I studied Art History in the 70's and my instructor despised the Rococo Movement. His own tastes were towards Impressionist and Pre-Modern art so I can understand why he hated Rococo art. To him, it was frivolous and unserious. But I loved it and still do. Yes, it was "pink and fluffy", that's why I liked it. I still adore Vivaldi as well, an artist we also studied because music is art, too after all. I didn't expect to love this documentary this much though. How I wish Waldamar had been there to guide me through the whole Art History experience. He definitely would have made it more interesting. I'll be watching all of his other docs as well.
@@sebeckley and? Does everyone need to be a cultivated art expert to enjoy art? Can't we simply like what makes us feel something, even if it is basic? Does that lessen our experience?
One of the greatest artists in all of Western history emerged from the rococo--Johann Sebastian Bach. He actually created his musical masterpieces close to Meissen, Dresden and all these major rococo palaces and churches in Germany featured in this program. Bach's contemporaries disliked his music--it was seen as too ornate, too complex, to fuddy-duddy. Just like your professor's opinion of rococo in general. Of course, now we recognize this rococo composer as the greatest musical genius of the Western tradition, having deeply influenced the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Mahler, Prokofiev and all the others. His music is conceivably the best ever conceived, IMHO. His cantatas alone are so sonorous--they do great things with the human voice.
Wow... they were truly whimsical back then, especially that house of mint green with gold. It is overwhelming, but yet you can't help but be in awe at how beautiful it is.
I have always been. Die hard fan of this period!!! The color, the whimsy, the joy..... I especially love the depiction of feet and hands during this time period. Chubby fingers, red toes, pink in the nose, MY FAV!!!!
As a chinoiserie artist working for 20 years, I also agree. The Rococo period was not only the golden age of Chinoiserie (it existed to a degree in Europe before the 18th Century), it also was a period of tremendous furniture making. I've lost count of how many 18th century furniture I have seen coming to my place of work, I mean truck loads. And this is just one antique shop. And there thousands of high-end antiques shops all over the world with genuine furniture of the 18th century specifically from the Rococo period.
more... Please... much much much more of Waldemar and his genuine way of making all this so damned entertaining. youtube has never been so addictive as this.
The long months of lockdown brought me here. I have thoroughly enjoyed this art historian's videos about Rococo art. Never have I thought about or appreciated art history until now. Such a pleasure listening to this man talk about art.
@@lindawitherspoon446 thankyou. Yes i did look into it. It actually started with my son stirring me up saying he had died. He wont be doing that again 8n a hurry. I love Sir David Attenborough. Ive watched him since he was little.
He's so energetic. I keep expecting him to say over his shoulder: "for goodness sake keep up". The poor camera person must be exhausted at the end of the day. After watching several of these I decided the camera had to be behind or he'd mow him down. I love all of Waldemar's work and wish there were more. Agree with Stephi you could just listen to him. There have been a few people like that, Carl Sagan was one, simply a delight to listen to. Wish Waldemar was doing more at the current time. All of these are at least a year old.
If you put on a blindfold and listened to Waldmar's voice, I'm certain you'd agree with me, that he has the voice that should be commenting on the play to play action of a match of Manchester United. And yet, this lovely chap is teaching us all this with his humor and grace. Brilliant, just Brilliant!
Absolutely wonderful, I love the puns throughout and especially the one at the end. Waldemar I feel I know you not only because you have my grandfathers name but because your films make the viewers feel like they are strolling along with you as you impart your knowledge in such an accessible human way! Thank you thank you!
I love your suggestion about Chinoiserie: It wasn't about China, it was about Europe, releasing its imagination, releasing it's sensuous European desires. Love it! This was one of my favorite in the series. Have always loved Rococo, and I like how you show it was much more than frivolity.
