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Personal reactions to great art.
A regular dose of reactions and background to individual works of art.
Come on the journey and see what great art communicates to you.
A regular dose of reactions and background to individual works of art.
Come on the journey and see what great art communicates to you.
Matisse - Madame Matisse
Why did Henri Matisse paint his wife with a green stripe down her face?
PAINTINGS
Henri Matisse
Madame Matisse (the Green Line) (1905) - public domain
Self Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) - public domain
Woman with a Hat - public domain
Still Life with Dance (1909) - public domain
Hans Holbein the Younger
A portrait of Anna Duchess of Cleves (1538) - public domain
Anne of Cleves (1539) - public domain
Self Portrait (1543) - public domain
Hans Eworth, after Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Henry VIII - public domain
Jonathon Yeo
Portrait of His Majesty King Charles III (2023) - low resolution truncated image used to avoid impact on commercial viability. Used for discussion of portraiture, see a...
PAINTINGS
Henri Matisse
Madame Matisse (the Green Line) (1905) - public domain
Self Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) - public domain
Woman with a Hat - public domain
Still Life with Dance (1909) - public domain
Hans Holbein the Younger
A portrait of Anna Duchess of Cleves (1538) - public domain
Anne of Cleves (1539) - public domain
Self Portrait (1543) - public domain
Hans Eworth, after Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Henry VIII - public domain
Jonathon Yeo
Portrait of His Majesty King Charles III (2023) - low resolution truncated image used to avoid impact on commercial viability. Used for discussion of portraiture, see a...
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Vincent Van Gogh - Irises
Просмотров 59021 день назад
Among the turmoil of his life, Vincent Van Gogh finds a moment of joy in painting this simple, perfect painting. PAINTINGS Vincent Van Gogh Irises (1889) The Sower (1888) Self Portrait (1887) Wheatfield with Crows (1890) Severin Roesen Still Life with a Basket of Fruit (c1870) Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868) VIDEO People roaming around a museum: video by Antoni Shkra...
Studio Tour - Red Rattler Train Carriage
Просмотров 2092 месяца назад
I've turned a Train Carriage into an art studio. A walk-through of the entire studio.
Sargent - Gassed
Просмотров 1022 месяца назад
Gassed - John Singer Sargent's epic masterpiece on the cost of war. PAINTINGS John Singer Sargent Gassed (1919) Self Portrait (1907) Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1893) Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose (1885-86) (also, see my video here: ruclips.net/video/qAcQtFX_HJs/видео.html ) Pieter Brueghel the Elder The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) Pablo Picasso Geurnica (also, see my video here: ruclips.net/video/y...
Cezanne - Mont Saint Victoire
Просмотров 5283 месяца назад
An exploration of Cezanne's painting, with a discussion of achieving depth in paintings. PAINTINGS Paul Cézanne Bibemus Quarry Mont Sainte-Victoire (1906) Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1895) www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/110000310, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149085 Paul Sérusier The Flowered Gate (1889) Alfred Si...
Manet - The Absinthe Drinker
Просмотров 1444 месяца назад
The Absinthe Drinker What makes a painting arresting, what story is it telling? PAINTINGS Édouard Manet The Absinthe Drinker (1859) Diego Velazquez Menippus (1638) Edward Hopper Morning Sun (1952) - Public Domain VIDEOS Drunk lady at a bar - Video by MART PRODUCTION at pexels.com Putting sugar cube in alcoholic beverage - Videos by ArtHouse Studio at pexels.com
McCubbin - Melbourne 1888
Просмотров 1794 месяца назад
Using triangles, rectangles and desaturated colours, Frederick McCubbin sought to paint the soul of Melbourne. PAINTINGS Frederick McCubbin Melbourne 1888 (1888) oil on canvas, 120.5 × 102.0 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Gift of Mr Hugh McCubbin, 1960 Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the gen...
Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Просмотров 3755 месяцев назад
After months of effort, John Singer Sargent gives us a perfect moment. PAINTINGS John Singer Sargent Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose (1885-86) Self Portrait (1907) Mrs Frederick Barnard (1885) - Attribution: Artist is John Singer Sargent, Title is Mrs Frederick Barnard, 1885, (c) Tate, Photo: Tate. Licenced under CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported), available at: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-mrs-fred...
