Revisiting an Old Friend; The Second Conservation of Anne
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Viewers of these videos and others familiar with conservation of artworks will recognize that one of the most common refrains is "archival and reversible." Conservators hold that phrase sacred and as a guiding principal for their work. Conservators labor to ensure that the work they execute will be stable for the long term, will not cause harm or damage to the artwork and is able to be safely removed in the future if ever needed.
In this video Julian demonstrates exactly what that phrase means by revisiting a conservation he completed five years earlier. The first successful conservation addressed a several issues that the painting presented. Unfortunately as is sometimes the case, the painting suffered additional incidental damage and returned to Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration. It is during this second visit to the studio that Julian reverses all of his old conservation work as he labors to again conserve and restore the painting. It is through this pursuit that the difference between antiquated materials, approaches and techniques and modern ones can be clearly seen.
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“kudos to the past conservator”
**laughs in self praise**
Clorox Bleach I love the fact that you can hear the pride he has in his work. That’s what keeps bringing me back to his videos.
laughs in julian
I feel he new full well what he said and what he had done... I'm proud
in this case that's a good thing
It’s like that meme where Obama is giving him self a medal
Usually he roasts previous conservators, but now he's just flexing
And rightly so
He roasts them with class, too! It's like old-fashioned social battles that aren't always obvious to the layman. It's wonderful. xD
kudos to the past conservator
Damn straight
Kasia Mosiek I think it would be rightfully, but yeah, he has bragging rights.
Saving the contempt for the cat vandals.
I bet they took the label off too...
37 minutes of Julian talking about how he made his life easier by doing everything right
Yet, somehow, without conceit.
*S* *L* *I* *C* *K*
37 minutes of using the right solvent because he tested it 5 years ago
#meticulousishawt Lol
And yet I still love it
Julian: Any conservator can undo the changes when and if required.
Audience: When can we see it undone.
House Cats: Hold my beer.
"She was discolored and dirty and needed a little bit of attention" honestly same dude
Lol perfect; yes same
I'd take some attention from him, you bet.
Haha not me, I need a lot of attention
@@Yoshiclue321AJ why didn't I think of that lmao
HA!
Julian: This is Anne.
Me; after having a long ass day and being half asleep: Hello Anne.
Colleen Tamblyn dead ass.
Not the only 🤣
Colleen Tamblyn 😂
Me too. What the hell and it's still morning.
I also did this. It's only polite.
Five years from now: canvas arrives back in studio, covered in hairballs and claw marks. Julian weeps silently.
AND the label is removed again
why $$$$$ all the way to the bank.
@@danielueblacker9118 he's sick of people who can't appreciate his work.
she came back again
The owners know the price of everything and the value of nothing
Julian : I missed a spot.
Me :No, you didn't.
Julian : dot.
Me :Oh
:o
Them: a li'l bump
Julian, an intellectual: an acute planar distortion
I am the 1000th like and I have never been so proud of myself.
@@akio_kuro I'm proud of u son
3000+ likes, 3 replies.
*W H A T ? ? ! ?*
@@darrelsvids158 4 thousand likes and now 4 comments to match. We're quality not quantity dude 😉
Lol
After seeing him paint Anne's forehead I'm convinced he could color match the hell out of me if we went in a Sephora together lol
Alexis Wheeler hell yeah
Best comment ever
I had this exact thought 😂😂 pls help me mr baumgartner my face doesn’t match my neck
Omg yes!
holy shit I never even thought of this you are brilliant.
Julian saying "I told you so" for 37 minutes.
Came here to comment this
I love how he said: “I need to make this neat because it’s actually visible” like, we all know you would’ve done the same thing even if it wasn’t visible
Exactly!🤗
I hope that in 100 years, when this painting is being conserved again, conservators will see his label and go "Oh thank God, this'll be easier"
Unless the label is so unceremoniously removed like last time 😤
@@spoondancer2230 😤😤 i hope not
Amicosayshi I doubt that some people just like making their lives harder just for the fun of it.
@@spoondancer2230 when
Melvee Rainbow The label he added was removed from this painting 3:07
proof that he reads the comments: shading everyone who was critiquing an eye he had to retouch on a previous painting.
Baumgartner sees all
Baumgartner KNOWS all.
@lo key ...woah. it all makes sense now... xD
👁️👄👁️
Which one?
