Mr. Januszczak is one of a kind. Spell check can't grasp his name but I grabbed hold of his passion for art and ability to inspire art enthusiasts. I got through pandemic and grew as a direct result, enjoying being guided by the Hitchcock of the art doc. In my home we call him Waldy! Thanks so much for all your hard work. I wish I'd had these docs as a middle school kid bored to tears watching a television rolled in on a metal cart showing art I had zero interest in. Been to the National Gallery and Tate my interest peeked. Hip Hip Hooray.
I don't know anything about art. I only know what I like. Art is what I can't do. I thought so for a long time - then came Waldemar. He can explain art that doesn't appeal to me at first glance like no other. Thanks sir.
What is incredible…exceptional… about this film is the artists interviews. When I binge watch Waldemar’s videos and then come across one where I can witness him interview the artist, it makes my brain pause. It is a treasure.
Everyone has access to a pencil and paper, but only an artist can do magic with it. That is what Art is all about to me. All these expensive and luxurious projects don't promote art but make it inaccessible.
The video is a piece of art in itself. Playful, humorous, informative, above all thought provoking. I didn't have time to see it through in one go...but I did so anyway.
@@marissashantez6051 Yeah, the MLK statue from what I've seen in videos looks like a mistake. But that's quite a leap you make to saying all modern art is nonsense. Is all Renaissance art nonsense by having one bad piece? Is all literature nonsense by one bad book? Is an art form nonsense if it contains one bad work of art?
I just love how Waldemar explains every art movement. He helps me to understand so much. It is like studying art history on youtube und much better than in the 80s in real university 🙏🏻🤗
Waldemar, your insights and creative interpretations are wonderfully idiosyncratic, often profound, and provocative in a personal way. But in this show your comparison of these current artists to past painters [dead animal paintings/Hirst, Tiepolo/Yoko Ono, Canaletto/creator of wall art, etc.], you side-step a huge difference: the artist's touch. In the older work, the connection of eye-hand brush translated onto the canvas with a sticky substance we call paint is an alchemical transformation. So the connections you're making regarding the similarity of subject matter or generalizations about delicacy or texture don't hold water. They sound good, but they don't work. You think we won't know that the important elements of a work of art are not subject matter alone but HOW the work is created along with that subject matter. While I love your personal insights (such as the one about your mother's picture), the show as a whole fails because your premise has serious faults. Better that you choose artists such as Kentridge, Dumas, or Doig to compare with past art. And what is "ugly" about Yoko Ono or Carl Andre or Anish Kapoor's work? Maybe elusive or ambiguous or conceptual . . . but ugly? No. They're even rather elegant. Still, I applaud you for your you-ness and humor, and often depth.
I think this is my favorite of your presentations so far, Mr. Januszczak. You've made older art and contemporary art cohere in ways that cheapen neither. In fact you've elevated all. Thank you for this.
Part of what people find objectional about this sort of modern work is not the stuff itself, but its dominance in art galleries, and the price its sold for. How is that worth X million dollars!!? What many are unaware of is that there's a whole field of decorator abstractionists. Many moderately moneyed like the spareness or texture of much contemporary modern art, but don't want to pay those prices or even have the responsibility to care that much for them. In comes the decorator artist. Decorator first, artist second. "Here's a portfolio to look at. What sort of things do you like? We spoke about this space here needing something warm, perhaps red? And something hanging here 4 metres wide and a drop of six." A commission is made, a work constructed, and sold for say six to ten times the cost of materials, plus consultation and wages. If someone falls into it at a party, the kids ruin it, or you get sick of it three years later, just throw it out. "We only paid a few thousand for it after all."
@@artriot4758 Waldemar Januszczak does not understand art is although he knows far more about it than I will ever know . Most people have no idea what art is. I often dislike real art at first because it is telling me something that I do not understand. Art essay about perception in the language of the right brain. I don't think that the kitsch is art because it doesn't have anything to say. Kirsch is pleasing to the eye and that is all anything has to be. It doesn't have to be beautiful and doesn't have to be art, just nice to look at.
