Who Made the Minecraft Paintings and What Do They Say About the Game?
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Wow. Thank you for the hard work you put into making this video. What a thorough research you did on my work. I am humbled.
I love your work
No way it's GOD!
Du förtjänar det!
Your paintings were like a massive part of my childhood thanks to Minecraft,,, I love your work man!
*god has entered the chatt*
"Stop throwing the game! why do you keep dying?!"
*"It's for art"*
Pajkoks 4
spectator mode was an option back in 1.6...
@Pajkoks 4
nobody will remember that L, but many people will see that painting
@@DoctorWhom you do know they're talking about counterstrike, not Minecraft. Right?
ur telling me this is the same guy that did the “i painted someone’s mom” thing? oml he’s a legend
@@dieselgeezer18 delete yours
Shiney I 宇智波上帝
Damn they listened-
😂
Small world
If I find that mom painting I will be the equivalent of Yoshikage Kira with the Mona Lisa
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so your telling me the guy showed a counter strike montage at one of the most popular museums in the world in front of thousandths of people.
Somebody had to do it
@@zetterstrand Have my Valve Gamer badge
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Legend
@@Brib8888 lmao
how does this man sound so cultured talking about paintings in Minecraft
Why not?
He is cultured.
@@Roseee_
A cultured *G A M E R*
Nice.
he actually did research, anyone with more knowledge on a topic sounds like an expert, like if I studied fruit plagues and their effects on watermelons based on their composition and species.
Ye he sounds like a art critic
This man is the least known most popular artist in the world.
Shekel Snatcher kind of mind boggling if you think of it.
Kinda sounds like Banksy, but not quite. He's basically a very stealthy urban artist (Or artists, nobody knows) whose paintings somehow sell for millions cause people actually cut them out of the concrete walls
When someone tells you "do it for the exposure"...
Shekel Snatcher yoooooo
like the guy who composed the nokia ringtone
"forgive me for this pronunciation" *pronounces it right*
*goes on to mispronounce 'motif'*
I trusted you
Hey, but that's the real academic research experience. Grad school is just full of people carefully pronouncing the names of artists and theorists and scholars, but butchering commonplace terms, having learned them from reading.
thomas underfoot it might be right in English lol
pronounces "Louvre" as "lerv"
@@TexboyGamer It's not.
@@wheedler I meant the "Zetter Str-and" pronunciation. That's not the correct pronunciation
10:43 Another interesting observation about villagers: they live in structures that they don't have the ability to build. They're not just living in primitive settlements, they're living in the ruins of a more advanced civilization.
They are also only ever transactional in their behaviors. From trading to job assignments, and their responses to raids, they do not act with mercy or proactivity. They can’t be kind and are further dependent on the player’s beneficence or subject to their whims.
Finally...
A people I can Rule!
Ruins? Also would you say the illagers can’t build either?
@@harambe8372 Yeah, my point is that villagers (and illagers) are not actually capable of building in the game. The only way for a village, pillager outpost, mansion, etc. to exist is for it to generate as part of the world; if you destroy a villager's house, for example, they're never going to be able to rebuild it.
i would put that on technical limitation and design choice
eg : technical limitation because making a mob that can build properly is harder that simple npcs that wander and trade (and a few other mechanics such as farming, avoiding monster during the night by staying indoors or making babies and spawning iron golems)
design choice : because Mojang don't want mobs to be able to modify the terrain too much, or it would interfere with the player building abilities (only exceptions are monsters that you must avoid on purpose as part of the difficulty (like ghasts, creepers, blazes, ender dragon, etc) so for villagers to be able to build would interfere with the player ,as they are suposed to be friendly and not an ennemy to be killed (unlike monsters) which is clearly indicated by the fact that they drop nothing; not even xp, the game clearly tell you that killing them is not the goal and you should not do it (the only consequences are negative : up in price for the survivors and iron golems gonna aggro you)
in lore i would assume it make sense to assume that illagers and villagers do build their structure, especially in the case of illagers, outposts seem so specific and clearly made by them
and also villages are clearly adapted to the villager needs, which would indicate recent design, and not repurposing of some ancient structure
sure, if we only base our reasoning on what the game show you, villagers can't build
but if we only base our reasonin on what the game tell you : villagers can survive without eating indefinetly, which would not make sense, especially since they clearly eat, and work for eating, even when they don't breed (for breeding they need enough beds and food) if they just have food, they still farm it and eat it, despite dont needing it for survival nor reproduction
so we can assume that, in lore, they do feel hunger, even if villagers being hungry isn't a feature.