No offense, lol, but the eye was off. EVERYTHING else I've watch of him has been amazing, and he does really great feet :D. This one was really, really good, as well. I love his techniques. I can watch him all day, and have.
Imagine being rich enough to have a valuable historical painting restored professionally, and simultaneously caring so little about it that you set it on your sofa for your cats to sit on
And then having enough money to get it restored the second time...
And then having enough money to get it restored AGAIN...
Rich enough? Or daft haha.
@@ash_and_cash one in the same lol
Down with oligarchs
Anything expensive and/or precious: *exists*
Any cat ever: *IT'S FREE REAL ESTATE*
Anything fragile: *Exists*
Cats: Are you sure about that?
@@dimsufferer9951 ITs not just fragile items. They hide things they want for them too.
There's an old saying, "In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats." Certainly true at my house-
julian: yeah, i worked on this painting before with them good reversible materials
everyone realizing they can't roast the previous conservator this time: *[confused screaming]*
1st time here after this comment I want to check out his other uploads to hear this as I enjoyed this 1.
Anne: ah, a relaxing 'day' at the Baumgartner spa.
aserta lol
I laughed so hard thank you
Anne: I need a day at the spa like I need a hole in my head!
Also Anne: ..... wait
cats needed to sit on her face so she could have a day off to relax and get cuter...
i practically HEARD julian smirk when he said "kudos to the past conservator"
I love him lmao🤣
Melissa C 12:04 she looks like a cracked egg lol
"So why does Anne need a second restoration? How did these giant holes happen?"
"I let my cats sit on it."
"my cats sit _accidentally_ on it"
More like:
"i just layed it down, not taking any security steps to make sure sth like my cats sitting on it, doesn't happen"
Why don’t any of these people frame the paintings in glass?
@@urmom1595 that's what i was asking myself since forever.
@@urmom1595 I love going into a museum and seeing the texture of the paint that the artist left behind. Also, there was a case of a painting that he restored that fell from the wall and onto a chair. It was left with large holes. Imagine how many shards of glass would have pierced it had it also been behind glass.
@Dawid aka Grendel Really it's the owner's fault for leaving it laying on a couch. Not just because cats will lay on everything, but from my own limited experience, and by looking at the canvases in these videos in the background, you're supposed to store them vertically, standing up, not horizontally.
I love how you keep saying "There's nothing terribly exciting about this part of the process..." as though we all haven't spent literal hours voluntarily listening to you silently scratch glue off a canvas before.
shoelaced I have been known to treat his video’s like a boxed set - and thoroughly enjoy them, watch all the ads so he gets the. Revenue!
not to mention the fact that we rewatch him every now and again.
*POLYURETHANE INTENSIFIES*
Here comes that boy
O H H O H H
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C-N-C-C-N-C-O-C-C-O
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H H H H H
oh shiet waddup
MOOOD I LOVE listening to him while i do my own art, stream, clean, pack, setup my laptop etc
i think that it is absolutely hilarious that julian has a genuine, meme-centered fanbase
wouldn't have it any other way lol
Someone fucking commented "Tack Daddy clean my surface grime please" on one of his videos
@@Lichen8404 I can't decide how I feel about that, but it did make me laugh so there's that.
@@Lichen8404 OwO
It's truly one of the beautiful wonders of the Internet
Cats: let’s support this conservator by sitting on this painting every few years!
He needs to buy those cats some extra treats for keeping him in business!
He needs to give the cats a little bit of salami for that
Cats can have a little salami, as a treat, and they deserve it.
And im angry at my cat for dragging dirt on my white carpet. I wonder how much that cat cost their owner in restoration fees?
This is why I’m a cat person.
The Baumgartner drinking game:
Drink every time he says:
- resin
- varnish
- rabbitskin-glue
- retouching
- belgium linen
Then Julian is gonna have to restore you with the stomach-pump technique.
You forgot the washi kozo paper 🤧
(+solvent)
Kaiser Chillhelm staples!!!!
No thanks i like my liver
No one:
Julian: RABBIT SKINN GLUE >:( >:( >:(
Sorry this may sound weird but I saw those faces read both ways!
Like
):<
>:(
@@lizageorge8923 Lol really xD
@@lizageorge8923 ( >:
This comment made me laugh xD
Damn, I never had so many likes xD
"She was discolored and dirty and needed a little bit of attention." Baumgartner, you did not need to come for me this hard.
