I'm born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and on the first painting on the video I went "wait, is this Brazil?", so yeah, I guess he managed to capture the feeling of a misty morning in the Atlantic forest pretty well. His depictions of nature do have a sort of exaggerated flare, with tall, jagged mountain and impossibly lush forests, but still, the feeling of being surrounded by hills covered in rain forest, while the cool humid air feels so dense it’s like it seeps into your bones is all to familiar to me. It’s always lovely to find art that goes a bit beyond the real to capture a very real feeling.
It seems as if he captured the world of the hummingbird. Not like we would experience the same spot, but what the world is like to the hummingbird. Interesting that you recognized Brazil so quickly!
I was surprised by the comment that recognized Brazil that fast, but it makes so much sense. As a Brazilian I also saw the tiny palm tree, and it felt really familiar, but I also thought ''no, it can't be''. Brazil is often sold to the outside world as this bright, wild, violent, hot place, and we see that image so often that sometimes it limits our own view of our country, even if deep down we know that it isn't the whole truth. The most amazing thing about his work to me is that he transcended this and captured something deeper that I felt many times but had never seen represented in art before. The hazy stillness of a cloudy day, a melancholic but still gentle beauty I've seen in real life so many times. I completely agree with the analysis presented in this video, and more. The way they mention the non-floral flowers, that's so true it feels almost forbidden. I feel he captured a hidden, fairytale-like side of Brazil, and this makes me immensely happy, especially knowing his work was rediscovered, as it should be.
There is a Heade Hummingbird here in Fort Worth at the Amon Carter which I try to visit every month. What I believe is overlooked is Heade’s brilliance in painting the flowers as well, inspiring me as a floral photographer.
I got to see some of his work at the Boston museum of fine art... I spent a lot of time just looking at it. It's so frustrating to me how many artists die with little recognition, only to become extremely famous posthumously.
I totally understand what you say, you just stand there and be like but how?! this is so good. But then again that is somehow the "magic" of art and being an artist. If nobody cares and you just keep going means that you really loved what you did, you did it for the love of art not for the fame and money. We should also take in account that alot of great ones were so ahead of their time, their work was just not understood by the world around them. or by living in the "wrong" part of the world for that matter. culture is no.1 influance for not just creating art but also for if and how to appreciate it. As we can see with this artist. when i saw the first painting it screamed art nouveau in my face....lucky me i find that a good thing. The time period was right, but then the suprise that it was from an American painter. Sure the U.S liked art nouveau you got the Tiffany lamps and all, how much more art nouveau can it be? But the U.S prefferred the jugendstil over the art nouveau. Therefor it wouldnt suprise me that this painter didn't get the reconition he deserved because the audiance in is surrouding was not quite ready for this. if he would have gone to France with these works chances are likely that he would have become a sensation. maybe even to fade back into obscurity as fast as he rised to the spotlight. But i do think we would have known more about him.
I have some of these, of course in print form….but I love them….I framed them in ornate gold frames. They look wonderful with potted orchids. This is such a lovely video, I enjoyed it very much 🕊
Beautiful. Humming birds are like a mystery since they flutter about nearly unnoticed in our busy lives… his paintings slow time and capture them like a peeping Tom watching secretive fairies in their enchanted world. Stunning paintings. I’d never seen these before. Thank you.
Thank you for your diligent work bringing paintings to life and discovering artists. I am struck by the alienness of the flowers in these paintings. They are so vivid, yet I can imagine them existing on other worlds. Such beautiful work. Please keep creating your art appreciation videos!!!!
@JenniferLewis I agree with you completely!! @Art Deco Thank you! Your voice, word pacing, music and copy is exceptional. Never stop unearthing the brilliance of these precious artists! 💖
When the narrator explained that the artist was from Pennsylvania I immediately understood this man and his lovely colors and plants. Its because much my like my homeland in Ohio, Pennsylvania is a dark cold place void of color much of the year. I have remedied my disdain of dark days and cold, colorless weeks by moving to CA. Its full of color and cool plants.
Of all the paintings shown, the last one actually took my breath away ~ Hummingbird Perched On An Orchid Plant 1901. That one is absolutely beautiful...
.... hummingbirds..? I thought it was about the flowers....? Really beautiful flowers..never seen a hummingbird. They don't live where i do. I love these old-fashioned botanical and nature- pictures. So lifelike.
