Exactly! i was just thinking that he does bring the artist to life. I’ve learned so much through these films about Gauguin, Monet, Grant Wood, Seurat and others that I can actually have a conversation about whose personality I’d appreciate the most.
Waldemar also speaks Polish very well thanks to his mum and old Polish songs which is great. I've been addicted to his documentaries since I found them a few days ago. He really makes art seem interesting for a layman like myself. Pozdrawiam.
I have never been to the Sistine Chapel. So the Orangerie is the most impressive room full of art I have ever seen. I long to see it again. But alas, my days of art pilgrimages are likely over. Disability and the poverty that comes with it ended all that before I made it to Rome. But these films make it easier to admire art from a distance. For that I am grateful.
Waldemar is you and me, as he drags us screaming and kicking over the hot coals of art history. He has the same love and passion for art / painting, as we all do, and he puts himself in our place, as we attempt to absorb, comprehend and contemplate the wonders of it all. Bravo Sir Waldemar!
Wow. Wonderful. I fell in love with the Impressionists at about age 5, when my Daddy showed me how they had painted. Painting was his dear hobby. He and my mother, of limited means, spent what they could on fine art books (1950's, when they were expensive!)...My sister and I were allowed to look at them if we washed our hands and sat nicely on the sofa. (Not the floor, where we liked to read.) So...I looked at the books, painted with my Daddy, and sketched all the time. Became an artist, an art teacher, a lecturer about art and art history. Just before Covid started, I did a retrospective which took up the whole local library--titled, ''My Life in Art Books''-- So! I'm so enjoying these videos--so intensely alive themselves, with new information, fresh slants on the familiar, visually following in the footsteps of my heros. What good company you are for that, Mr. (Dr.?) Waldemar Januszak! Thank you very much--these are, for me, light spilled into a dark time.
I love anything with Waldemar in it. He is so unpretentious. I don't feel he is ever selling himself as others do. And seeing those easels was actually mind-blowing. They used to be so big they weren't very portable, but someone invents one that folds up. So simple. Back in the day, that must have been huge. These days we take things like that for granted. Humans are pretty clever.
The big easel he showed is pretty modern and still used today. Artists use even bigger ones than that in their studios. But there is also even smaller more portable ones now such as u.go box which can fit into a handbag and screws on to a tripod.
I've been sharing your documentaries with my senior abstract art students, both women and men, here in Ajijic, Mexico. I try to inspire them with art history and also the Women Artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, who have been discarded in so many ways. My purpose is to see if I can get them to find the lost child within, still waiting to experiment with paint and surfaces of every kind. It has become so exciting for me, maybe I can take all of this with me into the next life ... never stop learning! I'm a vintage Essex girl (1943) who lived most of her life in QC Canada very post-war, and now has the enormous pleasure of living in Mexico. Art is everywhere here, and when this pandemic is over we can get back to volunteering with the local Free Children's Art Program at Lake Chapala Society, which has been ongoing for 62 years, only one year missed ... 2020! Some very well known Mexican artists began in this program when there were little kids. And, I have to say, these kids have an innate talent for art of every kind. What a Joy! Gracias por todo!
The best documentary I have ever seen ! This guy Is a genius, and a wonderful creative artist . Thank you for making such an enjoyable and memorable documentary about some of my favorite artist.
Je suis tombe par hasard sur deux reportages de Waldemar sur la chaine Histoire. Un sur Manet et l'autre sur Toulouse Lautrec. Comme tout francais moyen, je les connaissais evidemment un peu. Mais Waldemar m'a fait realiser leur genie. Heureusement qu'on a des britanniques pour nous faire apprecier notre culture ! ;-)
This is so well done. The writing is exemplary. The information is on point. And Waldemar is totally infectious. Having recently concentrated on the impressionist section at the Art Institute in Chicago recently, I was wanting to know more about the artists involved and how it all began. This documentary fit the bill and was pure perfection. I can’t wait to take in the second act.
I do not want this documentary to end. It is so good! I thought I knew a lot about the subject but Waldemar proves me wrong again and again! It does not get any better than this. Thank you Waldemar!!!