"She was really quite dirty, discolored and needed some attention" *is that a personal attack or something?*
The more important question is, why did you sit on the painting?
@Apentogo They took sponge baths daily. That just didn't count as "bathing," which they did much less commonly.
"Ah, the job here is so easy, the previous guy was such a genious" never change Julian, never change
I don't understand why he had to undo everything. Example, the forehead wasn't damaged, why clear it off?
Beth Clemensen he said it would interfere when he fixes it, ig bc of the materials he has to use
@@veralenora7368 It would interfere with the new materials
Similar feeling when I recently thought I had to extend a standard in our codebase with some new functionality, until I discovered that the guy who implemented that standard was clever enough to forsee such a use case. Sometimes past you can really be a bro.
@@lemon3942 qq
My man really removed the seal of the conservator and 5 years later went to him again lmao
😆
These people got what they deserve. I hope they put more paintings on couches.
@@TheAyurvedic what did paintings do to you?
@TheAyurvedic geez, okay, what if they accidentally left it on the couch to grab something to hang the painting up somewhere eles that will take one sec and the cats snuck onto it
I feel lost now that I can't roast the previous conservator
I'm sure someone will find a way...
@@BaumgartnerRestoration The previous conservator didn't cat proof the painting! Amateur!
@@System-zu7np should have filled the void from the stretcher with firm foam to let the canvas support weight, amateur mistake really smh
@@BaumgartnerRestoration The previous conservator is probably some guy who lets his dog use an expensive paint brush as a chew toy.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Sir, your following may not be what you expected, but dang, these comments and responses are GOLD!!!!
“The artist painted this while wet” - imagining the artist clambering out of the bath and working in his painting whilst dripping all over the carpet
When inspiration hits, you gotta paint, dude
I thought it was another kind of wet...
YO YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM LIKE WHAT IF THEY FORGOT THE IDEA ONCE THEY WERE FINISHED BATHING
I didn't have that imagining my head. But now I do. Thank you sir. Most satisfying.
Osmosis Jones rqqqwrqqqqqqqrqqqwwwr
“So, unfortunately, for you as a viewer, this is really anticlimactic.” Shhh. There is literally nothing boring about these videos.
It's not spectacular, but it's definitely not anticlimactic!
@@SylvanApe Isn't the lack of dionysian spectacle the exact reason why nothing he does is boring?
Never boring indeed I can't stop laughing at his jokes and passive-aggressiveness
@@dsblocks
1. True
2. 50 internet points for the use of "dionysian".
Am I the only human on earth who thinks its spelled anti-climatic. With no 'c' before the t
The other videos are Julian roasting the previous conservator but this one is just him praising what he did last time.
"my original label is missing - somebody removed it"
Me: THEY FUCKIN' WHAT
Call a MANHUNTER *NOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!*
When he said that I was ready to throw hands
I was offended.
Yes! I was offended too!!! 😤💔
NOT THE LABEL! Of all things.
to the person who removed his label: i will be contacting the authorities
I bet it was the cats
@@dshe8637 plot twist : the cats damaged the painting so it would be restored again and get a new label
Owner concealing the fact that the painting had been restored???
2:21 the label is there
The one on that timestamp didn't seem to have any conservatory notes that he mentions: adhesive type, paint type, etc - Pretty sure there was the label on underneath that had them, and was probs taken out.
you could feel the shade he threw at people who criticized the eyes he painted
I could literally hear him smiling while he said it. It's either hilarious or terrifying.
I looooove the eyes omggg
Everyone is so rude seriously. Art is art.
I honestly laughed at this little tounge in cheek moment.
angelicsailor the eye did look a bit mingered tho, ngl
Julian: "I really like Anne, and I'm looking forward to spending a little time with her"
*Zooms in on Anne's blushing face*
I’m sorry they REMOVED HIS LABEL
Glad I wasn't the only one who was like wait what?! Why would they do that?! Like it's on the back....no one even sees it....
Didn't they keep one at @2:18 ?
There is the gallery label and then the info label for the retouching. They use different labels for different things.
What a shame :(((
@@cleodello They removed the one with the restoration information, that's usually on a different label.
her face is like:
"they let cats sit on me. CATS. I survived for centuries to end up like a CAT PILLOW. I hate de 21st century"
I read this with a very angry French accent.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA PRICELESS
they probably hate the 20th century because you’re in it
CJ Lilac this secret will probably disappoint you: i've born in the 21st century, sorry i ruined your hate 🤷🏻♀️😂
CJ Lilac Stll! I thought we had all left that behind 20 years ago? It’s the 21st century love, I have no idea why we call a century a thousand years older than it actually is either!
