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Ugly Beauty: How To View Modern Art (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary)
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2022
- Beauty today can be subtle and elusive. It can be found in the LCD sculptures of Tatsuo Miyajima, the subtle light installations of James Turrell or cancer paintings of Damien Hirst. Januzczak, Waldemar goes searching. When modern art is viewed - say, an unmade bed or a pickled shark - it may be hard to see the beauty in it. But is it us, the viewer, that’s the problem? Art critic Waldemar Januszczak thinks that beauty abounds in modern art despite the frequent criticism - we just need to look at it in a different way. Even paintings of human deformity or squares of metal dropped on a gallery floor can move us.
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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.
Spot on with Koons "Deep appetite for shallow things" he's a salesman, businessman, not an artist. like Hearst.
Anish Kapoor discovered a new blue and copyrighted it so no one else could use it. Complete GREED. Shortly after someone else formulated the same colour with a different formula. It is available to all artists except Anish Kapoor. Edit: reading the comments, apparently he did the same with a black.
Yeh, that statement, Koons' "Deep appetite for shallow things" struck me as well as particularly insightful. A good, accurate sound bite.
I don't agree that it's "us" who have that "appetite for shallow things". It's a market built around speculation and fetishism. The further something sits from any rule mimicking objectivity, the better for inventing its value.
I think people get overly angry at people like Koons. Art has enough space for everyone, even the most dull, unimaginative, or unmerited.
They're only gaming a system that was already there.
Because, let's be honest, who could get offended at someone taking a picture of a bunny-shaped balloon, and commissioning someone to make a huge replica of it? That so innocuous, so insignificant on itself.
What people take issue with, is that somehow, we are expected to believe that doing so is worth millions of dollars.
Isn't that just black? He bought the rights. Yves Klein who patent blue in 1959 "Klein blue"
? Black is black.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“It’s a beauty that’s been earned”. That struck me deep. Old cars, old houses, old cities. Etc. well said.
metoo
exactly!
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.
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!!!!
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.
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.
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!"
Old art has been filtered by time. I am very happy to be 50 years behind. Great video, once more.
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 🙏🏻🤗
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 😂😅
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
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.
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.
such art i find it to be weak, it has no spirit , no soul. I dare anyone to experience an epiphany while listening/looking at Yoko's art .
Yoko Ono's "My mom is beautiful" was quite a deep experience though. Giving you a time and space to write a message to your mother, the most dear figure to many people, it's something that many people don't appreciate. The frenziness of life impedes us from stopping and thinking, especially about people who are gone, people who we held (or hold) dear, and sending them a message, even if they won't be able to read it, even of they are only a part of our memory. While watching him write a message to his mother I saw my mother.
Yoko’s art? The hype it appears is with the name not what she draws. My kid does better than she.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
Did not want it to end! Is so refreshing to watch a Waldemar. Thank you!
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!
Glad to finally have you back on screen, Waldemar! You tell epic art stories like nobody else can!
“Your money or your life!” “I’m thinking!” - Jack Benny
Great lesson, W.J.! Lots of emptiness out there!
What a marvellous moment - Van Gogh's Hat of Many Candles! Priceless.
Always the Best 💐
Thank you 🌷
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.
The hazy cosmic haziness has a special vibrational feel of becoming the light. Its truly beautifull 🧡
Art is creativity, beauty is balance. Light and darkness, inside and out.
Thank you Waldermar each of these videos are a Gem I Love them Thank You for making them. ❤️🙏
As one scholar once put it: Yoko Ono is the only artist in history that is not famous for art she created but for the art she has obstructed.
So why not feature some "blank canvas" artworks, if emptiness is good?
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.
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.
dzieki Waldemar for your devotion also to bring knowlegde ansd to share the passion of art
I love the video, the script and the narration. Absolutely an work of art in itself.
My current favourite of your series. These interviews are astonishing
I've been watching ur videos nightly for the past week.
Wow
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!
I saw a Turrell exhibit at the Whitney in the 90's and it freaked me out.
hadn't read about the candles on van gogh's hat. some lovely surprises. thank-you.
