The Turbulent Life Of Pablo Picasso (Art History Documentary) | Behind The Artist | Perspective
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- You think you know him, but do you really? Take an in-depth look at his art, his turbulent life, and the lasting impact he made on the art of the 20th Century.
A collection of portraits of some of the greatest artists including painters, architects, sculptors and photographers, along with their masterpieces as you’ve never seen them before. Le Corbusier, Andy Warhol, Picasso. Everyone knows their names, they are among the most inventive artists of their generation. But behind the legends, who are they?
Ambiguous personalities, each with their own controversial style, they broke all the codes. Famous the world over for their works, they each reflect their respective era. Through experts’ interviews, each episode takes us behind the scenes of a major exhibition to discover how, for example, Le Corbusier became a lasting influence on successive generations of architects.
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what a bogus lecture. Which artist (very famous) did not have Turbulent Life? Name one please?
(they create all such content deliberately to create new and false perspectives most of the time)
And F**K Netflix. As if there was nothing else in this world to watch.
...so where's part 2? This should be called, "the turbulent YOUTH of pablo picasso." It's not finished. He's like, 25, where this documentary ends. No word of his best works yet.
The way it ended so suddenly made it feel that way too
@@KingDayDayDay00 lol I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was honestly really irritated lol. They do such a good job with their doc's and to just leave it there seems... Well, evil
Indeed it rather trailed off and wrapped up abruptly!
@@alteredcatscyprus we need to start a petition
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When you're a sponge, what else can you do but "absorb" everything around you. "If you're going to steal, steal from the best!" He took what he saw, ran with it and brought it to new heights. Terrific Documentary. Thank you.
Well if you're a Sponge you can get a deal with a major children tv network and have a hit show and be loved by millions of kids worldwide...I know a sponge named Bob that did that
@@sakabula1285 Good one!😀
I read that "Good writers borrowed from others, great writers stole." I guess painters did the same.
@@susanmercurio1060 BINGO!
stealing is not the right word but it sounds mischievious and dubious in this context.. all it means is to find inspiration from varied sources and use them in new unexpected ways..make new connections between these inspirations to create something that is your own..
WE NEED A PART 2!!!
I hope there will be a part 2 and part 3, after all he lived another 65 years after "Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon". Thanks for all you do, really enjoy the Perspective channel.
Was there ever a part two or three?
Love,love, love, Perspective ! Thank you.
Thank you W for yet another superbly interesting and totally enjoyable day in history 🌷
You are the Best 🍃
Life is Art 🖼
Thank you so much for posting one of my favorite artists along with Michael Angelo, Leonardo de Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Monet, Manet and others. Thank you for reminding me that their is acceptional beauty in the world. Art lifts us transports us inspires us and informs us. It is eternally our Muse.
absolute brilliant doccie. many thanks
Can't wait for part 2.
painting while listening to this....
its gonna be a good day!
Thank you so much 😌 for this Perspektive!
Epic documentary. Was transfixed from the first frame to the last.
Fabulous movie! Thank you for a great work!
This narrator is no substitute for Waldemar. Honestly, she sounds like one of those robot voiceovers on tiktok.
If you look at the end credits, it's clear that this is a French documentary, so the voice over is not part of the original. Waldemar writes his own stuff, so we aren't going to get him reading a translation of someone else's work for us (sadly). But I agree with you about the bland way she reads the script.
Who cares? It works for me.
Interesting explanation of early Picasso. A lot of comments remark on his proclivity for ‘stealing’ ideas but seem not to understand that language is endlessly evolving and recycling and we cannot escape the influence of it as we grow in our usage of it. Art Is an expressive language which spans human experience and we make our contribution to it for future generations.
Then why frame this style as originating with Picasso, insteading of crediting the inspirations of his "genius"?
The world is born out of the minds of ingenious people, but there are people who would steal the very breathes from the original creators.
More and more people are waking up to the lengths people have gone to pervert history.
Really cool abstract surreal realism then he just offed himself
I can remember as a child looking at his paintings and seeing the optical allusions ..it always surprises 😮 you...I enjoyed them now many do...
Great docu. Thx!!!
Great doccie..Thank you.
Thank you for this video! It was so interesting.
