I don't know how you manage to make ten minutes of analysis feel like a full documentary in retrospect - but I love it. It's as if you were creating a pattern for a particular perspective, and then each person has their own mental deployment.
Amazing video as always. Thank you for sharing such a comprehensive analysis. It is great how contemporary paintings seem so bizarre and unintelligible at first, but when you learn more about them, they become just beautiful. By the way shoes are so interesting metaphorically. They connect us with earth, leave footprints, come in all different sizes, styles and colours so can represent people. And there is also this idiom "step into somebody's shoes". And also if you enter someone's house you take your shoes off. So they can have so many different meanings.
Thank you so much once again Zofia! One of the reasons why I love modern and contemporary art so much is because you need to dig in a little deeper to really understand and fully appreciate the work! And yes, you're absolutely right! Shoes are super interesting and can be highly symbolic and it's interesting how these symbols can be happy (for example by representing travel) or macabre (as seen with its importance in the Holocaust)
Thank you so much! The problem with posting videos from the same Reddit account is that you'll get flagged for spamming/self-promoting. Feel free to post our videos on Reddit though! It would be extremely helpful!
Great video. I love the connection you made between the banality of the shoes, the symbolism behind it, and how it's connected to his famous hooded self portrait. Guston has been one of my favorite painters for a long time and this video really added to my fascination with him. Thank you so much
Yay I finally get Adorno now! I'm sure I would have if I was actively trying to, but these points were brought up in an art history lecture last year that I wasn't quite following properly, and I definitely came out holding the misconception you raised.
Great video and analysis. In case you haven't read it, I highly recommend Philip Guston - The Studio by Craig Burnett (Afterall Books, 2014) that focuses in particular on that painting, The Studio, in context to Guston's Jewishness, his political leanings, experiences in 20th Century America, and much more besides.
Eichmann had a fantastic collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings in the small gallery he built as an extension to his house. Surprising but true.
Can I ask how you get the information behind the paintings (also how to do choose one to make a video about apart from suggestion)? Did you go to school for this? Are your resources all digital or there are some textbooks? Are they paid?
Hey there! I usually start by looking in my own artbooks and then I'll go online. I'll watch other RUclips videos to see what has already been done and I'll look up articles (both scholar and journalistic). My first language is French, so I have the privilege of being able to access information in two languages. Sometimes, when I need more specific information, I'll go to the library (the best example I can give you was when I did that one video on Dali and fascism). I'm studying art history in university (though reluctantly because my classes are online due to Covid). As for the topic of my videos, I rarely go with suggestions (I better enjoy the creative process when it comes from me). I usually get ideas for videos while doing research for another video. Another source of inspiration is when I read my art books! I have a list of ideas for videos on my phone, so whenever I'm not sure what I want to make a video on, I can look that up. I hope that answers all your questions!
No problem! I wouldn't recommend an art book in particular. Any artbook with descriptions of paintings can be a good way to inspire you! You can probably find some nicr cheap books at your local thrift store! Btw, are you asking because you want to start your own channel? If so, it's very exciting!
@@TheCanvasArtHistory thank you for the answers! And I'm actually asking because there's a story I'm planning to write with the female character as an artist. And the guy and this artist met at an art gallery (she would also kinda go around the country visiting galleries and museums) 😂 and the girl pretty much just started a conversation about why she likes a specific painting. And i had the idea to have painting titles as chapter titles but I'm having a hard time finding ones that would fit the chapters 😂 i found that it would be interestint if the chapter titles (aka paintings) would also almost be like an experience if you went as far as to search up those paintings 😂 And so, i started wondering where you guys found these paintings and the stories and histories behind them. Thank you again! And keep up the quality! I'll be watching! 💕
You should talk about the spanish artist from the 20th century, Josep Renau, and his critic to US Imperialism, Racism, Consumism and Militarisn in his "American Way of Life"
The interpretation is convincing. I am just bothered by the fact that I would have never thought of it (the link between shoes and the holocaust). Can there be great art which absolutely requires a key, a verbal explanation, short of which it is just opaque?
Shoes shoes , i just like shoes , books , mostly shoes though , i just get fixated on shoes , its not a big deal , If the context was not so serious this is a bit humorous , especially the Shoe v Pyramid .
