I am glad you are as obsessed w/ this movie and the thought/ work behind it as I am! I found Gerhard Richter's work after I started abstract acrylic paintings and am really drawn to the beauty in destruction while working!
Dear Joshua, I'm a big Richter fan and I found your video really interesting. For the most part I already came to similar conclusions about his work a long time ago but for those people not familiar with Richter this video proves to be very helpful. Nevertheless, I must point that you made a mistake when talking about the pictures over his desk. The one you refer to as " american soldiers standing on the bodies of vietnamese people ", is not. It is one of the most famous pictures taken of the Holocaust. What the picture depicts is a scene from Birkenau Concetration Camp where the workers of the Sonderkommando ( google the term yourself ) are getting rid of dead bodies, murdered in the gas chambers, and they are throwing them in huge pits where they burned everything and everybody. All of this under SS orders of course. The picture is quite famous and was taken by members of the rebellion that later took on the SS in Crematoria IV, if I'm not mistaken. The only ones who showed some resistance and managed to bring down one of the Crematoriums, towards the end of the war. It is also worth mention that the interviewer asks Richter wether he's seen any pictures like this right after war ( meaning WWII ). Vietnam war was yet to come. My only intention is to clarify this as I think the picture we are talking about is very iconic, and I'm not surprised Richter, being German, took an interest in it. And I mean this in the good way. In the film he says that what haunted him about the picture is how everybody seems to be so relaxed while doing such a horrible task. A contradiction. So he's clearly familiar with what's happening in the picture. Sorry to take this out of subject but to unintentionally refer to a Holocaust picture as a Vietnam war picture is just wrong. Is wrong historically, as we are talking about very different things. One is a war between two Nations, the other one is the systematic and planned extermination of an entire ethnicity. The destruction of culture, history, customs, art, knowledge, humanity, of its own people of course. My comment has only the purpose to inform, to make a small note about this particular comment on your video. Other than that, I loved your video and I'm a big Richter fan.
Uriel-Thanks for the response and the correction. He mentioned seeing contraband Vietnam War photos so I assumed that’s what the photo was of. Strangely enough, I thought the context was largely the same-that it was photos of soldiers involved in one of the many village massacres. Anyway, thanks for the context and I’ll put a link to your comment in the description.
Good talk- funny and very useful. Was getting ready to sit down at my desk and work today and ended up watching this first. It has set a good tone for the rest of my workday!
Good lecture. I almost put on some classical music while working this morning, instead I painted the whole time and listened to this. Another fantastic German artist is Anselm Kiefer. I recommend watching the documentary "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow". Fantastic film I watch it twice a month. Thanks for the upload.
also here on youtube they have a doc on Anselm Kiefer I just watched. very intimate, he creates a city in the south of France, awesome a must see. He lets few people into his world @ little over an hour run time it's worth watching and current work as well as past, enjoy. Peace n good day
Hey man, this is such an important video and subject matter! All successful and great artists had daily rituals, focus, good at taking their time and business very seriously. Your talk puts many things in perspective. Thanks Joshua.
Good discussion, great points you brought up. The film really shows how uber connected he is to what the feeling and emotion he wants the piece to communicate. BTW you're bang on with your music theory. Music or radio almost always derails me in the studio. Painting is a thinking game, it can contaminate the process.
+Bryan Coombes Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about the music thing again yesterday as I was designing a piece and realized I use headphones to block the world out but then screw it up with music.
Very interesting talk about how to work seriously as an artist - I just miss that you had zoomed in now and then to make your story more visibly clear e.g.when you talk about the images he looks at sitting at his desk answering phone calls. It would be of great interest to actually see what Gerhard Richter has chosen as works that represent the qualities that art always should have - but rarely has
interesting - but I don't think Richter is thinking about how much he is worth or how much the paintings sell for. Also he made a series of paintings called Cage - where he listened to John Cage while he made the paintings.
was it 9 to 5 before being the Gerhard Richter? I agree about show up instead of show off, and I guess to succeed in any area of life is to be constant in what you do and this level of professionalism in art is the hardest form to achieve,supposing someone has already an awful lot of talent combined with a good dose of luck,self-confidence skill in networking and self-promoting.Whatever people may think reaching the top of all these details at the same moment is such an achievement that whoever is at the top, deserves it.