Hello there Sandi nice meeting you here
the close up shots of the paintings are excellent
Excellent!!!👏
Brilliant!!!
The makers of this masterpiece of documentary are also masters of Culture Art.
Fascinating video🌹🌷🔆
Breathtaking.
mAKING STUFF UP!!
Great video...the painting world is filled with secrets...only the affluent really like and buy art. There is so much fraud, abuse and contraversy there, it really takes away from the real beauty. It is magical when a person connects with a painting .
thank you!
Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh are my two favorite Artist. Wish we could have video of Vincent working in the studio as we have of Pablo.
I would have loved to see van Gogh paint..I reckon it was pretty messy...lol.Ive also always wondered what became of van Gogh's easel and brushes?
Those illustrative colored drawings are great!
PART II is a must 😵
Thanks for a very interesting documentary. I believe that there is "art" in all of us, but, sadly, it is not all who have the ambition and the perseverance to unlock its secrets. Thanks again.
Unfortunately there was no "art" in fellow Picasso.
@@curtcoller3632 The ability to justly interpret the expressions of another's imagination is beyond me. But is is within my domain to express justly the workings of my own imagination for good or ill. Thanks.
Thanks.
Nor desire….
@@kensyskye8965 I agree.
the best ever! Picasso! I saw les demoiselles d'avignon in person during december 2022, and got a picture with it! you could go right up to it, it was insane!
Picasso is a combination of time, love and passion for creativity. I'm not sure if I believe in natural talent, but maybe someone who can achieve such mastery has some kind of genetic set of predispositions which make them more capable. His first word was pencil, he drew and painted since birth, all day everyday, with intense love and obsession and not out of force, and up until the hour of his death. That much time and passion makes it seem impossible for another human to catch up to him. So especially when i see his later paintings, ones that critics call bad paintings or that he'd lost it, i just think of the absolute master of painting and art made that so it has to be respected and that we can't comprehend it for how deep he's gone to get there lol!
Awesome very beautiful
While serving as a medic in Vietnam, I suppressed all emotion not knowing how to understand what went on around me.
Three years later, I saw for the first time Picasso’s work in an Art History course at the University of Minnesota. I felt fixated and word dumb to reason it through.
Picasso’s work reintroduced me to feelings not remembering what they were or where they came from like the building of predawn light in the Eastern Horizon.
That .. was an extremely difficult position to be in. So many soldiers have returned from that war with severe crippling PTSD as a result of the things that they saw and did in Vietnam .. and THEY - were the "lucky" ones. Had they known the actual politics that led up to that terrible conflict .. I would imagine that many more young men would have either refused to serve, or fled to Canada or Mexico in order to avoid the draft. The truth is .. the Vietnam War (1955-1975) .. which was a military conflict between North Vietnam (supported by China and the Soviet Union) and South Vietnam (supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, and several other US allies during the Cold War (1947-1991). - The U.S. and Russia avoided nuclear annihilation by waging "proxy wars," supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts. Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet Cong substituting for the Soviet bloc, and the U.S. providing aid and air support (bombing) to a puppet regime. ~
The Vietnam War was described as a civil war within South Vietnam, although it became a proxy war between Cold War powers. As a result, the Vietnamese suffered the highest casualties in the conflict.
Fortunately .. I was too young to be drafted into the military having been born in 1956. ~~ Thank you GOD .. Thank you Lord .. Thank you Dear Jesus .. and thank YOU Stephen James Beto for you service and commitment to this great country. - God bless YOU !!! ~~
I was a medic in the 82nd but never saw combat and glad for it. My sister's husband's father was a skin doctor and treated Picasso. He was given a few drawings (sketches) which my brother-in-law still has. His mom tried to sell them at one point, but no buyers.
I think the name of the documentary explains itself. Congratulations.
cool stuff👍👍👍
😊 thanks 😊
just recently visit, His hometown Museum. It was my honor 🎖
The mistery and greatness of Cubism: One Cube has 6 sides {six blank canvas}; Picasso paints his abstraction of reality or the particular focus or component of it on each side of his cube. The cube is his whole canvas and artistic composition.
Really wish we could’ve had Waldemar on this, been waiting for him to talk about Picasso
he's very captivating as host indeed!
I know! 😭 They know that, so they got him to introduce it, lol.