Waterhouse - The Lady of Shalott
Просмотров 3235 месяцев назад
The Lady of Shalott - far better to face the cold reality of the real world than to live a life in the shadows. Painting by John William Waterhouse. PAINTINGS John William Waterhouse: The Lady of Shalott (1888) Decameron (1916) I am half sick of shadows, said the Lady of Shalott (1915) The Lady of Shalott, looking at Lancelot (1894) Sandro Botticelli: Madonna and Child with Six Saints (1470) Jo...
Kandinsky - Composition VIII
Просмотров 6016 месяцев назад
Wassily Kandinsky painted Composition VIII in 1923 between the two world wars. After the horrors of World War 1 he was looking forward to a new, better society, a shining city on a hill. PAINTINGS Kandinsky Composition VIII (1923) Composition VII (1913) Composition X (1939) Colorful Life (1907) Around the Line (1943) VIDEO Woman Painting - Video by Yaroslav Shuraev at Pexels.com. Animated liqui...
Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Bosch's vision is beautiful and harrowing, drawing us into a medieval hellscape. But is it just a morality tale - or is there more to it? PAINTINGS Heironymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights (c1500) Peter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death (c1560) Fra Angelico The Crucifixion (1423) Juan Carreño de Miranda Elevation of the Host, with vision of St John of Matha (1666) Sandro Botticelli ...
Full 'Red Rattler' Carriage Restoration
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.6 месяцев назад
We bought a house that had a 1915 'Red Rattler' Train Carriage in the back yard. These Tait trains ran in Melbourne Australia for decades where they were affectionately known as red rattlers due to their colour and noisy rattling as they moved about on the tracks. What do do with a train carraige in your backyard? Convert it into an art studio. This seven part story goes from woe to go, coverin...
David - Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Просмотров 6007 месяцев назад
Art as propaganda? A long and glorious history. Jacques-Louis David's 1801 painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps is a heroic expression of the desires of a dictator and the glory of France. PAINTINGS Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801) Coronation of Napoleon (1808) Death of Socrates (1787) William Sadler Battle of Waterloo (1815) Antoine-Jean Gros First Consul Napoleon (1802...
Carriage Art Studio - Exterior Completed
Просмотров 114Год назад
I'm restoring a 1915 Train Carriage into an art studio. It is a Tate Train - but more affectionately known as a "Red Rattler". This is the third video showing progress. I have now finished the exterior.
Bruegel - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.Год назад
What does a sixteenth century painting tell us about how we live our lives today? PAINTINGS Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Landscape with the fall of Icarus (1560) - public domain Jacob Peter Gowy - The Fall of Icarus (1637) Lemaire-Poussin - Daedalus and Pasiphae (17th Century) - public domain King Minos (Sculpture) - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC BY-SA). Andr...
Carriage Art Studio - Roof now finished
Просмотров 384Год назад
Carriage Art Studio - Roof now finished
Dealing with sorrow. Grant Wood - American Gothic
Просмотров 157Год назад
Dealing with sorrow. Grant Wood - American Gothic
Picasso - Girl with a Mandolin. What's the point of cubism?
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.2 года назад
Picasso - Girl with a Mandolin. What's the point of cubism?
Love Salvador Dali ❤
Yes, he makes you think.
definitely suggest putting some of your art on the end wall if you havent already, when they were in service they had photos of regional victoria on the end walls of all of the tait cars to encourage tourism
Thanks. I’ve put a bit up now. More to come.
Cogently presented analysis, and I especially appreciated how you observed that Matisse here both objectifies his subject while also paradoxically suggesting insight into her character, or at least his own feelings about his wife.
Thanks
Excellent work. The carriage was in remarkable condition, but you have given it a new life. I'd love to know the back story about who put it there. The design of the tunnel at the front really looks good too. I remember riding them to Middle Park in the late 70s.
Thanks. We bought the house two years ago and it was there. Previous owners put it there 30 years ago before there were other houses, and did the tunnel. It has quite the backstory, having been built in 1915 and converted to electricity in the 1930s. I love having it, and the fact I have been able to retain its original features.
AMAZING JOB ‼️ Congratulations ‼️
Thanks!
In middle school we had an art class assignment to paint part of a painting of your choice I wint with nighthawk, but I considered this my favorite painting, because I felt it show there was mystery and intreage even in the mundane. Many of the questions you ask about the figures and the context I thought of at the time. And yet it was so sarrien. A slice of life that could have been any one of a doussen night's doing something just for the sake of it. I'm glad I'm not the only one to appreciate this masterpiece.