WILDKOALA10 I think its less about working full-time than disciplined dedication to your craft. Even if you only have Tuesday night from 8-10pm to work on your art then you go do it week in and week out. I agree that talent and luck play a role but consistency and production are too often overlooked.
This was a great video, but it would have been very helpful if you repeated the question the person asked. We cannot hear the question. That's all. I love the documentary, too, and I appreciated this analysis.
This is typical HOW TO. But there are “craft” artists who do/did the same technique but they don’t get the same quality of recognition, of most who are women. Richter dove into the minutiae of a simple and singular technique.
“This is a typical HOW TO.” It's awesome that you were able to watch this video and get something out of it that no one else was able to. Was there some discussion of technique sandwiched between the parts about doing your laundry and James Franco that I forgot about?
Music sure helps me. No doubt. To each there own. Now, screw listening to Mozart... Not for me... but put on some Alessandro Cortini, Tim Hecker, BJ Nielsen..etc etc. Now that is more like it. So my take on those test-takers is that the ones listening to music were doing the objective,. Which was taking the test... not being distracted by patterns on the paper but by actually focusing on the questions and answers. But what do I know? Good video though. Thanks.
Hey, thanks for the thoughtful comment! I try to keep the music to anything that I've heard a million times but I'm not super disciplined about it. Glad you enjoyed the video.
+Joshua Namdev Hardisty RUclips is a tough place to be :-) some people seems to go here when they're having a bad day and need to trash someone/something.
+Joshua Namdev Hardisty , your seminar clearly explains the work regime and ethics of Gerhard which is an eye opener for most people . I must add that success breeds success. Artists whose works sell frequently for large sums are inspired to get up at 6am each day and begin working. It is the magic lure of the dollar.
+Philip Hunter I think most people stop getting up 6 once they begin to make big money. Richter strikes me as an exception as he does not appear to believe that he’s “earned” the right to slow down or take it easy.
Try to stop saying "like"about every other second. Think about it: it is a totally superfluous thing to say. All it really does is signify that you don't quite know what to say or how to express what you mean. You simply haven't worked hard enough on this. If you had, you would be 100-percent sure and precise in what you say. No need for "like".
Yes, this seems to be a constant habit today and especially more noticeable in the younger generations. [I believe it's due to an effect of exposure of hearing others speak this way constantly. Accepted by sounding identical to their other surrounding peers. It also seems to simplify an element of frustration in their general speaking. [I don't hear Joshua using the word like as every other second, as others have mentioned here; it's not quite that often, and his lecture here is beautifully accomplished.] When I'm in restaurants, and can hear younger people, especially young males speaking, you can't help but notice that they use the word 'like' as much as 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds of chattering. It's also interjected with the 'f' word constantly, or the sentence will even start with the 'f' word. It just doesn't sound intelligent or professional. It sounds like it stems from an emotional disorder of our hyped up world today, due the to the technology. It has been noted by doctors today that those who stare too much at cell phones are just an extension of what the television generation was that I experienced as a child, in the 1960s. [It's also possibly why I found observing through my first astronomy telescope that I purchased with my berry picking money at age 13, much more gratifying, than watching a television screen.] Child psychologist had remarked back in the late 1960s that they wouldn't recommend parents to allow their children to watch Sesame Street. The doctors contended that the picture was flipping and changing too fast in edits. This resulted in the child developing a symptom of ADHD from watching the screen flip too fast. The doctors did however suggest to allow watching Mr Rogers Neighborhood, as it was delivered at a much slower rate and with less of the screen edits flipping. This condition today seems to have resulted in many male youth that engage in speed racing on the streets - it's being driven by the sped-up technology. Famous consumer advocate, Jerry Mander, famous for his book Rour Arguments for the Elimination of Television, mansions in another one of his books, In Absence of the Sacred - The Failure of Technology, on page 84, a subchapter title - Perceptual Speed-up and Confusion. It's shocking to read the way he describes what happens to the average viewer as they watch a television screen especially during evening primetime when more