Listed: 50 Random Art History Facts
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2021
- Art history teems with anecdotes and oddities, thanks to those delightful eccentrics, visionary radicals, and wonderful weirdos who populate the continuum. We could compile lists into eternity-but for now, here’s 50 random art history facts.
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My favorite part of the Mona Lisa getting stolen was when crowds of people came to the Louvre to see the empty spot where the painting was. Including Franz Kafka and his best friend Max Brod. Because why the hell not at this point. 🪲
Yes! The photographs are wild
13:55 Aaaahhhh, Wyeth. I grew up nearby, just down Route 1 from Chadds Ford. He was "one of our local guys," like Jim Croce and Teddy Pendergrass. What a beautiful picture.
Loving the variation in style, some wonderfully interesting facts in there!
Thank you!!
Your channel is a class act, a professional presentation that breathes life into the art world. Excellent narration, content, and visuals. Bravo.
Thank you so much! That means a lot ✨
this channel 🔥🔥🔥🔥 criminally underrated.
i'm a total physics nerd and i'm losing my goddamn mind that i'm hearing Kolmogorov's name in an art theory video. awesome
also i bought that dada and surrealism book at a second hand shop for a few dollars and it's soooo good :D
Ah amazing! I knew nothing about Kolmogorov (or physics, for that matter!) until I came across this story a few years back. It’s such a bizarre anecdote, it really deepened my appreciation for van Gogh. And so cool that you have the same Dada and Surrealism book! I think I found it at a street market in Berlin, also for just a few dollars!
@@TheArtTourist i recommend the NASA video Perpetual Ocean, Van Gogh style visualisation of ocean currents, it's really beautiful!
Thank you! Will have to check that out
I love these random facts! Especially the cat-based ones
Yes! As you can probably tell, we’re committed cat people 😺
Love cats & this wonderful channel.
My God. If only I had found this channel earlier...
With such intriguing stories about these artists, you are def not helping me get away from CZcams! But actually, thank you for doing such a great job of this...
I am intrigued by the artist's social interactions, the changing hands of the paintings, the shady underbelly of the art-dealer world and the whole she-bang.
Although I've already read about most of these stories on this video, it cements (as well as adds information) to my slowly-failing memory.
I will soon research your channel fully, and I must say that it is also a pleasure to listen to your well-produced audio (as I currently suffer from tinnitus and can't stand listening to most people or background music).
Kudos and Thank you,
Paul (or Chris) from New Mexico
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Loving this varied content :) hoping for more varied content apart from the usual artist portfolios. Great work as usual !!
Thank you so much! We thought it’d be fun to revive our other formats and mix it up occasionally, so it’s great to have this feedback!
Very informative and interesting facts of these wonderful artists. Thx for sharing love.
Love this channel
Beautiful work
This channel is so under rated
I love this!
Yay!
Brilliant channel
Thank you!!
Love this! I hope another facts compilation is coming soon! Small note that Jean Michel Basquiat was already pretty famous and successful by the time he connected with Andy Warhol and started to collab with him.
Thanks for watching! We definitely plan to make a part II :) My understanding is that Basquiat made a name for himself in the late 70s as half of SAMO©, and he was still relatively unknown to the art ‘establishment’ when he first met Warhol (a couple years before their debut collab). But it’s totally possible that there are multiple/conflicting stories about his timeline, the layers of legend around Basquiat’s origins are dizzying!
@@TheArtTourist Thanks so much for the response! That timeline does make sense, and I guess it does depend on how we define "fame" too lol
Glad another facts video is on the way!
Fascinating.
Nice 👍
An enlightening compendium!
I love when you cover the Pre-Raphaelites. They aren't really, I would think, my cup of tea, but that Rossetti "Proserpine" knocked my socks off, again (because you've shared it before).
I must look into Paul Jordan Smith and his hoaxes. I sense a kindred spirit there.
That Kandinsky painting covered so much ground that is attributed to the audacity and radicalism of American Abstract Expressionists.
That photo of Klint is stunning, and what a notion to insist one's own work be hidden from the public, posthumously, for two decades!
Un, I'm working on my third video on the "Salvator Mundi" which will, I think, persuade anyone who watches it through that what we are seeing is a hybrid between restoration and original intent.
The Monal Lisa was in Napoleon's bedroom?! Was it old master erotica?
Congratulations on pronouncing the Singer Sargent's Madam X's real name. I can't help wondering if that took more than one cut.