I had an art history professor describe the Rococo period as unsubtle as the 90's and I can't get it out of my head whenever I encounter anything from this period. They were so damn extra and in your face
speaking of subtlety, what's subtle of van Gogh? of Beethoven's Fifth? Stravinsky's Rite? Battleship Potemkin? 2001: A Space Odyssey? when did subtlety become an artistic criteria, I wonder:-)
I can't help but be reminded of Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette' and how the film has been criticized for its apparent lack of 'substance' and for having a too contemporary soundtrack. From my perspective, Coppola simply wanted the film to embody the disconnect - that sense of being out of place - between Rococo, with it's delicious, pastel hues, and France's desperate economic situation at that time.
"Some of the best voyaging was done in the mind." And that's what I'm doing watching these videos. No air travel for me during these germy times, I'm afraid.
Perfect! I expected specific works and a word on each artist, but I got much more: a good look at the rococo era, a wildly changing era moving people from camera obscura to absurd ideas of the “mysterious orient.” It’s extraordinary how we found ourselves in a sort of tsunami of new feelings, wanderlust, and brilliant ideas. Seems like just steps behind us, our ancestors were still coping with the earth being round, and right ahead of us there were the penicillin and Darwin. No wonder then that those enticing Fragonard girls morphed into “well-behaved” girls who screamed for Ringo. What could be more logical?
My art history professor loved almost all art periods...from ancient Sumerian to early abstract. She was ALMOST as enthusiastic as Waldemar about Rococo. I also love the colors and the fantasy swirling together to create a view of architecture and nature.
Reminds me of the "Civilization" series from the early 70s: a still very watchable series, by the way. I love all of this! Thanks for making all of this available. Pat, in Chicago
It's a great movie!!! I don't expect will to see so many of my loving art things. Valdemar, great thanks for a masterpiece by Balthasar Neumann an excellent Vierzehnheiligen church. You quit justly called Neumann a giant of rococo. Thanks for frescoes by Tiepolo with amazing details, many splendid canvases of Canaletto, and, of course, for matchless Meissen's porcelain figures, particularly amusing monkey!!!
I used to dislike rococo. But after read introduction of a book about it some years ago I started to like it, because it's relationship to modern art I love: romantism, impressionism, expressionism, abstract expressionism and cy Twombly.
I am grateful that the German city of Meissen was covered in this particular documentary. It is not known well enough in this world. Quite often they’re porcelain is overlooked. And the town is as charming as you can imagine. My maternal ancestors are from there. Our family inherited many pieces of the Mason that my Nana and grandpa priced. We all had the famous blue onion plates and cups and saucers that people see it’s all off and understand where the design is from. Thank you so much for that
Absolutely breathtaking presentation! your delivery is one of its kind! Most memorable! Thank you very much, you are a fountain of humorous knowledge🙏🏻✨😁🕊💐
Waldo the coinosseur. Until this film I'd always as an art student looked down on all that fiddly embroidery. That meadow beauty full of fake marble just slit me open like an oyster shell... baroque but full of light and pink. Brr. But so overwhelming! Thank you, my imaginary friend and guide.
I have only just discovered this amazing series on art history. Binge watching now to brighten the wretched lock-down, feeling ill and praying I don't have the wretched plague!! PS Bad luck with Waldemar having to climb all those flights of steps!!
Wuerzburger Residenz my home town, surprised I saw it. Walked by it daily on the way to my sisters. The garden behind it is just as pretty and one of the locals attractions. Riemenschneider did most of the statues in town and was a leading figure of the resistance during the civil war of germany. The Falkenhaus on the marketplace would been a nice addition aswell since its often voted the prettiest house in Germany and very Rococo.
Coincidentally, the 18th century was also known for its mathematicians, starting with Newton and Leibniz who discovered calculus, then going on to the great French mathematicians Lagrange, Laplace, and Fournier, and one of the greatest of all time, Euler.
I had been in Bavaria for a long time and I had always wondered about these opulent churches in the middle of nowhere. It had always seemed absurd. Now I have the explanation.
