A fun and frustrating story: My grandfather had a store in Tønsberg, an hour away from Oslo. One day a crooked and shoddy figure showed up to buy paint and brushes.. but he had no money and offered my grandfather some paintings as payment. My grandfather said no, and since he felt sorry for this man, he gave him the paint and brushes for free. That man was Edvard Munch, and my family would be rich today if he took those painting.. Damn you, grandpa!
Congrats to you and Lissette on your new chapter in life and thanks to both you for contributing so much on youtube via Nerdwriter, Seeker News, and Dnews. These channels make a healthy part of my regularly balanced newspaper-read routine. Cheers!
I interviewed many drug addicts once for a project. One of the common statements about cigarettes is that they were anchoring. Even in the midst of hallucination or paranoia the cigarette, independently, remained stable and anchored in reality. By smoking the drug addict could keep something of a grip on the real world. Nicotine is a useful drug when removed from the harm of the tobacco leaf. Keep 'em coming.
Nicotine beyond the smoking aspect does appear to ground one, even in the midst of creative endeavors. I read something about a month ago on the writers for franchises like Star Wars and Marvel and others. They found a boost to the creative process when working together on scripts, seemingly helping them ground exotic stories in our commonplace world.
The issue is the tar in the tobacco is the absolute worst thing for you. If anyone actually cared about the health of smokers, they would hand out e-cigarettes to all the world's smokers.
Carolyn Lozan I understand the hesitancy when it comes to e-cogs. They're new and untested, and a lot of people don't know if they actually. But, anything is better for you than a cigarette. Cigarettes are literally the worst thing for you; Heroin doesn't kill you as painfully and meth doesn't make you feel as awful ( hypothetically speaking, trust me, I hypothetically know ). The fact is, I would rather have people smoking flavored water that tastes almost exactly like the real thing than the kind of tar that could be used to fill in potholes.
Genuinely, the war on drugs and its effects on predominantly black communities siphoned off into the US prison complex to create unpaid manual laborers, paired with Snoop Dogg’s ability to smoke weed in public uncontested and unpunished for decades as both a sign of his status and also as a subtle revolt against that system is likely worthy of examination right now, even without hindsight.
Just a side note, when Munch is describing an “infinite scream passing through nature” there is speculation that it’s possible he was looking at the volcanic ash of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption was so great it was heard for over a 1,000 miles and caused a tsunami. The cubic volume of ash ejected into the atmosphere was enormous and would have caused redder sunsets around the globe.
Art Curious I think that was in 1818 and partly inspired Mary shelley to write Frankenstein due to the year without a winter. Her group of friends wanted to write a ghost story that became the work known as Frankenstein
This makes sense, because where i live in Turkey sky turns dark oranges, blood reds time to time. I was thinking like "why people made a big deal about this red sky, it is normal??" (But i love this painting.)
"Attacked pretty much every kind of art that wasn't up to his moral standards as poisonous and corrupting." Ugh, every generation has one of these, doesn't it.
max nordeau was a very weird individual to the point that he would consider the eradication of all other races but European/caucasion. this man was a zionist nutcase to begin with.
People do still care, and art is called corrupting to society often, but in different forms. Think movies, music, even television shows. They are still an art form that people still often consider corrupting.
I know, what I'm saying is paintings aren't the only form of art. Just because there are more popular forms of art today than there were 100 years ago doesn't mean that people just "don't give a shit about art." Art does not equal painting. Art is expression that can take many forms and people care very much about it still today. Paintings aren't as much of a force on society today because they are not as easily accessed by the majority of society, not because people don't care about art.
I like how you offhandedly mention stuff with the visuals without incorporating it into the script. like briefly showing a picture of oscar wilde and allowing the view to make the connection. it makes it more enjoyable and rewarding for attentive viewing yet keeps the attentiveness optional - the video can be enjoyed at whatever level you choose. im sure i would have enjoyed it on another level again if i had known all the art that was on the screen so i could have linked my understanding of them to the ideas in the video. top notch
it's nice to see you replying as well as listening. I've always wondered if UA-camrs who make these types of videos actually care about what their fan base is thinking about their videos and if they even will act on constructive criticism. The only thing that saddens me is that eventually the crowd will become so large that individuals become like a drop in the bucket.
