Thank you for a wonderfully informative excursus on American artistic movements contexualized by the 20th-century national security vision. It largely explains why modern art is counterintuitively priced according to stylistic considerations, even now. I hadn’t been aware of Greenberg at all and hadn’t seen a reference to the “Partisan Review” in decades!
Declaring NYC as the new centre of Art is such American exceptionalism. Especially since America has declined to include any history or culture outside NYC. Abstract Expressionism was a novel short sighted carnival that made the manipulators rich and killed many brilliant explorations.
Thank you for an informative and enlightening video. Even as an art student, I found the art scene's lack of democracy in art-making to be disquieting.
Who did the portrait of the woman at about 18 minutes, over which the “Kitsch” banner is placed? It appears to have lots in common with a strain of Canadian portraiture of the same time.
French Impressionists were interested in the effect of light on a subject. Not the only example, just the most obvious r Monet’s haystack paintings or the Cathedral front re-painted over & over again at different times of the day. They also experimented with placing color marks ‘next’ to each other in place of blending. Based on the new science at that time which suggested our eyes would blend these moments in place of the artist blending on the canvas. So, even though both movements r loose in nature, their intent & inspiration r completely separate. Due to this, I feel the explanation in this video is necessary. As to ur point for Realism (or the artist as a realist) the only connection would b subject matter being other than royalty & biblical stories or romanticized landscapes. At a glance, these paintings may seem to b just that……but the brush work in this movement matters where as Realism being a reaction to Romanticism did not require a loose approach.
This is an excellent video! Thanks for making it. I learned a ton, and the visuals are amazing.
Thank you for a wonderfully informative excursus on American artistic movements contexualized by the 20th-century national security vision. It largely explains why modern art is counterintuitively priced according to stylistic considerations, even now. I hadn’t been aware of Greenberg at all and hadn’t seen a reference to the “Partisan Review” in decades!
this is an extremely good video, thank you for this
Excellent. Thank you, sir.
Love the style
Declaring NYC as the new centre of Art is such American exceptionalism. Especially since America has declined to include any history or culture outside NYC. Abstract Expressionism was a novel short sighted carnival that made the manipulators rich and killed many brilliant explorations.
Fantastic! Thanks for this.
Thank you for an informative and enlightening video. Even as an art student, I found the art scene's lack of democracy in art-making to be disquieting.
ashcan is essentially, the techniques of impression crossed with the idealism of the realists.
Thank u! ✌🏻🎨
I would like to hear more about how American social realism fits into the discussion.
This has been very informative and helpful especially the reading of Avant-Garde and Kitsch from Clement Greenberg
❤️!
Who did the portrait of the woman at about 18 minutes, over which the “Kitsch” banner is placed? It appears to have lots in common with a strain of Canadian portraiture of the same time.
Robert Henri "The beach hat".
one of the fewest to watch this long video
The reader sounds like a morgue attendant
watching Courbet"s paintings he was a romanticist
way too difficult explained for me Ashcanists are just american realist painters
French Impressionists were interested in the effect of light on a subject. Not the only example, just the most obvious r Monet’s haystack paintings or the Cathedral front re-painted over & over again at different times of the day. They also experimented with placing color marks ‘next’ to each other in place of blending. Based on the new science at that time which suggested our eyes would blend these moments in place of the artist blending on the canvas.
So, even though both movements r loose in nature, their intent & inspiration r completely separate.
Due to this, I feel the explanation in this video is necessary.
As to ur point for Realism (or the artist as a realist) the only connection would b subject matter being other than royalty & biblical stories or romanticized landscapes. At a glance, these paintings may seem to b just that……but the brush work in this movement matters where as Realism being a reaction to Romanticism did not require a loose approach.
of course you are right I did not think of that@@friedricengravy6646
All I see in America these days is ugliness everywhere. People don’t even try to dress well.
I totally agree! I've been saying this for several years.
Do U realize that we are falling into socialist/ Communists Marxist philosophy? Very interesting