Man, this was amazing. Great comprehensive overview of the history of western art. On behalf of everyone who isn't able to make it to the MET in person. Thank you 🙏 (and for going to jail for us for filming this inside 😂) Great descriptions as you were moving towards contemporary: "Losing the sense of representation, now the explanations became what represented the piece." - "The new standard became creating a reality for people that they have never seen before." And a big YES - we are not creating in a vacuum! Everyone who makes art should be at least a bit connected to art history knowledge. Go visit a museum, guys! 👍
Nailed it. Understanding history in 9 minutes and thanks for the preview of what is there in The Met. Although i was hoping I could also see Mrs.Hugh Haamersley☺️, cheers and best wishes
This is one of your best videos yet! Thanks you for your generous heart to share your passion and knowledge with the public! BTW I bought several of you instructional videos, and they have really changed my art life. I hope to meet you some day. Will you be at the FACE conference in Baltimore, or the portrait society meeting in Orlando? Do you have a gallery in Miami I could visit? Are you ever going to start an atelier? You are an inspiration.
Well done Cesar, I enjoyed your condensed Art History from 300BC to the present day in nine minutes. I’m sure people watching this will explore the History of Art in more detail for themselves, this really helps to appreciate Art and discover the true beauty of specific movements and time periods of art.👍🏻
Hi, i suggest to check out also the roman paintings in Pompeii and Herculaneum, because some of them are really good ! I have never see someone commenting them in terms of skills, colours, figure anatomy etc. Also a very cool painting is the Christ of Sina ( 6th century CE ), it has a very interesting easter egg !
Hola Cesar. I really enjoy your art theory videos. I like your perspective. Could you some videos about your favorite artist? Saludos, que te encuentres bien.
Hello Cesar,I'm fifteen and I'm from Italy.I love art,and I'm attending the art school in Rieti...a little City. I'd like if you'll be able to visit our City and our school...see you!!
Wow. This is a masterclass. I think there's a significance that as art becomes more about the individual, it also becomes more distorted and less representational. It's kind of like that with life. the more you make it about yourself, the easier it is to become a distorted person. The more your life is devoted to something higher than yourself, the more meaning there is in your life.
Ya cause those who believed in complete fairy tales weren't "distorted" people at all. lol It depends on what that "higher" thing is. What's being confused here is the idea that the lack of consensus as a whole with "post-modern" or conceptual art equals less meaning. But it merely meant that there was more freedom from any imposed meaning assigned by any religion or institution. The individuals who've created or viewed post-modern art still garnered meaning of real significance from it. This misconception often just comes from a very surface level of research and understanding because one is focusing far more on traditional mediums. Cesar is a great traditional painter but he waxes philosophic and is no art critic nor historian.
@@Xplorer228 I think one thing that would clarify this discussion is a definition of meaning. When you said "The individuals who've created or viewed post-modern art still garnered meaning of real significance from it" what do you mean by meaning?
I would also add to my original comment that perhaps my use of the word "higher" was unclear and that you're absolutely right, it totally depends on what the "higher" thing is. What I meant to say was a focus on something other than ones self would be a higher ideal. I believe that if one becomes obsessed with the self it can distort your perception of reality and your existence in the world, whereas having a more holistic concentration on yourself as well as on others (something i would consider potentially more noble than pure selfish concentration and thus a "higher" or more valuable pursuit) is less distorting.
Great video Cesar. you give a great overview of all the topics and periods in the artworld. I think you skipped Islamic calligraphy, but its a different angle from realism to symbolism. Check my art museum videos if you get a chance.
No you won't. You will be a better version of you present self, and that's better then trying to be like someone else. Cesar is amazing because he is Cesar.
My dude don't get discouraged, you don't need to be him. Search your voice, develop your personal vision and practice your fundamentals! If you see his early sketchbooks when he was young (Not saying he's old btw lol) , you can see that he wasn't a prodigy at all. He trained to get at his current level.
