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So excellent. One of the best videos on Caravaggio on UA-cam. A pleasure to listen to

Have been following Tracey Emin for a long time, and I own a copy of Exploration Of The Soul. I got my art degree at Northbrook College, Worthing, happy times. Thanks for your videos Dr Shafe. 👍👍

Thank you! Amazing analysis. Could you please give a lecture covering the Turner prize winners from 2009 to 2024?

In .." Pastoral," ..the Mens faces are in Shadow ..???

Thoroughly enjoyed this! I appreciate not only the art but the history. Indeed, its very complex but you did a great job of elucidating the key developments. As an American, I was heartened with the references to all the monarchs with delusions of grandeur who overreached their place and had their heads chopped off 🤣

Just found this channel and I’m about to watch all the videos!

great talk as always

I always wonder why English speakers pronounce his name as Bosh, so the German way. In reality the Dutch pronunciation is like ‘bus’ in English, but then with a ‘o’ sound. You can just check it on Google Translate. It feels so lazy to not check the pronunciation. We are dealing with high art and that deserves attention to detail.

Han van Meegeren takes some beating! As a forger of Vermeer paintings!!

A poor, quotidian selection considering there are so many strange works of Art to choose from.

Thank you so much for sharing, very inspiring🙏

I once saw a painting by Bacon in a gallery in Washington DC. It wasn't a busy day for the museum, so I was alone in the room with the picture. Bared teeth scowling at me from the darkness. Even at 18 I knew I was seeing something special.

Is there any reference of Bacon's response to Jack Nicholson's Joker commenting on his artwork in the 1989 Batman film by Tim Burton? I have been unable to find any information on this.

Thank you so much for this! I'll be quoting you on my thesis :)

Very insightful and informative, thank you! Maybe offers a smidgen of an idea of the qualities the judging panel may be looking for in a submission? Because for years I've been wracking my brain!😄

I think that it was oil paint that made the technique of painting , especially with Dutch stand oil. Not sure of the date, but I think it was around 1560.

Most people have seen these pictures but never looked at them. Thank you

Ai steals our cultural soul

Fantastic talk. Thank you.

As always, thank you! 👍👍

Yes. Heroin and opium did ease his pain in his lungs but he continued to smoke hashish and tobacco. Making his condition much worse than it would have been. Lung disease is awful to live with.

Thank you so much

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.