also if we base our reasoning on what the game show you; villagers would no longer exist, as they are very vulnerable to monsters, and zombies can break doors (at least in higher difficulties) which would mean that, without player, on a loaded terrain, villagers would probably not survive long, as they would probably end up with their door destroyed and all of them killed
so we can assume, that, in lore, they actually are able to fix their homes and build structures, because if they didn't, they would have died long ago from zombies breaking in
Kristoffer be like:
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bro i was so sure as a child that the "wasteland" painting was just a very tall hamburger
I always thought it was a fireplace and I used to put it at the botrom of chimneys if the floor was woid
Same... To this day I still put it in my Minecraft kitchens for that reason
I thought it was an upside-down golden apple.
Lily G
I always thought it was a desert so I put it near the door to kind of simulate a window lol
^^^ this... HAMBURGER-
I would argue that the Wither painting is meant to hint at how to build one.
i pretty sure that is why it exists, its supposed to be a tutorial, telling you how to do it without breaking the atmosphere
@@ferretforrent1144 It would be incredibly hype learning how to build a wither through the painting.
@@Bonezee I completely see where you're coming from but given that there's millions of people playing the game from all different cultures languages and backgrounds there must be at least one person who learned how to build a wither from the painting and that experience must have been magical, and I think that's enough to justify one painting being not quite as good as the rest.
Victor Cleemonts
If you don’t know about the wither then it must also have been terrifying with your sculpture of a painting in minecraft coming to life and destroying EVERYTHING around it.
@@sqentontheslime1967
When you put it that way, it's sort of like revitalizing a primal evil from an old textbook you wanted to know the meaning of
In defense of Wither painting, it is actually a really clever way to introduce the mob to players as those who played the game entirely in a vacuum would never have known how to spawn the Wither. I find it a beautiful marriage of art and gameplay that a piece of decoration would shed insight in how to fight a secret boss in the game, further adding to sense of mystery and loneliness in the world. Sadly, most players will not have found the wither this way.
"As those who played the game entirely in a vacuum" that's a much better way of describing the average group post player 😂
The subtle way minecraft teaches new players is one of my favorite things in the game
I don't really agree. There's no way to know that those blocks are supposed to be soulsand, and on top of that *none* of the other paintings have any hint towards gameplay, so someone uninformed would have no idea that it was spelling out a game mechanic for them.
As a child i had no idea that was actually a mob
@@oranplan1630nah
They found the seed for the background of that flaming skull painting two days ago.
Just saying.
Hmmm? What is it?
@@enjoyasalad647 Try looking it up on youtube, no offense.
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i didnt even notice that those mountains were the same as the ones in pack.png, thats actually pretty cool
I can't believe that one of the paintings in minecraft is a cs map, shits wild
2 of them it seems
Actually 3. Two for aztec and one for dust 2
Crazy how things work
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i actually thought one of the 1 by 1 paintings were a game map thing but the camera is inside the wall
I can't believe that there is so much going on in just Minecraft paintings.
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@gradedcypress 11 lol
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13:57
it's a perfect representation, because skeletons burn in daylight.
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Perhaps the sun is rising and the skeleton is burning now?