Art history should be all inclusive: the political, the religious, the artistic trends of an era, the very personal background of the artist. My goodness! If I’d only had Waldemar in art college. The way he connects all of those elements helps you understand each artist, learn so much, and totally enjoy the whole experience of learning from this wonderful, witty genius. Best of all you feel as if you’re traveling right beside him as he walks, rides, or sails to the most awesome places and examines and points out hidden details and meanings in a painting or sculpture. What exquisite fun! All art teachers should have to watch him before they’re allowed to step into a classroom and bore us into comas with their minimal facts and birth and death dates.
Hello from Uruguay, I have been watching videos from this channel since last year and they are amazing. I love Waldemar's way of explaining art. Anyone else from Uruguay who has been watching them?
I love this series. I've been lucky to see in museums some of these paintings and others Waldemar has presented. No pretense or intellectual muck. Great series.
Loved this programme about the impressionists, really interesting. The bit in South London with Waldemar putting up the sign really cheered me up, you must come back to South London soon!
Love this guy too. Soo down-to-earth in his overall approach but goodness, doesn't it just gel. Would love to meet him as I taught art history as one of my teaching mediums. Well done indeed!
Wow! What an interesting and for me completely unexpected history! I had never thought about Wedgewood as anything more than a type of teapot but Josiah Wedgewood apparently touched a great deal of our modern world. Im glad i watched this!
Impressionist are so unknown and yet still so famous. Impressionism really helps us realize the beauty of our worlds. I love this art style because it goes from the beauty of life to women to people living their lives.
I really enjoy warching your documentaries and your way of focussing on the very different aspects and qualities of a specific example of art as e.g. the small interview with the French porcelain painter and the styles of impressionism in painting. Its deeply informative and a very inspiring way of weaving together all the different threads of a specific part of Art History. 🙏🌷💗
This is brilliant. Giving us a backdrop to how impressionism started and the personalities involved really adds that extra dimension; makes it far more exciting and engaging. And in a language we can all understand.
Waldemar, I really appreciate the artist in you who sought the practical aspects of creation of the art: before i saw your videos, I never thought whether these folks had a “color tube” , “a non circular brush” for the quick strokes to capture the scene before you or a “portable canvas”. You know the history (thanks for the research) but I am more amused by how you bring to it life (with you and other people going in and out of the video - witnessing the art you are talking about)! Really appreciate the perspective and your artistry (of story telling, music, sounds, speed of videos and the words you use to narrate)! Thank you!
Utterly fascinating! A little treasure of a program that will leave you wanting more! Expect to learn things you had no idea about... Tuck it away for when you can really take in the multitude of amazingly mundane, but surprising, little known facts disseminated here so expertly... an hour very well spent. (I shared it to my Facebook feed.)
Thank you for such a nice video! As a painter, myself, it's always interesting to remember the beginning of some of the most important movements in art...
That was SO engaging and interesting! I love all the movement through cities and the creative ways you get an idea across. Excellent! I showed it at the retirement community I work in. I'll be showing more!
Exciting, very well done creators, this is a magnificent video, thoroughly intriguing and fun. The story and script is tight, the filming good, and the editing is spectacular. The lead character is an artwork in his own right. I loved the way he took away Bazille's wine. It's great,
Very good documentary. I think you should do a video about the gallerists from that period and after; Durand Ruel, Flechtheim, and probably the most important Kahnweiler. There’s a great biography by Pierre Assouline about him. Without those gallerists who managed to sell impressionists, fauvists, cubists...mainly to Russia and America; those amazing artists may have been lost in history. Also D-H Kahnweiler has such an incredible story: almost losing everything during both world wars, and rebuilding every time. Being Jewish, and German too really made his life incredibly difficult. Just an idea.
Thank you! Brilliant! Informative and entertaining. Your enthusiasm and passion is infectious. I’ll pay (it’s the honourable thing to do) from time-to-time, rather than for each video.