commercial advertisements are played on the screen. He describes it in the words you see people walking on a distant hill, - cut - that sounds like they're speaking right next to you - cut - Now You See a group of young people jumping up and down playing volleyball on a beach - cut - now you see hands pouring a glass of beer -cut - now it's yesterday - cut- now it's tomorrow - cut - now you're in Rome - cut - now you're in Paris - cut - .... These are what Mander describes as technical edits that can only be accomplished through television technology. After hours of viewing this the viewer becomes fatigued and turns the TV off. They look around in the room, and nothing is moving or changing at such a rapid speed. If you are now walks outside and it seems very slow and boring except for the waving of a leaf on a tree blowing in the wind. By comparison real nature now appears as boring and uninteresting and all the viewer can think of, is to get back inside, get the TV set turned back on, and get back up to speed. This process has drained our younger generations today into a description that doctors diagnose as a video-void, as like zombies or or eventually appearing as brain dead. I've been asked and invited to speak many times in classrooms and colleges and in public places about my astronomy art, that's a format of large technical pastel sketches, that I produce from observations, through my telescopes, which have been published many times by NASA. I never use the word 'like' when I'm speaking. We may notice that those of us in the older generations today are about the same with this word usage, as we constantly have something precise and varied to say, so there's no reason to interject the word 'like' or 'f' 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds. However, I did enjoy this lecture about Gerhard Richter's life and painting scheduling.
How about paint like you want to. Yea you can follow in someone else's footsteps, or walk your own path. I can not stand seeing stuff like this. Or like "learn how to paint abstract" Well you can't do that either because its abstract. DUH. Learning about someone is never a bad thing. But living YOUR life LIKE someone ELSE.....
It’s called “filler speech”. Per The Independent (www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-who-say-like-all-the-time-may-be-deeper-thinkers-9529705.html): “...psychologists claim it [filler speech] is in fact an attempt to convey something in a more nuanced way and signals a conscientious person with complex thoughts to express. In an article in The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the researchers explain: ‘The possible explanation for this association is that conscientious people are generally more thoughtful and aware of themselves and their surroundings. When having conversations with listeners, conscientious people use discourse markers, such as ‘I mean’ and ‘you know,’ to imply their desire to share or rephrase opinions to recipients. Thus it is expected that the use of discourse markers may be used to measure the degree to which people have thoughts to express.‘ The research essentially posits that people who use a lot of "filler speech" are constantly re-drafting as they speak and desire to transfer thought into speech in the most accurate way possible. ‘Discourse fillers are a sign of more considered speech, and so it makes sense that conscientious people use them more often,’ psychologist Christian Jarrett writes.” So I’m just keeping it conscientious over here.
I think you can imagine how I wouldn’t want to believe this. : ) BUT, I’d also add that if I don’t say “like” you’ll just hear a lot of pauses in my speech. I do actually prefer that but the point would be that I am definitely wired to process what I’m saying in that sort of way. I’m amazed by people who speak fluidly without filler speech or constant spaces.
It would be wise to stop saying 'like' all the time, sure. But I feel he needs to work on his voice - the tonethat goes up all the time makes him sound stupid when I don't think he is.I have a gut feeling that I could never trust this guy as he would gossip about me to anyone.
It is fascinating but! He is a billionaire so he can do it this way. But take a genius and compare it to me. Let's say chess. I do play but can I play five ppl simultaneosly while blindfolded? No. So I'll do it my way. If I win a billion dollars on the lottery someone else can do my laundry.
I thought it was pretty accurate. Otherwise you just need to go to a hardcore socialist realism art school in the USSR (maybe North Korea would work now) then take your crazy painting skills over to the West and follow every weird idea that you have- photorealism of photos; grey paintings, color swatch paintings, paintings over photos, photographing your paintings, inventing new painting tools - for the next 61 years.
I am glad you are as obsessed w/ this movie and the thought/ work behind it as I am! I found Gerhard Richter's work after I started abstract acrylic paintings and am really drawn to the beauty in destruction while working!