Interesting video. I agree on the "banality of evil" if considered as the "banality of the appearance of evil"... people were expecting to see Eichmann as culture, mostly cinema, depicts nazis since WW2, people in nazi uniforms... it's an image coming from the fact that the nazis are most of the time represented in time of war, during WW2... and also because Hollywood cinema, at least the producers, always wants to be really clear and understandable for everybody and, in most cases, they want the villain to be easily identifiable by the public... so a nazi uniform is perfect to identify a nazi 😀... The problem is that, even if the nazis, and the other fascists, loved to wear uniforms, because fascism, and its ultimate form that nazism is, is based on the cult of army and violence inspired by the Roman "virtus", that must not be confused with what is called "virtue" because it doesn't have anything to do with "moral" 😀... because the "vir" in "virtus is the "vir" of "virility" 😀 and the "virtus" was accompanied by a kind of cult of the "phallus"😀... so it's very different from "virtue" as most people understand this word 😀... But, nevertheless, even if they loved to wear military uniforms, most of the nazis before WW2 were not wearing uniforms 😀... they were wearing suits when they were working in offices... 😀 or tuxedos in high-society's parties where they were drinking champagne like everyone else 😀... as Hitchcock has brillantly depicted them in "Notorious" 😀.... The German film director Fritz Lang has been repeating this many times in interviews... Before taking power, the nazis were, most of the time, not in uniform... on the contrary, they were doing everything they could to appear to be "normal ordinary citizens like anyone else" 😀... I think I've heard Lang say once to someone in an interview... "If you think that nazis are people wearing nazi uniforms... you won't recognize them when/if they come back"... I disagree on the use of shoes or clothes to represent the Holocaust... for 2 reasons... First, it has been so much done and re-done and re-done again that, instead of being "poetic", it has become a "cliché" without substance... The second reason is that I think it has always been wrong, that it has always been a mistake to do that... to me, it's like killing a second time the victims of the Holocaust by doing again what the nazis did to them... "reducing human beings to objects"... like the nazis were calling the Jewish people "stück" ("piece"), "today, we must gas and burn 1000 "pieces"" or "Figuren" (meaning "puppets")... I think, on the contrary, that the task of the artist on this topic is to bring back the human from the object, to give them an artistic "incarnation" so that they may live forever... at least through a work of art... it's the reason why, on this topic, I'm mostly interested in "testimonies" like, for instance, "The Black Book of nazi crimes in Eastern Europe", written by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vassili Grossman... or films like "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann that explains, through testimonies, the mechanic of the machine of the Holocaust... and in the fictional domain, by the novel "Life and Destiny", written by Vassili Grossman, novel that might be the most important novel of the 20th century 😀... There are 3 great highlights in this novel, one of them has been adapted to cinema by film documentarist Frederick Wiseman in the only fictional film he has ever made, "La dernière lettre" (The Last Letter")... this passage of the Vassili Grossman's novel is the strongest "incarnation" I have ever read, heard or seen... A perfect example of the kind of approach I support... And on my immodest part, I've also done a "monument", which is a small collage without "monumental size", but with "monumental humanity", called "A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs"... that is actually coming from the massacre of Srebrenica, because based on a piece of photograph coming from Srebrenica... but is definitely about all the massacres, genocides or Holocaust in history .
I don't know how you manage to make ten minutes of analysis feel like a full documentary in retrospect - but I love it. It's as if you were creating a pattern for a particular perspective, and then each person has their own mental deployment.
Amazing video as always. Thank you for sharing such a comprehensive analysis. It is great how contemporary paintings seem so bizarre and unintelligible at first, but when you learn more about them, they become just beautiful.
By the way shoes are so interesting metaphorically. They connect us with earth, leave footprints, come in all different sizes, styles and colours so can represent people. And there is also this idiom "step into somebody's shoes". And also if you enter someone's house you take your shoes off. So they can have so many different meanings.
Thank you so much once again Zofia! One of the reasons why I love modern and contemporary art so much is because you need to dig in a little deeper to really understand and fully appreciate the work!