Couldv'e? So who is this if its not Waldemar?
Excepcional
Love both Picasso and cubism in art!
R.I.P to one of the greatest...artlife always i2f the artist...one love...blessings
Vary nice
He is the quintessential artist's artist we learn in Art School. He was like the Beatles of the art world exploring each style movement & medium breaking ground before there was ground to break. Innovator! A true literal protege from the jump. He was also a romantic, a ladies man as well as a notorious womanizer, who drove several women to attempt suicide! Isn't life grand? Full of contradictions & grays. Some of our greatest heroes were jerks, alcoholics, abusive husbands, nazi sympathizers, etc, etc. his story for me is yet another artist who invokes the debate: Appreciating the art & separating it from the artist when the artist's actions are morally questionable. Woody Allen, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Bukowski, cancel culture, etc....but the art, good gawd the art. Most known for his cubism period, it is his sculpture & blue period that blows my mind. Check his entire catalog. When you see his work in person ? Mouth ajar. Thats a bucket lister.
I think that you should separate the art from the artist. To produce great, frequently it is require to go through extreme experiences, and that means, doing some morally objectable mistakes. It goes hand in hand, no good art ever came from a puritanist.
@@user-wl1uz5sb9f I love the convo on this topic, & appreciate both sides of the argument & I have had this same convo with many artists throughout the years on this specific topic many times. I tend to air on the side that you stated in your comment. I can appreciate the art still, but think the artist is rotten to the core ethically as a person outside of their art at the same time. They can coexist in my opinion. I can make that distinction. Whether or not I support them $ is a diff matter, but I can still appreciate the art & recognize it’s strengths.
@@user-wl1uz5sb9f I agree art should be separate from the artist; however, i do not agree with this idea that people have to be 'morally objectionable', suffer, or cause suffering to make great art. that's such a tired, harmful trope. there is a LOT of space between puritan and extremist.
@@AthalieM An artist doesn't have to be that way but it seems to help. A very high proportion of the most innovative and highly regarded these days had awful lives whether self inflicted or not.
Today he would be canceled and put of business!
He was a big con artist in the history of the world!!! He was already an immoral man almost causing women to take their own lives.
Unfortunately he fooled a lot of people and I will get attacked for speaking the truth as I am not someone that can be brainwashed like the masses. His dad helped him in the beginning so he turned out his best work. He came up with a scam to disguise his inability to draw or paint. He was the beginning of the BIGGEST FRAUD in the art world!! Since then every con artist has followed creating garbage and fooling folk into beginning it is art. Such madness. Sadly most people have no clue about art and have to be told what was 'good art'.
He couldn't even draw hid gf, as his father was not there to correct his mistakes. He knew how lousy his work was, so he came up with a trick...he would draw people in cubes or circles, it would disguise his inability to draw. He sure fooled everyone! His pictures after leaving home away from his father, look cartoony.. That's because he really couldn't draw. The pictures of crowds of people are so pathetic.
The art world was desperate for something 'new'.. so they bragged about his work. Even though it was garbage. But they were so desperate for something 'new'.
I would never hang any of paintings in my toilet!
I know in 500 years to 1,000 years folk then will be wondering what were we thinking??? They will see it as garbage and one of the biggest con in the art world!
Soon Jackson Pollock and Any Wahol will jump on the bandwagon
continue the con. Others have followed, pretending to be a little insane, as that is part of the draw. The nature of the game.
Sadly, only in the future this biggest Con will be blown open!!
There are only a small number of Picasso's works that I really like. One of my favorites is the steel sculpture called woman that stands at the entrance of the city of Chicago's civic center.
as a Spaniard I can say I liked your approach to Picasso but I find it uncomplete however accurate it may be....please go ahead & enthrall us all with a continuate saga about him...thanks
love this channel but please showcase more women artists! There were many that are not household names but worthy to show and as a woman artist I enjoy seeing other women artists from the past
A good Artist!
This man is fun and listentoable................
Always love Picasso
One of the best put downs && assessments of P. casso ever made>>. "" P. casso "" said S. Dali "" paints too much ""
It ends just as it's getting juicy! Is there a part two?
I have enjoyed Michael Colling’s interpretations of art through the decades. I respect all of art’s tour guides especially the Brits.