No one will probably read this, but this was damn touching. Touching in that realm between reason and feeling. All explained with a damn cigarette. Thank you Nerdwriter1, I will no longer look away
Nerdwriter: "Munch uses the cigarette as a symbol of the bohemian lifestyle and mental health issues arising in the period" Munch: "Idk, I thought it looked cool"
Edward munch and his bohemian contemporaries can generally be categorised as a people who completely immersed and lost themselves into the world of art, perceived in their own way, so that they don’t feel any sort of existence other than their artistic expression. This gives an impression about falling into the artistic insanity, a part which is present in each and everyone of us, but in this case conquered all of their mental state giving rise to their complete loss of them self and immersing themselves in their art. Can this be considered as a sort of artistic existentialism?
+Harry no maybe it doesn't in English. u in Latin is oo and in Germanic languages it's a uh like in München not und (oond) i guess it doesn't exist in the English language..
Evan, great video. I would love if you could do a video on modern art. Me and my friends got into a fierce discussion about modern art; me arguing for it's merits, and my friend argueing about its "pointlessness" and "meaninglessness", it's empty attempt to be as edgy as possible. I am far from an art expert, i'm not even that knowledgeable at all about it, so I would love to hear your viewpoint about it. Regardless, great video and keep up the good work!
I agree. I've recently studied the painting "Melancholy" by Munch as well as "Vampier" so when they showed up, it connected with me and said a houndred words without him saying even one about it. (P.s. I apologize if this comment showed up twice, I was logged in to a different account and had no control over the comments...)
+Key | iamSmexx idd or by PragerU. modern art is not art.. they did studies on modern art and showed a close-up of a mixing pallet and of IKEA art. lol you should have heard all those posers talking about it.
+Rothnacum1 well not all. I agree that random splashes of paint and doodles are kinda pointless but I've also seen some pretty amazing modern art, aesthetically speaking, that requires a lot of effort and skill to make
Muteteli Harvey i can tell you at least one is a painting from Akseli gallen-kallela called "symposion" (or officially: "probleemi" or "Kajustaflan"), a painting featuring finnish composers/conductors Oskar Merikanto, Jean Sibelius and Robert Kajanus. I'm also fairly sure I saw a self portrait of Vincent van Gogh there
1:38 "At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1:47 "Karl Lueger at a ball in Vienna City Hall 1904" by Wilhelm Gause 2:55 "At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 3:34 "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" by Edouard Manet 3:53 "Grainstack (Sunset)" by Claude Monet 5:03 "Self-Portrait, 1889" by Vincent van Gogh 5:22 "Symposium" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
I love Munch, he is one of my favourites, I'm just disappointed by how the scream is often the only considered painting. He ha been so avantguard, such a great landscapist, symbolic, a surrealism that trascended realism for emotional, existential reasons. He truly represents one of my guru.
An idea: when finishing the video, soon after all the reflection, put the painting of the episode at the end. I think this is the best time to enjoy painting.
As a medical student interested in art, I loved this video about Munch. For me, Munch has always been one of the greats. An artist who understood his suffering and relayed them through his art. The raw emotions displayed from his early paintings to later in the career is a testament of how Munch's psyche shaped his work.
Wow! this one really resonated with me. I didn't know this painting. They never mentioned it in art school and I never looked into Munch's work either. I will message you privately and send you a painting I made and I think you'll understand why This one really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing this work and your insights on it. This (among many other reasons) is why I love your channel and the work you produce. Thank you! and Congratulations on your anniversary, it's just the most wonderful feeling when you realize you've finally met "That Person" who changes it all for you, eh?
