered statements . Not surprising the socialites approved.
True story. Annie Besant, having converted from Atheism to theosophy, tried to enroll Krishnamurti at Oxford. "He is the son of God", she explained. "Madame, the sons of many distinguished men are enrolled at Oxford"
I hope the comic genius behind that line was given a knighthood and a comfortable pension, if not a peerage ... whatever wrong he did in his life, he redeemed himself with that riposte ... !
I hope you kept your Pollock Waldemar, it's brilliant! re comments below It's amazing people haven't heard of adblock!
Incredible. Very educating and entertaining.
At 28:36. Yes, the thing underlying the universe and organizing it is called math. I know, I know, it's too obvious. There has to be mumbo-jumbo involved in there somewhere or else it doesn't count. But the architecture and language of the universe is math. These theosophists really liked to over-complicate things, huh?
The ads are so disrupting to the flow of this wonderful documentary!!
Great Series , Bravo !
You got that wrong sir... most of what people know as the american was was part of spain, then mexico in 1803... it was until the end of the us-mexico war that mexico conceded the land to the us., around 1846
Big Sky, Big Art, Big Dreams: Art Made in the USA
Episode 1: From The Wild West To Jackson Pollock: America In Art (Art History Documentary) | Perspective
Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Wild West to Abstract Expressionism
Episode 2: Exploring America's Most Famous Art (Art Documentary) | Perspective
Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From The Big City to Rothko
Episode 3: America's Most Underrated Artists (Art History Documentary) | Perspective
Original title: Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: From Small Town to David Smith
It's ALWAYS in the 🎭 ART!
What about Helen frankenthaler. I read an article that said she was better than pollack and the only reason he’s famous or more famous than she is, is bc her bf was a major art writer and wrote about pollack not her. Idk, but it was an interesting article.
What nonesense. What got me interested is the stack of WESTERN HORSEMANs I have. Featuring the COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA. Who paint real life in the west. Cowboy country. The beef cattle industry. A rodeo, topping off a bronc cattle drives, its real life.
Try Bill Ownes, Herb Magerbly and others. Their standards of accuracy and authentiicity in the drawing, presenting the proper tack and methods of training.
This is the standard I cut my teeth on., and I expect it to be honered.
I enjoy Perspective y9u taught me a lot, but on this one you got wrong.
Really good presentation into the "how it all came about" into the world of abstract expressionism.
Excellent film, but absolutely no mention of Charles Scheeler, or Charles Demuth, and their Precisionism Movement. To say that Abstract Expressionism is the first truly American art movement is simply incorrect. Maybe he has another film up, cos there's no mention of Hopper or Grant Wood either ?
He has another film where he covers Scheeler extensively.
Makes me sad to hear SPRINGSTEEN escorting Waldemar's art program to its finale.
I suppose it's apropos, however...
THE BOSS'S Rebel Soul has been SOLD OUT:
SPRINGSTEEN'S SELLING JEEPS
WARREN ZEVON- THE ONE TRUE REBEL SOUL OF ROCK 'N' ROLL WOULD BE HORRIFIED TO SEE HOW COMMERCIAL HIS BUDDY HAS BECOME.
NAH...WAZU IS UNDOUBTEDLY LAFFING HIS ASS OFF.
Here in New Mexico I can walk right up to the petroglyphs and see them from mere inches away, no barriers. There are hundreds of them. To me what they seem to say is, “Hello! I was here!” But those wall paintings Walder showed…they are fierce, and do seem to speak of other worlds.
Mr. Waldemar, you have your thoughts, ideas, and prejudices: and you express them well. If you check out the comments, you will see everyone else does just as well. Few agree totally or perfectly. But it's all interesting. For me, an American, it's always good to revisit some of America's artistic output- good, bad, or otherwise. Thanks.
I hope you enjoyed your visit "bumbing around" in the USA!
He is the best at his job as an art historian.
Glad he had the sense to call it "wild west" art. Foreigners eternally make the mistake of thinking the U.S. is ONE place. Never was, never will be. Easterners whose ancestors came here 400 years ago have a RATHER different sense of what America is--its art (specifically, what landscape means--where's the Hudson River School, from which those colors and Romanticism proximately derived, not Turner?), its culture, above all its literature. That stuff on the west coast, and that awful place in the south--as different from the northeast as France from Russia.
Fantastic show ! May we have more, please ?
Yay! New Waldemar vid
I was ready to press stop til I realised it was Artwaldy. Anything with Artwaldy is a must see.
Though Waldemar Januszczak does a GREAT job of putting us into the realm Ta he's presenting.... In regard to Remmington, I'd love to have other sculptors do this to prove me wrong ? Take a tape measure, and see if you don't' agree that "many", not all, but many of his mustangs, quarter horses, whichever/whatever, they all have BACK LEGS of ballerina type Thoroughbreds! Yep, too shapely, and TOO long! Today's video makes me wonder too, why there were NEVER any left-handed cowboys ? Anyone ?
waldemar's definition of the reason for art made me cry
You should see my teenage led Zeppelin renderings and croaky sketches!
Amazing what an eighth-grader clear through Senior high School, created , drawing realistic Led -Zeppelin renderings without the least bit of schooling .
Jackson Pollock , he's was just a hoper and wisher .
And not to mention there's not even a concept.
As an adult I paint pop art images of sexy cowgirls with shotguns now that's a concept .
Not Jackson Jackson Pollock's hoping and wishing and the erratic movement of a brush.
Anyone can smash their ass with paint onto a canvas!!
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A very explanatory way,of guiding us viewers into an unexplainable view. I just Confused myself, 🧐...ty connie
Excellent 👍 👍 Anyone who's seen this series should be eligible for college credit in Art History. Waldemar uses unforgettable stories to teach the art and artists...
Excellent as always, but I think O'Keeffe (the later period) should have been included.
At 31:35. So...there are maybe $50 to $100 million dollars worth of murals in this courtyard, totally exposed to the elements? I hope the Mexican Ministry of Education starts thinking quickly about rescuing these Diego Rivera masterpieces and stashing them away in a climate-controlled place. I would hate to see one of their biggest assets frittered away due to lack of care...
Hey Wally Yosemite is the first national park -- an act passed by Congress and signed by Lincoln in
1864. They got the idea for Yellowstone cuz of Yosemite.
It's impossible to interrupt this video for a coffee break once you start watching this guy...it's hilarious!