Hi ,love your work My feeling is that the impressionists killed art. Yes they explored in the direction of science but in that regard its manly pointalisum comes to mind. If I might explain I find impressionisum took off due to lazy artists, and worked due to a uninformed public, so that if I paint a man on a seat and use bright red on one side of face and green the other and leave it so the public go wow, how expressive and creative when in fact its a work of a traditionally trained artist that stopped midway in the underpainting, I often use green in underpainting and red or brown to get the optical grey later, the face is not green in the end. If one only do part of the job, to the untrained veiwer they misinterpret, its not creative its part of the process but not finished. Impressionisum has many places where you can see , yes this is the underpainting, then it got to cruder look, basically it became about the neurotic problem of the artist, no more story telling. I am an artist, it is assumed i should have something to say, to express, , if a writer i do not publish a blank book, or just random words, some one probably has but thats not the work of a writer. If it is then like in art that person is burning all our bridges, not his, no he is burning my bridges, there is no craft left, no art. If anything goes then there is no standard, if no standard, it has zero value and is meaningless, art is being turned to utter meaningless today. There is a british comedy...black books... a second hand book seller, he and his assistant try to write a book, the assistant gets yelled at by the other....l did not say , anything goes... i said no rules... Its a fine line but I see the point, a skilled artist can benifit from no rules, but not a beginer. But if all read no rules as.. anything goes... then no, thats not the same, as anything means anything from good to bad so is worthless. To many beginer artists take the wrong master to follow, i say take Rembrandt and Rubens, learn to see, learn to draw. We do not need to paint in their style but learn the tools, you can not express if you do not master the tools and paint, but they want to express, yes like a screaming baby for attention but what they produce is total crap, its not even the begining of a underpainting gone free, as the bulk of artists at art school dont get taught how to paint. They seem to think they can go direct at it ,model posed and brush in hand , no drawing and no drawing skill,no theory of how to use the colour, no they go at it because thats how impressionisum looks, I wish they had never been born, these impressionists. Such freedom is only of use to a very skilled artist that has command of his tools, almost no one today or in the last 50 years has. My logic tells me that in order for me to express my idea even if its totally personal and holds no history or idealism that if my intent is to express my personal neurosis then I must master how to draw at least like Rubens, How am I to effectively express if I can not form the words and so in paint, its never about the paint, it should not be about the paint, its a material thats simply applyed in a way to get my idea out. The number one thing is the idea. But expressed in a artistic way. However i see that many artists seem poor at conceptualizing, they dont like to think, they actually got no idea and just want to paint, then they put their fictional subconsious at work, actually called the unconsious mind, so how do they intend to communicate with it. They paint hoping to discover what it is they are trying to say. This is madness, if the artist does not know then neither will the public read it, there is nothing there. I dont know what people think art is, no it should not be a tool used by every individual that cant handle rules, to live a life as an artist requires serious self discipline and a dedicatation life long to learn and perfect. Its not for individuals that should seek meical advice, they have hospitals for such, they should not be contaminating art with it. Paint when better. I don't think art is dead, its in triage, its almost mortally wounded but while some still go to the masters to learn and to develop that into a personal expression, there is life in her yet, art is not entirely dead, it hangs by a thread. The likes of van gogh has done serious dammage to art, in my personal opinion, some of his work is good but realy i dont think art needs such a figure head People make the mistake also of jumping right into abstraction or a form or impressionisum with virtually no art skill and reason that they are continuing from where Picasso or some other person ended. You cant do that. One has to start at square one. It does not matter what Picasso acheived or not , one has to get to such a position by starting at the begining, you cant start at the end and continue and thats what they do, they think they opened the way, no no opening, the artist has to progress from square one. But they dont, been there done that, no they have not. Go back to the start, but thats work and requires the development of skill and that they will not do as they cant because for reasons only logical to a mad man they assume being artistic they should be able to already be able to do that,but will not test it. Like having the delusions of being a grand classical pianist but decideing to hammer the keys any way they like in free expression, however they are not even able to actually play the piano. And likewise so we end up with graduated art students that cant actually draw or paint , hiding in the bad lands of abstraction hoping to not be discovered as fakes. So thats my simplified view of it lol. Love your work Santos. I hope this is read as constructive, and my personal opinion, totally open to differing view. The idea is not to ofend but to start some interesting, views from any position the other has. Before I get accused of trying to take over. I am not, I originally sent this to Cesar as I was hesitant to post it. He did not mention like or dislike but wished i had posed it.