But this isn't Matthew Collings eh? Its Wally Janusczak. With ridiculous hairdo.
Fascinating docu.
I am an artist in Amsterdam , soon to become an idiot 'smart city', for idiots . . .by idiots, but my Gertrude Stein hasn't appeared on my doorstep . . yet. 😅
Hey, over here New York City is fast becoming a Smart City for idiots too! I had to leave.
nice one. it seems they were in a hurry to end the documentary. pls make another for us.
Reading some of the comments here, a saying comes to mind: "ignorance is bold".
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Please play part 2...........you'all never played part 2 for Toulouse Lautrec..........
thanks perspective', a boy genuis of the art world', peace😎
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Oh my gosh why did this end so abruptly?! A great documentary of his youth. Where is the rest?!
Special road🤩
Why do they not speak about Picasso’s work as Afrikan . After all.. Henry Matisse introduced Picasso to Afrikan art. It was Matisse who coined the word “Cubism”. Not Picasso. Because Matisse said Picasso was painting like the Afrikans… in little cubes. Hence… Picasso painted the “ brothels in Avignon “ after seeing the Afrikan mask Matisse showed him.
Very well and truthfully said. Cubism, impressivism, and expressionism are replications (stolen artforms) from North African and Northwestern African artforms. The North African Moors occupied and dominated Southwestern Europe, mainly Spain and Portugal, for 700 years. Of course African art, architecture, technologies were brought from Africa to Europe by the Moors. There are exact copies of Picasso's paintings from remnants of African art remained in Spain and other regions throughout Southwestern Europe. The failure attributing Modern European Art to the introduction of African art forms is a reprehensible stain on the history of art.
The term cubism was coined by an art critic; not matisse. The main influence on Picassos cubism was Cezanne.
@@gavinreid2741 yes it was coined by Henry Matisse. Matisse was the artiste that introduced Picasso to African Art. Upon seeing the African Art.. Picasso locked himself away and painted within the same concept. When Picasso showed Matisse the painting. Matisse said to him. "Why are you painting like the Afrikans in little cubes" . Quoted unquote.
The French art critic you claimed coined the word was late in doing so. There was no Cubism in Europe until Matisse showed Picasso Afrikan Art. George's Braque came after with the landscapes.
Perspective biographies reminds me of one time I was sitting on the toilet, and I got interrupted, and it kinda got cut off in the middle.
I do not have the time to watch the full video; can someone verify whether or not this is suitable for a secondary classroom? Thank you
Yes definitely
I had read that back in the day Picasso and his contemporaries thought Cézanne was the forefather of Cubism.
Not just back in the day. This is standard art history. Art is like a river - it flows and evolves, it doesn't suddenly jerk to something that hasn't been foreshadowed.
@@kathydent2116 in other words, calling Picasso the forefather of Cubism as the thumbnail suggests is possibly wrong.
@@clkvlk Yes. Picasso and Braque are viewed as the direct founders of the Cubist movement, so they could be described as the fathers. Cezanne paved the way but did not articulate Cubism as a specific artistic movement in the way that Braque and Picasso did. Cezanne's relationship with Cubism is more indirect. It is more accurate to regard him as a forefather. You could say that Cezanne sparked many of the ideas that led to Cubism, but that Cubism only emerged in its full form with Braque and Picasso's work. Braque and Picasso were practitioners of Cubism, not forefathers. Picasso called Cezanne 'the father of us all'.
In other words, the only good thing about him is his art.
That could be said about many artists. There's nothing as disappointing as meeting someone whose art you revere.
Your ignorance is enormous.
And that's not enough?
Debatable
His "art” is trash
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Good information on Picasso, but please let us know once you decide to clearly title the second and third parts of Picasso's story because they're very difficult to find. I have yet to find either of them.
Fun fact: Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.
Also: he was smooth af and drove an Eldorado
@@cameraman5449 Some people try to pick up girls and get called asshole - this never happened to Pablo Picasso
How do you unlearn? Great concept.
Was that the introduction? When does the turbulence come in? Part 2?
Georges Braque was the forefather of cubism, Picasso was inspired by him and wanted to find out where it would lead him in his own endeavors.
What is the background music please?