Dear Joshua,
I'm a big Richter fan and I found your video really interesting. For the most part I already came to similar conclusions about his work a long time ago but for those people not familiar with Richter this video proves to be very helpful. Nevertheless, I must point that you made a mistake when talking about the pictures over his desk. The one you refer to as " american soldiers standing on the bodies of vietnamese people ", is not. It is one of the most famous pictures taken of the Holocaust.
What the picture depicts is a scene from Birkenau Concetration Camp where the workers of the Sonderkommando ( google the term yourself ) are getting rid of dead bodies, murdered in the gas chambers, and they are throwing them in huge pits where they burned everything and everybody. All of this under SS orders of course. The picture is quite famous and was taken by members of the rebellion that later took on the SS in Crematoria IV, if I'm not mistaken. The only ones who showed some resistance and managed to bring down one of the Crematoriums, towards the end of the war. It is also worth mention that the interviewer asks Richter wether he's seen any pictures like this right after war ( meaning WWII ). Vietnam war was yet to come.
My only intention is to clarify this as I think the picture we are talking about is very iconic, and I'm not surprised Richter, being German, took an interest in it. And I mean this in the good way. In the film he says that what haunted him about the picture is how everybody seems to be so relaxed while doing such a horrible task. A contradiction. So he's clearly familiar with what's happening in the picture.
Sorry to take this out of subject but to unintentionally refer to a Holocaust picture as a Vietnam war picture is just wrong. Is wrong historically, as we are talking about very different things. One is a war between two Nations, the other one is the systematic and planned extermination of an entire ethnicity. The destruction of culture, history, customs, art, knowledge, humanity, of its own people of course.
My comment has only the purpose to inform, to make a small note about this particular comment on your video. Other than that, I loved your video and I'm a big Richter fan.
Uriel-Thanks for the response and the correction. He mentioned seeing contraband Vietnam War photos so I assumed that’s what the photo was of. Strangely enough, I thought the context was largely the same-that it was photos of soldiers involved in one of the many village massacres. Anyway, thanks for the context and I’ll put a link to your comment in the description.
Good talk- funny and very useful. Was getting ready to sit down at my desk and work today and ended up watching this first. It has set a good tone for the rest of my workday!
The amount of times I have re-listened to this talk and still learn something new is unhealthy. Awesome work!
Thats awesome to hear!
a good analysis of the doco and the way he works. love this doco for its stillness and it's space
David Lillecrapp Thanks for the comment and the kind words. And I agree the movie itself is stunning.
Good lecture. I almost put on some classical music while working this morning, instead I painted the whole time and listened to this. Another fantastic German artist is Anselm Kiefer. I recommend watching the documentary "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow". Fantastic film I watch it twice a month. Thanks for the upload.
Thank you! I haven’t look at Kiefer’s work in a long time. I’ll check out that doc.
also here on youtube they have a doc on Anselm Kiefer I just watched. very intimate, he creates a city in the south of France, awesome a must see. He lets few people into his world @ little over an hour run time it's worth watching and current work as well as past, enjoy. Peace n good day
Great insight into creativity. I saw the movie too, enjoyed it, but now have a whole new sense of it.
Hey man, this is such an important video and subject matter! All successful and great artists had daily rituals, focus, good at taking their time and business very seriously. Your talk puts many things in perspective. Thanks Joshua.
Cliff DaRiff Thanks for the kind words! It’s funny how it’s all the most boring old-school stuff that works.
Good discussion, great points you brought up. The film really shows how uber connected he is to what the feeling and emotion he wants the piece to communicate. BTW you're bang on with your music theory. Music or radio almost always derails me in the studio. Painting is a thinking game, it can contaminate the process.
+Bryan Coombes Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about the music thing again yesterday as I was designing a piece and realized I use headphones to block the world out but then screw it up with music.
I really enjoyed your talk and perspective. I loved the movie as well, but did not come away with the insights you provided...
Hi Dave Pickard, thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you! Very helpful and inspirational.
quite fun to listen, having being a noob and only just watched the film. thanks
+zenidith Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
There's such a prevalence to describe things being "like" i.e. "like a solo exhibition" why not "is a Solo exhibition"
+Art On Main I have issues, what can I say?
Really good talk...Thank you!
+solis Thanks for watching and the kind words.