It is owed to Canaletto's landscapes of Warsaw and their incredible, meticulously painted detail, that Warsaw's old town had been reconstructed almost from ashes after WW2. The destruction of the city and its resources was accompanied with the loss of of the architectonic documentation of the area. Also, August the Strong didn't bend horseshoes. They were already made like that. He straightened them. But aside from his countless downsides, one has got to acknowledge his achievement of being a man who actually cared to forge Chinese produce xDDD
I love @53:13 "These gorgeous views of Warwick Castle in the sunshine feel so vivid and real, but of course they aren't. The only place you get skies like that in England is in your dreams"
Rococo - I knew nothing! Not what I thought - it is like Baroque with airy lightness and beauty beyond expectations. I hesitate to use the term Glorious fearing there is no more, but that defined it for me. What a fun surprise!
My first art history professor was so unforgiving and dismissive towards the Rococo, and in modern times it's easy to see why it's so disliked. Still, I love this narrator's positive approach! He appreciates the beauty and magnificence of the pieces, highlights the mindset and artistic achievements of the movement (far better than my professor did), while still poking fun at the silliness of it.
I visit the Castle of Sans, Soucy it was so stunningly gorgeous, the details, the sculptures, the parks. One detail that I found funny when you go down the steps toward the flowers beds, We were told that the height and how many different levels it had was that when Frederick the 1st when he was at the bottom of it he could no longer see the Castle. He was 5'1" inches tall (154 cms) so our guide told us to bend down once we were at the bottom of it, I am 6'2" tall (188 cms) we all laugh because of this. The inside of the Castle is gorgeous, and he did not allow his wife except on rare occasions to visit him there.
Rococo is so exaggerated, heavy with adornment, fluidity and rhythm. I think a lot of contemporary artists on internet seeks the same principles of rhythm, action and expression, influenced of course by animation, like Walt Disney's ones, that really exaggerates movement to highlight expression. I love to compare recent contemporary art with these old beauties. I mean, Rococo is a bit too much for me, but the documentary was so good to explain why it was like this!
Dreadful lockdown! everyone is tired of this aspect of 2020 all around. But it looks like there is light at The end of the tunnel and it won't be 4 ever given the vaccines in development now and reaching phases where trials are phasing soon into distribution. It will take a long time for vaccination to wind it's way through the world, but it looks like science and technology were gifts again from our Creator to save the day! I'm holding on and wearing my mask, using hand sanitizer, keeping social distance, going out only on essential trips -- looking at bright side -- it's been over a year since this deadly bug hit the global stage. It hasn't killed off humanity despite its awful death toll and economic impact. We're still standing to fight another day. God bless you! And a Happy Thanksgiving! Be well; be safe!
BTW: I cried as Cathedral Notre Dame burned. U sound like it might have hit you hard, too. I hope they have protected the wood from elements until roof can be replaced. Wood that doesn't even grow any more had been part of that structure. My tears were over the lack of deep regard for posterity and ancient artifacts & architecture that the fire represented to me. I hope there is a channel on YTube or podcast/blog re refurbishing CND. I would love to watch this.
At 37:01. Fun fact: while European kings were building bizarre pleasure pavilions modeled on what they heard about Chinese emperors, during this very same Rococo period in the 1700s the Qianlong Emperor in Beijing was doing the same but the other way around--building bizarre pleasure pavilions modeled on what he had heard about European kings. The Qianlong Emperor did have Jesuit monks in his court as advisors, so he was able to build closer approximations of what European palaces actually looked like. But they were still a bit out there because they had to hew to Chinese architectural norms. Alas, when European armies invaded Beijing in 1860, they burned these European-kitsch pavilions to the ground and raided their rooms for treasures, mostly very valuable Chinese porcelain and bronzes that are still floating around European art collections to this day. The destruction and looting of these European-kitsch pavilions is a very sore point with the Chinese government to this day.
While watching videos of the Rio and Sao Paolo Carnivals, it occurred to me that the floats that are created each year by the various Samba teams are continuing the Rococo tradition. Instead of ostriches, they always have many floats with jungle themes, with various jungle animals and birds, as well as floats with religious (catholic) themes, and almost all the floats are amazing, over-the-top, exuberant, works of art.