Thank you for highlighting these paintings, Without your soothing voice and thorough research I wouldn't have paid as much attention to the work of Martin Heade. Especially the painting passion flowers and hummingbirds 1883 makes me feel very odd, like i an intruder on a small, alien world. It's almost as if the painting is looking back at you while you're studying it. I think it's the surreal stillness Heade manages to capture without making the painting look dull and lifeless, reminiscent of the pause in a room full of people when you walk in and shut the door a touch too loud. I'm not sure if this atmosphere was created intentionally or if this was an element portrayed unconsciously as he made his way through the jungle feeling like an observer that does not belong, but it sure enchants his paintings with a mystical aura.
Thank you so much for presenting this wonderful and absolutely skilled artist. All his paintings have such details and depth and wonderful color schemes.. Please introduce us to many other artists as great as Mr. Heade.
My compliments for your lovely evocation of the art of MJ Heade, whose paintings I have admired for years because of the connection with Brazil and my love of hummingbirds & orchids. In Brazil, the popular name for hummingbird is beija-flor, literally kiss- flower, which IMHO is the respectful relationship humans should have with the rest of natural world. I was raised in Pennsylvania not far from Heade's hometown, but I was born in Rio de Janeiro, once surrounded by the lush Atlantic forest which inspired Heade a hundred years before. That forest has now been reduced to pockets like Tijuca in the middle of Rio, so Heade's paintings fill me with nostalgia for a distant childhood that is almost entirely imaginary. At least now I live in Washington DC where I can see Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds at the National Gallery of Art, and imagine the time before we left the Garden.
Thank you for these videos. I get so much information as well as enjoyment in the analysis you give as well as the wonderful stories behind the art and the artist. Combined with the beautiful music , these videos enlighten and inspire me , as Im sure many others. Thanks again.
A bit like Joaquin Sorolla, the early 19th-century Spanish painter. Sorolla is not in the common vocabulary of the young or the old (at least here in the United States), but like Martin Johnson Heade, Sorolla's work was a breathtaking display of light over simple, often seemingly trivial nature scenes. Heade's work is transcendent art in its' truest form. Though, as stated, he was virtually unknown in his time, Heade was historically part of the handfull of Luminist painters who essentially made light the the the primary subject over the object itself. Mid 1800's. Origins in East Coast of the United States.
I am really enjoying your channel and I have watched a number of the videos. Very informative and your voice narration is most alluring. Your editing skills are superb in that you have the background music as exactly in the background and it does not intrude upon your voice / comments. One request - could you also include the songs / music titles in your descriptive text included in each video? I have heard a number of songs / musical pieces that I would like to be able to research for sheet music to play on the piano or violin. Thank You.
I went to the high museum of art where ‘two hummingbirds and an orchid’ is found and I had no idea that the painting famous but I really loved the painting and cannot believe that I found this video about it
We saw this beautiful series of paintings at Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas recently. My favorite paintings there! I don’t know if it was the way they arranged the lighting, but the hummingbirds just flowed as if you could reach out and touch them. Astonishing!
He captured so beautifully something which is almost never still! I confess I rather hope his dismissive niece lived to see her "forgotten" uncle's eventual triumph! Perhaps she might have been more interested in him once his art began to bring in millions...
I'm glad you mentioned the challenge of capturing these fast moving birds on canvas. That was my thought too. Especially how he depicts the wings, which of course you can never spot when Hummingbirds are in flight. All you see is a blur of motion. Heade captures this by depicting the wings in vague form, little detail. This contrasts with the vivid details of everything else in his paintings. If he had tried to paint the wings in similar brilliant detail while in motion, it would have felt forced perhaps even intrusive.
Grateful thank you for this. Made me factually hold my breath, what touching beauty. The first picture made me think about my trip to Brazil years ago.
I was nodding off watching this video (because it’s late at night here) and every time my eyes focused you had a different painting up. It was kind of magical
Ultimately, he identified something he found beautiful, dedicated his life to portraying it, and managed to live a good and fulfilling one. I wonder how many exceptionally famous painters that died heartbroken and/or destitute would be willing to swap places given the chance? That he never branched out suggests to me that fame and fortune, while nice, were not why he painted.
I'm Brazilian and my mastery degree in ecology was about hummingbirds. I've seen his paintings so many times... Was always a time to stop and admire the art, not the birds. Amazing human art around the absolute nature art.