I love that this story started with cats damaging a painting and ended with a dog damaging the brush that fixed that painting. It all came full circle
Came looking for this comment!
Proof that dogs always do everything right
The agents of nature do not like Anne.
@@samuels1123 next time will be birds! 😁
Dog drops brush: What brush???
Julian: "They have removed my label from my previous work..."
Me: "Jeez, do they paint over Renoirs artist signature too?!"
But at least they have a nice clear worktop in the kitchen. Thanks to the cat.
This episode is really just a huge flex on every untrained conservator in the art industry
the flex of this man is a superpower few have
Isn't it as usual ? 😅
so like every other video?
@@gort1319 yeah, but this one in particular because he's doubling down on the fact that his methods are better than what other inexperienced conservators have done previous to him. It's kind of like an 'i told you so' type of a thing, whereas with the other videos, he's more or less pointing out why those other methods are inferior. If that makes sense. Idk.
"You could just sandblast it..." Oh, like they did with Ecce Homo/Potato Jesus?
Omg imagine taking a painting down and turning around and your cats are immediately sat on it
lafayette the baguette that’s the kinda stuff cats do.
My cat broke my xbox by laying on top of it and making it overheat.....
Also, love your username.
Oui, oui mon ami, qui s'appelle Lafayette I agree
bad kitty bad!
Honestly I'd have a moment of derealisation
*this is just 37 minutes of Julian flexing about his conserving skills*
Wouldn't you?
Fine
Given his skill he would have every right to do so, however, all I heard was a skilled craftsman explaining things.
Well,if that was a genuine complaint on your part,nobody made you watch it.
@@unseelie63 they didn't mean it in a bad way ( hopefully they didn't)
So I searched “how to stretch a canvas” on TH-cam & a few days later the YT algorithm slid one of Julian’s vids in my feed... as I watched it & perused the comment section, I was puzzled by the seemingly obsessive “fan base.” Well, a further few days later & 24 hours or so of Baumgartner videos under my belt, I understand now. I’m happily subscribed. Thanks for providing me something I didn’t know I needed.
This is so wholesome ❤️
“Seemingly obsessive fan base” 🤣🤣
that's an elegant way to say
you are all crazy
One of us…
For years I’ve been an avid utube user and also an art collector. I am at a loss as to how I never discovered this amazing channel before now.
I have a couple of pieces that need conservation but am afraid to get a quote…😬
Sure, blame the cats. We all know it's Anne's fault. She's not allowed on the couch.
OMG!! Best comment EVER!! I am still laughing! :) Thank you!
The cat is the victim here
@@chesito15
So the cat says.
👏🏻
That was just perfect.
Anne: gets beautifully restored and gets sent home
Cats: im about to end this Anne’s whole career
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
anne was a dirty girl
That's how it really is tho
😂😂😂😂
Imagine taking off his label. Like, that devalues the piece by 30% right there and then.
lol
If I have Baumgartner label on my painting, it stays there forever.
Omg we have the same name!!!! I never knew other Gisela 🥺
@@gisela8259 Lol! Hi name twin!
Damn straight! I paid for that label, and it stays! 🤣
Imagine removing Julian’s label and then going back to him to repair the same painting. How dare you disrespect our mans 😤
I got confused by that cause I could see his label on the foam backing :/
Surtu that’s not the same thing as the label the one on the back is too say where it’s about to be worked on. Like a if you get lost go to this location type tag
@@surtu9221
the label they're talking about is the other one that has the list of the things that the conservator used for the painting
Yeah he should sell the painting to someone else than give it back
@Christian DiPaola oh ok
I'm dumb Sorry
I'm really freakin stupid
I can't imagine how much money someone has to leave a painting like this on the couch for their cats to sit on.
or to have Julian restore TWICE
Right? That's the kind of wealth that allows you to totally dissociate from reality.
Yep, that was my first thought. I wonder if Julian (and others in the art world) get upset with people like that, who don't appreciate the art.
Leigh M I’m sure they do, but also, I’m sure that conservators deal with that kind of stuff all the time.