@@artriot4758 I didn't say it was objectionable. Just that many do because it controls the art world stage. I then pointed out that however others do like it, but really mostly only at the level of decoration and sensation. As such, decorator art, striped of conceptual attachment (Which the gallery pieces usually fail to illustrate.) is more honest in purpose.
I was going to walk over to the National Gallery of Art this afternoon, but instead this video came out so I stayed in to watch this. I've been on a WJ kick the last week or two. I'm guessing he'd be annoyed at me staying in to watch a video rather than going to an actual museum, but I wonder if he'd cut me a break since it was HIS video?
I deeply love films/videos presented/produced by Waldemar Januszczak - I wish I’d encountered him long before now and am grateful that it did finally happen. Just wonderful!
Thanks, Waldemar. Beautifully done. When I was young I didn’t see much of the art in the modern. Now it makes me smile and think about what I’ve lived for or thought of while doing the living. Perspective maybe.
In 1919, a Romanian poet and philosopher wrote this : I do not crash the crown of world's marvels / and do not kill with my mind the secrets I meet on my way in flowers, eyes, lips, or graves... Some other's light strangle the mystery of the impenetrable unseen... His name is Lucian Blaga, and I got a very high grade at the final exam ( baccalaureate) for having read his poetry.
Another terrific video from Mr. Waldemar Januszczak. I can't get enough! Thank you so much, Waldemar. ...and thank you so much for spending time on Yoko Ono. I loved her installation, and even more I loved your interview with her. She's still going strong at 91.
Excellent! I wish my National Gallery could have it's own Waldemar to breath this kind of life into it's presentations. I'll suggest they pay him to do it. So good.
Okay, thank you yet again. "Permanent change is what life is about." I shall be more open-minded--or honestly aware--when approaching current art of all types. "The struggle is important." Wow.
To me there's a vast uncross-able difference between Art & Exhibitionism. What so many modern exhibitionists seek feels like acceptance into or validation by the greats. I'm sympathetic to their need but not swayed enough to embrace performance anywhere near the emotions classical evokes. Usually my first reaction is "That's clever" or "Your joking, right?" Which pales a lot with the deep fascination & awe of human accomplishment I get from classical masterworks. I can't help myself but to categorize the majority of modern "art" in with advertising media & go from there. Simply put, like pop music it's fun to tap your foot for five minutes but ultimately forgettable. I am entertained by their egos though
I love how Waldemar engages us as viewers and challenges the status quo notions of art and its history. His perspective truly brings out the raw emotion behind the arts and their many variations. Would love to take an Art History course with this chap.
He is pretty much the best presenter of art I've had the pleasure of watching. I'll sing at his funeral and my voice isn't very good. Thanks for another great documentary.
I think the biggest issue with modern art is how one seems to need a long paragraph explaining the context of the art. All I need to appreciate the classical works in the Lourve are my own eyes, with the modern pieces presented in this documentary, I only gain an appreciation for them after listening to an interview of the artist. Modern art seems unable to stand on its inherent qualities.
Fair enough, have you seen Waldemars fabulous documentary about Jan van Eycks "Arnolfini marriage"? We are fascinated about all the puzzles both in the picture as well as the technical mastery of the painting , but it ain't speak to us immediately. I would call the disappointment of modern art the "I could have done it myself" effect. As if it was some clever scam, impossible to predict and not necessarily evil , but trivial in hindsight. Like the invention of a cheap trick. It is also somehow democratic, not devoid of "inherent quality" but it lacks a quality which sets it apart.
Cudowne odcinek, naprawde! Thank you so much! You make the best Art History teacher ever. So fun. So sumptuous! And so for free. One ought admire that these days. And as for me this episode rules so far. Although the Dark Ages of Light... I die to know though what that last etheric projection in the back is.. hologram rafters? How? Also: Who? Cheers from Mokropsy
For sure. It seems to me that modern art has been an ongoing effort to come to terms with the Modern world (scientific-technological-metaphysical materialism). And it is still struggling to find an adequate response. Much of modern art is a simple capitulation to capitalist standards. imo.
