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1:09:14 Stand in front of a mirror and try to get your hand in that position of blessing. No way you will ever be able to see that much of the nail of the middle finger. The anatomy is out - not by da Viinci in a million years.

Hi Dr Shafe! This seems to be an encapsulation of your earlier talks. Will you continue to create new in-depth pieces? I thoroughly enjoy them. Many thanks!

This is one of the best channel in YT. thank you so much for your work 🙏

Keating was, of course, correct; the art market is a snake pit of lies, half-lies, and outright fraud. Art experts can be judged on their 'expertise' simply by noting their almost hysterical reliance on and insistence on provenance - if they knew what they were looking at, and everyone knew that they did, they would not need it!

Romans and Etruscans, not Eritreans

57:54 interesting. You got your thoughts on this longer than my whole life. I share your critical thinking and early “naivety” (don’t know if that’s the right description.) I just stopped a minute or so after this, hearing about your background so it’s going to be very interesting. Noticed you stopped yourself from speculating too much about usage of a system like that. It’s arguably the most important debate in our time. I watched your videos and channel for quite awhile. And in this lecture I actually missed mentioning Adiaen van Ostade because of his representation of a society that sprung out of common man’s suddenly reach of wealth. Looking into everyday living. It gives us a glimpse of ordinary people’s life. How important their individuality, character and personality is for humanity. How ordinary men, women and children struggle to function in a much more complex society and social structure than we as species was made for. Humans have somehow surpassed themselves several times over.

Well... It all depends on what you think ART is. Having spent far too many hours discussing this in my youth, I'm convinced that the word is so woolly as to be practically meaningless. For myself, art is a process, not an object. I enjoy painting & drawing, & consider that art. But the final products of my drawing are not so important. I don't think AI is an artist unless/until it can appreciate the act of creating an artwork, and I don't think that act of creation is possible without a wider appreciation of the world in which we live. Maybe, if anyone can produce a nice picture using AI, we will see the end of the ludicrous 'big money' art scam. That's a good thing. Maybe, if anyone can use AI to produce a picture, they will need to think about what they want as a result, need to consider the world, & what they want to portray of it. And that is real art in itself. Or maybe, producing hundreds of crap pictures, and picking out the 'one true gem' is art too. I think, in a way, we can compare AI art with the rising hobby of acrylic pouring. You get abstract pictures, some of which are pleasing, fairly rapidly. You can sell the good ones (a lot more easily than landscapes you spend a lot of effort on!). And there is a bit of skill involved (but nothing like the effort of learning to draw). I don't care in the slightest that thousands of people can draw better than I can, why should I care if a machine can do it? Of course, if you are a commercial artist, you are probably stuffed.

I went to Keating exhibition a couple of years before he died and didn't think much of his Constables. I liked the Degas pastel drawing except for the broken elbow.

At best AI, a bit of electrified dead plastic, may be inspired by the superior originality of human beings.

I am an artist, with my degree in Fine Arts. I am really surprised that I have been guessing correctly on all of them! Actually you messed up at 46:29 you actually used the Mark Landis picture twice.

Thank you from Ukraine, the city of Dnipro! I'm currently writing a Gothic-Romantic fantasy set in the 1840s, and your lecture provided me with extremely useful material!

Thank you, mr Shafe, for that wonderful lecture about wonderful woman!

Very interesting information about this artist that I was not aware of, thank you for this video.

Thank you for your videos - fascinating.

Most interesting as there is so much dribble spoken about art your knowledge of the subject is much appreciated

Thank you so much for sharing Dr Laurence Shafe, so inspiring!!🙏🌟

Great video! Probably a silly question, but is there any significance to the numbers shown on the die in the bottom-right corner of the inset at 2:23? It's non-standard as you would not normally be able to see both 2 and 5; I'm not sure whether it's simply that this standard wasn't so universal in Bosch's time or whether the numbers themselves have some meaning.

None of these are as strange as AI art . . seen all these images many times before.

Terrific idea for a video 👍

Thank you so much for sharing Dr Shafe, have a lovely Christmas!

I'm pretty sure the portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon is actually a depiction of Pope Pius XII, who was pope during the time the Holocaust happened, and was still the pope when Bacon made that picture.