How did I never think of that lol
ahh now it makes sense
I legit thought the self portrait of him by his computer was a *photo*
Is so cool how the pixel art makes the surrounding look so much more realistic
"Forgive me for my prenunciation."
*says swedish guys name perfectly*
*2 minutes later*
"Mottiff"
It's always the two types of ways native english speakers guess prenunciations. The ones who confidently prenaunce things absolutely utterly ear-cancer inducingly wrong and the ones who are like "sorry imma butcher this one; *prenaunces foreign word correctly*
@@FinnDuDe95 that's literally every American emglish youtuber lmao
"emglish"
@@noodledude2171 oh boy...
*EVAPORATES*
the different spellings of "pronunciations", "emglish"........ this thread is GOLD
He's the most exposed artist in the world and yet I've only heard his name now. This is why you don't work for "exposure" kids
Such a good point. Although I'm guessing he wasn't looking for payment at the time, and it wasn't "work" to him.
A lot of artists make art as a way to express themselves, not as a way to work. Judging by his exposure, he couldn't be any more successful at that.
The sad part is that even though millions of people see his art every month, not that many actually know about him as an artist. Heck, I originally thought that those were some random edits made by Notch himself..
@@Redspl Of course, I think what OP meant here was that, when you are making art for work, you should be able to expect compensation instead of working for "exposure." People who make art for a living deserve to eat too :P
Every artist in every field works for exposure. Perhaps in the beginning the artist is doing it for its own sake, but art is made for an audience. We aren't painting mausoleums or singing to walls.
@@Ailsworth artist may work for exposure but they don't expect ONLY that, they also work for money, personal satisfaction, fun.
the problem is, people sometimes dont understand that and think they can commission an artist something and then, at the last minute, say they will be paying in exposure.
5:55 so you are telling me that wasn’t a dude doing a karate chop? I have lived a complete lie.
Yes was looking for this comment
I thought it was a snail with a red shell
@@shadowcween7890 I thought that to
i thought it was a snail
I also thought "Wasteland" (the bunny on the the windowsill) was a hamburger
The Unknown artist who everyone knows.
Kristoffer Zetterstrand: the best artist you’ve never seen.
He actually took the time to make a pixel image from a painting he made from digital media that has some sort of reference in it. That takes alot of time and that made me respect him more.
Just a dude who likes dbs
Not to downplay anyone involved, but consider this:
Counterstrike (1999) - Minecraft (2011)
12 years and 3-6 layers of integration.
Counter Strike (1999) (1-2)
The digital compositions (1-3)
The oil paintings (2-4)
The pixelated oil paintings (2-5)
Minecraft (2011) (3-6)
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Real world recreations of paintings from Minecraft (4-7)
Video about the creation of paintings from Minecraft (5-8)
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@Brayden Rankin
I don't really understand any of what you just typed but I do know that there is the funny decks number at the end
I know you :^D
Brayden Rankin true
Everyone: *Halloween stuff*
Solar Sands: Minecraft paintings
I've never placed anymore paintings so that I don't accidentally place a _skeleton_ painting
🎵Spooky Scary Skeletons🎵
He should have just done a browsing deviantart episode for halloween
Ah, yes
I consider it Halloween enough.
"Bust" is certainly my favorite painting. The sculpture of a man who looks to be in the midst of fire has so much meaning when you realize that man is Marcus Aurelius, who was the last Roman emperor during the Pax Romana, a golden age and time of peace for the Romans. He in the midst of this fire unphased really speaks to me in the fact that he has no idea of the years to come for Rome. Another very fun fact about Marcus Aurelius was that he was a very popular Stoic philosopher. The Stoics were commonly known as indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy, but rather endured life. This could also hold a double meaning for the portrait itself, showing that even through the fire, he endures and remains calm. Beautiful painting for certain.
gTT777
I think that "elegant lonliness" describes not only the paintings, but the music as well. The music is extremely well put together, but it is its own entity. It plays occasionally, and it has a feeling of somberness without being depressing.