This, like your other films, is a magnificent attempt at showing an audience the value behind an art movement. However, on modern art, I remain wholly unconvinced.
This is probably one of my fave documentaries you've written and performed so far. I absolutely adored what Mr. Koons said. (how much does it take to produce one of these things anyway? I'd love to see you do the one that you've always wanted to do...)
I just love this video - you are always good and often amzing but this is just a wonderfull video of modern art - you touch on a lot of important qualities of art and the whole looking on art - 🎶💗🎵🙏
What a great documentary. I'm thrilled to discover Mr. Januszczak today - though I could not pronounce his name without coaching from him...:-). May I call you by your first name, Sir? And then say: Waldemar, thank you so much for helping me become even more inspired by my self-education in ART program.
I dissent. Much of this is the Emperor's New Clothes. It reflects the religion of meaninglessness of our times. I was at a show in NYC where Yoko came into her long white chessboard. I say came into because clearly she orders a fabrication of elements with her millions of dollars, and it is placed there for her. I spent years as an art mover in New York, and got into nearly every museum, most galleries, met many artists, saw tons of shows. When Sean Lennon came in for the cameras to pose with Yoko sitting at the blank chessboard in her long fetishization of her late husband, it just felt dead. As did most of other empty objects in the group show. (Koons also just hires fabricators, he asked me once if I new anyone who worked with a certain material.) I had just come over from the Thrift Store art show, and the attempts at amateur obsessive art there felt far more genuine than anything in this exhibition. I bumped into a friend. She asked what I thought. I explained what I just wrote. She was shocked and replied 'You know I'm a gallery owner?' Of course I did. But that response suddenly made me realize the utterly cultish nature of the Gnostic imagery of Postmodernism. If you are in the cult you bow. Give me back ornamentation, unabstracted texture, narrative, and most of all deep meaning. As Tarkovsky said about art, ‘Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake. What purports to be art begins to look like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalised action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will. But in artistic creation the personality does not assert itself, it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle.’
Thank you, my search for the perfect comment is over. This salute to the filling of the God-shaped hole in the world with whatever comes to hand is depressing. However, I remain a Januszczak fanboy, for now...
@@theflyoverlandcrank I agree. Januszczek is quite valuable. But he is constrained by what I would call a contemporary weakness. On my other channel, The Anadromist, I have lectures on art and culture by the late Dutch Christian art historian Hans Rookmaaker that I have been given permission to annotate visually. I have a playlist there of his work. Start with his lecture What Is Reality? It sounds like exactly what you might be looking for.
@@GravityFromAbove Thanks for the reference. Will check it out. Your comment, and Gravity From Above's, both seem accurate to me. Still much appreciate Januszczek.
Seeing him in the Louvre under that beautiful vaulted and sculpted ceiling, next to a Breughel makes me sad. I lived in Paris, moved back to America, I miss it so much. All that incredible art/archtecture/grandeur everywhere you looked. I never took it for granted though, have memories for a lifetime. I can always go back, but its just not the same as living there.
I’ve always looked as art in everything I see that interested me . When I look at other peoples art it tells me how they see the world and gives me a good idea on who they are . Creativity in people are different but we all want to get the same thing across the thinking part of what someone gets out of it is better than the visual responses. Art has been a love every since I picked up my first pencil and that library book I checked out in 2nd grade using shapes
I love much of modern art. In some places it feels as though the artist is trying to turn US into the artist with our eyes. We turn it into art in our own perspective.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. (whoever said that?) Why has art to be beautiful? Though I admit, I expect of artists, that they are capable of making art that one can recognise. If they can (Joseph Beuys, Picasso and many more) then they can do what they like. Great when Waldemar explains art!