And yes, you're absolutely right! Shoes are super interesting and can be highly symbolic and it's interesting how these symbols can be happy (for example by representing travel) or macabre (as seen with its importance in the Holocaust)
This video is simply brilliant. Thank you so much for giving some context and motivation to Gustons figurative work
You deserve millions of subs. Did you try to put your videos on reddit. If it reaches the main page you might gain a lot of subs
Thank you so much!
The problem with posting videos from the same Reddit account is that you'll get flagged for spamming/self-promoting. Feel free to post our videos on Reddit though! It would be extremely helpful!
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Great video. I love the connection you made between the banality of the shoes, the symbolism behind it, and how it's connected to his famous hooded self portrait. Guston has been one of my favorite painters for a long time and this video really added to my fascination with him. Thank you so much
Every time I watch this video it blows me away. Thanks again.
Amazing video as always. I've always been interested in art history, and you have such a great way of presenting it in a simple, interesting manner.
That's super sweet! It's always a challenge to keep the presentation concise and interesting at the same time! Thank you!!
One of the best art history videos ever! It is so necessary to emphasize the link between politics and art, and you are spot on!
Yay I finally get Adorno now! I'm sure I would have if I was actively trying to, but these points were brought up in an art history lecture last year that I wasn't quite following properly, and I definitely came out holding the misconception you raised.
This is so cool! I've never taken the time to get to know Guston's work, but your video makes the works fascinating.
Aww thank you Jen!
Great video and analysis.
In case you haven't read it, I highly recommend Philip Guston - The Studio by Craig Burnett (Afterall Books, 2014) that focuses in particular on that painting, The Studio, in context to Guston's Jewishness, his political leanings, experiences in 20th Century America, and much more besides.
Eichmann had a fantastic collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings in the small gallery he built as an extension to his house.
Surprising but true.
Holly fuck, this video blowed my mind!
Glad to know! Thanks!
@@TheCanvasArtHistory What was the song that you used in this video?
very good channel!!
Love your videos they are so quietly thoughtful x
Can I ask how you get the information behind the paintings (also how to do choose one to make a video about apart from suggestion)? Did you go to school for this? Are your resources all digital or there are some textbooks? Are they paid?
Hey there!
I usually start by looking in my own artbooks and then I'll go online. I'll watch other RUclips videos to see what has already been done and I'll look up articles (both scholar and journalistic). My first language is French, so I have the privilege of being able to access information in two languages. Sometimes, when I need more specific information, I'll go to the library (the best example I can give you was when I did that one video on Dali and fascism).
I'm studying art history in university (though reluctantly because my classes are online due to Covid).
As for the topic of my videos, I rarely go with suggestions (I better enjoy the creative process when it comes from me). I usually get ideas for videos while doing research for another video. Another source of inspiration is when I read my art books! I have a list of ideas for videos on my phone, so whenever I'm not sure what I want to make a video on, I can look that up.
I hope that answers all your questions!
@@TheCanvasArtHistory thank you so much for answering my questions and also so quickly! Are therr any artbooks you'd personally suggest?
No problem! I wouldn't recommend an art book in particular. Any artbook with descriptions of paintings can be a good way to inspire you! You can probably find some nicr cheap books at your local thrift store!
Btw, are you asking because you want to start your own channel? If so, it's very exciting!
@@TheCanvasArtHistory thank you for the answers! And I'm actually asking because there's a story I'm planning to write with the female character as an artist. And the guy and this artist met at an art gallery (she would also kinda go around the country visiting galleries and museums) 😂 and the girl pretty much just started a conversation about why she likes a specific painting. And i had the idea to have painting titles as chapter titles but I'm having a hard time finding ones that would fit the chapters 😂 i found that it would be interestint if the chapter titles (aka paintings) would also almost be like an experience if you went as far as to search up those paintings 😂
And so, i started wondering where you guys found these paintings and the stories and histories behind them. Thank you again! And keep up the quality! I'll be watching! 💕
very nice video
Thank you!
monument is breathtaking
You should talk about the spanish artist from the 20th century, Josep Renau, and his critic to US Imperialism, Racism, Consumism and Militarisn in his "American Way of Life"
very good; thanks
Sorry, why assume that is Guston painting a self portrait ?
Guston's shoes are strongly influenced by Robert Crumb drawings.