![SAFEPLANET - ดาวเคราะห์ [ THE PLANET ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4X1XL3I_k3c/mqdefault.jpg)
Netflix should have you travel to different museums and talk about different artist and paintings while talking philosophy. MAKE IT HAPPEN NETFLIX!
Meanwhile, Cesar pulls it off going in with the STEALTH cam 😂👍
YES!
That was interesting thanks for the tour! I love that museum, especially the room with Bouguereau, Cot, and Lefebvre.
Your videos are so amazing!!! I have learnt so much from watching your videos, to improve my art. Big Fan!!!
Cheers , I really enjoy your videos.
This was a tough one because i found myself distracted with the great works behind you. So, I will watch AND listen again. Thank you Cesar and Wife.
Quickest tour of the Metropolitan museum I've seen. Ya gotta have at least two or three days to see everything.
Cheers! Thanks for the amazing content!
Awesome intro to art history! Thanks Cesar! :)
Cheers!!!
Thanks for the tour, Cesar! Art history condensed to 9 minutes is no easy task but still you found interesting things to comment on. Much appreciated!
Man, this was amazing. Great comprehensive overview of the history of western art. On behalf of everyone who isn't able to make it to the MET in person. Thank you 🙏 (and for going to jail for us for filming this inside 😂) Great descriptions as you were moving towards contemporary: "Losing the sense of representation, now the explanations became what represented the piece." - "The new standard became creating a reality for people that they have never seen before."
And a big YES - we are not creating in a vacuum! Everyone who makes art should be at least a bit connected to art history knowledge. Go visit a museum, guys! 👍
Nailed it. Understanding history in 9 minutes and thanks for the preview of what is there in The Met. Although i was hoping I could also see Mrs.Hugh Haamersley☺️, cheers and best wishes
Hey BBC 4... Give this man a series.
Great video! I'd like to see you walk through some other big galleries like the National Museum in Norway or the National Portrait Gallery in London.
This is one of your best videos yet! Thanks you for your generous heart to share your passion and knowledge with the public! BTW I bought several of you instructional videos, and they have really changed my art life. I hope to meet you some day. Will you be at the FACE conference in Baltimore, or the portrait society meeting in Orlando? Do you have a gallery in Miami I could visit? Are you ever going to start an atelier? You are an inspiration.
Well done Cesar, I enjoyed your condensed Art History from 300BC to the present day in nine minutes. I’m sure people watching this will explore the History of Art in more detail for themselves, this really helps to appreciate Art and discover the true beauty of specific movements and time periods of art.👍🏻
I can't believe I've just discovered your channel, I've been following your art on Instagram🤦. So happy to have finally arrived. Brilliant work💪✌
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you back making videos, thank you!
As always, fantastic! I feel the need to watch this a few more times, as it’s brief but concise. In appreciation....keep them coming!
this was so good
Fantástico contenido, muchas gracias!
... sorry, forgot to say: great vlog, as always. Love your work, style and get so much from your posts
Hi, i suggest to check out also the roman paintings in Pompeii and Herculaneum, because some of them are really good ! I have never see someone commenting them in terms of skills, colours, figure anatomy etc.
Also a very cool painting is the Christ of Sina ( 6th century CE ), it has a very interesting easter egg !
Great
You should be a fantastic history art teacher!!! This explanation was stunning!!!!))*****
The future home for your paintings, Cesar! I really appreciate your insight.
9 minutes of the MET? I spent 6 hours in there. 😅 What a great museum.
wow! I can listen to this all day
Highly informative and thought-stimulating - thanks for making and sharing!
