That's why you'd better not stay away from YT too long -- cos you don't know how many Tweedy channels will pop out in the meantime ^^ Best of luck for this one too ! Cheers !
That's a great chance find, thanks for sharing it, Tweedy! I wouldn't have known about Scots pines, your explanation as a clue for MacWhirter's feelings of homesickness is very plausible. What strikes me in this painting is how the trees left and right and the meadows in the foreground are meticulously depicted, but the centre of the picture is actually left empty, the grounds gradually melt away in an almost unreal golden haze. The real world of Hampstead Heath dissolves into an imagined undefined beyond. - It may be kitsch for some, but carry meaning for others.
Thanks Kathi! I'm glad you found the painting interesting too! I read that MacWhirter was famous for the detailing in his trees, and taught art students about his technique, encouraging them to sit for hours and hours just sketching trees for practice. I thought the space in the centre of the picture was perhaps intended to look a bit like the sun, which might partly explain why it's less detailed than the surroundings. The "sun in splendour" as a heraldic emblem is always drawn with rays emanating from it, and I suppose here the rays are represented by the light falling on those surrounding (and very detailed!) trees. I found the reaction from the artists in the room kind of charming actually. The facilitator of the session was a lady who I believe had spent many decades teaching in art school and had a formidable wealth of knowledge about that world... and yet in a way the whole conversation was a bit like a bunch of teenagers talking about the music they liked, and nobody wanted to appear uncool in front of everyone else and admit they liked the band (or in this case painting) which was now desperately out of fashion!
@@TweedyMisc 😄Well done for lightheartedly challenging the cool insiders. Ultimately, a work of art by nature doesn't have a fixed meaning and the value it is given can vary hugely.
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Who cares about the "experts" - this is a very authentic description of a picture that said something to you. Extremely eloquent. Your words captured the air of melancholy perfectly, I felt. I'd have probably just slapped some God awful 1970s experimental music on to do that. In my own inept way, at the age of about 13, I took a series of photos of some Kentish countryside just before it disappeared under roads and housing estates. This has inspired me to venture into the loft to see if they still exist. This new channel has great potential. There's an element of risk to it. What will it be next? Tweedy on guerilla warfare? Tweedy on graffitied underpasses? Tweedy on the interminable death of Last of the Summer Wine? There is literally no limit to what you can do here!
Thank you Mr WC21, and I really appreciate that endorsement of this inaugural Tweedy Misc endeavour! You are right, the sky's the limit, and there's something very liberating about promising nothing at the outset - I really feel like those are the sort of expectations I can live up to! The response to this new channel has really blown me away, the number of subscribers has grown 1700% since I announced it to the world this morning!
Hello John. Oh my, such an interesting and thought provoking discussion. The image does indeed speak to me of the artist lamenting a cherished view now being consumed by urban sprawl, disappearing before his eyes as quickly as that of the setting sun. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Barry! It was sort of Tweedy Pubs for art wasn't it? This was a bit of a whim and I may never do another "Art with Tweedy" video again - but who knows what randomness might show up on this channel next? Quantum physics with Tweedy? Mining with Tweedy? Tweedy wonders why blancmange fell out of fashion?
I really enjoyed that, and good idea for a channel. The painting has wonderful depiction of what I think of as watery light. Scots pine is such an evocative tree.
Thank you! Yes the light is really nice in the painting isn't it? There was some discussion in the "salon" that it might be sunrise rather than sunset - I assumed the former because of the name, but I suppose the sun does often sort of "fade" after a sunrise too - it kinds of settles down and loses all the pinks and oranges.
Hi John, A channel where blancmange might be discussed we'll be living on the ceiling before you know it!! It must have been quite daunting getting up to say 100 words about this painting, well done for getting up there and giving it a go. I can see why you chose it, would be amazing if you could find the likely spot where he painted it. I think even in the mid 19th century you would have been hard pressed to find a view like that. I do enjoy art, but know absolutely nothing about it really. My favourite artist is little known outside of Spain and not as well known in Spain as he should be either. The first painting I saw of his was Pajaros (birds) when we were passing through Madrid in 1996. For years afterwards I would search in book shops to see if I could find it again. Eventually many years later it popped up on the internet in a book. More recently my brother in law painted me a copy of it which has pride of place in our living room. So yes I can understand the personal connection with this picture of the heath. What next on this new channel, we'll just have to wait and see. All the best!! Oh the artist. Jose Gutierrez Solana
Really glad you liked it! This might be a complete one off, I just recorded this on a whim, but it's very nice to see it has struck a chord with a handful of people.
Art is not about being influential, innovative, ground breaking.... etc etc. It's about communicating to the viewer, telling a story perhaps or just to elicit a gut response. I dare say, the artists in your company would wish for a thoughtful response from a lay person on their work or to be remembered more than 100 years after their passing.
Lovely! I thoroughly enjoyed that! And I can from now on claim that I was among the first 100 subscribers.
That's why you'd better not stay away from YT too long -- cos you don't know how many Tweedy channels will pop out in the meantime ^^
Best of luck for this one too ! Cheers !
Art is subjective. Your insights - and the piece you talked about - have great value. Inspiring. Thanks.
