HAHAHA "You know what I don't care about fruit." I've sat though countless art history classes and no one has ever explained Modernism, Avant-garde, and Kitsch so clever and succinctly! Poor Greenberg...
I don't know who you are BUT YOU NAILED THIS!!! I am an artist and philosopher of sorts and am writing a book on Modern Art. I will include a link to your video.
Haha I have been reading texts of Greenberg, Adorno, Benjamin etc. pretty much all day and I was quite like "what the hell?" so I came up here to check out for some source of information, and here you are talking about all these stuff and I am just like "oh my god this is wonderful, thank you." So by now I know that I am such a commoner that I was not able to percieve by myself what I have just read, I only can digest what was chewed for me
I love this so much! I *finally* understand all that my teacher was talking about..! And it made me laugh too! Beste video ever :D. I have to write an essay about avant-garde and kitsch that is due in 3 days.. And after watching this video, I’m a little more confident I can’t do it!! Thank you 🙏🏻
10 years later and this video is still relevant. Enough so that its a required video supplement for my Art history class in college. Now I gotta go watch Clement Greenberg: Autonomies of Art....yay...no yay.
Thank you! As a "commoner" in 2017, raised by the logic of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell, and where my biggest struggle in life is figuring out how to find the latest nipslip from Jennifer Lawrence in high-resolution, this animated, down-to-earth video allows me to comprehend, even if just slightly, the subject matter here! Greenberg would be proud!...
This was... FANTASTIC! Dude, I’m reading a book by David Hopkins and I kept on saying “what on earth is her trying to imply?!” Thanks to u, I get it now!
This is so cool! Hilarious/Educational. You're like the ViHart of art history! This was played in my contemporary art history class at the request of a student recently and it was excellent. Make more please?
+Roxandria True Trust me. There were a lot before him. Dandies held that gripe long before the hipster, in fact they're pretty much a different century's name for the same thing
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! i have a midterm tomorrow and i couldn't find anything to help me understand greenberg and his **** at all!! and this is like.. OH GOD!!! JUST THANK YOU!!
Finally, the issue of whether "commoners liked it" was never something that concerned Greenberg, at least in print, though it did happen that the mid-century painting with the broadest appeal, say, Pop Art, was found by CG to be wanting in pictorial interest. And, he did find those two factors -- Pop Art's mass appeal and the less than rigorous conception/composition of Pop paintings -- related. I think that to say equate popular interest w/ CG's critical criteria is a misrepresentation.
Thanks for bringing in the facts--I'm def not an art historian, and though I hope people enjoy the animation I'm about as accurate as Drunk History so I hope nobody takes my word for it.
awesome video. i'm using 0:00-1:58 to introduce a lecture i'm giving on Stella and Noland. But for the record, CG did not think that any/all representational ptg in the 20th-century was kitsch; he owned and lived with the work of several representational artists (Dorothy Knowles and Horacio Torres, etc.) Moreover he painted landscapes himself.
Greenberg was probably the foremost formalist critic. Which makes him both very important to know, but also makes him almost a sworn enemy of mine. Because I don't like formalism. I mean I do...no real experimental breakthroughs can be reached in any art unless the form itself is experimented with...but as a form of criticism I loathe it. Because it's all surface and no substance. I'm much more into postmodernist critique, because it's all about meaning, language, communication, and breakdown. Derrida's deconstructionism, Barthes' structuralism, audience-oriented theories, even classic Tolstoy/Kandinsky expressionist theory, these all hold more weight to me than just evaluating the simple formal construction of a piece does. Otherwise, if art has no meaning beyond its formal properties, all you've done is reduce art to a simple instruction manual. I don't write stories and poems, do My Little Pony analysis, or do my bad but sincere attempts at painting because I want to give the equivalent of how to build a VCR. I do those things because I feel I have something to say!
hope you ve succeded by now, cause your comment is one of the few I actually enjoyed reading, i dont know about your art but right there you definitly had something to say hope you live a nice life ;) good luck for the rest of it
Very charming but naive regarding what has always been the gist of art. That is aesthetics. The proof for that concept is that once the subject matter loses its literal or humanist meaning the art work does not lose any meaningful value. Aesthetics always carries the day. See: breathtaking acting, great writing, awesome arias, luscious meals, Antonio Lopez Garcia.= GREAT PAINTING NEVER LEFT THE WORLD STAGE. Just that tragically many talented artists were induced to fail to be true to themselves.
I'm probably much more sympathetic to Greenberg's intentions than you seem to be, but, although wonderfully whimsical, your presentation is also deadly accurate. Well done!
God I love this video hahahahha. I was looking for another one like it but sadly this is it, my prof actually linked this on the first week intro on media art.
Greenberg characterized "kitsch" as "predigested art" however this ignores how a lot of art is actually used by audiences. When someone thinks "what a nice picture of a horse," they are doing more than simply enjoying a visual stimulant. Otherwise, there would be no difference between enjoying (kitsch)art and a beautiful landscape or some pornography - and there clearly is a difference.