Not everything from the past is beautiful and not everything current is ugly. But artists of the past were more likely to see beauty as a legitimate aim. Today, it's mostly didacticism: the artist wants to teach us a lesson, force us into a new consciousness. Valid. But as a long-time viewer / listener / experiencer of contemporary arts, I'm tired of being lectured to.
Like so much of modern life, it's the revenge of the losers. Empty inside? Then elevate the empty into great significance and dare the timid to defy you. Stupid? Attack intelligence. Fat and hideous? Declare fatness and hideousness the new beautiful. Can't render faces and hands? Paint undifferentiated blobs or blots instead, or stick pointed things in the viewer's eye, and compose a few paragraphs of deliberately impenetrable obscurities to keep them company. ("There, that'll shut them up. When they roll their eyes I can declare them philistines who Don't Get It.") Talentless? Haunt parties and art galleries till you find a man famed for his talent, then marry him to borrow his legitimacy. There's no money in modest claims, so make them outrageous and get paid.
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 am so down for this!
Hot coffee. Cheers🇨🇦
Making beautiful things is hard and takes years of study and practice. Many modern artists prefer to opt for "clever." You don't get it? Oh, that's because your not smart enough.
I mean, ideally you’d presume your wife can walk on her own. She wouldn’t need saving. But if she was any kind of mate she’s helping you carry out the art. 😂
Eerlijk ik wist niet dat Waldemar getrouwd was , het spijt mij echt als hij door mij in de problemen is gekomen
HA! Although it might be just a wee bit satsfying watching a Damian Hurst painting burn. 😘
Lol! Exactly ! Great answer
@@jazw4649 Just the thought is satisfying. 🙂
@@kokolanza7543 nee dat is het niet , meer van wat ik eens gelezen heb in de bijbel wat mij een houvast gaf als anker ondanks met gebutst heen en weer geslingerd ,ergens tegenaan gevallen ,moet men toch weer opstaan en de zware koffer dragen, want dat houd in dat hij je sterk vind en je mag best eens uitrusten en genieten want hij draagt dan even voor jouw de zware koffer, want je geeft niet de zwakkere een koffer die men niet kan dragen ,daaruit mocht ik opmaken dat hij mij als sterk zag om een zwaar koffer te kunnen dragen ,zeker valt het niet altijd mee zuchten en klagen zit ook in die koffer ,ik denk ook vaak daar komt hij weer met een zware koffer aanzetten ,waarom altijd ik ? Maar dan realiseer ik het weer dat ik niet de enigste ben die het zwaar heeft maar met elkaar zijn wij sterk dat is wat ook als inhoud zit in die koffer LIEFDE , vraag wat zal dat juffertje vandaag uit die koffer halen ,mijn broer is jarig vandaag hij was een Moederdag kindje ik geef hem een dikke knuffel want hij draagt wel een hele zware last al jaren in een GGZ ( zalig zijn de armen van geest ) hoe blij het mij maakt dat hij een vrijkaartje heeft voor de hemel daar zit een kracht die zo troostend is maar bovenal blijdschap ,ja die emoties die je voelt hoe groot God is maar je moet het willen zien ook de zwakkeren laten ons een gezicht zien van lelijk of mooi het is aan ons hoe willen wij geslepen worden tot een schitterend diamant van het leven oh wat is de kunst van het leven ,om op een perfecte wijze geslepen te worden en goed gekeurd te worden door de diamanten slijper onder de loepzuivere 💎🔍
Awesome take on today's art.
It not just hard to see, it’s sad, very sad Wald. The loss of life for anything that lived and loved it’s life as we all try to do. I hate the crucifixion art most of all. A father god that sacrifice’s his only son because he made a wager with an evil satan….really…. And people still believe in this father god as loving? As good, as real? And people trust this god?
I do honor Oko for her visions.
The ads are more than annoying. They are terrible interruptions and unforgivable.
This is a wonderful video. Thanks so much for featuring Yoko.
What a beautifull interpretation “ the all embracing nothingness”
Once again you have given us a brilliant view into the art world. Thank you.