Visiting Harvard Museum of Arts and seeing Canaletto’s painting titled Piazza San Marco, Venice with great understanding of how camera obscura’s role in his painting.
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Waldemar Januszczak's narration of this series is itself an art form.
@Liz Muschinski So well said!
I concur
In fact, I don't think he knows just how good he is, not even joking
EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯
I studied Art History in the 70's and my instructor despised the Rococo Movement. His own tastes were towards Impressionist and Pre-Modern art so I can understand why he hated Rococo art. To him, it was frivolous and unserious. But I loved it and still do. Yes, it was "pink and fluffy", that's why I liked it. I still adore Vivaldi as well, an artist we also studied because music is art, too after all. I didn't expect to love this documentary this much though. How I wish Waldamar had been there to guide me through the whole Art History experience. He definitely would have made it more interesting. I'll be watching all of his other docs as well.
It's pretty basic to prefer the Impressionists.
@@sebeckley and? Does everyone need to be a cultivated art expert to enjoy art? Can't we simply like what makes us feel something, even if it is basic? Does that lessen our experience?
One of the greatest artists in all of Western history emerged from the rococo--Johann Sebastian Bach. He actually created his musical masterpieces close to Meissen, Dresden and all these major rococo palaces and churches in Germany featured in this program. Bach's contemporaries disliked his music--it was seen as too ornate, too complex, to fuddy-duddy. Just like your professor's opinion of rococo in general. Of course, now we recognize this rococo composer as the greatest musical genius of the Western tradition, having deeply influenced the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Mahler, Prokofiev and all the others. His music is conceivably the best ever conceived, IMHO. His cantatas alone are so sonorous--they do great things with the human voice.
@@sebeckley the times are changing. You cannot compare Rococo with Impressionismus. World changed from here to there.
The first thing that that
"I'm a mug man by instinct"
Wonderful series full of glorious artistic quotes.
Waldermar at his best.
I'll never have the opportunity to see what you have seen and listening to you, I travel the world and see it's beautiful art. Thank you.
Wow... they were truly whimsical back then, especially that house of mint green with gold. It is overwhelming, but yet you can't help but be in awe at how beautiful it is.
I’m a photographer and trying to teach myself art history to understand art, and I think I found the best instructor and best way to learn. 💖
@Frances Remo Certainly the best instructor. This whole series is absolutely astonishing, especially Waldemar's explanations and expositions.
Yes I try and watch everything he presents.
thats true
His comparative analysis of the Renaissance, Baroque and then Rococo showing pearls and shells is the best definition I've seen, Bravo!
All other art currents are just jealous of Rococo. It's fabulously rich, flamboyant, elegant and gorgeous. What's not to like?!
So true so true😍😍😍😍
Exactly
I have always been. Die hard fan of this period!!! The color, the whimsy, the joy..... I especially love the depiction of feet and hands during this time period. Chubby fingers, red toes, pink in the nose, MY FAV!!!!
As a chinoiserie artist working for 20 years, I also agree. The Rococo period was not only the golden age of Chinoiserie (it existed to a degree in Europe before the 18th Century), it also was a period of tremendous furniture making. I've lost count of how many 18th century furniture I have seen coming to my place of work, I mean truck loads. And this is just one antique shop. And there thousands of high-end antiques shops all over the world with genuine furniture of the 18th century specifically from the Rococo period.
Hygiene 🤣
Love Waldermars presentations----creative with personality.One of the best. Art History is facinating
The moment I clicked on the video I couldn't stop watching. This is probably one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever seen. Job well done!
more... Please... much much much more of Waldemar and his genuine way of making all this so damned entertaining. youtube has never been so addictive as this.
I don't know art butt I know what I like. Now I am learning WHY I like it.
This man's the real deal. Thank you for this marvelous free series on RUclips!
Bravo !!! Waldemar Januszczak , Bravo !! Well Done and Thanks for SHARING the MARVELOUS views.