"Water World" is one of the most awesome movies ever!
How did I never reply to this?! Waterworld rules AND is a debacle.
Very interesting talk about how to work seriously as an artist - I just miss that you had zoomed in now and then to make your story more visibly clear e.g.when you talk about the images he looks at sitting at his desk answering phone calls. It would be of great interest to actually see what Gerhard Richter has chosen as works that represent the qualities that art always should have - but rarely has
Lis Engel Hi, thanks for the comment. Yes, would be nice to get a better view. I’ll dig up the presentation and put up a link to it. Thanks!
Hi Joshua, The title of this video is a bit misleading. When you read it, one would believe is a kind of tutorial explaining its painting techniques.
Alejandro Morales I thought it was! Reading comment waiting for the instruction. 1. Turn up..
interesting - but I don't think Richter is thinking about how much he is worth or how much the paintings sell for. Also he made a series of paintings called Cage - where he listened to John Cage while he made the paintings.
Great! Thank you
Art Joolfy Glad you enjoyed it!
was it 9 to 5 before being the Gerhard Richter? I agree about show up instead of show off, and I guess to succeed in any area of life is to be constant in what you do and this level of professionalism in art is the hardest form to achieve,supposing someone has already an awful lot of talent combined with a good dose of luck,self-confidence skill in networking and self-promoting.Whatever people may think reaching the top of all these details at the same moment is such an achievement that whoever is at the top, deserves it.
WILDKOALA10 I think its less about working full-time than disciplined dedication to your craft. Even if you only have Tuesday night from 8-10pm to work on your art then you go do it week in and week out. I agree that talent and luck play a role but consistency and production are too often overlooked.
Joshua Namdev Hardisty
in fact I put consistency at first place among the qualities/virtues.I said"constant in what someone does"
1) Be Gerhard Richter
That's the smartest shortcut
Awesome, but your numbers are a bit off. You made and numbered some points up front that did not make your recap. (?) Anyway, this is a great talk.
+Edena Kruse Thanks for the note.
This was a great video, but it would have been very helpful if you repeated the question the person asked. We cannot hear the question. That's all. I love the documentary, too, and I appreciated this analysis.
Hey Suzannah, unfortunately at the time I had no idea it was being recorded! Glad you enjoyed the video.
I’m going richer for my art scholarship and this really helps me a lot thank you!!
It is more important to draw differently from Richter than how to draw
This sounds like you didn't actually watch the video but commented based off the title. So I guess I agree with you.
Practise and commit to it.
100%
This is typical HOW TO. But there are “craft” artists who do/did the same technique but they don’t get the same quality of recognition, of most who are women.
Richter dove into the minutiae of a simple and singular technique.
“This is a typical HOW TO.” It's awesome that you were able to watch this video and get something out of it that no one else was able to. Was there some discussion of technique sandwiched between the parts about doing your laundry and James Franco that I forgot about?
I`d like subtitles in English or Spanish...
One day, we’ll make this happen for you.
Richter listens to Arvo Part in the studio.
+slumber56 Ha ha, I’ll pretend like I didn’t read this. Thanks for the comment.
Say "like" one more time....
like
Music sure helps me. No doubt. To each there own. Now, screw listening to Mozart... Not for me... but put on some Alessandro Cortini, Tim Hecker, BJ Nielsen..etc etc. Now that is more like it. So my take on those test-takers is that the ones listening to music were doing the objective,. Which was taking the test... not being distracted by patterns on the paper but by actually focusing on the questions and answers. But what do I know? Good video though. Thanks.
Hey, thanks for the thoughtful comment! I try to keep the music to anything that I've heard a million times but I'm not super disciplined about it. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Magnificent exlentes artistic works
So what your saying is , he paints like a german ....
Terry Berry Touché
Joshua, I hit like on your video but please ignore my praise;)
Ha, “water off a duck’s back’ as they say. But thanks for the comment!
possibly, this speaker might like to moonlight as a stand up comic..a budding mensch!
Pat Sart Is there a stand-up whose signature is saying “like” too much? If not, there might be a lane for me!
+Joshua Namdev Hardisty RUclips is a tough place to be :-) some people seems to go here when they're having a bad day and need to trash someone/something.