Meaning, yes. Expression, yes. Beauty, mostly not. I think there is actually more consensus about what is beautiful than contemporary artists would acknowledge. It's just not so easy to put into words.
This video is the best thing I could have seen this morning. Thanks to everyone involved in its production.
Saddo here. No. Not bothered! You didn't convince me as I hung on to every word. Several years ago I was in Venice when the Biennale was on - I go there most years - and an agent gave me a catalogue of art he was selling. We got chatting in a restaurant, I was nowhere near the exhibition. For months afterwards whenever we fancied a good laugh, we would open it and look at a painting. Yes. Saddo.
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
Hi Waldemar. I'll follow you anywhere, but you lost me on this one. I think we're being conned by many of these artists and the galleries that represent them. I'd love you to do a video on the art market, and how galleries and collectors can promote an artist and make huge profits. And as for Jeff Koons, I'll misquote him: "At the end of the day, it all comes down to .....money".
Agreed. Of course there's fantastic modern art. But there's also people just literally shitting on canvas and people WILL find meaning in anything if they look hard enough
I have an Art History degree and I’m also an attorney so I know how to think critically, and I’m with you PT.
Modern art does little for me. It is for lower rate artists who have good marketers. Marketing is the key today. That is what draws the masses in.
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 appreciated your commentary on Yoko Ono. She has been maligned for so many years because of her association and peoples feelings about John Lennon but her work has a value separate from its perceived association with him and his music. I also admire how she has looked after his legacy all these years and continues to work as an artist
That has to be one of the best documentation I have ever seen. Great job, Perspective!
Had it not been for Yoko, we would have had at least two more Beatles albums. When John had reconciled himself by 1973 and was willing to record with the others again,, Yoko stopped him. She should NEVER be forgiven or celebrated. Hers is a name that should not be spoken.
Brilliantly thoughtful. My god, this was well done.
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
Definitely I needed your heads up, overview and rationales. Great stuff.
I love how Waldemar connects past artists with modern ones.
The cow's head caused quite a stir in the art world when it was actually purchased by a wealthy art collector. Quite reminiscent of the age old argument...
Mooi hoe jij jouw moeder in herinnering bewaart en zeker op een voetstuk geplaatst moet worden ,wij vergeten maar al te vaak dat zij een sleutelfiguur is in ons leven zij die ons met raad en daad bijstaat en zonder meer haar kinderen liefheeft een band die levenslang meegaat ondanks vele kopzorgen die kinderen hun moeder kunnen geven is haar liefde onvoorwaardelijk ( een geschenk van de Schepper )
At 14:47. Ahhhhh...one of my most favorite paintings of all time, Rembrandt's "Dead Cow" painting (don't know the official name). I've never had the pleasure of seeing it in person. I bet it's in some Russian gallery, inaccessible to me. Just like my other favorite Rembrandt paintings. Sigh. Anyway, this is extremely modern, though it was painted about 400 years ago. Unlike all the other "dead animal" paintings of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, this Rembrandt painting shows one single carcass, completely devoid of skin and any other markings of "animalness." It's so visceral, so raw. I love it! Rembrandt truly was a painting genius, for having conceived of this.
The NFL draft and a new Waldemar art doc. Been a good weekend
"Modern art" is what an artist says they're producing when the piece they're working on, in *any* other style, goes horribly wrong... Or they're high
I have a mad crush on Waldemar!
You can't have him. I want him all to myself!
''One of the things I've always returned to is colour', says Anish Kapoor, artist.
Some work went there as in a book! Thankful
I sometimes disagree with you, and other times think you're all wet. But, I do enjoy your videos and always find myself enlightened and uplifted at the end of each one. Thank you.
This film is itself a brilliant work of art. Bravo. And thank you 🙏.
Some of the things Waldemar says are entertaining, hilarious!
Waldemar could make a cow pie sandwich sound appetizing.
30:51 I was with Yoko with the "You are equating the value of the work with the peoples reaction to the work. Two different things." even when she got to the work vibrating and affecting the rest of the world. thought she was grasping at "healing the earth" but I got what she was trying to say, something along the lines of "Appreciation of beauty, will engender people to act more respectfully because they appreciate things." . but then she said "bring world peace' and I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Nothing she said is any less ridiculous than the BS from the other artists. At least her messages are always about peace & love and always have been.