Eres un babaro!!!
Love it.
Keep up the good work!!!
Love the vlogs very educational and you make them interesting. Art has purpose
Very great boy. 🥰😉🎻
damn GOOD! Thanks
Hola Cesar. I really enjoy your art theory videos. I like your perspective. Could you some videos about your favorite artist? Saludos, que te encuentres bien.
Great as always!
فنان رائع..من العراق علي جبار مجيسر
Thank you !
Federico Barocci!!! Thank You so much!
Hello Cesar,
Can you come to Berlin and Walk through the Museums which show streetart and give us your impression?
Best gruesse Christjon
Hello Cesar,I'm fifteen and I'm from Italy.I love art,and I'm attending the art school in Rieti...a little City. I'd like if you'll be able to visit our City and our school...see you!!
Wow. This is a masterclass. I think there's a significance that as art becomes more about the individual, it also becomes more distorted and less representational. It's kind of like that with life. the more you make it about yourself, the easier it is to become a distorted person. The more your life is devoted to something higher than yourself, the more meaning there is in your life.
Ya cause those who believed in complete fairy tales weren't "distorted" people at all. lol It depends on what that "higher" thing is. What's being confused here is the idea that the lack of consensus as a whole with "post-modern" or conceptual art equals less meaning. But it merely meant that there was more freedom from any imposed meaning assigned by any religion or institution. The individuals who've created or viewed post-modern art still garnered meaning of real significance from it. This misconception often just comes from a very surface level of research and understanding because one is focusing far more on traditional mediums. Cesar is a great traditional painter but he waxes philosophic and is no art critic nor historian.
@@Xplorer228 I think one thing that would clarify this discussion is a definition of meaning. When you said "The individuals who've created or viewed post-modern art still garnered meaning of real significance from it" what do you mean by meaning?
I would also add to my original comment that perhaps my use of the word "higher" was unclear and that you're absolutely right, it totally depends on what the "higher" thing is. What I meant to say was a focus on something other than ones self would be a higher ideal. I believe that if one becomes obsessed with the self it can distort your perception of reality and your existence in the world, whereas having a more holistic concentration on yourself as well as on others (something i would consider potentially more noble than pure selfish concentration and thus a "higher" or more valuable pursuit) is less distorting.
Thermodynamics, Second Law.
At 4:42 do you guys have any idea what the title/artists name is with the young boy and girl on the swing?
“Springtime” and “the storm” by Pierre-Auguste Cot!
I loved those paintings when I had the privilege to visit the museum, and took pictures of both!
Great video Cesar. you give a great overview of all the topics and periods in the artworld. I think you skipped Islamic calligraphy, but its a different angle from realism to symbolism. Check my art museum videos if you get a chance.
One day I will shake your hand .
I get disspionted after seeing ur art I will not be like you some day
No you won't. You will be a better version of you present self, and that's better then trying to be like someone else. Cesar is amazing because he is Cesar.
Don’t compare yourself to others, compare yourself to who you were yesterday. - Jordan Peterson
My dude don't get discouraged, you don't need to be him. Search your voice, develop your personal vision and practice your fundamentals! If you see his early sketchbooks when he was young (Not saying he's old btw lol) , you can see that he wasn't a prodigy at all. He trained to get at his current level.
@@SubNorm4L im 28 I feel that I m too old
Cesar got where he is by working. Not whining
Hi ,love your work
My feeling is that the impressionists killed art. Yes they explored in the direction of science but in that regard its manly pointalisum comes to mind.
If I might explain I find impressionisum took off due to lazy artists, and worked due to a uninformed public, so that if I paint a man on a seat and use bright red on one side of face and green the other and leave it so the public go wow, how expressive and creative when in fact its a work of a traditionally trained artist that stopped midway in the underpainting, I often use green in underpainting and red or brown to get the optical grey later, the face is not green in the end. If one only do part of the job, to the untrained veiwer they misinterpret, its not creative its part of the process but not finished.