Some interesting information here, but I felt you could have mentioned that by no means all Heade's pictures featured flowers and hummingbirds- he is also known for his portraits, landscapes and still-lifes.
THe music background REALLY gets in the way of what you’re saying…. if you have to use music at all, it should not be something with melody, because I’m listening to the loud track and not carefully listening to, or musing over, what you are actually saying. Had to open the transcript to keep focused. Otheriwise lovely, but soundtrack fights with what you’re saying.
I'm trying to figure out why I like your unconventional speech patterns ... so far I've only come up with, I just do. Of course the interesting material helps ...
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I'm born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and on the first painting on the video I went "wait, is this Brazil?", so yeah, I guess he managed to capture the feeling of a misty morning in the Atlantic forest pretty well. His depictions of nature do have a sort of exaggerated flare, with tall, jagged mountain and impossibly lush forests, but still, the feeling of being surrounded by hills covered in rain forest, while the cool humid air feels so dense it’s like it seeps into your bones is all to familiar to me. It’s always lovely to find art that goes a bit beyond the real to capture a very real feeling.
It seems as if he captured the world of the hummingbird. Not like we would experience the same spot, but what the world is like to the hummingbird. Interesting that you recognized Brazil so quickly!
His hidden paintings are like finding diamonds, precious gems which the whole world should see.
Agreed! It would be amazing to find one of these in the wild!
Unfortunately there are lots of artists forgotten by the history of art. Thank you for having shared and made known this amazing artist!
If you ever feel forgotten, just remember that Martin Johnson Heade had whole pieces while Georgia O'Keeffe was a little girl.
Your channel has SO MUCH VALUE. thank you
4:21 How is just an artist review so poetic? It's too bad we don't see this quality of writing these days. Thank you for the video!
I love this video in particular. Your message is beautiful and appreciation of the artist is even more beautiful.
I was surprised by the comment that recognized Brazil that fast, but it makes so much sense. As a Brazilian I also saw the tiny palm tree, and it felt really familiar, but I also thought ''no, it can't be''. Brazil is often sold to the outside world as this bright, wild, violent, hot place, and we see that image so often that sometimes it limits our own view of our country, even if deep down we know that it isn't the whole truth.
The most amazing thing about his work to me is that he transcended this and captured something deeper that I felt many times but had never seen represented in art before. The hazy stillness of a cloudy day, a melancholic but still gentle beauty I've seen in real life so many times. I completely agree with the analysis presented in this video, and more. The way they mention the non-floral flowers, that's so true it feels almost forbidden. I feel he captured a hidden, fairytale-like side of Brazil, and this makes me immensely happy, especially knowing his work was rediscovered, as it should be.
There is a Heade Hummingbird here in Fort Worth at the Amon Carter which I try to visit every month. What I believe is overlooked is Heade’s brilliance in painting the flowers as well, inspiring me as a floral photographer.
I got to see some of his work at the Boston museum of fine art... I spent a lot of time just looking at it. It's so frustrating to me how many artists die with little recognition, only to become extremely famous posthumously.
I agree, and van Gogh is another example.
I totally understand what you say, you just stand there and be like but how?! this is so good. But then again that is somehow the "magic" of art and being an artist. If nobody cares and you just keep going means that you really loved what you did, you did it for the love of art not for the fame and money.
We should also take in account that alot of great ones were so ahead of their time, their work was just not understood by the world around them. or by living in the "wrong" part of the world for that matter. culture is no.1 influance for not just creating art but also for if and how to appreciate it.
As we can see with this artist. when i saw the first painting it screamed art nouveau in my face....lucky me i find that a good thing. The time period was right, but then the suprise that it was from an American painter.
Sure the U.S liked art nouveau you got the Tiffany lamps and all, how much more art nouveau can it be?
But the U.S prefferred the jugendstil over the art nouveau. Therefor it wouldnt suprise me that this painter didn't get the reconition he deserved because the audiance in is surrouding was not quite ready for this. if he would have gone to France with these works chances are likely that he would have become a sensation. maybe even to fade back into obscurity as fast as he rised to the spotlight. But i do think we would have known more about him.
What an absolute gem this channel is. I love this.
I have some of these, of course in print form….but I love them….I framed them in ornate gold frames. They look wonderful with potted orchids. This is such a lovely video, I enjoyed it very much 🕊
His art is beautiful. Stunning.