Thank you so much, I am reading "Greenberg and Avant-Garde and Kitsch" and I didn't have any idea what homeboy was saying until I watched your (wonderfully described and illustrated video)
I think you are attempting to have an argument not with me, but with Greenberg, who's dead, and who is possibly my least favorite art critic, hence him becoming the brunt of a completely un-serious animation.
saved my life. I cant read for shit and im supposed to write an esay on this guy and ive been sitting here for hours trying to make sense of whatever the hell he was talking about in his modernist article or whatever.
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This sums up my degree in 5 minutes
HAHAHA "You know what I don't care about fruit." I've sat though countless art history classes and no one has ever explained Modernism, Avant-garde, and Kitsch so clever and succinctly! Poor Greenberg...
if i pass my degree, it'll be because of this
+1 dude
Literally about to write a paper based off this video. I haven't laughed this hard in a LONG time. Thank you for nailing this
I don't know who you are BUT YOU NAILED THIS!!! I am an artist and philosopher of sorts and am writing a book on Modern Art. I will include a link to your video.
Haha I have been reading texts of Greenberg, Adorno, Benjamin etc. pretty much all day and I was quite like "what the hell?" so I came up here to check out for some source of information, and here you are talking about all these stuff and I am just like "oh my god this is wonderful, thank you." So by now I know that I am such a commoner that I was not able to percieve by myself what I have just read, I only can digest what was chewed for me
This is the best explanation of abstract art I have ever encountered, thank you this makes so much sense and is very entertaining to watch :)
This is great for my essay, thanks so much, love the drawings and way of narrating, you make it both fun and educational :D x
I love this! Such a joy sitting with you here for a few minutes, tearing at CB, utterly hysterical!
Wanted to say that your video was a part of one of my college courses like, over a decade after you published this video, so good on you!
In fact why cant you make vids on all chapters in Art...lol.... its really really helpful
this is so great! The drawings are essential and your voice over dances along with it in a way that is entertaining and informative. Bravo.
this is so so so so so good!!!! keep coming back to this vid :)
I just had to watch this for an a digital art class. Amazing. Subscribed,
Awesome video!! 5 minutes of concise art history and hilarity.
We watched this in an art history class at university in NZ. Everybody loved it! So great.
I love this so much! I *finally* understand all that my teacher was talking about..! And it made me laugh too! Beste video ever :D. I have to write an essay about avant-garde and kitsch that is due in 3 days.. And after watching this video, I’m a little more confident I can’t do it!! Thank you 🙏🏻
This was so witty and wonderful. Thank you
this was absolutely great! and it helped my understanding so much. Thank you!
please make more of these about other art historical theorists, it is brilliant!
This is the best video on this subject! Bravo !
The Cezanne reference helped me link it all together. Thanks!
10 years later and this video is still relevant. Enough so that its a required video supplement for my Art history class in college. Now I gotta go watch Clement Greenberg: Autonomies of Art....yay...no yay.
Needed to know who Greenberg was as quickly as possible. This was perfect!
This is so helpful and so well done! Thank you!
I have a presentation for my philosophy class and this was brilliantly explained! thanks!
Thank you! As a "commoner" in 2017, raised by the logic of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell, and where my biggest struggle in life is figuring out how to find the latest nipslip from Jennifer Lawrence in high-resolution, this animated, down-to-earth video allows me to comprehend, even if just slightly, the subject matter here! Greenberg would be proud!...
This is absolutely brilliant!
This was perfect to sum up Greenberg's article on avant-garde and kitsch.
this has helped me a lot, like a lot so THANK YOU!!
This was... FANTASTIC! Dude, I’m reading a book by David Hopkins and I kept on saying “what on earth is her trying to imply?!”
Thanks to u, I get it now!
This is an amazing video! Thanks!
This video was AMAZING ♡
Wish you’d still make videos like these omg
I cannot even handle this amount of cuteness.
I LOVE YOUR WORK, THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME! IT'S AMAZING
this video was absolutely delightful
This is AMAZING
I thought that this was a wonderful summary. Thank you very much. Do more, please.
Thanks you so much, this is actually helping me for my exam tomorrow :p
Thanks. Really helpful. What's the next one you're doing?
This is so cool! Hilarious/Educational. You're like the ViHart of art history!
This was played in my contemporary art history class at the request of a student recently and it was excellent. Make more please?
this is so great in so many ways! please make one about harold rosenberg? foucault? ayn rand?
Greenberg - The original hipster. This is popular now? I hate it.
Depends how many thousand people you consider popular?
+Roxandria True Trust me. There were a lot before him. Dandies held that gripe long before the hipster, in fact they're pretty much a different century's name for the same thing
love this i have never seen such an amazing video
I love this so much. I can't put it into words.
By the way, I just googled Clement Greenberg and you truly captured his likeness.
Absolutely suberb! Thanks!
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this is quite helpful!!
thank you for making this vid
This is phantastic!
Greenberg did write about surrealism an surrealist paintings. He considered it was a reactionary way of making art.
simply wonderful!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! i have a midterm tomorrow and i couldn't find anything to help me understand greenberg and his **** at all!! and this is like.. OH GOD!!! JUST THANK YOU!!