The paintings, creepy as they may seem, always comforted me a bit in the game. I wholeheattedly agree with the lonely atmosphere the game has and especially had in earlier updates. Because of this when playing single player you end up feeling quite isolated. Adding a painting to your simple little survival shack made it feel a little more cozy and like you were building a home, not just surviving.
ikr
Sometimes you just feel like Anna from Frozen I.
With their odd and somewhat disturbing nature that I love I always imagined that there was someone else in the minecraft world that had made these paintings and I had just simply placed them in my house. It was a little bit of a comfort to have the paintings around.
I don’t know why, but the skull painting (the one where the skull is on fire) has always been my favourite.
Josiah Chlebek bro I usually have a sapling as my friend because I have no friends
11:40 YOOO THATS ME LMAOO
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I really love his counterstrike paintings. Recontextualizing those old assets into something that makes you think about how you perceive physical space among other things is cool as hell.
I just realized that after all these years, one painting wasnt a guy jumping to do a Karate chop, it was actually an angel praying
BOI BOI I thought it was that too!!!
OMG U RIGHT
Same. I still wonder how i thought that too
I thought it’s was a jaw chomping down on a bloodied foot
I always thought it is a rabbit
I think this is just an excuse for all his deaths in counter strike
The ol long con.
Well, that escalated quickly...
So true it hurts
@@zetterstrand hahaha
@@zetterstrand the lord has spoken
"Raids are more or less rare."
Me, a player who got her ass raided 3 times in a goddamn row:
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So much to do and yet no one to do them with.
It gives me so much anxiety, the loneliness.
Pets and animals help, but not that much. Minecraft, i believe, is not a game to play alone. Too much of that loneliness, that isolation, can drive a person mad.
Its like being stuck in a mineshaft, or in a series of ravines and cave systems.
You head home to feel that homeliness, and yet... there’s no one home- but you.
Maybe that’s why Herobrine was so scary. In a way, he represented the isolation, the “deadness” of the world of minecraft. The awareness of this loneliness projected into this entity that shouldn’t be a part of your world.
The more you fear his existence, the fact that “you’re not alone,” the more you realize that you are.
Anyways, that’s my essay on minecraft and anxiety. Maybe that’s why people playing alone (wilbur and pewds) project personified traits onto the animals they encounter.
I've never found myself capable of playing Minecraft singleplayer. It becomes so purposeless, so lonely.
Really isn't because they made the world so vacant for some reason. The only NPCs don't have dialogue, and there's barely any life in the overworld. No birds or bees or anything
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 wElL aCtUaLlY tHeRe ArE bEeS iN mInEcRaFt NoW but yeah you're right
@@brainzpvz2592 Too big
It really gives you that feeling of loneliness, that’s why when I play with my brother, we usually pretend to be plane crash survivors or castaways. It feels like being in a world far away from life, like a place we aren’t supposed to be in.
*"Where is everybody?"*
I remember so strongly the acute feeling of loneliness I felt in Minecraft one summer afternoon. It hit me like a sack of bricks one day and I was almost ready to cry.
It was the update that introduced the villages, but villagers would only come in the next update. I had read all of this on the wiki and immediately went exploring to see the new big thing. I knew it was a lot of effort to see a bunch of crappy houses but still. It took me a while, but I found one eventually and as I explored the emptiness of the world suddenly struck me, and at that moment I was alone in the realization that I was standing on a desolate plane that would generate to several times the surface of the Earth no matter whatever which direction I explored, but I would find no trace of any other person, save for these empty villages.