Fair enough good Sir, I enjoyed listening nonetheless, keep up with your Bad Self!
Well, i got thru 16:03. I was hoping to watch his process and closeups of his paintings. The details. Seriously, Woody Allen?
Woody’s a G, what can I say?
He thinks about drugs alot, lol I enjoyed learning more about Richter's process.
Blue Arbor Glad you liked it! Yes, I’m pre-occupied with drugs. They seem like a good measure of both success and ones ability to destroy their work.
Like :)
This presentation only states the obvious.
+Philip Hunter Very helpful. Will only talk about sub-themes next time.
+Joshua Namdev Hardisty , your seminar clearly explains the work regime and ethics of Gerhard which is an eye opener for most people . I must add that success breeds success. Artists whose works sell frequently for large sums are inspired to get up at 6am each day and begin working. It is the magic lure of the dollar.
+Philip Hunter I think most people stop getting up 6 once they begin to make big money. Richter strikes me as an exception as he does not appear to believe that he’s “earned” the right to slow down or take it easy.
Try to stop saying "like"about every other second. Think about it: it is a totally superfluous thing to say. All it really does is signify that you don't quite know what to say or how to express what you mean. You simply haven't worked hard enough on this. If you had, you would be 100-percent sure and precise in what you say. No need for "like".
That’s how I talk for better or worse. It’s a style of speaking that’s hard-wired based on how one’s brain accesses information.
Yes, this seems to be a constant habit today and especially more noticeable in the younger generations. [I believe it's due to an effect of exposure of hearing others speak this way constantly. Accepted by sounding identical to their other surrounding peers. It also seems to simplify an element of frustration in their general speaking.
[I don't hear Joshua using the word like as every other second, as others have mentioned here; it's not quite that often, and his lecture here is beautifully accomplished.]
When I'm in restaurants, and can hear younger people, especially young males speaking, you can't help but notice that they use the word 'like' as much as 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds of chattering. It's also interjected with the 'f' word constantly, or the sentence will even start with the 'f' word. It just doesn't sound intelligent or professional. It sounds like it stems from an emotional disorder of our hyped up world today, due the to the technology. It has been noted by doctors today that those who stare too much at cell phones are just an extension of what the television generation was that I experienced as a child, in the 1960s. [It's also possibly why I found observing through my first astronomy telescope that I purchased with my berry picking money at age 13, much more gratifying, than watching a television screen.] Child psychologist had remarked back in the late 1960s that they wouldn't recommend parents to allow their children to watch Sesame Street. The doctors contended that the picture was flipping and changing too fast in edits. This resulted in the child developing a symptom of ADHD from watching the screen flip too fast. The doctors did however suggest to allow watching Mr Rogers Neighborhood, as it was delivered at a much slower rate and with less of the screen edits flipping.
This condition today seems to have resulted in many male youth that engage in speed racing on the streets - it's being driven by the sped-up technology. Famous consumer advocate, Jerry Mander, famous for his book Rour Arguments for the Elimination of Television, mansions in another one of his books, In Absence of the Sacred - The Failure of Technology, on page 84, a subchapter title - Perceptual Speed-up and Confusion. It's shocking to read the way he describes what happens to the average viewer as they watch a television screen especially during evening primetime when more commercial advertisements are played on the screen. He describes it in the words you see people walking on a distant hill, - cut - that sounds like they're speaking right next to you - cut - Now You See a group of young people jumping up and down playing volleyball on a beach - cut - now you see hands pouring a glass of beer -cut - now it's yesterday - cut- now it's tomorrow - cut - now you're in Rome - cut - now you're in Paris - cut - .... These are what Mander describes as technical edits that can only be accomplished through television technology. After hours of viewing this the viewer becomes fatigued and turns the TV off. They look around in the room, and nothing is moving or changing at such a rapid speed. If you are now walks outside and it seems very slow and boring except for the waving of a leaf on a tree blowing in the wind. By comparison real nature now appears as boring and uninteresting and all the viewer can think of, is to get back inside, get the TV set turned back on, and get back up to speed.
This process has drained our younger generations today into a description that doctors diagnose as a video-void, as like zombies or or eventually appearing as brain dead.