When you use the word "Modern", when you mean "Contemporary", it confuses folks, and they say things like "I can't remember the last piece of modern art I liked!"; then when you say "What don't you like about Monet?", it confuses them further. Their derision is usually reserved for Picasso, those awful! distorted! portraits! because he's when your random worker bee stopped paying attention to "Modern" Art. 'Tis sad, but true. Damien Hirst should have been featured in the kitsch section, as in "The Kitsch of Death"; I unfortunately own one of his murderous pieces; it was a gift, I hate it, I won't sell it because I don't wish to pass along the bad, bad karma. I suppose I should bury it or throw it out, but I don't wish to hurt the feelings of my friend who gave it to me. Dilemma. And face it, Jeff Koons makes high-end home furnishings. Or rather, his "assistants" do. But of course Waldemar REIGNS in art docs; I just wish he'd make some new ones!
@@grainofsand4176 Thank you for your thoughtful and kind suggestions, but were I to give it to a museum, that would put it before the eyes of patrons in perpetuity, an exposure I would be uncomfortable with having caused and therefore being responsible for; were I to sell it, I could not control its path once it left my possession; it could very well wind up in a museum anyway. Robert Rauschenberg famously bought a Willem de Kooning drawing and erased it, thereby creating a new work. I'm certainly no Rauschenberg (and DH ain't no de Kooning), but this concept, though not my own, is starting to feel comfortable . . .
@@luiscuixara4622 I'm sorry you are suffering from this burden. I admire your conviction. I hope a solution find it's way to you soon- I believe you will just Know when it does
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Mr. Januszczak is a treasure. His videos are the best thing on You Tube. Informative, very engaging, and inspiring.
Except on this one. In this one he's full of shit
They really are. And he is.
Mr. Januszczak is one of a kind. Spell check can't grasp his name but I grabbed hold of his passion for art and ability to inspire art enthusiasts. I got through pandemic and grew as a direct result, enjoying being guided by the Hitchcock of the art doc. In my home we call him Waldy! Thanks so much for all your hard work. I wish I'd had these docs as a middle school kid bored to tears watching a television rolled in on a metal cart showing art I had zero interest in. Been to the National Gallery and Tate my interest peeked. Hip Hip Hooray.
Thank you so much Waldemar! No one brings art to life like you. 💚💛💙
I don't know anything about art. I only know what I like. Art is what I can't do. I thought so for a long time - then came Waldemar. He can explain art that doesn't appeal to me at first glance like no other. Thanks sir.
Shame on you for saying “you can’t “. You just have to find the right medium and let all judgement go, you have art inside you.
“It’s a beauty that’s been earned”. That struck me deep. Old cars, old houses, old cities. Etc. well said.
metoo
exactly!
Old art has been filtered by time. I am very happy to be 50 years behind. Great video, once more.
What is incredible…exceptional… about this film is the artists interviews. When I binge watch Waldemar’s videos and then come across one where I can witness him interview the artist, it makes my brain pause. It is a treasure.
Everyone has access to a pencil and paper, but only an artist can do magic with it. That is what Art is all about to me. All these expensive and luxurious projects don't promote art but make it inaccessible.
The video is a piece of art in itself. Playful, humorous, informative, above all thought provoking. I didn't have time to see it through in one go...but I did so anyway.
HAHAHA! Go look at the MLK statue in Boston. Modern art is nonsense.
@@marissashantez6051 Yeah, the MLK statue from what I've seen in videos looks like a mistake. But that's quite a leap you make to saying all modern art is nonsense. Is all Renaissance art nonsense by having one bad piece? Is all literature nonsense by one bad book? Is an art form nonsense if it contains one bad work of art?
That thumbnail is absolute perfection
It is such a great pleasure to see him making the combination between the old and new art, to connect them in such in inspiring way. Thanks, Hélène
I just love how Waldemar explains every art movement. He helps me to understand so much. It is like studying art history on youtube und much better than in the 80s in real university 🙏🏻🤗
Waldemar, your insights and creative interpretations are wonderfully idiosyncratic, often profound, and provocative in a personal way. But in this show your comparison of these current artists to past painters [dead animal paintings/Hirst, Tiepolo/Yoko Ono, Canaletto/creator of wall art, etc.], you side-step a huge difference: the artist's touch. In the older work, the connection of eye-hand brush translated onto the canvas with a sticky substance we call paint is an alchemical transformation. So the connections you're making regarding the similarity of subject matter or generalizations about delicacy or texture don't hold water. They sound good, but they don't work. You think we won't know that the important elements of a work of art are not subject matter alone but HOW the work is created along with that subject matter. While I love your personal insights (such as the one about your mother's picture), the show as a whole fails because your premise has serious faults. Better that you choose artists such as Kentridge, Dumas, or Doig to compare with past art. And what is "ugly" about Yoko Ono or Carl Andre or Anish Kapoor's work? Maybe elusive or ambiguous or conceptual . . . but ugly? No. They're even rather elegant. Still, I applaud you for your you-ness and humor, and often depth.