Holy damn, that's poetic
How is that so sad
This gave me goosebumps, I had a similar experience when I was younger
@@dammyitch1569 sayori in your profile picture is bae
@@sereshaw so true
Imagine becoming enlightened through spectating in Counter Strike lmfao
I do feel when look at csgo map
Zetterstrand is the definition of a true epic gamer
CYKA
Dude must've been high af
It actually happened to me lol
5:54 I thought this painting was a guy doing a karate chop into the void and was connected to the other fighting painting. lmao
"he would try to get himself killed on purpose" same
If you didn't know already, this video's on Zetterstrand's website
Also in his bio on instagram
I think that's so cool that he genuinely appreciates this video
I hope that this video gives him a bit more exposure.
the man is really into being meta :D
12:10
*In a low, dull voice*
"Get out of my room, I'm playing Minecraft."
lol
Memes😂
Giyuu loses his arm
Shinobu, Rengoku, and Muichiro dies
Nezuko gets immunity and Tanjiro gets plot armor
The thing about the wither portrait for me is that it’s a complete wither structure, but hasn’t become a active wither. It has grass and dandelions on the floor and nether in the background which isn’t anything possible in the game.
When I was younger I spent so much time just looking through all the different painting, I thought they were so cool
This is so well researched, and comprehensive, I love how you chose a topic that wouldn’t usually be covered, or at least in the context of your channel. These things wouldn’t have crossed my mind when playing Minecraft, so I think it’s fascinating how you dove in depth on such a... unique topic. Obviously people subscribe for the art videos, but this video style is really interesting and entertaining.
Moist Memester couldn’t have said it better myself, the editing is so on point too.
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gradedcypress 11 edit it
I fully accept the wither painting as a hint on how to summon it
I agree. thats likely why its there. for the peeps who dont know how to summon it.
it isnt the wither itself, but the structure that summons it
And also for new players who don't know about it pretty sure they will be creeped out as well
It also adds some mystery to the game, giving the Wither an eery feeling.
Yeah, that seems fairly clear in my opinion
honestly when i first saw the wither painting, i figured it was some abstract hint for potentially less-informed players on how to spawn the wither boss, as i believe there isn't any other in-game hint. especially now that the recipe book mechanic exists now, i feel its much more reasonable for genuine new players to play the game without ever needed to tab into the wiki or other information sites for the game. i realize this is probably far fetched, but at-least for me, the wither painting is justified for that alone.
I never thought someone would have life changing, career based thoughts on spectator mode
I really hope one day his name becomes as iconic as Van Gogh or Picasso because he really did find an iconic, original style that is recognized by millions of people a day
Definitely
Solar Wi. Smort
Lol ok goon
Me too that way I can sell my old Minecraft download and make millions
Sagacious Explains The Joke ?
Just remember almost every little thing was designed and created by someone.
With that mindset, and putting a lot of time into a server/world makes the game so much more enjoyable for me
I like how this painter is at the, very serious, Smithsonian and is just like “Check our these headshots guys very epic”
When Minecraft paintings have more lore than the whole game of fortnite
Da gorrilaa nah it sucks now
@Da gorrilaa And what, exactly, makes Minecraft not a good one?
@@elliottowens8913 what do you mean "now"?
I hate that when I shoot, someone builds a life size model of the earth
Meme Lord Bepis when it first started (at least for me) it was really fun and addictive. Now epic just cares about money and don’t listen to their community unless it’s a big streamer. Not to mention people getting good out of nowhere
What a beast to show his highlight reel in the *SMITHSONIAN*
Epic gamer moment
I figured why not
Kristoffer Zetterstrand absolute beast
Kristoffer Zetterstrand wow it’s the real you
@@zetterstrand Hey Mr. Painter.
so nobodies gonna talk about the fact that some of this man's art is literally inspired by broken 3d graphics
What a mad man
Solar Sands did talk about that tho.
Ethereal Forest he makes broken 3D graphics a work of piece. Truly a man of culture and unique mind with art.
ikr. if you showed his spectator cam paintings to someone who's played 3d games before, they'd probably be like "oh lol he painted a map from out of bounds"
but show it to someone who's never played a video game before and that's some surreal shit. neat blending of modern and traditional.