This is the content that is getting me through this freaking year
Nice email name-Henry James is one of my favorite writers. Cheers from Wyoming!🙋🏼♀️
Same here ☺️
This is the good stuff
Same brother. 2020 is has been a terrible year but these documentaries are helpful
Me too!
The long months of lockdown brought me here. I have thoroughly enjoyed this art historian's videos about Rococo art. Never have I thought about or appreciated art history until now. Such a pleasure listening to this man talk about art.
This is one of the very best of Waldemar Januszczak's educational videos!
I love the way his back is to camera and he turns around to talk to you as if you're trying to tag along with his enthusiam.
@ 27:30 : "Remember, this was still the pre-Darwinian world, David Attenborough hadn't even been born yet."
Priceless, Waldermar, priceless.
The best irony
What a man Sir.David was .
I also thought about what exact rhetorical device that was and decided finally, after a thorough research, it is "adianoeta".
@@pippy68p65 he’s not dead.
@@lindawitherspoon446 thankyou. Yes i did look into it. It actually started with my son stirring me up saying he had died. He wont be doing that again 8n a hurry. I love Sir David Attenborough. Ive watched him since he was little.
Dear Waldemar, I'm grateful to you for these wonderful travels with you through the history of arts. Much to leran and much to admire. Thank you!!!
He's so energetic. I keep expecting him to say over his shoulder: "for goodness sake keep up". The poor camera person must be exhausted at the end of the day. After watching several of these I decided the camera had to be behind or he'd mow him down.
I love all of Waldemar's work and wish there were more. Agree with Stephi you could just listen to him. There have been a few people like that, Carl Sagan was one, simply a delight to listen to. Wish Waldemar was doing more at the current time. All of these are at least a year old.
Started watching this morning..FINALLY, get to finish it tonight. Yay!
Just love Valdemar.
A wonderful journey with my favourite art historian.
BUSTING
If you put on a blindfold and listened to Waldmar's voice, I'm certain you'd agree with me, that he has the voice that should be commenting on the play to play action of a match of Manchester United. And yet, this lovely chap is teaching us all this with his humor and grace. Brilliant, just Brilliant!
Ja maar nu is hij boos op mij ,maar dat is ook niet voor eerst ,hij went er maar aan 😇 👉😘👉🤓
Ik versta jammer genoeg Engels dus spraakverwarring alom 🙃
Niet genoeg Engels
Absolutely wonderful, I love the puns throughout and especially the one at the end. Waldemar I feel I know you not only because you have my grandfathers name but because your films make the viewers feel like they are strolling along with you as you impart your knowledge in such an accessible human way! Thank you thank you!
.....a marvell, a complete achievement, from the authors, and the savant that runs the show, my utermost thanks .....
It’s great to be able to see places without a lot of tourists. Thank You!
I love your suggestion about Chinoiserie: It wasn't about China, it was about Europe, releasing its imagination, releasing it's sensuous European desires. Love it! This was one of my favorite in the series. Have always loved Rococo, and I like how you show it was much more than frivolity.
Love this time in Furnishings and design. Mixing This period with Art Deco and splashes of Shabby French Country estate. Looks Magical IMHO
I had an art history professor describe the Rococo period as unsubtle as the 90's and I can't get it out of my head whenever I encounter anything from this period. They were so damn extra and in your face
that's on point, im going to remember that
speaking of subtlety, what's subtle of van Gogh? of Beethoven's Fifth? Stravinsky's Rite? Battleship Potemkin? 2001: A Space Odyssey? when did subtlety become an artistic criteria, I wonder:-)
Over the top is how I describe the period. Just joyous
The 80's were explosive and OTT...the 90's was grunge and depressing and minimalist
As always another wonderful programme, Waldamar's perspective is the highlight of my viewing week. Thank you so much
This is just absolutely gorgeous. Thank you so bad🦏
It has long been my favorite. They let my mind wander through the painting and time because they are so dreamy. There is so much to look at.