Beautiful. Humming birds are like a mystery since they flutter about nearly unnoticed in our busy lives… his paintings slow time and capture them like a peeping Tom watching secretive fairies in their enchanted world. Stunning paintings. I’d never seen these before. Thank you.
Thank you for your diligent work bringing paintings to life and discovering artists. I am struck by the alienness of the flowers in these paintings. They are so vivid, yet I can imagine them existing on other worlds. Such beautiful work. Please keep creating your art appreciation videos!!!!
@JenniferLewis I agree with you completely!! @Art Deco Thank you! Your voice, word pacing, music and copy is exceptional. Never stop unearthing the brilliance of these precious artists! 💖
I did not know of these incredible paintings…I love hummingbirds and the way he captures them is so extraordinary.
When the narrator explained that the artist was from Pennsylvania I immediately understood this man and his lovely colors and plants. Its because much my like my homeland in Ohio, Pennsylvania is a dark cold place void of color much of the year. I have remedied my disdain of dark days and cold, colorless weeks by moving to CA. Its full of color and cool plants.
Of all the paintings shown, the last one actually took my breath away ~ Hummingbird Perched On An Orchid Plant 1901. That one is absolutely beautiful...
Heade’s paintings to me seem like a cross between Audubon, Bierstadt (the use of light), and photography (the details in the flowers). Stunning!
.... hummingbirds..? I thought it was about the flowers....?
Really beautiful flowers..never seen a hummingbird. They don't live where i do.
I love these old-fashioned botanical and nature- pictures. So lifelike.
The way the narrator explains how she feels about this piece makes me forget I’m in crippling debt. I feel like a royal.🍷
Thank you for your videos! Heades paintings are magnificent and beautiful!
He adds bright light to the darkness of his backdrops that brings life and energy to his subject matter. What a beautiful legacy.
Thank you for highlighting these paintings, Without your soothing voice and thorough research I wouldn't have paid as much attention to the work of Martin Heade. Especially the painting passion flowers and hummingbirds 1883 makes me feel very odd, like i an intruder on a small, alien world. It's almost as if the painting is looking back at you while you're studying it. I think it's the surreal stillness Heade manages to capture without making the painting look dull and lifeless, reminiscent of the pause in a room full of people when you walk in and shut the door a touch too loud. I'm not sure if this atmosphere was created intentionally or if this was an element portrayed unconsciously as he made his way through the jungle feeling like an observer that does not belong, but it sure enchants his paintings with a mystical aura.
Thank you so much for presenting this wonderful and absolutely skilled artist. All his paintings have such details and depth and wonderful color schemes.. Please introduce us to many other artists as great as Mr. Heade.
Inspiring! His landscapes are also interesting, rather minimalist in my opinion. Thanks for bringing this painter to our attention!
My compliments for your lovely evocation of the art of MJ Heade, whose paintings I have admired for years because of the connection with Brazil and my love of hummingbirds & orchids. In Brazil, the popular name for hummingbird is beija-flor, literally kiss- flower, which IMHO is the respectful relationship humans should have with the rest of natural world. I was raised in Pennsylvania not far from Heade's hometown, but I was born in Rio de Janeiro, once surrounded by the lush Atlantic forest which inspired Heade a hundred years before. That forest has now been reduced to pockets like Tijuca in the middle of Rio, so Heade's paintings fill me with nostalgia for a distant childhood that is almost entirely imaginary. At least now I live in Washington DC where I can see Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds at the National Gallery of Art, and imagine the time before we left the Garden.
Thank you for these videos. I get so much information as well as enjoyment in the analysis you give as well as the wonderful stories behind the art and the artist. Combined with the beautiful music , these videos enlighten and inspire me , as Im sure many others. Thanks again.
This artist is the reason I got interested in Cattleya (I mean growing the plant).
A bit like Joaquin Sorolla, the early 19th-century Spanish painter. Sorolla is not in the common vocabulary of the young or the old (at least here in the United States), but like Martin Johnson Heade, Sorolla's work was a breathtaking display of light over simple, often seemingly trivial nature scenes. Heade's work is transcendent art in its' truest form. Though, as stated, he was virtually unknown in his time, Heade was historically part of the handfull of Luminist painters who essentially made light the the the primary subject over the object itself. Mid 1800's. Origins in East Coast of the United States.
These paintings are dreamlike, very lovely.