I've been asked and invited to speak many times in classrooms and colleges and in public places about my astronomy art, that's a format of large technical pastel sketches, that I produce from observations, through my telescopes, which have been published many times by NASA. I never use the word 'like' when I'm speaking. We may notice that those of us in the older generations today are about the same with this word usage, as we constantly have something precise and varied to say, so there's no reason to interject the word 'like' or 'f' 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds.
However, I did enjoy this lecture about Gerhard Richter's life and painting scheduling.
How about paint like you want to. Yea you can follow in someone else's footsteps, or walk your own path. I can not stand seeing stuff like this. Or like "learn how to paint abstract" Well you can't do that either because its abstract. DUH. Learning about someone is never a bad thing. But living YOUR life LIKE someone ELSE.....
+OUT ON THE PORCH Try watching the video before you comment. Anyone who watches the video knows that the title is a joke.
Why???
Please clarify.
Why should one paint like Ricter...
He is a wonderfull inspiring artist
Butt I am not him ...I am I...I shall du my Art...
Grete Lis Bibalo Why are you commenting on videos that you haven’t watched?
WTF is it with saying like thousands of times???
It’s called “filler speech”. Per The Independent (www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-who-say-like-all-the-time-may-be-deeper-thinkers-9529705.html):
“...psychologists claim it [filler speech] is in fact an attempt to convey something in a more nuanced way and signals a conscientious person with complex thoughts to express.
In an article in The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the researchers explain:
‘The possible explanation for this association is that conscientious people are generally more thoughtful and aware of themselves and their surroundings.
When having conversations with listeners, conscientious people use discourse markers, such as ‘I mean’ and ‘you know,’ to imply their desire to share or rephrase opinions to recipients.
Thus it is expected that the use of discourse markers may be used to measure the degree to which people have thoughts to express.‘
The research essentially posits that people who use a lot of "filler speech" are constantly re-drafting as they speak and desire to transfer thought into speech in the most accurate way possible.
‘Discourse fillers are a sign of more considered speech, and so it makes sense that conscientious people use them more often,’ psychologist Christian Jarrett writes.”
So I’m just keeping it conscientious over here.
Oh it was in an article in a newspaper must be true then. Well that's told me, dagnabbit!! :)
It just sounds better coming from a 3rd party, right? I mean, its the Independent so it is a trash publication.
I think the overuse of the word "like" has more to do with habit than deep thinking and is ingrained in certain dialects.
I think you can imagine how I wouldn’t want to believe this. : )
BUT, I’d also add that if I don’t say “like” you’ll just hear a lot of pauses in my speech. I do actually prefer that but the point would be that I am definitely wired to process what I’m saying in that sort of way. I’m amazed by people who speak fluidly without filler speech or constant spaces.
It would be wise to stop saying 'like' all the time, sure. But I feel he needs to work on his voice - the tonethat goes up all the time makes him sound stupid when I don't think he is.I have a gut feeling that I could never trust this guy as he would gossip about me to anyone.
Don’t worry, your secrets are safe with me. Also, yes, my uptalk is annoying.
this dude made a lot of references to the brocaine. good talk though.
Glad you enjoyed, ha ha.
It is fascinating but! He is a billionaire so he can do it this way. But take a genius and compare it to me. Let's say chess. I do play but can I play five ppl simultaneosly while blindfolded? No. So I'll do it my way. If I win a billion dollars on the lottery someone else can do my laundry.
This might be the worst video on youtube in relation to it's title
I thought it was pretty accurate. Otherwise you just need to go to a hardcore socialist realism art school in the USSR (maybe North Korea would work now) then take your crazy painting skills over to the West and follow every weird idea that you have- photorealism of photos; grey paintings, color swatch paintings, paintings over photos, photographing your paintings, inventing new painting tools - for the next 61 years.
@@NamdevHardisty1 I just meant that there's not really that much in it that shows how to paint like Richter
He says "like" so much it's distracting. Had to turn this off.
I agree, its painful.
@@NamdevHardisty1 Try to be dismissive if you want but it's really bad.
Richter listens to Arvo Part in the studio.