My perspective is that art has gone from painting to film or music. The most popular artists from the renaissance like Leonardo to Picasso of the 20th century were painters whereas the most popular artists of today would be musicians or filmmakers or even actors. For example in today's culture what are the most popular forms of art? It certainly isn't Yoko Ono. Thousands of people will show up to concerts. Burning Man is another example of modern art with all kinds of inventive things. The point is art is flourishing today and more popular than ever, it's just a different medium.
Thank you Waldemar…..I was actuallly surprised at how Jeff Koons triggered my imagination after years of thinking I hated his art.
There's art and there's Art. One is the money laundering, the branded, the "new and exciting." And there is the real art of real people. Waldemar, outsider art? The AVAM? What about that?
Excellent point
مجهود كبير و يحترم من قبل المتلقين و ثني عليه و نثمنه عاليا ... شكرا لهذه الوجبة الدسمة الجميلة
Art seems to have reached the conclusion of an empty wall and an empty room. Someday we can visit an empty museum or is that derivative? Forget the art. Just put the artist statement on the wall. It's about the words, but hasn't it always been?
We the unwashed must be told.
Whether tis base or tis gold.
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...)
Thank you Waldemar, your work here is a treasure!
According to the narrator modern art expresses a Hobbesian world (life is short, nasty and brutish), i.e. a human world shaped by ruthless capitialism. money, that's where the meaning is and the art world is worth about $69 billion a year. Can one find "beauty" in capitalism?
At 17:38. Oh, yes, Damien Hirst did that to me the first time I encountered him. It was at the lobby of the Lever House, on Park Avenue in Manhattan. I used to work in a nearby office building. One fine day I left work early. I was wandering around the area, when I saw this office building lobby full of these weird sculptures. It was free and open to the public, so I entered. Damn. Damn. Damn. I was suddenly struck by this horrific anxiety, just seeing all these animal carcasses, all these implements of dissection and death, surrounding me. I don't know if I'm making this up, but I also remember clocks, lots of clocks, going forward and backward, some slow, some super-fast. It was an exceptionally freaky art display. I think I could only be there for 5 minutes before I had to get out--it was that unnerving. I immediately had to find out who this artist was. It turned out to be Damien Hirst. Ever since then, I've been a big fan. :D
Ugly...period. Quite easy in fact to distinguish Art that is inspired and "Artists" that just want to get on your nerves and try to pass their "Art Works" off as something interesting. What is amazing are the curators who buy into it, and will go on and on and on trying to explain why the piece of crap is incredible. Having worked in museums a few years and having to look at some contemporary eye-sores on a daily basis during some exhibitions I know what I'm talking about. You spend entire days in wings with some contemporary works and you realise that is all it is...krap.
Yep. Moi aussi. They're taking the mickey, especially the Jeff Koons and Tracy Emins of this world.
Thank you for this perspective Photographe Demode! Without giving in to a knee-jerk reaction, my experience with recent art is about the same as yours. Money talks in the art world in the age of capitalism, and that seems to be the aesthetic standard of our time. And a loss of depth, profundity. Just one example - maybe not a particularly great work of art - but Watts' "Mammon" says a lot, and applies to millennia of human experience. What is there in recent art that resonates deeply? I'll keep looking, with as open a mind as possible. And yet, to this date just about all of this stuff is not worth spending time with.
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.
Please permit me to say, I have never been more sympathetic to the modern artist because of this presentation. I had been convinced that it was primarily based on cheap thrills, copycat platforming and shock value. I will now look at it through a more discerning lens. Many thanks.
Beschouw of beter gezegd van meerdere kanten waar altijd wat aan te slijpen valt ook aan mij 😂👉💎
I am glad you have been able to change your perspective, Doug. ❤✨
Realism is what’s inside the artist, Abstract is what’s inside the viewer.
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.
If Waldemar is part of the video, I am watching AND giving up the like!
Wow!