My first thought too
"The only thing that I could think of that would be possibly worse is if one of her eyes was missing and I had to recreate an eyeball that wasn't there before. Because I'm sure there would be a lot of opinions about whether or not I hit that one on the mark."
Come for the restoration, stay for the shade.
He was being so cheeky 😏
He could absolutely have said "true story!" I remember this video:
th-cam.com/video/NfngvcPsazI/w-d-xo.html
I'm glad that Anne did NOT have to come back for this kind of treatment!
Hehe
Julian: I'm using an old brittle brush to mimick all these little details and imperfections on the original painting.
Me (who's only got like 3 brushes since forever and never bothers to replace them): Yes, me too, totally
Baumgartner: hours of working to fix the painting
Cats: we are about to end this whole mans career
Mareike Rademacher they MADE his career 😂😂
ryan ok Baumgartner: If you have art, have cats too!
English doesn't seem to matter to you whatsoever huh? _"Just let me post a meme regardless if it makes sense or not."_
That's you. That's what you do.
And of course almost 700 mouthbreathers likes it. smfh.
You mean Fund this mans whole career
@@commentcopbadge6665 Fuck off
I love how the comments section of these videos are an entire meme ecosystem of their own.
Art nerds are the best nerds
I was thinking the same think.
Yeesss totally
This community gives me calm and life
Canadian Boyd hehe, it’s awesome
Me : reading every funny comment to my husband.
Also me: explaining to husband why to this is funny when he does not laugh.
Yes I am the nerd in our relationship
I just want to let you know that I send your videos to my grandma, she watches, and then we FaceTime and have a long conversation about the work. You see, she is an incredibly talented artist. The artwork and rugs she made covered every inch off her home for the last 50 years. she had to move out of her beautiful family home into an apartment. This is a wonderful gift you give us both so we can keep the conversation art focused. It keeps us close. Thank you!
Can an old rug be restored like a painting?
@@toweypat Most likely yes. I worked at a construction project where century old drapes were taken care of. I took an afternoon off and visited the studio. They got requests from archelogical digsites to papers,maps, cloth and even a pair of naval guns in the basement in a safe medium.
What a gracious and beautiful comment. Thank you. I am 64 ,live alone,since my husband died 5 years ago and I have no one to share these or anything from my interests with really. You’re so fortunate .Spend every precious moment with her that yo can Never forget to tell her you love her every day.
Every Grammy deserves a grandbaby like you. Good for you my girl. Keep her close. She'll keep you closer.
Patrick Towey yes, it’s been done by the Met in NY and the NG in London, try and Google them, they both have vids on this.
Julian’s passive aggressiveness is legendary, I’ve never done anything to a painting and somehow he makes me feel guilty
So, you're telling me that;
A. This dink left the painting on a couch like a common peasant, and
B. This dink REMOVED YOUR LABEL?
How dare they, sir. They might as well have emptied their bedpan on your head.
Ruby Rain dink is suddenly such a powerful insult
A very oft overlooked word.... Dink. Bravo.
@@alexia3552 in german, we call them Schlubbeseiker in my area.
a village idiot, who is exclusive for the job to spread slurry on the fields.
you won best comment!
wow thanks guys, I’m truly honoured. ❤️
when he said "kudos to the past conservator" all smug i slapped my leg laughing so hard it legit hurt
Slap your hand next time. Pro tip
This made me laugh so much I choked
"to be frank, this is some pretty darn good retouching"
I see what you did there
I did not see it.
Tony Gonzales it was his own retouching
@@Ninja_Toolz yeah, it was so good he did not see it...
Seems like most people do not see the Anne Frank joke. Unsurprising.
And there’s “Kudos to the past conservator” following that.
can we talk that someone *REMOVED THE LABEL RUUUDE* , I’m mad
Ikr talk about being indecent and inconsiderate to the time that Julian has put
My understanding was that he had listed what solvents, etc that he used. That someone would remove that is crazy. 100 years from now someone would be overjoyed to have this info.
I wish someone would handle my feelings as gently as Julian handles Anne
That someone should be you. Wrap your feelings in a nice warm blanket, and give them a cup of tea. That way they'll be ready when some other human comes at you with their shenanigans.
Seymour Disapproves same
Please!!!
"She was discoloured and dirty, and needed some attention...". Just like me :0
:,(
Ok weeb
Normie weeb Awwwwww😚
Time for nice relaxing bubble bath for weeb!