Yes, there is something about looking closely at the mundane. Always something there.
It has recently been discovered that the irises were originally rendered a vivid violet hue, van Gogh using a then recently developed red paint to blend with the blue for that effect. This red paint proved highly sensitive to light, and over time has faded leaving the bright blue impression we have today.
Interesting. I wonder if it was Alizarin Crimson (which is known to fade)?
@@artmeetsgeoff Conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the institution now holding the work, have identified the faded pigment as Geranium lake.
Thanks for that
I will subscribe to your channel so as not to lose 😍
Thanks
it's incredible, such high-quality work, thank you very much, my dream is to do the same❤❤❤
Yes, it’s been a special treat restoring it. Thank you.
I think the narrow value range is one way Vincent managed to calm down and unify the painting. With all of those shapes and lines, it could have been way too busy with a lot of lights and darks as well. It's a testament to how good he was that it does not seem busy at all. At the age of 67, having been a fan of Van Gogh since I was a teenager, I find it impossible at this point to view his paintings out of the context of his life. I'm looking at a large print of his "Oleanders" above my desk as I write this, and every time I look at it, I can't help but think of the man himself and his life. It's purely involuntary. But I also admire it just as a painting, no matter who painted it, and the same is true for the "Irises." It's just a great painting, period.
That’s a great point about the calming effect of the narrow value range. I’m the same about seeing his paintings: once you know about his life it adds depth to them. Thanks.
@@artmeetsgeoff One clarification: I mean that this painting would be great no matter who painted it, if it were painted back then, not now. If it were painted recently, it would be very good, but not great, because it would lack the “ahead of its time” factor. No one had ever seen paintings like this until Van Gogh started painting them.
Indeed
Yes I am so happy to have found you! Exactly 👍. Thank you!
Thanks!
Yes I am so happy to have found you! Exactly 👍. Thank you!
Music is loud and disrups voice.
Thanks. I’ve fixed that on later videos, and updated microphone.
thank you so much! i’m using this artwork for my analysis in school and this video was very helpful, great commentary and i love your accent😁
❤❤❤❤I am mesmerized by hay stacks or bundles. I can literally feel the warmth of the sun beams and the sweet aroma of hay OR the REFRESHING chill of the autumn mist after the heat of sumner. GOD BLESS CLAUDE MONET
Yes, they glow!
Great restoration work, looks great and certainly looks alot better than the before. Good to see it fixed up.
Thanks 👍
I remember riding on these ones in the blue ones growing up they were awesome
Yes, it brings back memories for many of my visitors.
I can't believe it's a 1915 train. You did a great job! Best art studio ever!
Thanks. I sort of can't believe it myself.
AI art? - better call it copying on purpose
Got that right.
Another wildly helpful video for a budding painter. Thanks, Geoff! In spite of hearing the atmospheric perspective points before, you have really brought them together in a way that clicks for me much more now - and this painting is a perfect choice to demonstrate comparing and contrasting the technique. Such a wealth of great material here. Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Geoff, just want to say that I’m a huge fan of your channel. As somebody learning to paint (oils) at the moment, I find your commentary and videos deeply inspiring and helpful. Just wanted to say a very big thank you and hope you keep up the amazing work! (Also your comment about the guy taking that really big step here completely transformed how I see this painting and it became so much more visceral - that immediate mind shift was wonderful!)
Thanks so much - very encouraging for me!
Wow, what work 🎉looks great
Thanks. It was fun really.
I think you may have jumped to conclusions here. Maybe he had been gone less than 9 months, hence it could easily have been is his baby. It was not unusual for men to have had quite long beards at that time. She would have been surprised to hear anyone suddenly fly through the door without knocking and the added shock that it was him may have been the reason she didn't lift the iron. Why assume she had been unfaithful. A lot of men in that time who were away from their wives were unfaithful and possibly moreso.
Maybe. But men who went droving were often away longer. She may have thought him dead, rather than technically being unfaithful. But yes, your scenario is possible. To me, though, the clues in the painting as to the passage of time are why I came up with my scenario. It’s one of his more charming paintings, I think.
Cézanne is not me . I can only stand him when there are colours_ not pale ones. I've been taught the "structure" of his works but still...
I understand. I prefer his apples.