Great video as always. I would love to see the artists' names or special terms appear on the screen, which will make it easier for a beginner like me to follow
I so much am enjoying the host!! I've dabbled in Art Appreciation in HS, sure, but he makes art once again so much more appreciative, fun, informative and interesting!! Thank you, Sir. (As I view one upload after another this day)
Would someone please help this lovely "chap" whack that darn sign into the lawn - free him up for focusing on his dialogue 😌 - love this fellows wit , dry sarcasm - a unique blend of stand - up /court jester /historian with a dash of Don Rickelsian tongue in cheek offensiveness ☺
Brilliant film, as they all are. Even as someone who goes to see Impressionist paintings at least once a month I still learned a lot. I also hope the credits mention Alan Menken for how much the score is derived from his opening theme in Beauty and the Beast. Like so much great painting, great music is often nicked.
Es gibt kaum einen besseren als Dich Waldemar! Deine Darstellung, Erzählstil und Musikuntermalung sind einmalig. Du machst die Bilder lebendig durch dein Hintergrundwissen. Kunstunterricht vom Feinsten, bravo.
Having fun and learning, what more could you want? Waldemar manages to educate, make you smile and bring the artists to life. Brilliant ❤️
Exactly! i was just thinking that he does bring the artist to life. I’ve learned so much through these films about Gauguin, Monet, Grant Wood, Seurat and others that I can actually have a conversation about whose personality I’d appreciate the most.
Couldn't agree more :)
Well said. The best programme by a country mile about impressionism I've ever watched.
The more you watch Waldemar's documentaries, the more you like him
So true, Peter. His chosen sub topics exploring day to day lives provides a rare relatability and understanding.
I find him very irritating, but he is very knowledgable and his show I find fascinating in spite of rather than because of.
I thought his comments about how painting human figures is the only form of art were very ignorant and biased.
@@barbaracronin4164 And the less I watch him, the more I miss him.
We love you Waldemar please keep making your programs,
I’ve been studying art for 30yrs and the best bits are all gleaned
from you.
True that.
👍👍
Waldemar also speaks Polish very well thanks to his mum and old Polish songs which is great. I've been addicted to his documentaries since I found them a few days ago. He really makes art seem interesting for a layman like myself. Pozdrawiam.
@@fiuttello I am addicted to his documentaries as well, Waldemar is the best )))))
Balls. Loud mouth stentorian.
You are far in a,way the best person ever to comment on art and history. A genius and we are blessed you are around.
I have never been to the Sistine Chapel. So the Orangerie is the most impressive room full of art I have ever seen. I long to see it again. But alas, my days of art pilgrimages are likely over. Disability and the poverty that comes with it ended all that before I made it to Rome. But these films make it easier to admire art from a distance. For that I am grateful.
Waldemar is you and me, as he drags us screaming and kicking over the hot coals of art history. He has the same love and passion for art / painting, as we all do, and he puts himself in our place, as we attempt to absorb, comprehend and contemplate the wonders of it all. Bravo Sir Waldemar!
He is unique in reliving art history, a really enthusiastic recollection of the past. Highly enjoyable to watch
Yes. He kind of bashed Leonardo da Vinci in one of his videos. I love da Vinci, but it was funny seeing him bashed.
I'll never get tired of listening to Waldemar on Art History.
Wow. Wonderful. I fell in love with the Impressionists at about age 5, when my Daddy showed me how they had painted. Painting was his dear hobby. He and my mother, of limited means, spent what they could on fine art books (1950's, when they were expensive!)...My sister and I were allowed to look at them if we washed our hands and sat nicely on the sofa. (Not the floor, where we liked to read.)
So...I looked at the books, painted with my Daddy, and sketched all the time.
Became an artist, an art teacher, a lecturer about art and art history. Just before Covid started, I did a retrospective which took up the whole local library--titled, ''My Life in Art Books''--
So! I'm so enjoying these videos--so intensely alive themselves, with new information, fresh slants on the familiar, visually following in the footsteps of my heros. What good company you are for that, Mr. (Dr.?) Waldemar Januszak!
Thank you very much--these are, for me, light spilled into a dark time.
Some say he's still hammering that sign into the ground.
Lol 💯 .. while pint-tubes are soaking on the shore
I love anything with Waldemar in it. He is so unpretentious. I don't feel he is ever selling himself as others do. And seeing those easels was actually mind-blowing. They used to be so big they weren't very portable, but someone invents one that folds up. So simple. Back in the day, that must have been huge. These days we take things like that for granted. Humans are pretty clever.