Ryoei
A work of art indeed. I would’ve never thought of an artwork that consists of maps that are out of bounds, pixel characters and realism combined.
This guy is an absolute legend
I still can’t get over the fact he showed a CS MLG montage at some art meeting at the Smithsonian.
Him: Skeletons are in the game but not rendered this realistic
The people who make shaders: are you challenging me!
The Wither painting has something "especial". The Wither is not activated, and it doesn't look like if he was in Minecraft. Soulsand blocks have rounded edges and the skulls are realistic. It's like if the painting had traveled from a parallel universe.
Edit: also there is grass but red sky.
I think that painting really just serves as an ingame guide on how to summon the Wither. Like anyone who sees that is gonna try it and figure out what happens.
Not sure but I believe the wither painting was what showed people how to build withers. Until the painting I don't think anyone knew those things could be built. Cool story I guess.
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@@littleghost6102 Damn you! I can't like anymore
Well it is possible to make a wither without giving it life if you put the skulls on and leave them in the ear and then place the sound sand it won't activate but I do support your idea tho of a parcel universe and my guess is the nether what if the nether used to be a more earth place with similar creatures like a wierd type of human thats bigger than us and what if they were trying to make life and death that they had all they needed a home and such but were greedy for power like making a weapon what if the lava of the nether wasnt always like that and that really the sky was just red what if that painting was moments before disaster what if ghasts might had not been giant white cube that are violent what if they just evolved to survive and that all the wither skeletons are people and that there previous food source was a pig like creature which evolved to a type of human hybrid like a piglin and that when the wither spawned after the painting the nether was doomed somehow and had turned to the nether we know.btw sorry this is long
I didn’t know this guy was the one who started the whole, “I wanted to paint this guy’s mom,” meme!
Chris Handsome I read this in Chris Hansen’s voice
I can't believe, the first 10 seconds made me cry and I felt so nostalgic
This video is just beautiful, the way you looked at this man's art and the whole game and the way you explained it to us is just incredible, congratulations pal
The story of Milo almost made me cry
Wilbert soot?
@@strangersmemories1632
William Smooch
Rest in piece :(
@@strangersmemories1632 yup
when wilbur released new milo i broke down
still do when i rewatch it
Oh, an art history lesson from my favorite monotone timer? Nice.
And it’s about video games
I always thought that the paintings were so random, and it’s so cool to see what the paintings really are
8:49 I'm pretty sure that the artist's rendition of this image is based on the work which is frequently used in class as a description of the sublime. "Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich around 1818.
i like to think that the painting of the wither is a “hint hint nudge nudge” towards making a wither. i mean how would a new player learn about anything without looking it up?
They give you a hint on how to summon the wither but don't tell you how to get to the nether. Brilliant.
@@Dv2YT i agree, there should be a natural structure or something telling the player about the nether portal, but hey i'm not mojang
yea but it looks like dirt not soul sand
I don't know... the game already doesn't tell new players a lot of things; the end, the nether etc. things that are hard to randomly stumble across without google.
I think minecraft has always been and should be the sort of game that gives you a wolrd without explanation and just says: "have fun, explore". I think it's part of the magic. Even though the new recipe book and starter advice ruined it a bit.
To be honest, this game was made in 2009 when the notion of Minecraft becoming super popular wasn't really considered. I assure you if the developers knew it would be so popular, they would have made it much more accessable. I mean, why do you think the console versions of the game try to do such a thing?
However, I mainly learned the crafting mechanics just from looking them up, or experimenting with other recipes. For example, if you know how to craft a wooden pick, you then mine cobble, which you then can extrapolate that you can craft stone tools. From there it's pretty obvious you can upgrade your tools even further to gold, iron, and diamonds just by replacing the minerals. Others, make sense, such as cooking sand in a furnace to create glass, which I figured out on my own.