I can't help but be reminded of Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette' and how the film has been criticized for its apparent lack of 'substance' and for having a too contemporary soundtrack. From my perspective, Coppola simply wanted the film to embody the disconnect - that sense of being out of place - between Rococo, with it's delicious, pastel hues, and France's desperate economic situation at that time.
What a wonderful series, I love his approach to art. Extremely well done and informative, he irresistibly draws you in.
This guy presents art in the most interesting and engaging and memorable way
3 Enthusiastic Thumps Up The Magic of Porcelain Plaster Architecture and Paint Well Done Waldemar
These are definitely the high water mark of art documentaries. Entertaining and very informative.
Have you looked at 'Civilisation' ?
@@PK-re3lu no, but thanks for the tip.
"Some of the best voyaging was done in the mind." And that's what I'm doing watching these videos. No air travel for me during these germy times, I'm afraid.
I watch him on telly in Canada 🇨🇦 ... now I can see him any time ! 👍🏼‼️
Perfect! I expected specific works and a word on each artist, but I got much more: a good look at the rococo era, a wildly changing era moving people from camera obscura to absurd ideas of the “mysterious orient.” It’s extraordinary how we found ourselves in a sort of tsunami of new feelings, wanderlust, and brilliant ideas. Seems like just steps behind us, our ancestors were still coping with the earth being round, and right ahead of us there were the penicillin and Darwin. No wonder then that those enticing Fragonard girls morphed into “well-behaved” girls who screamed for Ringo. What could be more logical?
So obsessed with Waldemar’s videos,he is the best !
My art history professor loved almost all art periods...from ancient Sumerian to early abstract. She was ALMOST as enthusiastic as Waldemar about Rococo. I also love the colors and the fantasy swirling together to create a view of architecture and nature.
Reminds me of the "Civilization" series from the early 70s: a still very watchable series, by the way. I love all of this! Thanks for making all of this available.
Pat, in Chicago
So wonderful, so Waldemar! My best!
This is an amazing channel. I love to watch and explore the the untold story of Europian Arts history. Thanks you for sharing from India.
It's a great movie!!! I don't expect will to see so many of my loving art things. Valdemar, great thanks for a masterpiece by Balthasar Neumann an excellent Vierzehnheiligen church. You quit justly called Neumann a giant of rococo. Thanks for frescoes by Tiepolo with amazing details, many splendid canvases of Canaletto, and, of course, for matchless Meissen's porcelain figures, particularly amusing monkey!!!
Yep, Waldemar equals a Genius at Work, unparalelled narrative, fluency, splendid in the realm universal across millenia: Arts.
"I love the way religion can turn nowhere into somewhere." --- so true for almost all rural places of pilgrimage.
I do loved this. Thanks for posting and sharing. Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil.
I used to dislike rococo. But after read introduction of a book about it some years ago I started to like it, because it's relationship to modern art I love: romantism, impressionism, expressionism, abstract expressionism and cy Twombly.
I am grateful that the German city of Meissen was covered in this particular documentary. It is not known well enough in this world. Quite often they’re porcelain is overlooked. And the town is as charming as you can imagine. My maternal ancestors are from there. Our family inherited many pieces of the Mason that my Nana and grandpa priced. We all had the famous blue onion plates and cups and saucers that people see it’s all off and understand where the design is from. Thank you so much for that
Absolutely breathtaking presentation! your delivery is one of its kind! Most memorable! Thank you very much, you are a fountain of humorous knowledge🙏🏻✨😁🕊💐
Waldo the coinosseur. Until this film I'd always as an art student looked down on all that fiddly embroidery. That meadow beauty full of fake marble just slit me open like an oyster shell... baroque but full of light and pink. Brr. But so overwhelming! Thank you, my imaginary friend and guide.
I have only just discovered this amazing series on art history. Binge watching now to brighten the wretched lock-down, feeling ill and praying I don't have the wretched plague!! PS Bad luck with Waldemar having to climb all those flights of steps!!