... and that footage of him providing the explanation as he boarded the train was pure genius!! Xxx
The big easel he showed is pretty modern and still used today. Artists use even bigger ones than that in their studios. But there is also even smaller more portable ones now such as u.go box which can fit into a handbag and screws on to a tripod.
Waldemar, I love watching your programs. Very informative and very enriching! Please keep them coming! Yours is my favorite program!
Wie Waldemar Januszczak mit ansteckender Begeisterung durch die Kunstgeschichte stapft ist unbezahlbar. Danke!
Best art history documentaries, bar none..this is what CZcams is meant to be.
I've been sharing your documentaries with my senior abstract art students, both women and men, here in Ajijic, Mexico. I try to inspire them with art history and also the Women Artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, who have been discarded in so many ways. My purpose is to see if I can get them to find the lost child within, still waiting to experiment with paint and surfaces of every kind. It has become so exciting for me, maybe I can take all of this with me into the next life ... never stop learning! I'm a vintage Essex girl (1943) who lived most of her life in QC Canada very post-war, and now has the enormous pleasure of living in Mexico. Art is everywhere here, and when this pandemic is over we can get back to volunteering with the local Free Children's Art Program at Lake Chapala Society, which has been ongoing for 62 years, only one year missed ... 2020! Some very well known Mexican artists began in this program when there were little kids. And, I have to say, these kids have an innate talent for art of every kind. What a Joy! Gracias por todo!
Have tou seen the obe where he visits Mexico City
Fabulous video, thank you! I like hearing more about Pissarro...we don't seem to talk about him enough when discussing Impressionism
Yes, love Pissarro
the reason we don't here much about Pissarro is because he was a black artist.
This is a brilliant series of art programs.Waldermar is brilliant.
Love love Waldemar...they never even talked about paint tubes while at Uni.
This deserves so many more views, Waldemar is a god. Always a rare pleasure.
Yes
Well it’s up to 15k I love these series I have watch 4 of them so far.
After watching Renaissance Unchained, was hooked. Love all of his work. Learn as you watch. Brilliant.
The best documentary I have ever seen ! This guy Is a genius, and a wonderful creative artist . Thank you for making such an enjoyable and memorable documentary about some of my favorite artist.
Really. I have ever seen! This is just bog standard Ma'am on British TV.
Thank you for this brilliant video! Also compliments to the cameraman, beautiful shots. As if he is an impressionist himself.
Je suis tombe par hasard sur deux reportages de Waldemar sur la chaine Histoire. Un sur Manet et l'autre sur Toulouse Lautrec. Comme tout francais moyen, je les connaissais evidemment un peu. Mais Waldemar m'a fait realiser leur genie. Heureusement qu'on a des britanniques pour nous faire apprecier notre culture ! ;-)
This is so well done. The writing is exemplary. The information is on point. And Waldemar is totally infectious. Having recently concentrated on the impressionist section at the Art Institute in Chicago recently, I was wanting to know more about the artists involved and how it all began. This documentary fit the bill and was pure perfection. I can’t wait to take in the second act.
Im enjoying this so much that I'm ready for another 41 episodes ...
I really like his documentaries. He has a different lense on art
Precisely!
@@reeree6682 up perfect epp oh
from an American artist: Absolutely LOVE what you do! Not just informative and educational but interesting, stimulating and imaginative.
this fellow is marvellous
During this documentary I got an advertisement that was 50 minutes long. I’ve never had one that long before. Really enjoyed this 👍
I do not want this documentary to end. It is so good! I thought I knew a lot about the subject but Waldemar proves me wrong again and again! It does not get any better than this. Thank you Waldemar!!!
I love the way you brought up the inventions of the day that influenced the direction of the art that was made. Fascinating!
Absolutely my favourite Art genre. I love the whole story of the impressionist movement, commercialised or not
Art history should be all inclusive: the political, the religious, the artistic trends of an era, the very personal background of the artist. My goodness! If I’d only had Waldemar in art college. The way he connects all of those elements helps you understand each artist, learn so much, and totally enjoy the whole experience of learning from this wonderful, witty genius. Best of all you feel as if you’re traveling right beside him as he walks, rides, or sails to the most awesome places and examines and points out hidden details and meanings in a painting or sculpture. What exquisite fun! All art teachers should have to watch him before they’re allowed to step into a classroom and bore us into comas with their minimal facts and birth and death dates.