Did not want it to end! Is so refreshing to watch a Waldemar. Thank you!
Always the Best 💐
Thank you 🌷
I think this is my favorite of your presentations so far, Mr. Januszczak. You've made older art and contemporary art cohere in ways that cheapen neither. In fact you've elevated all. Thank you for this.
Part of what people find objectional about this sort of modern work is not the stuff itself, but its dominance in art galleries, and the price its sold for. How is that worth X million dollars!!? What many are unaware of is that there's a whole field of decorator abstractionists. Many moderately moneyed like the spareness or texture of much contemporary modern art, but don't want to pay those prices or even have the responsibility to care that much for them. In comes the decorator artist. Decorator first, artist second. "Here's a portfolio to look at. What sort of things do you like? We spoke about this space here needing something warm, perhaps red? And something hanging here 4 metres wide and a drop of six." A commission is made, a work constructed, and sold for say six to ten times the cost of materials, plus consultation and wages. If someone falls into it at a party, the kids ruin it, or you get sick of it three years later, just throw it out. "We only paid a few thousand for it after all."
The technical art term is money laundering.
The Painted Word by Tom Wolf explains why modern art don't hold its value.
How is affordable decorator art objectionable? Better to support the art you enjoy rather that dwell on grievances about the the art you don't.
@@artriot4758 Waldemar Januszczak does not understand art is although he knows far more about it than I will ever know . Most people have no idea what art is. I often dislike real art at first because it is telling me something that I do not understand. Art essay about perception in the language of the right brain. I don't think that the kitsch is art because it doesn't have anything to say. Kirsch is pleasing to the eye and that is all anything has to be. It doesn't have to be beautiful and doesn't have to be art, just nice to look at.
@@artriot4758 I didn't say it was objectionable. Just that many do because it controls the art world stage. I then pointed out that however others do like it, but really mostly only at the level of decoration and sensation. As such, decorator art, striped of conceptual attachment (Which the gallery pieces usually fail to illustrate.) is more honest in purpose.
Thank you Waldermar each of these videos are a Gem I Love them Thank You for making them. ❤️🙏
I was going to walk over to the National Gallery of Art this afternoon, but instead this video came out so I stayed in to watch this. I've been on a WJ kick the last week or two. I'm guessing he'd be annoyed at me staying in to watch a video rather than going to an actual museum, but I wonder if he'd cut me a break since it was HIS video?
WJ would totally give you a pass
WJ doesn’t care about you on a personal level.
@@sealisa1398 Tell him I said "Hi!"
I deeply love films/videos presented/produced by Waldemar Januszczak - I wish I’d encountered him long before now and am grateful that it did finally happen. Just wonderful!
Thanks, Waldemar. Beautifully done. When I was young I didn’t see much of the art in the modern. Now it makes me smile and think about what I’ve lived for or thought of while doing the living. Perspective maybe.
My current favourite of your series. These interviews are astonishing
In 1919, a Romanian poet and philosopher wrote this : I do not crash the crown of world's marvels / and do not kill with my mind the secrets I meet on my way in flowers, eyes, lips, or graves... Some other's light strangle the mystery of the impenetrable unseen... His name is Lucian Blaga, and I got a very high grade at the final exam ( baccalaureate) for having read his poetry.
Thanks!
I love the video, the script and the narration. Absolutely an work of art in itself.
hadn't read about the candles on van gogh's hat. some lovely surprises. thank-you.
Another terrific video from Mr. Waldemar Januszczak. I can't get enough! Thank you so much, Waldemar.