This was your best documentary ever, Waldemar. The symbolism of art is important for the past, present and future of the Ukraine and the understanding of the culture of the region. Symbols seek our souls and bore deep into our brains. The Ukraine will prevail.
... I heard this many times, in various artistic and non-artistic circles, in reference to Picasso and to others: "he steals (or did steal, if already dead) other artists' ideas...When hearing this, I always ask the interlocutor if (s)he can give ma an example of an artist's "idea" that can be stolen... So far, no answer, people are just annoyed and might not invite me around anymore.
...Moreover, as far as a know, there are no cases in which a historian was able to point out a specific "theft", also naming Picasso's "victim"...
...Picasso talks about "stealing" in the sense of the influence that NO artist could ever avoid. That's why he recommends "the best".
The amount of talking by the ear about art (and politics) is simply perplexing...
Maybe this language of theft does not accurately/precisely convey the circumstance. If we instead say that he appropriated a tradition and set of conventions, then the argument crystallizes.
I think of Bob Dylan when thinking of a I Containe Multitudes . The song .
I've just looked at Pablo Picasso "Head of a Woman" painting for the very first time. It struck me like a bolt of lightening that it isn't actually a head of a woman. I'm not sure if you'll see it straight away but its a woman on the left with a man face on the right. It's tricky because its subjective and abstract but also definitive in the sense that there are two people in this picture and not one. What gave it away for me is the "Desperate Dan" chin of the man on the right and when you then put it into context it's as clear as day... Please if you just take one look you'll see exactly what I mean.
Much of Picasso's art is loaded with occult images but you won't hear about it from the art historians because they have been trained not to look
I thought the same!!!! " He's on her mind" or she's starting to think and act like him!!!!
Waldemar, I love ❤ you.
Learning and unlearning
VIVA PICASSO !
Is it just me or is the video not playing at normal speed?
Your comment is at .25 speed
Where are the music credits for the intro… I need that 🤣🤣🤣
i KNOW!!
Que Sera Wax Tailor
These critics, they only agree with each other, what's the interest in that? His work was avant garde, now it's middle class taste, how did that happen and why? And why in these art docs does no one ever talk about materials, pencils, mixed media, brushstrokes, color, erasures, that's not boring, it's essential. These details might interest artists, rather than how messy his studio was (as all artist studios are) or prurient speculation on his love life like this is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, even if he was..
mAKING STUFF UP, CAUSE WE CAN!!!!!
I own the etching on paper called 2 people by Matisse that was exhibited in 1915 NY . I know what Matisse thought of him
who cares?
@@cameronkrause4712 Who cares What you think..lol
So what DIDMatisse think of Picasso??!!!
@@margkropf5541 read up you will find out
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Who did that mash up of Que Sara Sara?
Oo, this should be good.
The key problem with this documentary is that we scarcely get a glimpse of any of Picasso's paintings.
good. less eyesores
@rottendrestantje But, yet your here on this site, 🤔 learning about this " eye sore" creator ( as you put it ).
Why are you here????
Brilliant documentary, so many experts giving exact and precise accounts of his life with all related works and superb narration .
Actually Paul Cézanne is the For-father of Cubism and Picasso just took it further and became known the famous cubist. If you take art history you will know this.
35:38 “A crepuscular blue light spread over people and things.”
_crepuscular_ of or pertaining to twilight; occurring or active during twilight, from Latin _crepusculum_ "twilight, dusk"
Twilight and dusk are more poetic words
@@hawthorne1504 For days I’ve been thinking “What does _crepuscular_ remind me of?” and it carne to me just now: _cromulent_ 😄
Actually had to look that up, funny!
What or who did he have to do to get his first gallery break? Not just talent, we have learned from history.
Hey. remember.. " Pablo Picasso was never called an ass hole" - not like You" - The Modern Lovers (Iconic band from the 80's)
actually, John Cale and not Modern Lovers
@@cameronkrause4712 Actually.. Jonathan Richman wrote and recorded the song for his band The Modern Lovers. The song appeared in 1976 on their self titled album. The Modern Lovers did work with John Cale who produced some of their albums and he played the piano on the song. Most people are more familiar with the Burning Sensations version made popular in the 80's by the Repo Man soundtrack.
the posh bird doing the narration could be talking about washing powder.
ou est la version francaise ?