Best presenter ever for art history! Absolutely not boring, yet funny, informative... just soooo great! Tnx!!
As ever, a successful, amusing and fascinating account of the people, lives and human dilemmas of the greats. Enjoyed this.
Sir, you actually take us to an art journey.
Wonderful
Hello from Uruguay, I have been watching videos from this channel since last year and they are amazing. I love Waldemar's way of explaining art. Anyone else from Uruguay who has been watching them?
This is once again BRILLIANT!! THANK YOU
I love this series. I've been lucky to see in museums some of these paintings and others Waldemar has presented. No pretense or intellectual muck. Great series.
He's highly intellectual. Just without the healthy dose of pretentiousness 😜
Jay May Intellect and being intellectual is not muck
Loved this programme about the impressionists, really interesting. The bit in South London with Waldemar putting up the sign really cheered me up, you must come back to South London soon!
Love this guy too. Soo down-to-earth in his overall approach but goodness, doesn't it just gel. Would love to meet him as I taught art history as one of my teaching mediums. Well done indeed!
Wow! What an interesting and for me completely unexpected history! I had never thought about Wedgewood as anything more than a type of teapot but Josiah Wedgewood apparently touched a great deal of our modern world. Im glad i watched this!
Waldemar you now have a NEW FAN. Could listen and watch you all day long
I cant stop watching. Theyre all so good
Great documentary and entertainingly written and produced. Delightful.
I love listening to & learning from this extraordinary man. He's brilliant.
Impressionist are so unknown and yet still so famous. Impressionism really helps us realize the beauty of our worlds. I love this art style because it goes from the beauty of life to women to people living their lives.
very enjoyable to view
I am very happy to have learned a few new things
This film is a work of art in its self
32:27 “But you can still see this little island that Renoir and Manet painted. It was called ‘the Camembert’ because it was round and small.”
I really enjoy warching your documentaries and your way of focussing on the very different aspects and qualities of a specific example of art as e.g. the small interview with the French porcelain painter and the styles of impressionism in painting. Its deeply informative and a very inspiring way of weaving together all the different threads of a specific part of Art History. 🙏🌷💗
This is brilliant. Giving us a backdrop to how impressionism started and the personalities involved really adds that extra dimension; makes it far more exciting and engaging. And in a language we can all understand.
Absolutely brilliant
Excellent documentary!
Your best video!!! Never gets old and your delivery from tongue in cheek to wow factors and revelations, absolutely superb!!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Waldemar, I really appreciate the artist in you who sought the practical aspects of creation of the art: before i saw your videos, I never thought whether these folks had a “color tube” , “a non circular brush” for the quick strokes to capture the scene before you or a “portable canvas”. You know the history (thanks for the research) but I am more amused by how you bring to it life (with you and other people going in and out of the video - witnessing the art you are talking about)! Really appreciate the perspective and your artistry (of story telling, music, sounds, speed of videos and the words you use to narrate)! Thank you!
U hit that on the head
Waldemar is pretty amazing
Utterly fascinating!
A little treasure of a program that will leave you wanting more!
Expect to learn things you had no idea about...
Tuck it away for when you can really take in the multitude of amazingly mundane, but surprising, little known facts disseminated here so expertly... an hour very well spent.
(I shared it to my Facebook feed.)
This is one of the most enjoyable videos I have ever experienced in my life.
Thank you for such a nice video! As a painter, myself, it's always interesting to remember the beginning of some of the most important movements in art...
That was SO engaging and interesting! I love all the movement through cities and the creative ways you get an idea across. Excellent! I showed it at the retirement community I work in. I'll be showing more!
Very enjoyable art history. Thank you.
These documentaries are so incredibly well made.
It`s an indescribable joy to watch them :))) THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
"The most exciting mutiny in art." I like that.
Love your viewpoint and creative flair as you guide us down these wonderful paths...