I am really enjoying your channel and I have watched a number of the videos. Very informative and your voice narration is most alluring.
Your editing skills are superb in that you have the background music as exactly in the background and it does not intrude upon your voice / comments. One request - could you also include the songs / music titles in your descriptive text included in each video? I have heard a number of songs / musical pieces that I would like to be able to research for sheet music to play on the piano or violin. Thank You.
Thank You for such wonderful information.
I went to the high museum of art where ‘two hummingbirds and an orchid’ is found and I had no idea that the painting famous but I really loved the painting and cannot believe that I found this video about it
"lacked personal style", I'm so glad we don't judge art this way anymore.art should be free from peramiters
We saw this beautiful series of paintings at Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas recently. My favorite paintings there! I don’t know if it was the way they arranged the lighting, but the hummingbirds just flowed as if you could reach out and touch them. Astonishing!
He captured so beautifully something which is almost never still! I confess I rather hope his dismissive niece lived to see her "forgotten" uncle's eventual triumph! Perhaps she might have been more interested in him once his art began to bring in millions...
I'm glad you mentioned the challenge of capturing these fast moving birds on canvas. That was my thought too. Especially how he depicts the wings, which of course you can never spot when Hummingbirds are in flight. All you see is a blur of motion. Heade captures this by depicting the wings in vague form, little detail. This contrasts with the vivid details of everything else in his paintings. If he had tried to paint the wings in similar brilliant detail while in motion, it would have felt forced perhaps even intrusive.
I always thought he was my secret artist
As an orchid lover, I love his paintings
Grateful thank you for this. Made me factually hold my breath, what touching beauty.
The first picture made me think about my trip to Brazil years ago.
I was nodding off watching this video (because it’s late at night here) and every time my eyes focused you had a different painting up. It was kind of magical
Ultimately, he identified something he found beautiful, dedicated his life to portraying it, and managed to live a good and fulfilling one. I wonder how many exceptionally famous painters that died heartbroken and/or destitute would be willing to swap places given the chance? That he never branched out suggests to me that fame and fortune, while nice, were not why he painted.
Stunning peaceful masterpieces 💙💙💙
I'm Brazilian and my mastery degree in ecology was about hummingbirds. I've seen his paintings so many times... Was always a time to stop and admire the art, not the birds. Amazing human art around the absolute nature art.
Thanks for sharing although some of the atmosphere is lot through the heavy cropping of the images.
There are some of his paintings at the MFA in Boston, I was instantly impressed when I found them
GORGEOUS!
Feels like I could reach out and touch the orchids!
Beautifully melancholic
presence of a powerful but sweet spirit being
WOW..........
A screen simply can’t do his work justice. You have to see it in person.
Mr McIntyre was a hero
Very beautiful story & art. What is the music used at the end of the video called?
Some interesting information here, but I felt you could have mentioned that by no means all Heade's pictures featured flowers and hummingbirds- he is also known for his portraits, landscapes and still-lifes.
I've wished to hear the story of life about Alois Arnegger. His romantic landscapes too much flamboyant, I've never seen anything like this before
I think they are beautiful.
does anyone know the music at 5:28 and 6:13 ??? i love them! and possibly the music from all of the rest of the video, thank you!!!
These look like the plants in the Voynich Manuscript. That interestingly otherworldly look .
what was the song used here?
Merci.
Southeast Asian home aesthetic
Looks a bit like a Dutch artist’s work of the 17th century ….
😻 Cattleya
THe music background REALLY gets in the way of what you’re saying…. if you have to use music at all, it should not be something with melody, because I’m listening to the loud track and not carefully listening to, or musing over, what you are actually saying. Had to open the transcript to keep focused. Otheriwise lovely, but soundtrack fights with what you’re saying.
I know it’s relaxing but girl. Please narrate a teeny bit faster or lower the background music so I have the option to increase playback speed.
Such an awful niece...
🌸🤯
I'm trying to figure out why I like your unconventional speech patterns ... so far I've only come up with, I just do. Of course the interesting material helps ...
No "music" please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No
Please stop with sound
Are you a bot, Deco?
Idk why but i find her voice irritating the way she stops - and pauses - every other - word. It doesn't sound relaxing it sounds lazy.
I just watch in 1.25-1.5x speed. It makes it sound more normal
I watch these videos mainly for her gorgeous voice.
Then don’t watch. Go watch 5 minute crafts then.