Impressionisum has many places where you can see , yes this is the underpainting, then it got to cruder look, basically it became about the neurotic problem of the artist, no more story telling.
I am an artist, it is assumed i should have something to say, to express, , if a writer i do not publish a blank book, or just random words, some one probably has but thats not the work of a writer. If it is then like in art that person is burning all our bridges, not his, no he is burning my bridges, there is no craft left, no art.
If anything goes then there is no standard, if no standard, it has zero value and is meaningless, art is being turned to utter meaningless today.
There is a british comedy...black books... a second hand book seller, he and his assistant try to write a book, the assistant gets yelled at by the other....l did not say , anything goes... i said no rules...
Its a fine line but I see the point, a skilled artist can benifit from no rules, but not a beginer. But if all read no rules as.. anything goes... then no, thats not the same, as anything means anything from good to bad so is worthless.
To many beginer artists take the wrong master to follow, i say take Rembrandt and Rubens, learn to see, learn to draw. We do not need to paint in their style but learn the tools, you can not express if you do not master the tools and paint, but they want to express, yes like a screaming baby for attention but what they produce is total crap, its not even the begining of a underpainting gone free, as the bulk of artists at art school dont get taught how to paint.
They seem to think they can go direct at it ,model posed and brush in hand , no drawing and no drawing skill,no theory of how to use the colour, no they go at it because thats how impressionisum looks, I wish they had never been born, these impressionists. Such freedom is only of use to a very skilled artist that has command of his tools, almost no one today or in the last 50 years has.
My logic tells me that in order for me to express my idea even if its totally personal and holds no history or idealism that if my intent is to express my personal neurosis then I must master how to draw at least like Rubens,
How am I to effectively express if I can not form the words and so in paint, its never about the paint, it should not be about the paint, its a material thats simply applyed in a way to get my idea out. The number one thing is the idea. But expressed in a artistic way.
However i see that many artists seem poor at conceptualizing, they dont like to think, they actually got no idea and just want to paint, then they put their fictional subconsious at work, actually called the unconsious mind, so how do they intend to communicate with it. They paint hoping to discover what it is they are trying to say. This is madness, if the artist does not know then neither will the public read it, there is nothing there.
I dont know what people think art is, no it should not be a tool used by every individual that cant handle rules, to live a life as an artist requires serious self discipline and a dedicatation life long to learn and perfect. Its not for individuals that should seek meical advice, they have hospitals for such, they should not be contaminating art with it. Paint when better.
I don't think art is dead, its in triage, its almost mortally wounded but while some still go to the masters to learn and to develop that into a personal expression, there is life in her yet, art is not entirely dead, it hangs by a thread.
The likes of van gogh has done serious dammage to art, in my personal opinion, some of his work is good but realy i dont think art needs such a figure head
People make the mistake also of jumping right into abstraction or a form or impressionisum with virtually no art skill and reason that they are continuing from where Picasso or some other person ended. You cant do that. One has to start at square one. It does not matter what Picasso acheived or not , one has to get to such a position by starting at the begining, you cant start at the end and continue and thats what they do, they think they opened the way, no no opening, the artist has to progress from square one. But they dont, been there done that, no they have not. Go back to the start, but thats work and requires the development of skill and that they will not do as they cant because for reasons only logical to a mad man they assume being artistic they should be able to already be able to do that,but will not test it.
Like having the delusions of being a grand classical pianist but decideing to hammer the keys any way they like in free expression, however they are not even able to actually play the piano. And likewise so we end up with graduated art students that cant actually draw or paint , hiding in the bad lands of abstraction hoping to not be discovered as fakes.
So thats my simplified view of it lol. Love your work Santos.
I hope this is read as constructive, and my personal opinion, totally open to differing view. The idea is not to ofend but to start some interesting, views from any position the other has.
Before I get accused of trying to take over. I am not, I originally sent this to Cesar as I was hesitant to post it. He did not mention like or dislike but wished i had posed it.
Hi ceser tell to you wife you are so likely
Bro Christianity is monotheistic.