...and thank you so much for spending time on Yoko Ono. I loved her installation, and even more I loved your interview with her. She's still going strong at 91.
dzieki Waldemar for your devotion also to bring knowlegde ansd to share the passion of art
The hazy cosmic haziness has a special vibrational feel of becoming the light. Its truly beautifull 🧡
I've been watching ur videos nightly for the past week.
Wow
This video is the best thing I could have seen this morning. Thanks to everyone involved in its production.
Excellent! I wish my National Gallery could have it's own Waldemar to breath this kind of life into it's presentations. I'll suggest they pay him to do it. So good.
Art is creativity, beauty is balance. Light and darkness, inside and out.
This is a wonderful video. Thanks so much for featuring Yoko.
Okay, thank you yet again. "Permanent change is what life is about." I shall be more open-minded--or honestly aware--when approaching current art of all types. "The struggle is important." Wow.
Brilliantly thoughtful. My god, this was well done.
Glad to finally have you back on screen, Waldemar! You tell epic art stories like nobody else can!
To me there's a vast uncross-able difference between Art & Exhibitionism. What so many modern exhibitionists seek feels like acceptance into or validation by the greats. I'm sympathetic to their need but not swayed enough to embrace performance anywhere near the emotions classical evokes. Usually my first reaction is "That's clever" or "Your joking, right?" Which pales a lot with the deep fascination & awe of human accomplishment I get from classical masterworks. I can't help myself but to categorize the majority of modern "art" in with advertising media & go from there. Simply put, like pop music it's fun to tap your foot for five minutes but ultimately forgettable.
I am entertained by their egos though
Well expressed!
Agreed. I keep looking for some substance. I'm still struggling with Kandinsky, which should tell you how far my search has gotten. Best regards.
Exactly! Well said!
@@kokolanza7543 ha ha zoekt naar wat stof,man je bent gemaakt van stof ,dus klop jezelf eens uit 😂😅
Awesome take on today's art.
Definitely I needed your heads up, overview and rationales. Great stuff.
OMG Waldemar! BRILLIANT IDEA to make a film on Soutine! Oh, PLEASE do it. I'm sure you can do it. Crowdsource it. We will love you even more!
AWESOME ! Thanks for showing.
Once again you have given us a brilliant view into the art world. Thank you.
What a marvellous moment - Van Gogh's Hat of Many Candles! Priceless.
I love how Waldemar engages us as viewers and challenges the status quo notions of art and its history. His perspective truly brings out the raw emotion behind the arts and their many variations. Would love to take an Art History course with this chap.
That has to be one of the best documentation I have ever seen. Great job, Perspective!
He is pretty much the best presenter of art I've had the pleasure of watching. I'll sing at his funeral and my voice isn't very good. Thanks for another great documentary.
I think the biggest issue with modern art is how one seems to need a long paragraph explaining the context of the art. All I need to appreciate the classical works in the Lourve are my own eyes, with the modern pieces presented in this documentary, I only gain an appreciation for them after listening to an interview of the artist. Modern art seems unable to stand on its inherent qualities.
Perfectly said! 👏👏👏👏
100 % agree
Oh, well said.
Fair enough, have you seen Waldemars fabulous documentary about Jan van Eycks "Arnolfini marriage"? We are fascinated about all the puzzles both in the picture as well as the technical mastery of the painting , but it ain't speak to us immediately. I would call the disappointment of modern art the "I could have done it myself" effect. As if it was some clever scam, impossible to predict and not necessarily evil , but trivial in hindsight. Like the invention of a cheap trick. It is also somehow democratic, not devoid of "inherent quality" but it lacks a quality which sets it apart.
Totally!!!!
This film is itself a brilliant work of art. Bravo. And thank you 🙏.
Thank you Waldemar, your work here is a treasure!
مجهود كبير و يحترم من قبل المتلقين و ثني عليه و نثمنه عاليا ... شكرا لهذه الوجبة الدسمة الجميلة
This series is extraordinary. What do I know about art - nothing. What do I care for it - nothing. But I csn't look away
I am so down for this!