Wuerzburger Residenz my home town, surprised I saw it. Walked by it daily on the way to my sisters. The garden behind it is just as pretty and one of the locals attractions. Riemenschneider did most of the statues in town and was a leading figure of the resistance during the civil war of germany. The Falkenhaus on the marketplace would been a nice addition aswell since its often voted the prettiest house in Germany and very Rococo.
I have learned so much from this series.
Honestly. I was acc happy to see another video. The host is always so passionate and has a great understanding of ever topic
Me too
Me too!!!
From America.... Me too
I studied Art History at uni and I STILL leaned a ton from Waldy.
I love how he turns away from the camera and talks. Great gag. Love it.
Coincidentally, the 18th century was also known for its mathematicians, starting with Newton and Leibniz who discovered calculus, then going on to the great French mathematicians Lagrange, Laplace, and Fournier, and one of the greatest of all time, Euler.
Please share part 2! I’m on the edge of my seat...;) 🎨
I had been in Bavaria for a long time and I had always wondered about these opulent churches in the middle of nowhere. It had always seemed absurd. Now I have the explanation.
who else was literally waiting for this one to drop 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This perspective of Rococco gave me a new appreciation for this art period. Thank you.
It is owed to Canaletto's landscapes of Warsaw and their incredible, meticulously painted detail, that Warsaw's old town had been reconstructed almost from ashes after WW2. The destruction of the city and its resources was accompanied with the loss of of the architectonic documentation of the area.
Also, August the Strong didn't bend horseshoes. They were already made like that. He straightened them. But aside from his countless downsides, one has got to acknowledge his achievement of being a man who actually cared to forge Chinese produce xDDD
Great documentary! Get into the art world is such pleasure with Waldemar guidance
This was so well done. The humourous bits were just great!
Rococo so over the top but beautiful.
Like the documentaries with this art historian / art critic .
It is "over the top"..but, to think ..this was done in the 16th Cish...incredible...
Always an idiot everywhere you go.............NO ONE WANTS TO READ USELESS JUNK OR CRITICISM .............
@@doreekaplan6782 Thank you and have a nice day.
I love these! They are so entertaining and I have learned so much!
Don't know a lot about Art, but have decided I am definitely a fan of Rococo works 😍
I love @53:13 "These gorgeous views of Warwick Castle in the sunshine feel so vivid and real, but of course they aren't. The only place you get skies like that in England is in your dreams"
This video is so much fun!
Rococo - I knew nothing! Not what I thought - it is like Baroque with airy lightness and beauty beyond expectations. I hesitate to use the term Glorious fearing there is no more, but that defined it for me. What a fun surprise!
Amazing job, so great and simple explanation! The most charming stule ever!
The love of art just ooooozes out of Waldemar Januszczak. It is very refreshing.
Waldemar Januszcak speaks more intelligently and more eloquently about art than anyone else I have ever heard.
My first art history professor was so unforgiving and dismissive towards the Rococo, and in modern times it's easy to see why it's so disliked. Still, I love this narrator's positive approach! He appreciates the beauty and magnificence of the pieces, highlights the mindset and artistic achievements of the movement (far better than my professor did), while still poking fun at the silliness of it.
Fantastic in every way! Thank you👏 🐚 🥂
I visit the Castle of Sans, Soucy it was so stunningly gorgeous, the details, the sculptures, the parks. One detail that I found funny when you go down the steps toward the flowers beds, We were told that the height and how many different levels it had was that when Frederick the 1st when he was at the bottom of it he could no longer see the Castle. He was 5'1" inches tall (154 cms) so our guide told us to bend down once we were at the bottom of it, I am 6'2" tall (188 cms) we all laugh because of this. The inside of the Castle is gorgeous, and he did not allow his wife except on rare occasions to visit him there.
What are you up to Waldemar, it can't be Perspective without you.