But yeah, a lot of minecraft is cryptic, but I believe it played to Minecraft's strength being mainly player-driven. If you didn't know, and if you're in a server, you could ask a friend, and they'd help. But, by now everyone knows how to craft recipes or get to the end or nether in minecraft, so needing to do a tutorial on how to get to the end or nether or whatever is largely irrelevant now.
9:37 “If i had to explain atmosphere to someone, I’d show them this” *buzzing noise*
I wasn’t even watching the video and the minute I heard the buzz I was like “That’s the backrooms video..”
Affirmative fuck the backrooms
I wasnt paying attention and it scared the shit out of me
It's a video? I've only read the original post.
@@hedgehog3180 czcams.com/video/IO6D6khvYXE/video.html
Solar sands also made an entire video on liminal spaces.
I just discovered this channel, and I love it. The fact you take things that sound simple but over analyze them to the point where they sound brilliant is amazing
I really enjoyed the video, I always wondered about the paintings. Good job!
I also really liked your background of Monument Valley. I was born and raised there so it always makes me happy to see it.
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The paintings look like a today version of surrealism, it is so cool
Someone needs to make a texture pack including all the HD versions of the paintings
That's a great idea. Someone should get on it
theres no way someone hasnt already
Maybe everyone has assumed someone has, so no one has. :P
Done.
@@mortal1555 link?
Did not expect this, amazing work!
dude, u made an amazing job in this video, seriously! as an art criticism student, i'm amazed by the quality of your arguments and script. congrats
Alright. This is by far the best video of yours I've seen in awhile. Literally never even thought about how the art in Minecraft was made. I always just assumed some random pixel artist just did it, and this has officially opened my third eye on a new art technique!
*The only video that could top it is one done on Tumblr!*
"The most exposed artist on the planet"
Well, there's also Jasper Boerstra, the lead pixel artist for the game
Only recently was he hired
Yeah but his pixel art isnt depicted as a painting
@@animesenpai1163 Nobody said it was.
@@robertskitch i was the pointing it out but okay.
@@animesenpai1163 I mean... the "but" kinda suggests that you were pointing it out in contrast with what I said?
hey amazing video man, thanks to it I got one of my paintings in an IB work I've been working on for like a year now, finishing tonight
This guy is ofícialos one of my favorite artists no joke, these are some insanely intriguing concepts that I took for granted.
The fact that he did a headshot montage at the Smithsonian is fantastical trivia.
:)
Kristoffer Zetterstrand holy shit you’re here
@@zetterstrand It appears you're about to BLOW UP. People are flowing into your youtube channel!!!
Going with this same logic, I'm guessing C418 is also one of the most exposed artists on the planet as well. That's pretty insane.
But in a way, C418 is much more popular than Kristoffer since people are more likely search for music that plays all the time without prompt while you need to have a painting item in the game to see Kristoffer's work which most players don't really use unless they specifically wanted to craft it.
I wonder if he sells the art like c418 sells his albums?
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I’m sure his work will attract those who are into his type of art. I do, and I’d buy a lot and decorate my house with his merely creepy but unique atmospheric paintings.
@@lettuce6321 is it expensive. I'd like a few of the minecraft paintings. I like to support artists I like if I can afford to.
@@quetzalcueyat yeah I'd fuckin love to own some of the original versions of the minecraft paintings
Man this is 4 years old! Favorite video of yours I rewatch it on a monthly basis. ❤
HOLY SHIT THAT INTRO
it slid so smoothly from artistry to game that my eyes saw the PAINTING move for a second before my brain caught up and realized it had transitioned!
I’m not really an art person. I don’t know names of artists, I don’t understand concepts of art, and I don’t have interest in viewing art. But after watching this video I am in love with his work. Seeing the pieces in their original form for the fist time is weird and they look awesome. I would hang any of them on my wall, I would pay for a copy.