I, too, am discolored, dirty, and in need of attention.
Aren't we all?
You're going on the *hot table*
Come here, have a hug or a pat pat
i am now going to do an impregnation.
Hahahahaha niceee
Hum, they removed your tag, which might have been problematic if someone else had had to do the restoration. Since you seem to always add a backing board, why not put a copy of your label on the inside of the board? The next conservator will find it, but the curator probably won't, and won't feel the need to remove something "unoriginal" from the back of the painting. (Put a label on the the outside of course, so they can again remove that, while missing the hidden label.)
This is why I'd suggested recently on another painting video with massive retouching that you could have hidden pictures of the painting before and after retouching inside the backing board. I've spent a lot of time working in the data industry, and one thing I learned about 50 years ago was that it is really easy to lose documentation that isn't intimately attached to the item being documented. You gave the owner of the painting the documentation, and he probably put it in his safe deposit box. Then when he dies, his descendants will throw it out before selling the painting. They are less likely to remove the backing board before selling the painting.
Yes, exactly my thoughts.
Most under rated comment of the thread. They say genius solutions are always simple.
I love how he talks about her as if she were an actual person. It makes it feel as if he's a doctor.
She was an actual person, this appears to be a portrait of a girl from the 18th Century, unless I miss my guess.
Julian, I have some questions that my inner nerd just can't contain:
-Have you ever had clients who may have considered themselves purists, insisting you use traditional methods and materials? If so, what was your response?
-Have you ever been asked to retouch a watercolor? Can one even do that using archival materials?
My father has this gorgeous and rather large Pennsylvania Dutch traditional scherenschnitte piece. It's painted with watercolors which have dulled a bit over the last few decades. Is this something a conservator could realistically take on?
-To date, what is the strangest piece you've ever restored? I'm talking about strangest construction, materials, medium, etc. rather than subject.
And finally...
-Hardest (Most costly?) restoration lesson(s) you've learned.
Inquiring minds want to know!
Nice questions. Here’s a bump ~
I second all of these questions!
Saaame
Hmm... Q&A video soon???
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"You can sand blast the painting" - Baumgartner, 2020
nanquan491
I mean, you _could,_ and it would remove all the old varnish and retouching, but it would also remove the original artwork.
@@ragnkja yes, thank you for ruining the joke. Well done.
“We’re going to use conservation grade nitro-glycerin and blow this all to hell. We’ll spend the remainder of the video piecing together what canvas we can find.”
John Fritz 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Baumgartner and my mechanics crossover episode, anyone?
Im an artist and if I was a ghost and saw someone ruin the work of the person who basically saved my art you know for a fact I would be stealing all of their shoes and surrounding their bed in legos XD
Just steal half their shoes, just the left ones. Much more evil
@@leftysheppey you have a very big brain
Literally spent 10 minutes and 40 seconds trying to figure out why Julian had to reverse all his old conservation techniques before he was like "Unfortunately we can't fix the dang thing without undoing all this great work."
Me too!!! I felt so offended that it was like he was brushing off my own work. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS IS COMPLETELY PERFECT DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO COLOUR MATCH THAT AGAIN????
I still don't get why he had to undo the touchup on the forehead.
Now I’m thinking of a modern and almost reverse Pygmalion love story where a painting of a young woman is alive and falls in love with the conservator her owners send her to get repaired.
The conservator is kind and talks to her even though she can’t talk back. When he handles her he uses a gentle touch and admires her beauty. She’s embarrassed by the unsightly hole in her forehead and how poor her upkeep has been, but this conservator sees her flaws and mends to them tenderly. She leaves the conservator feeling better than she has in a hundred years!
Then the moment turns bittersweet because since she’s fixed she can’t be with the conservator anymore. After five years, she’s pining to be back with him again. She tried to think of a plan. Of course! She has to give her owners a reason to see him! She won’t do anything drastic, oh no, she wouldn’t dare undo a majority of the lovely work the Conservator has done, though a little scuff could work. But there's one crucial problem, being a painting means she cannot move.
The owner's cats being the ever paranormally sensitive creatures that they are, sense her distress. They see that she’s alive. She somehow communicates to them that she needs a little disrepair. They give her a few scratches, in fact, one of the cats tries to comfort her by sitting on her chest. He causes a small rupture, but the Painting doesn’t mind the contact, in fact, the cat’s tail tickled when it feathered her nose. The owner sees what the cats have done and panic, quickly calling the Conservator’s phone number.