I just found your channel! Many thanks for sharing your insights.
Thanks. Glad you’re enjoying them.
What a great explanation of atmospheric perspective ! I really found that fascinating !
Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to study and think through.
Excellent Geoff, I really enjoyed your discussion, my ‘thing’ is landscape photography and your analysis of this, one of my favourite paintings, has been really useful, thanks for sharing. Keep them coming 👊🏻👊🏻
Glad you enjoyed it.
Hi, great vid. I'm also in Australia, can I ask why you don't want zinc in your primer?
It has been associated with paint cracking, flaking and in some cases delaminating. There are articles on MITRA (google it) which speak of this. The amount of zinc is subject to debate, but a few paint manufacturers are phasing zinc out due to this. Annoying, because zinc is fun to paint with.
@@artmeetsgeoff oh good to know, thanks so much
I hate to break this to you but the glue will ooze up thru the pre primed canvas. So, the lead primer is adhering to the glue which may delaminate over time. Probably sooner than later. I have seen this within just a few years. I would suggest another method. Glue raw linen on the panel using sizing glue, also onto surface of linen. Then apply primer.
Hi, thanks. I got my advice from MITRA. The PVA (must be pH neutral) acts as a barrier (see link below). I think I understand what you are saying, but in the way demonstrated I am attaching pre-primed (acrylic) canvas, and applying a lead ground on top of the acrylic priming afterwards. So, in order: ACM, PVA, linen, acrylic priming, lead ground afterwards, then painting. www.artcons.udel.edu/mitra/Documents/Adhesives-and-Sizes.pdf
@@artmeetsgeoff I need to explain this better. The glue oozes up and over the already dried primer on your pre primed canvas. It will not stay adhered on top of an already dried primer. It will shift and peel off. So you end up applying your next ground, or paint, on glue that is not meant to be on top of a ground. Has nothing to do with ph. If you do not believe me, put some pigment in the glue before gluing on the canvas and see that it creates another layer on top of the canvas. Let it dry. Then see how easily it peels off.
@@artmeetsgeoff i just wanted to add, I discovered this problem after I bought panels made with glued on primed linen from a well known company who specializes in making these. Very expensive. All my paintings, took about 4 years to show up, had issues with the paint layer adhering. I then inspected some unused panels, and sure enough, the glue was clearly flaking on top of the primed surface. It had oozed up thru the pores of the primed canvas. I shutter at the thought what my sold paintings have done. Now, there may be a way to clean the glue off? Maybe sanding. I do not know. But I now stick to avoiding this.
Thanks for this. I’ve got some panels I can test. Three thoughts arise: (1) could the quality of the triple-primed linen mean there are no pores for the glue to ooze through? I can test that with some colour as you suggested. I will do that. Knowing me, that could be weeks. (2) if that fails, I could look into a contact glue method (not wet glue), I avoided this because it makes it harder for conservators to remove the linen if needed. (3) I could bite the bullet and use BEVA film (seems more fiddly, definitely more expensive). I’ll start with (1).
@@artmeetsgeoff Another test is to hold the pre primed linen up to the light. The holes are barely visible but they are likely there. I have tested all I have bought by Claussens oil primed which is the best linen I know of. One thing I have not done is test with linen I have sized and primed on stretchers. I might check it. The holes may show up in the rolling. Probably the best solution would be to glue raw linen onto panels using sizing glue, front and back. Then prime it. I have done that. Is far less work and expense too. Good luck!
a little subjective
Sure. It’s how it speaks to me.
Well done!
Thanks
No. It's not art. It's just a bunch of squares. There's no talent needed what so ever.
What a job and well done in preserving a bit of history.
Thanks
Thank you for your work, Geoff. You deserve a larger audience, but I am thankful to be a part of it.
Thanks so much. 🙂
Why wast money on canvas, you can easily paint onto the aluminum after priming it.
Because the long term effects (ie longevity) of painting directly are unknown. It *might* be ok, but nobody knows. The way canvas interacts with paint are well known to conservators and provide a known path to a painting lasting for centuries (especially if on a hard substrate). Not everyone cares if their art will last, but for those that do just hoping painting directly onto ACM works is not enough. 🙂
This is what you call art. Absolutely beautiful. Also the video is perfectly narrated.❤
Thank you.