"Grew up playing minecraft in our childhood"
Oof, making me feel like a boomer
boomer moments amirite
I've always wondered about the art in Minecraft, so this video was amazing. Thank you so much
Wow! This was a great breakdown of in game art! You did a fantastic job! 👏
"Pile of clothes in a dark room 3AM effect" is the most random-yet-so-accurate descriptive name I've ever heard.
I never thought there was so much history behind the minecraft paintings
Indy pfp, _nice_
im so happy i stumbled across this video. i think i just discovered my favorite artist. hes incredibly talented and i had no idea how intricate these adorable artworks from my childhood really were. thank you sir
I think you found some really good ones! it's also worth mentioning most people edit their photos, whether it's just color correction and grain or major stuff like editing out certain things or adding fog etc.
I had never heard of Zetterstrand before, he is truly the kind of artist the world needs nowadays, in my opinion. I love the pure passionate originality of his work and I think it could be an artistic genre of it's own!
I've known who Zetterstrand is for a while, and I am absolutely sure that in some 50 years his art will become highly valued, even if a portion of it was seen by a large amount of people in not-so-distant past.
I honestly thought that Aztec2 was a painting of a toucan :(
@Antler Hit
Samee
@Antler Hit
Except it was Aztec1
@@itsaquagamer6101 Wuh... are you sure about that? Unless we're not on the same page 🤔
@Antler Hit
I was meaning that i though Aztec1 looked like a Toucan lol. Sorry for the confusion
Same
Well done man! The hard work and determination you put into your vid is astonishing! This is the kind of stuff I love to see on youtube!!!!!!
I was not expecting to find this so interesting. Thank you for looking into this and sharing it with us!
I'm surprised you didn't mention that the painting of the wither could just be a hint on how to spawn him, as he is an optional boss. Although I doubt even a single person really got that from the painting, I could not imagine even playing Minecraft without any sort of outside guide.
Dang this man is so creative I never knew this type of style existed.
"Crossbow Assholes" is the best description of a Pillager I have heard from a non minecraft-specific youtuber
I stumbled upon his original works before seeing this video (besides on my recommended page), and its honestly eerie going in blind. The out of bound CS paintings are perhaps my favorite, as I played a ton of deathrun in Gmod as a kid and got the same experience of seeing this other-worldly mixture of void and place.
Everybody gangsta till the village starts walking
BRO UR THE FUCKIN SOUP TIME CAT U R A FUCKING GOD HOLY SHIT BRO
Beatrix W. LOL
17 minutes ago: Me "Who is this guy?"
17 minutes later: Solar Sands "The most exposed artist on the PLANET"
Van Gogh who?
Van Gogh who? Picasso who? Who are you? If you ain't Christopher don't talk to me ;)
Why musn't?
RamenGod - Kristoffer*
Uhhh.... who hit ur head with a rock?
@@rickydbz1777 ?
Great video! This reminds me of an interview I did a while back with Johan Holmström, who wrote the music for Candy Crush. It was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and everything. His work is heard by so many, and yet they don't realize it!
I honestly thought that the rabbit on the windowsill was an upside-down melon for the longest time.
I always saw the paintings as this: A person who lives in the Minecraft world painted them; to them, the pixelated parts are normal, and the realistic elements are abstract
Ohh I like that, that’s my new head canon
Oo i like that for sure, perspective..! :o
Cool perspective dude
I think its incredible that i followed you two and more years ago for the DeviantArt browsing videos which i got tired of at some point and now, you appear on my feed again out of nowhere with an incredibly researched video going in depth about art that intrigued me but i never thought twice about and now admire deeply, and theres so much more incredible content to watch. Its funny having come to a point where youtubers i used to watch have evolved alongside me and are speaking to my interests all over again.
Those were pretty funny, I feel the same way
wow.. this was genuinely very cool! I can definitely appreciate these paintings more and will craft a few later for my house.
Wow, thanks. Been decorating with these paintings since 2012 and had no idea about any of this