Well done-Love it!! You obviously feel the same about Greenberg as I do!! Now lets have Panofsky!!!
So good. This is fantastic.
Finally, the issue of whether "commoners liked it" was never something that concerned Greenberg, at least in print, though it did happen that the mid-century painting with the broadest appeal, say, Pop Art, was found by CG to be wanting in pictorial interest. And, he did find those two factors -- Pop Art's mass appeal and the less than rigorous conception/composition of Pop paintings -- related. I think that to say equate popular interest w/ CG's critical criteria is a misrepresentation.
Thanks for this video!
can you make a video like this on postmodernism..... it helped me a lot while studying to understand stuff better
Thanks for bringing in the facts--I'm def not an art historian, and though I hope people enjoy the animation I'm about as accurate as Drunk History so I hope nobody takes my word for it.
This is brilliant. I wish there was one for every 'ology' and 'ism'!
this is amazing !
awesome video. i'm using 0:00-1:58 to introduce a lecture i'm giving on Stella and Noland. But for the record, CG did not think that any/all representational ptg in the 20th-century was kitsch; he owned and lived with the work of several representational artists (Dorothy Knowles and Horacio Torres, etc.) Moreover he painted landscapes himself.
This is fantastic. Turned art history into my language.
still love this
love it, easy and understandable
This was incredible
Greenberg was probably the foremost formalist critic. Which makes him both very important to know, but also makes him almost a sworn enemy of mine. Because I don't like formalism. I mean I do...no real experimental breakthroughs can be reached in any art unless the form itself is experimented with...but as a form of criticism I loathe it. Because it's all surface and no substance. I'm much more into postmodernist critique, because it's all about meaning, language, communication, and breakdown. Derrida's deconstructionism, Barthes' structuralism, audience-oriented theories, even classic Tolstoy/Kandinsky expressionist theory, these all hold more weight to me than just evaluating the simple formal construction of a piece does. Otherwise, if art has no meaning beyond its formal properties, all you've done is reduce art to a simple instruction manual.
I don't write stories and poems, do My Little Pony analysis, or do my bad but sincere attempts at painting because I want to give the equivalent of how to build a VCR. I do those things because I feel I have something to say!
hope you ve succeded by now, cause your comment is one of the few I actually enjoyed reading, i dont know about your art but right there you definitly had something to say hope you live a nice life ;) good luck for the rest of it
Since the words of Foster, Krauss, Bois, Buchloh, and Joselit fail to digest in my tiny brain, thank god you made this video.
Very charming but naive regarding what has always been the gist of art. That is aesthetics. The proof for that concept is that once the subject matter loses its literal or humanist meaning the art work does not lose any meaningful value. Aesthetics always carries the day. See: breathtaking acting, great writing, awesome arias, luscious meals, Antonio Lopez Garcia.= GREAT PAINTING NEVER LEFT THE WORLD STAGE. Just that tragically many talented artists were induced to fail to be true to themselves.
This is brilliant, thank you.
THIS IS SOOOO GOOOOD!
I'm probably much more sympathetic to Greenberg's intentions than you seem to be, but, although wonderfully whimsical, your presentation is also deadly accurate. Well done!
Wow, what an uplifting, life-affirming story!
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Amazing!!
Amazing! thank you.
I love this so much! Thank you it's hilarious
"Was a real asshole, but made great modernist paintings." LOL!!! XD
The perfect bedtime story. Thank you!
I spent one hour and a half with some bloke talking about another bloke, while pointing at slides of other blokes and then I find this!
super clear, thx!
This is even better!!!!
@micekingii I feel totally honored to have someone use the word "effulgent" in a RUclips comment.
This should go viral. TOOT.
You are awesome!
Thank you! THANK YOU!!!!
That was awesome, thank you.
This is GREAT!
God I love this video hahahahha. I was looking for another one like it but sadly this is it, my prof actually linked this on the first week intro on media art.
Greenberg characterized "kitsch" as "predigested art" however this ignores how a lot of art is actually used by audiences. When someone thinks "what a nice picture of a horse," they are doing more than simply enjoying a visual stimulant. Otherwise, there would be no difference between enjoying (kitsch)art and a beautiful landscape or some pornography - and there clearly is a difference.
Thank you so much, I am reading "Greenberg and Avant-Garde and Kitsch" and I didn't have any idea what homeboy was saying until I watched your (wonderfully described and illustrated video)
Thank u for this!!! U are an angel
narration was cool ... it made me laugh :) specially the dada part
The animation is hilarious
"(uh).....feelings?"
I think you are attempting to have an argument not with me, but with Greenberg, who's dead, and who is possibly my least favorite art critic, hence him becoming the brunt of a completely un-serious animation.
The whole thing is great,but I laughed really hard at the end.
thank you soo much
AMAZING
BRILLIANT
thank you !
saved my life. I cant read for shit and im supposed to write an esay on this guy and ive been sitting here for hours trying to make sense of whatever the hell he was talking about in his modernist article or whatever.