During the transport to his business, the Painting is so nervous. Has the Conservator tended to other paintings more magnificent than she? Perhaps, she fears, she wasn’t that striking to begin with. Maybe he doesn’t remember the experience and how much it meant to her. Why would he? Despite her connection, she admits that when she interacted with the Conservator it was quite one-sided. During their first session, all she did was lay there like a knot on a log, she is inanimate after all...
After a few days of being in the Conservator’s storage, it’s finally her turn. He picks her up and places her on the display wall. He steps back and puts his hand on his chin, taking her all in. As she is pensively studied, the flowers in her hand have never been gripped tighter. Her lily-white skin has never felt moisture before but if it did she believes it would be flushed with sweat. She cannot move her eyes, but she watches his as they dart around analyzing her. His gaze feels like someone has brought a lit match dangerously close to her canvas.
She has always wanted to feel this seen.
It is momentous, it is adoring, and it is agony.
The Conservator's posture relaxes, finished with assessing what needs to be done. He smiles and says,
“It’s wonderful to see you again, Anne.”
Relief and elation rush through her.
Oh, how wonderful it is to be with you again, thought the Painting.
Vivian Phillips 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥰🥰🥰
I've heard of one-dimensional relationships, but never two-dimensional relationships. :D
You wrote a whole story 👍🏼
Wow I loved that thank you so much for taking some time to write that out.
PUBLISH THIS VIVIAN! *chef kiss*
I just wanna know what Julian’s facial expression was when he heard how Anne got damaged 😂
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Baumgartner Restoration HAHA! Thank-you for replying! Love your channel and work ☺️
I hope there was no varnish or adhesive on your hand when you did that.
Baumgartner Restoration whoa an actual response?
@@chrisding1976 lol
Imagine the next conservator that takes a look at this painting and is like "Oh wow that's a lot of overpainting, lets see how bad the actual damage is," and then takes off the paint and is just sitting there in terror.
So Anne having a spa day with Julian, facial peeling, heat treatment, and re touching the make up 😂
Restorations are just beauty salons for portraits...
LOL... Never thought of it that way!
Lol too true
But I do appreciate that Julian has full range from structural to cosmetic work
tbh it reminds me of another one of my favorite channels - the "toe bro" is a chiropodist (foot specialist) who also opened a salon next door to his clinic, so he can offer services fully ranging from medical to cosmetic, which I think is really cool
@@TheEllie138
I watch him too lol
And now children, repeat after me: REMOVABLE ISN’T REVERSIBLE
For April Fools Day, you should offer a foundation matching service.
Tbh I like the new retouching over your first retouching. The first retouching seemed a little too yellow toned and didn't blend as well with the rest of her complexion, whereas I think your second go at retouching matched almost exactly, with a more suited pink/red undertone. In my opinion you improved over time! Nice work dude.
I'm so happy that he didnt eat the nails this time
ThEy'Re tAcKs
Makenna Fadden Sighs....
Makenna Fadden pointing out such an error could be considered....tacky by some
Yeah I’ll see myself out now
@@makennafadden5626 I'M SORRY
Eat ?
"Remove my label!" Adds $3k to final bill
I love your username and profile picture 😀
Neptune's Daughter 😁 I sometimes receive abuse due to it would you believe.
Trolls will be trolls
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me, having a bad day: :(
mr julian baumgartner: here's a new video
me: :)
Removing his label just to go back to him again is straight up disrespectful
The cats did it 😲
Red Angry Bird no
yeah that and LETTING THEIR CATS DAMAGE IT these owners are irresponsible as fuck
@@naurrr ah yes, because an accident like that could never happen with such an amazing, perfect and flawless person like yourself, right?
@@chrheca 🙃 if I had a piece of art like this, yeah I'd put my fucking pets away, because I have common sense. why are you defending these idiot owners? you want a gold star?
26:42 : "the brush that I'm using... looks old and kinda beat up, and the bristles are all twisted and bent out of shape."
36:32 : how it got that way
Imagine having the nerve to remove the label of the guy who saved your painting from going to the trash.
And then sending the painting to the same guy after it gets damaged again XD
Why would it go to trash? Those paintings aren't cheap, and the owners are pretty rich to afford restoration. So even in damaged condition it is one very expensive piece of are.