I first heard about this painting in my early twenties. Last year, at age 58, I finally got to the Tate Museum with my daughter. This painting is just as amazing in person. The colors are exquisite.
I know. He put so much effort in getting them right. Makes my efforts seem slapdash in comparison.
Amazing video 🎀 I love your voice and your wat of explanation
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed.
Amazing job, congratulations
Thanks. I enjoyed it.
Nice work. When you tackle the driver's cab don't open any of the boxes. They may still contain asbestos.
Thanks very much.
i thought its just the harris trains that had asbestos
@@RyanZ225_PC Harris trains were made of asbestos lol. Most old electrical switch gear has asbestos in it.
Whew!.
320 built as 46BCP 6/9/1915 at Newport Workshops, renumbered/rebuilt to 320M 11/1921, modified with a communication door 30/9/1972, renumbered 478M 18/6/1981, renumbered to 1428M around 1983, placed at current location 1990
Plus your Tait Motor lasted longer than the Comeng that replaced the carriage
Thanks
Wow. Thanks. I still find it hard to believe I have this history sitting in my back yard. Feel privileged.
I like this painting. Looking at it and thinking this was done just over a hundred years ago it almost feels as if it is in the wrong time period. This painting looks like it came from the pastel era of the 1980s. Some of the shapes look like records and everything relating to music, like this was painted for a music recording studio. When it comes to meaning and abstract I sometimes wonder if it does matter or does it need to mean something. If the color and shapes are appealing than that might be enough. Granted a piece of art that does tell a story is an intriguing one, but sometimes art for art's sake might be better off just existing for the sake of existing.
Great insights. It’s interesting to me that people can get so many different ideas from a piece of art - as if it somehow jogs our own inner ponderings.
As a former master roofer of carriages we did it old fashioned way I have being taught….. strip the canvas and relay it again!!! They used paint the roof timber with bituminous paint to keep the water out of the timbers! But if the canvas seal is not broken or leaking in anyway or rotten painted over with ember clad will do!
Well that is expertise we certainly did not have. Plenty of feeling our way, trying to see what was reasonable and a bit of luck. One drip so far, in heavy rain, but not sure where it began - possibly in sideways rain coming in the whirly roof vents. Thanks.
@@artmeetsgeoff if it was heavy wind blown that day it’s possible that it came through the air vent…. If you can see the water marks near the opening where the air vent is situated on ceiling it has being blown into…. My suggestion is try checking around the edges of the air vent this requires the air vent to remove to check any broken canvas is around that area causing the leak around that area! But if the water mark is isolated to inside the vent opening in ceiling it’s harmless water that was blown in…. But if leaks around the edges of vent open fixture on ceiling the their a possibility a splits or broken seal on the canvas underneath the vent itself…..
Thanks. The one I’m suspicious about was one we couldn’t get off. This makes it more likely as we couldn’t get in close enough to check it like we could for the others. I think I need to get up and have a good look, and see if I can seal it better between the roof and underside of vent. Many thanks!
Thank you so much for an amazing video!! I love all your videos. Especially the ones where you introduce us to Australian paintings but you know how to pick out alot of works that aren't talked about alot as well and I appreciate that. Please keep at it guy you run a great channel❤
Thanks so much - very encouraging!
Super job! Thank you for sharing!!!
Thanks!
You should turn part of the carriage into a train room
I’ve still got the driver’s section left…
Very well done Geoff. Have you been to Steamrail Victoria, at the Newport Workshops. They have a section there called Electrail, where they have, to date, restored 5 or 6 Tait carriages, to there full glory and in Heritage colours. If you haven't been there, try to get down and introduce yourself, they are fantastic volunteers and terrific workers.
Thanks. I have been there - the volunteers are great, as you said. I got the exterior paint colours there and lots of helpful advice that helped me understand the history of my carriage. It was good to soak up the atmosphere of the completed carriages there - inspired me that I could do it.
His works are "Where's Waldo" but with no Waldo.
Ha -yes!
@@artmeetsgeoffThanks! Tbh, I thought I'd get blasted by "you don't know anything about art! How dare you, " replies 👍😁
@@artmeetsgeoffWhat I've never been able to figure out with Bosch works is what's the subject or focal point, hence the where's Waldo response, lol
Yes, I think the idea is that you have to spend time roaming over it. It was a style - Pieter Bruegel’s paintings are similar.
Great work. Would love to do the same some day
Thanks!