Rococo is so exaggerated, heavy with adornment, fluidity and rhythm. I think a lot of contemporary artists on internet seeks the same principles of rhythm, action and expression, influenced of course by animation, like Walt Disney's ones, that really exaggerates movement to highlight expression. I love to compare recent contemporary art with these old beauties. I mean, Rococo is a bit too much for me, but the documentary was so good to explain why it was like this!
Rococo is like sex....too much is never enough
wonderful art presentations. Thanks Waldemar
Perfect! On lockdown again in Wyoming. Thank You!🙋🏼♀️💞🌟
Dreadful lockdown! everyone is tired of this aspect of 2020 all around.
But it looks like there is light at The end of the tunnel and it won't be 4 ever given the vaccines in development now and reaching phases where trials are phasing soon into distribution.
It will take a long time for vaccination to wind it's way through the world, but it looks like science and technology were gifts again from our Creator to save the day!
I'm holding on and wearing my mask, using hand sanitizer, keeping social distance, going out only on essential trips -- looking at bright side -- it's been over a year since this deadly bug hit the global stage. It hasn't killed off humanity despite its awful death toll and economic impact. We're still standing to fight another day.
God bless you! And a Happy Thanksgiving!
Be well; be safe!
BTW: I cried as Cathedral Notre Dame burned. U sound like it might have hit you hard, too.
I hope they have protected the wood from elements until roof can be replaced. Wood that doesn't even grow any more had been part of that structure. My tears were over the lack of deep regard for posterity and ancient artifacts & architecture that the fire represented to me.
I hope there is a channel on YTube or podcast/blog re refurbishing CND. I would love to watch this.
@@denkerdunsmuir3370 You, too. Yes, I am taking the same precautions. God bless you, too! Happy and Safe for Yankee Thanksgiving Week.😷
@@denkerdunsmuir3370 Yes, I cried and cried. I sure hope they can rebuild successfully amongst the Pandemic Chaos. 🌹
At 37:01. Fun fact: while European kings were building bizarre pleasure pavilions modeled on what they heard about Chinese emperors, during this very same Rococo period in the 1700s the Qianlong Emperor in Beijing was doing the same but the other way around--building bizarre pleasure pavilions modeled on what he had heard about European kings. The Qianlong Emperor did have Jesuit monks in his court as advisors, so he was able to build closer approximations of what European palaces actually looked like. But they were still a bit out there because they had to hew to Chinese architectural norms. Alas, when European armies invaded Beijing in 1860, they burned these European-kitsch pavilions to the ground and raided their rooms for treasures, mostly very valuable Chinese porcelain and bronzes that are still floating around European art collections to this day. The destruction and looting of these European-kitsch pavilions is a very sore point with the Chinese government to this day.
Thank you very much! I love the Rococo ornamentation.
What a fascinating travel! Sir, you amazing! This document has it all! Thank you so much!
What an excessively rich experience brought to us by Waldermar
Another eye-opener. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for uploading
love your presentations and of course your choice of music is divine!
Rococo architecture and painting is also uptuday arts in the seen towns.thanks for your guiding
While watching videos of the Rio and Sao Paolo Carnivals, it occurred to me that the floats that are created each year by the various Samba teams are continuing the Rococo tradition. Instead of ostriches, they always have many floats with jungle themes, with various jungle animals and birds, as well as floats with religious (catholic) themes, and almost all the floats are amazing, over-the-top, exuberant, works of art.
Formidable documentary! Thank you for sharing 🙏
Bravo, bravo, bravo. I was totally absorbed.
Lovely and intriguing as all the other of Waldemar's presentations. Looking forward to the next chapter.
Love this guy. He makes it so interesting. Great video.
My favourite channel. These are outstanding.
Merci again .
It strikes me that Canaletto was the precursor to Terry Redlin: serving up a fantasy idealization. Too perfect to have ever existed.
I have one word to describe Rococo art - whimsical
Visiting Harvard Museum of Arts and seeing Canaletto’s painting titled Piazza San Marco, Venice with great understanding of how camera obscura’s role in his painting.
Wow, seeing some of the Meissen pieces was fantastic.