They could of also just put the label somewhere else. (I just hope it isn’t in the trash lmao 😂)
i mean. couldve been the cats again
Maybe the label is framed somewhere
Future conservator, "There's a beard hair in the varnish"
When I was living in Washington DC I met a refugee from 1949 China. His father gave him a beautifully painted silk scroll as he was leaving. 30 years later my friends new kitten took a flying leap onto it hanging on the wall and left a long tear down the entire length exactly in the middle. I took it to the Freer and some wonderful restorer repaired it so well you couldn't see that anything had happened. THANK YOU again 40 years later.
YAY!!! I've been waiting for this :D
Julian "they removed my label"
Me "RUDE!"
same
I'm also puzzled why they remove a thing on the back... That add information... why?
Njuregen they want people to think it’s in fabulous original condition and therefore more valuable?
they bring it in with the foam backing and the label on that-which is screwed on, but yet they take the label off the back of the painting? and then leave a painting they had restored 5 years earlier on a couch with cats(I have a cat) heck, my sister had cake sat on by our cat at the time, and it was sitting on a hutch.
@@Njuregen A combination of stupidity and entitlement....
anne has arrived to her fav beauty parlour!!
Sara Usmani 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
salon day, babe 💅
This should be made into a Netflix series because I would watch the hell out of that
I would too .
I mean.. you're watching it for free right now on youtube.. why make it a paid netflix show? xD
@@itsBASILLICUS good point.
Netflix would find a way to fuck it up
@@unnamed47 And you have a problem with diversity, WHY? Watch some classy British television, and get back to me with your problem. smh
(Amico the dog, eating his retouching brush) - Julian: "AMICO... Nooo!!! " Love the adorkable pup! (PS: Amico is "Friend" in Italian)
I love that he goes over everything in each video, even if he's mentioned it before, because it gives new or one-off viewers the same information that a regular viewer has. It's just a really neat touch that gives his channel another level to work on.
Also, the little clip of his dog was adorable!! I love her
And also old viewers get reminded because I don't know about the rest, but I myself have a very bad memory. And between the complexity of the process for someone who is not an expert and the time it takes for a new video to be released... It's just nice to get a reminder. And I love how calm his voice is. I could listen to him talking whatever forever.
You assume that first time viewers don't get automatically addicted to this channel. How bold of you
„I secured the wooden wedges with fishing wire because I enjoy fiddling around with fishing wire.“
A good teacher knows that repetition & consolidation are vital parta of the learning process.
and the way he does it isn't grating, I've watched series where the person goes over old information each time in a way that i find annoying and unnecessary. this guy however manages to make it still sound interesting each time.
*5 years later:*
"The damn cats ruined the painting again and here I am"
Kill the damn cats!
Steve Kountz kill the damn humans!!
It was so interesting for once actually seeing what you mean by reversible work.
The owner of this art piece is a philistine. Removes label, leaves valuable and beautiful work where cats can not only get at it but leave it long enough for them to cause real harm. New label. "It is illegal to remove this label. Doing so leaves you liable for prosecution." Yessss. 👍
“Kudos to the past conservator” nice
i could HEAR that smug grin on his face when he mentioned the eyeball lmao
Time stamp?
I love how respectfully you refer to the painting, its owners/your client, and even the cats, rather than being judgemental and frustrated with them for being careless and making you redo your work. I appreciate the kindness and understanding.
The cats are in cahoots with Julian!
Yeah, but didja notice he also said that he doesn't want to see the painting a third time...
Cats: Expensive Item detected. Engage destruction of expensive item
CATS 😒
Anne looks amused. " Here we are again, Julian."
"We simply must stop meeting like this."
@@johncameron1935 "It's getting rather tiring to have harm inflicted on myself for these meetings..."
take it to ao3, y'all /s
I beckoned the cats just so we could meet again…
ah shit, here we go again
The cats gave him the chance to showcase how effective and easy to remove his conservation techniques are.
They also gave us content. And reunited Julian with Ann.
But they also inconvenienced their owner.
The pros to cons ratio is at 3:1 so the cats are our hero.
Anne: exists
Cats: its free real estate
bad kitty bad!
😂 im never gonna get tired of that meme
Should i laught or what?
Julian's voice is so calming, I swear, this man has taken me down from panic attacks just by talking about the importance of using a filler before retouching