Great job.
The interpretation is convincing. I am just bothered by the fact that I would have never thought of it (the link between shoes and the holocaust). Can there be great art which absolutely requires a key, a verbal explanation, short of which it is just opaque?
guston said himself they weren't shoes though!
He may also be indicting himself as a racist. Or saying that bigotry is in all of us.
Shoes shoes , i just like shoes , books , mostly shoes though , i just get fixated on shoes , its not a big deal ,
If the context was not so serious this is a bit humorous , especially the Shoe v Pyramid .
I had no idea this guy even existed.
Not exactly lionized by our arbiters of taste.
So ur saying guston has white guilt?
Interesting video.
I agree on the "banality of evil"
if considered as the "banality of the appearance of evil"...
people were expecting to see Eichmann as culture,
mostly cinema,
depicts nazis since WW2,
people in nazi uniforms...
it's an image coming from the fact that the nazis
are most of the time represented in time of war, during WW2...
and also because Hollywood cinema,
at least the producers,
always wants to be really clear and understandable for everybody
and, in most cases, they want the villain to be easily identifiable by the public...
so a nazi uniform is perfect to identify a nazi 😀...
The problem is that,
even if the nazis, and the other fascists, loved to wear uniforms,
because fascism, and its ultimate form that nazism is,
is based on the cult of army and violence inspired by the Roman "virtus",
that must not be confused with what is called "virtue"
because it doesn't have anything to do with "moral" 😀...
because the "vir" in "virtus is the "vir" of "virility" 😀
and the "virtus" was accompanied by a kind of cult of the "phallus"😀...
so it's very different from "virtue" as most people understand this word 😀...
But, nevertheless, even if they loved to wear military uniforms,
most of the nazis before WW2 were not wearing uniforms 😀...
they were wearing suits when they were working in offices... 😀
or tuxedos in high-society's parties
where they were drinking champagne like everyone else 😀...
as Hitchcock has brillantly depicted them in "Notorious" 😀....
The German film director Fritz Lang has been repeating this many times in interviews...
Before taking power, the nazis were, most of the time, not in uniform...
on the contrary, they were doing everything they could to appear to be
"normal ordinary citizens like anyone else" 😀...
I think I've heard Lang say once to someone in an interview...
"If you think that nazis are people wearing nazi uniforms...
you won't recognize them when/if they come back"...
I disagree on the use of shoes or clothes to represent the Holocaust...
for 2 reasons...
First, it has been so much done and re-done and re-done again
that, instead of being "poetic", it has become a "cliché" without substance...
The second reason is that I think it has always been wrong,
that it has always been a mistake to do that...
to me, it's like killing a second time the victims of the Holocaust
by doing again what the nazis did to them...
"reducing human beings to objects"...
like the nazis were calling the Jewish people "stück" ("piece"),
"today, we must gas and burn 1000 "pieces""
or "Figuren" (meaning "puppets")...
I think, on the contrary, that the task of the artist on this topic
is to bring back the human from the object,
to give them an artistic "incarnation" so that they may live forever...
at least through a work of art...
it's the reason why, on this topic,
I'm mostly interested in "testimonies"
like, for instance, "The Black Book of nazi crimes in Eastern Europe",
written by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vassili Grossman...
or films like "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann that explains, through testimonies,
the mechanic of the machine of the Holocaust...
and in the fictional domain, by the novel "Life and Destiny",
written by Vassili Grossman,
novel that might be the most important novel of the 20th century 😀...
There are 3 great highlights in this novel,
one of them has been adapted to cinema
by film documentarist Frederick Wiseman
in the only fictional film he has ever made,
"La dernière lettre" (The Last Letter")...
this passage of the Vassili Grossman's novel
is the strongest "incarnation" I have ever read, heard or seen...
A perfect example of the kind of approach I support...
And on my immodest part, I've also done a "monument",
which is a small collage without "monumental size",
but with "monumental humanity", called
"A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs"...
that is actually coming from the massacre of Srebrenica,
because based on a piece of photograph coming from Srebrenica...
but is definitely about all the massacres, genocides or Holocaust in history .
The poor man was painting himself....
Is anybody here watching this after today's Artle?