Hot coffee. Cheers🇨🇦
The NFL draft and a new Waldemar art doc. Been a good weekend
Cudowne odcinek, naprawde! Thank you so much! You make the best Art History teacher ever. So fun. So sumptuous! And so for free. One ought admire that these days. And as for me this episode rules so far. Although the Dark Ages of Light... I die to know though what that last etheric projection in the back is.. hologram rafters? How? Also: Who? Cheers from Mokropsy
“Your money or your life!” “I’m thinking!” - Jack Benny
Great lesson, W.J.! Lots of emptiness out there!
Wonderful! Yet again!
If Waldemar is part of the video, I am watching AND giving up the like!
Another top drawer vid! Yesssir!
There is something disturbingly trivial about a lot if modern art.
For sure. It seems to me that modern art has been an ongoing effort to come to terms with the Modern world (scientific-technological-metaphysical materialism). And it is still struggling to find an adequate response. Much of modern art is a simple capitulation to capitalist standards. imo.
Precisely
@@kokolanza7543 wat zijn wij weer lollig vandaag Imo ,zeker één lachspiegel in huis
Unskilled people with little or nothing to say. Who attempt to replace creating art by talking about it.
it`s mostly irrelevant..most of it will eventually end up in landfills
I love how Waldemar connects past artists with modern ones.
I saw a Turrell exhibit at the Whitney in the 90's and it freaked me out.
facinating observations Mr. J !
Waldemar! excellent show! again!
What a beautifull interpretation “ the all embracing nothingness”
Brilliant, thank you for this it was most informative and spot on
You, my dear man, are the masterpiece. Thank you.
Some work went there as in a book! Thankful
This, like your other films, is a magnificent attempt at showing an audience the value behind an art movement. However, on modern art, I remain wholly unconvinced.
This is probably one of my fave documentaries you've written and performed so far. I absolutely adored what Mr. Koons said.
(how much does it take to produce one of these things anyway? I'd love to see you do the one that you've always wanted to do...)
I just love this video - you are always good and often amzing but this is just a wonderfull video of modern art - you touch on a lot of important qualities of art and the whole looking on art - 🎶💗🎵🙏
Beautiful documentary. Thank you sir.
What a great documentary. I'm thrilled to discover Mr. Januszczak today - though I could not pronounce his name without coaching from him...:-). May I call you by your first name, Sir? And then say: Waldemar, thank you so much for helping me become even more inspired by my self-education in ART program.
I dissent. Much of this is the Emperor's New Clothes. It reflects the religion of meaninglessness of our times. I was at a show in NYC where Yoko came into her long white chessboard. I say came into because clearly she orders a fabrication of elements with her millions of dollars, and it is placed there for her. I spent years as an art mover in New York, and got into nearly every museum, most galleries, met many artists, saw tons of shows. When Sean Lennon came in for the cameras to pose with Yoko sitting at the blank chessboard in her long fetishization of her late husband, it just felt dead. As did most of other empty objects in the group show. (Koons also just hires fabricators, he asked me once if I new anyone who worked with a certain material.) I had just come over from the Thrift Store art show, and the attempts at amateur obsessive art there felt far more genuine than anything in this exhibition. I bumped into a friend. She asked what I thought. I explained what I just wrote. She was shocked and replied 'You know I'm a gallery owner?' Of course I did. But that response suddenly made me realize the utterly cultish nature of the Gnostic imagery of Postmodernism. If you are in the cult you bow.
Give me back ornamentation, unabstracted texture, narrative, and most of all deep meaning. As Tarkovsky said about art, ‘Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken a wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for its own sake. What purports to be art begins to look like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalised action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will. But in artistic creation the personality does not assert itself, it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle.’
Thank you, my search for the perfect comment is over. This salute to the filling of the God-shaped hole in the world with whatever comes to hand is depressing. However, I remain a Januszczak fanboy, for now...
@@theflyoverlandcrank I agree. Januszczek is quite valuable. But he is constrained by what I would call a contemporary weakness. On my other channel, The Anadromist, I have lectures on art and culture by the late Dutch Christian art historian Hans Rookmaaker that I have been given permission to annotate visually. I have a playlist there of his work. Start with his lecture What Is Reality? It sounds like exactly what you might be looking for.