Happy Holidays! I found your channel while curious about art forgery but have stayed for long after. I look forward to every new video and am in constant awe of your depth of knowledge. Your channel deserves to be so much bigger than it is and I feel lucky I found my way here.

great video as usual!

Thanks Dr Shafe for another illuminating talk. I am a regular viewer and value and enjoy learning from your expertise. That said, as others have expressed, I am deeply opposed to AI in interpreting creativity, culture, history and humanity, as I feel the LLMs have already done irreparable damage to the accuracy of information and it will only get worse. So please don't relegate your knowledge to the non-human. Happy holidays!

I enjoy your presentations Dr. Shafe. I can only hope that artificial intelligence doesn`t write human beings out of the picture entirely ! Je vous souhaite (du Québec) une bonne et heureuse année 2025 !

Happy New Year Dr Shafe, looking forward to what you have in store for us!

Using AI knowing that it is an engine powered by someone else's work makes us complicit in theft. There are no excuses.

AI sucks. It steals from real artists.

Thank you Dr. for spreading your vast knowledge of art history to the people. Everyone who has even a passing interest in art should be watching these. Looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2025. Cheers !

Excellent, thank you! 👍👍

Another great video ! I always look forward to them. I wonder if you could possible do a talk on another great artist Gerhard Richter ? Thanks for your work on these.

Dr. Shafe, a very engaging discussion of David Hockney. I have to admit that I much prefer his paintings in the sixties to his later work. Did I hear you say "an illusion to Cliff Richard" when discussing two boys clinging? Allusion, rather? This work would not be out of place in a 1980's gallery, very evocative of Basquiat who was perhaps a "fan" of Hockney? Anyway, I think his recent digital work is quite frankly rubbish. The work he did in California in the sixties has stood the test but I think that for decades now, he has become a brand and his market is driven by his past achievements. I suppose this is always the case if you live long enough? Thank you for another fine presentation.

i used to see him frequently at los angeles opera. i also attended his tristan und isolde designed opera. he seemed very approachable.

Hockney seems to break new ground using different media showing the interpretation of what is being seen . I also liked the TV programs of secret knowledge.

I have noticed that Russian painting is about landscape with quite a lot of detail. I wonder where or if they are influenced by the West. The Russian woods showing the bears is detailed. My art tutor tried to achieve good drawing of woods and plant life of woods. He studied at the Slade.

I have been absent. Sorry, Professor. I am glad I found you again.

For Tom Keating, he did not use a layer of glycerine, he used gelatine. Glycerine is plant based whereas gelatine is animal based

Thank you so much!❤

Manet liked to cause unusual compositions by using the photo cut outs. He was also the first to shock the public and that role has continued to the present day by shocking visual images such as Tracy Emin . There should be no censorship, but the age denotes the morals of the time and Manet came up against these conventions quite often.

Terribly Slow. Putting you to Sleep.. I feel sorry for his students

Thanks for another thoughtful and thought-provoking lecture. I learn so much from your insights about the life of individual artists, and the era in which they lived and created. So sad Botticelli died a broken man after a life of creating beauty. I see parallels between the "apocalyptic times" Botticelli felt he was in at the end of his life, and society today.

Very good talk. I find that foreshortening is very much expressionistic when life drawing takes place. I tend to think of him as an expressionistic painter of the Northern type.

Did Manet invent the photoshop, pasting someone's head on a nude.

wonderful work, perfect format, thank you very much

thank you for this. i love the lyrical, stylized elegance of botticelli’s work. also enjoy the linear aspects. for me, he is the ultimate renaissance artist and i am really looking forward to a visit to the uffizi next spring to view these in person (i live in the u.s. and enjoy your saturday morning lecture series).

Amazing lecture, thanks from Ukraine!

This is one of my favourite art presentations. I have watched it twice now. Some of these events are almost unbelievable. Rod Serling could have written the Van Meegeren story. This is Twilight Zone material. Thank you Dr. Shafe!

I think that she must have used more turps than oil. I am not sure what else could be used, but you did say that Clark was used. Now we also have gel that can speed up the drying time. Turps and oil primer speeds up drying if paint is used sparingly.

Citywide here in Los Angeles, there are exhibitions exploring the intersection of art and science under the banner “PST” or “Pacific Standard Time”. This lecture fits under this umbrella of discussions wonderfully. Thank you!