I have a pet notion that art is a bit like math, and the more complex it is, the fewer people genuinely understand it, which is why T.S. Eliot's "Cats" is his most beloved work, and Van Gogh's "Starry Night" appeals so much more to initial audiences than to the artist's own sensibility.
Thank you! Paul Jordan Smith’s is a funny story.
And yes Madame X’s name is definitely a mouthful! Took some mental preparation and a couple of tries for sure.
Nice like this segment!
Thank you! ✨
I would like to see an episode of "know the artist" on Velázquez!
#39. 12:06 Henry Ossawa Tanner
Thanks for this I never took an art class in college but a blind man could see Tanner's mastery of light and its absence is Bangin'! Edit:. To say the least!
Looked him up right away.
That one about mackintosh was new for me but a very interesting one
Yes! Such a weird and wild anecdote.
interesting facts
I am a collage artist and would love to see you profile painters who didn't shy away from collage-making, such as Motherwell and Matisse.
Amazing! Matisse and Motherwell are great suggestions, and we’re excited to eventually feature Hannah Hoch’s collages too!
@@TheArtTourist Wonderful! I would guess your list of artists to profile is HUGE, but if you're ever inspired to do a show on painter ODD NERDRUM, I'd be over the moon. I don't think he's super well-known in the U.S. His work is sublime.
Wow! His work is super intense, I like it! We’ll add him to the list for our Sketchbook series, which features living artists. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@TheArtTourist Fantastic! Thanks for taking a look and for being so responsive re: your comments section.
This is horrible, I discovered a channel where I want to watch every video, and it's -mumbles- AM on a Sunday morning (I'm still up). Charming and entertaining. Are you the T? I see a resemblance, but I don't know the piece. So much to look forward to! SUBBED. If I was to request one, it would be the guy that does the abandoned giant robots art from the past decade or so. Or a video on Luminism. I also like Steve Hanks, if I'm reflecting on art I've enjoyed. And the one with the woman in the carriage looking down you.
Edit: found some of my references: The Unknown Woman, Ivan Kramskoi, 1883. Reflecting, Steve Hanks. Simon Stålenhag, landscapes of dead robots. Albert Bierstadt, Luminism. Elliana Esquivel, "Procrastination”, "Homebody". And MOBA, the Museum Of Bad Art.
I like your vidoes :)
Thanks very much! Glad to hear it :)
@@TheArtTourist You're welcome :) My name is Vincent though like van Gough haha.. make more videos!! I'll support you :)
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Dizzying pursuits, enjoyably trivial and not so trivial I take the liberty of two quibbles: as regards M's 'David', Mr Arturo had to work with a split stone which contributed to his devising the enlarged parts of the sculpture - yes/no? and Kadinsky may be the pioneer of a formally defined school of abstract art, but there are major elements of abstraction as far back as the 12th century (ink works of the Chinese, et al), not to mention abstract approaches in early sculpture and, heavens above/below/on terra ferma: the works of Mister Turner himself, all at sea with his tempestuous colours. But I will welcome any correction, if agreement cowers! Ta, Ms S.C.!
Excellent point re abstraction! It definitely would have been prudent to specify in the video that we’re using the term ‘abstract’ as it pertains to formal modernism. You’re totally right though, abstract art is not a uniquely western invention and it was experimented with long before Kandinsky’s (or af Klint’s!) time. Turner is a great example of proto-abstract art, and of course the Impressionists, post-Impressionists, Symbolists, and so on were all flirting with abstraction too.
And to be honest, I’m not sure about the David debacle! My understanding is that Michelangelo inherited the project from another artist (multiple artists, even, who all failed to produce), and he was somewhat limited by the slab of marble he had to work with which accounted for some of his creative decisions. I’m curious about the split stone detail, I’ll have to look it up!
@@TheArtTourist If my memory serves me well, my source was nothing erudite: 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' may have mentioned the split, but even given the liberties of fiction and biog, etc, there may have been some reliance on documented facts found!
15:33 my favorite black artist found in my book that he had a thug life momments
I would.like you to do a bio on michael bookouts art
The ‘turbulence’ you describe is a depiction of the swirling clouds common in the south of France created by the mistral wind. It’s a common phenomenon around Arles and Saint Rémy where Vincent spent his last few years.
Thank you for the insight!
Gustav Corbet please
Hello from Romania. I am pleased again by your video, but there were no nazis in WWI. Keep up the good work.
Oh my goodness thank you so much for pointing that out! What a silly error 🤦🏻♀️
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you are so beautiful
Your facts don't check out