@@GravityFromAbove Thanks for the reference. Will check it out. Your comment, and Gravity From Above's, both seem accurate to me. Still much appreciate Januszczek.
Another brilliant documentary.
I was really fascinated by Van Gogh story part. Can someone tell the name of the song played at 50:23 ?
Some of the things Waldemar says are entertaining, hilarious!
Seeing him in the Louvre under that beautiful vaulted and sculpted ceiling, next to a Breughel makes me sad. I lived in Paris, moved back to America, I miss it so much. All that incredible art/archtecture/grandeur everywhere you looked. I never took it for granted though, have memories for a lifetime. I can always go back, but its just not the same as living there.
I’ve always looked as art in everything I see that interested me . When I look at other peoples art it tells me how they see the world and gives me a good idea on who they are . Creativity in people are different but we all want to get the same thing across the thinking part of what someone gets out of it is better than the visual responses. Art has been a love every since I picked up my first pencil and that library book I checked out in 2nd grade using shapes
I love much of modern art. In some places it feels as though the artist is trying to turn US into the artist with our eyes. We turn it into art in our own perspective.
loved the exploration!!
Thank you for sharing with us your mother - I’m sure she was a beautiful person in the ways that matter.
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Absolutely fascinating!
Thank you Waldemar…..I was actuallly surprised at how Jeff Koons triggered my imagination after years of thinking I hated his art.
once again...perfection.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. (whoever said that?)
Why has art to be beautiful? Though I admit, I expect of artists, that they are capable of making art that one can recognise. If they can (Joseph Beuys, Picasso and many more) then they can do what they like. Great when Waldemar explains art!
I LOVE the chandelier. Not like, LOVE.
Waldemar, you give me hope!
So Spot On. Cleaning- erasing layers of art history on buildings.. Such loss!
God, we love your videos!
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Oh my ! That was perfect.
Yes, conceptual artists comunicate what the Old Masters communicated...only without the skill...
When you use the word "Modern", when you mean "Contemporary", it confuses folks, and they say things like "I can't remember the last piece of modern art I liked!"; then when you say "What don't you like about Monet?", it confuses them further. Their derision is usually reserved for Picasso, those awful! distorted! portraits! because he's when your random worker bee stopped paying attention to "Modern" Art. 'Tis sad, but true.
Damien Hirst should have been featured in the kitsch section, as in "The Kitsch of Death"; I unfortunately own one of his murderous pieces; it was a gift, I hate it, I won't sell it because I don't wish to pass along the bad, bad karma. I suppose I should bury it or throw it out, but I don't wish to hurt the feelings of my friend who gave it to me. Dilemma.
And face it, Jeff Koons makes high-end home furnishings. Or rather, his "assistants" do.
But of course Waldemar REIGNS in art docs; I just wish he'd make some new ones!
Preach it Luis!
You could donate it to a museum? If you sell it you can use the money for something good ...?
@@grainofsand4176
Thank you for your thoughtful and kind suggestions, but were I to give it to a museum, that would put it before the eyes of patrons in perpetuity, an exposure I would be uncomfortable with having caused and therefore being responsible for; were I to sell it, I could not control its path once it left my possession; it could very well wind up in a museum anyway.
Robert Rauschenberg famously bought a Willem de Kooning drawing and erased it, thereby creating a new work. I'm certainly no Rauschenberg (and DH ain't no de Kooning), but this concept, though not my own, is starting to feel comfortable . . .
@@luiscuixara4622 I'm sorry you are suffering from this burden. I admire your conviction. I hope a solution find it's way to you soon- I believe you will just Know when it does
@@luiscuixara4622 a bonfire in a public place might do the trick!
Wow!
we love you, Waldemar!
But we hate Jeff Koons !! 🙂
Art is here to nourish our Imagination and wonder
Bloomin’ masterpiece
As always a marvelous thought provoking programme..thank you Waldemar
lov it, all of it!!!!