My favorite subject..and now my sons too 💜
Exciting, very well done creators, this is a magnificent video, thoroughly intriguing and fun. The story and script is tight, the filming good, and the editing is spectacular. The lead character is an artwork in his own right. I loved the way he took away Bazille's wine. It's great,
"The lead character is an artwork in his own right" !!!!!
Lovely. Thank you. It’s always funny how so many artists struggle when they are ALIVE.
I know the path.
For SURE.
Really INTERESTING!❤️
I love your work! Thank you for your inventive, dramatic and witty presentations!
Cheers man!!
@@danielboard9510 Hello!!!!!
What a feast of vision/music plus Waldemar's talents for connecting us to history with no effort. Thanks you so much for the great video series!
I just love this series.
really interesting! Hard to find such fascinating interesting art history!! Such fabulous artist. Thank You so much for this wonderful documentary.
Fantastic job ! A real realistic point of view in all of them... great work . Thank you
Love these documenteries. I cannot get enough. Thanks
so glad you offer this series
Really appreciate the innovative filming. Such fun!
THIS IS THE GREATEST VIDEO I’VE EVER SEEN SO FAR!!!! Well done!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very good documentary. I think you should do a video about the gallerists from that period and after; Durand Ruel, Flechtheim, and probably the most important Kahnweiler. There’s a great biography by Pierre Assouline about him. Without those gallerists who managed to sell impressionists, fauvists, cubists...mainly to Russia and America; those amazing artists may have been lost in history.
Also D-H Kahnweiler has such an incredible story: almost losing everything during both world wars, and rebuilding every time. Being Jewish, and German too really made his life incredibly difficult.
Just an idea.
"A sunny ice cube..." fantastic.
I love this gentleman's programmes on art.
Absolutely fascinating. Cant get enough
the best presenter. Waldemar is the pro.
I love colors. I love to learn from the Masters. I am always learning and at it. I got Walmart for Acrylic paint.
Im so eager to work in colored paint!!!
Pissarro + Waldemar = something special
Thank you! Brilliant! Informative and entertaining. Your enthusiasm and passion is infectious. I’ll pay (it’s the honourable thing to do) from time-to-time, rather than for each video.
magnificent work, an act of art, showing art and artist, greeting master !!!!!
Great video as always. I would love to see the artists' names or special terms appear on the screen, which will make it easier for a beginner like me to follow
It took three viewings for Waldemar’s greeting of Tom, Dick, and Harry to sink in and set me to giggling.
Thank you for your amazing clips about art. I am delighted watching them. You are amazing 🙏❤️
The intro is revolutionary too!😂👍🏻
I so much am enjoying the host!! I've dabbled in Art Appreciation in HS, sure, but he makes art once again so much more appreciative, fun, informative and interesting!! Thank you, Sir. (As I view one upload after another this day)
I love your way of presenting. And you seem to show the most beautiful images. Very appreciated. Can you tell the image presented at 25:33 please?
Yes! So entertaining and great learning! Please more, more, more...any art history!!
Thank You so much for this interesting film! ✨
Would someone please help this lovely "chap" whack that darn sign into the lawn - free him up for focusing on his dialogue 😌 - love this fellows wit , dry sarcasm - a unique blend of stand - up /court jester /historian with a dash of Don Rickelsian tongue in cheek offensiveness ☺
Papa con pollo y pan con ajo!!
Very informative and enjoyable, thank you!
Brilliant film, as they all are. Even as someone who goes to see Impressionist paintings at least once a month I still learned a lot. I also hope the credits mention Alan Menken for how much the score is derived from his opening theme in Beauty and the Beast. Like so much great painting, great music is often nicked.
The music was fantastic, riding to the level of the content of the video.
Excellent…brilliant…educational and fun…thanks…be safe…
Thank you for this entertaining and informative series. Although I knew some of it, I got a refresher and had some blank spots filled in.
I have not witnessed such wonderful 🖼 a unique collection .a unique wonder of collection of art 🖼 🙏
Es gibt kaum einen besseren als Dich Waldemar! Deine Darstellung, Erzählstil und Musikuntermalung sind einmalig. Du machst die Bilder lebendig durch dein Hintergrundwissen. Kunstunterricht vom Feinsten, bravo.