That's a great chance find, thanks for sharing it, Tweedy! I wouldn't have known about Scots pines, your explanation as a clue for MacWhirter's feelings of homesickness is very plausible. What strikes me in this painting is how the trees left and right and the meadows in the foreground are meticulously depicted, but the centre of the picture is actually left empty, the grounds gradually melt away in an almost unreal golden haze. The real world of Hampstead Heath dissolves into an imagined undefined beyond. - It may be kitsch for some, but carry meaning for others.
Thanks Kathi! I'm glad you found the painting interesting too! I read that MacWhirter was famous for the detailing in his trees, and taught art students about his technique, encouraging them to sit for hours and hours just sketching trees for practice.
I thought the space in the centre of the picture was perhaps intended to look a bit like the sun, which might partly explain why it's less detailed than the surroundings. The "sun in splendour" as a heraldic emblem is always drawn with rays emanating from it, and I suppose here the rays are represented by the light falling on those surrounding (and very detailed!) trees.
I found the reaction from the artists in the room kind of charming actually. The facilitator of the session was a lady who I believe had spent many decades teaching in art school and had a formidable wealth of knowledge about that world... and yet in a way the whole conversation was a bit like a bunch of teenagers talking about the music they liked, and nobody wanted to appear uncool in front of everyone else and admit they liked the band (or in this case painting) which was now desperately out of fashion!
@@TweedyMisc 😄Well done for lightheartedly challenging the cool insiders. Ultimately, a work of art by nature doesn't have a fixed meaning and the value it is given can vary hugely.
What a lovely video. First time finding Tweedy Misc. Now clearly subscribed
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Who cares about the "experts" - this is a very authentic description of a picture that said something to you.
Extremely eloquent. Your words captured the air of melancholy perfectly, I felt. I'd have probably just slapped some God awful 1970s experimental music on to do that.
In my own inept way, at the age of about 13, I took a series of photos of some Kentish countryside just before it disappeared under roads and housing estates. This has inspired me to venture into the loft to see if they still exist.
This new channel has great potential. There's an element of risk to it. What will it be next? Tweedy on guerilla warfare? Tweedy on graffitied underpasses? Tweedy on the interminable death of Last of the Summer Wine? There is literally no limit to what you can do here!
Thank you Mr WC21, and I really appreciate that endorsement of this inaugural Tweedy Misc endeavour! You are right, the sky's the limit, and there's something very liberating about promising nothing at the outset - I really feel like those are the sort of expectations I can live up to!
The response to this new channel has really blown me away, the number of subscribers has grown 1700% since I announced it to the world this morning!
@@TweedyMisc Strewth! This is going to be your key to the Creator Lounge!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd I had a notification from Studio congratulating me on reaching 10 subscribers!
Hello John. Oh my, such an interesting and thought provoking discussion. The image does indeed speak to me of the artist lamenting a cherished view now being consumed by urban sprawl, disappearing before his eyes as quickly as that of the setting sun. Thank you for sharing.
New Tweedy channel? New Tweedy Bingo card: melancholy? check. motif? check. autumnal? check. Carry on.
Thanks Barry! It was sort of Tweedy Pubs for art wasn't it? This was a bit of a whim and I may never do another "Art with Tweedy" video again - but who knows what randomness might show up on this channel next? Quantum physics with Tweedy? Mining with Tweedy? Tweedy wonders why blancmange fell out of fashion?
@@TweedyMisc poll: what Misc next?
@@TweedyMisc what's that? Blancmange isn't fashionable anymore?
I really enjoyed that, and good idea for a channel. The painting has wonderful depiction of what I think of as watery light. Scots pine is such an evocative tree.
Thank you! Yes the light is really nice in the painting isn't it? There was some discussion in the "salon" that it might be sunrise rather than sunset - I assumed the former because of the name, but I suppose the sun does often sort of "fade" after a sunrise too - it kinds of settles down and loses all the pinks and oranges.
God I miss the sun. Subscribed the wife's an art teacher and I alas a philistine.
Hi John, A channel where blancmange might be discussed we'll be living on the ceiling before you know it!!
It must have been quite daunting getting up to say 100 words about this painting, well done for getting up there and giving it a go. I can see why you chose it, would be amazing if you could find the likely spot where he painted it. I think even in the mid 19th century you would have been hard pressed to find a view like that.
I do enjoy art, but know absolutely nothing about it really. My favourite artist is little known outside of Spain and not as well known in Spain as he should be either. The first painting I saw of his was Pajaros (birds) when we were passing through Madrid in 1996. For years afterwards I would search in book shops to see if I could find it again. Eventually many years later it popped up on the internet in a book. More recently my brother in law painted me a copy of it which has pride of place in our living room. So yes I can understand the personal connection with this picture of the heath.
What next on this new channel, we'll just have to wait and see.
All the best!!
Oh the artist. Jose Gutierrez Solana
Thank you Tweedy, that was highly enjoyable.
Art History is always enthralling, I think.
Really glad you liked it! This might be a complete one off, I just recorded this on a whim, but it's very nice to see it has struck a chord with a handful of people.
Art is not about being influential, innovative, ground breaking.... etc etc. It's about communicating to the viewer, telling a story perhaps or just to elicit a gut response. I dare say, the artists in your company would wish for a thoughtful response from a lay person on their work or to be remembered more than 100 years after their passing.