And thank you for posting that comment! Awesome art you have there. If it is ok, can i ask you for how long you are painting? the "raised all wrong" one looks so detailed and perfect, that i think that you are doing this for a long time. keep it up, your paintings are awesome. i hope that one day i can get that good!
Wow, this was crazy insightful. I wonder if this in any way connects to me and my feelings as of some time. Recently I feel like I've been my whole life in thoughts, doubting myself, but since I've gotten to grow up, I'm starting to process a lot of my childhood and my surroundings. A lot of these feelings unload in creative actions. I fear, that I will never have the raw talent of the great people in this world, but I'm just used to putting myself down. That's why I'm trying to knock this idea out of my head. I feel like it's something that happens if you bottle up your feelings. It's nice to know this solitude is just an illusion and even great artists shared these irrational doubts.
Awesome, thank you, however- I will say that I can't seem to find it either. Both on UA-cam and Google. I've done the search without certain words (like w/o "11th symphony", or his name, "Augustus Schwimfer")
2:42 I appreciate this piece. A stereotypical aristocratic rich man passing the proverbial torch to a everyday man. A nice and accurate depiction of the little things everyday people rich or small do to help others. Ofcourse it gains a bit of likely unintended meaning from the now known danger of smoking which I think could lead to interesting thoughts about the messaging attempting to be conveyed if it had been made more recently.
Chris Stuckman already did one on this movie, pretty much everything has been said already. He would just fall into repetition. That's the great thing about this channel, everything is original and hasn't been done before.
I find it amazing that he could expose and express his inner self. I think we all feel the way he seems to feel in his self portrait. Maybe a little scared and confused, maybe not knowing why we are even here. He might be becoming my favorite artist.
beautiful, could you maybe (possibly a bit of a stretch) do a video on the beatles and thier music/image etc. and why they were so popular?. love the videos, thnx
_No doc has ever summed it up perfectly, but here are my favourite:_ - *The Beatles Anthology* Multi-part series - *George Harrison: Living in the Material World* by Martin Scorsese - *The Compleat Beatles* - *The Beatles - a musical appreciation* by Howard Goodall - *Nowhere Boy* a dramatisation of Lennon's youth and keep an eye out for Ron Howard's upcoming Beatles Film!
Happy anniversary to you and your girlfriend! Thanks for the upload always love watching these, I find that my university lectures are always quite dry and the information is hard to absorb. You make the information easy to digest! Also I'm wondering what the picture at 5:42 is from.
UA-cam recommended one of these videos and keeps doing so. I love watching them. I’ve always wondered my whole life what people saw in paintings cause I didn’t know. I didn’t see anything. I’m 66. Now I’m starting to learn. Makes me want to go to a art showing with someone and stand in front of a painting pointing out things and make people think I’m a real art critic. Ha ha. It’s fun to learn something new. Thank you.
coming back to this video i've come to realise that most artists paint what they like not knowing what the painting projects in some kind of way the viewers fill whats needed to make a story out of a portrait
You really have mastered the video essay - well produced, fascinating, and informative in a way that can interest me in things I did not know I was interested in
There is a correlation in addiction, particularly in tobacco with mental problems (eg. Schzophrenia) physicians back then were probably making some (though unscientific) accurate observation. But they are very much wrong since correlation is far from causation.
You deserve all the best, man! I hope you get 1 million subscribers not just for your dreams to be fulfilled and you to speak to a whole lot of people, but for the said lot of people to connect through your work and to understand that life a continuous process of creation. We are created&creative creations. Art can come in many forms, but it will flow only if you understand and know yourself/your selves, as in many personalities :) May you grow to become a model for people who don't have enough faith in themselves! Keep up the amazing job! Cheers from Romania
Analytical interpretation is somewhat amazing to me. It's different for each viewer depending on so many things that apply to what makes sense to them. Having created some surrealistic/realism & listening to others critique it, not knowing I am the artist, their explanations and interpretations showed me things I never in my wildest dreams would have thought about. As long as it gave them a sense of satisfaction about it, who was I to spoil the party. Many things can be found in a grain of sand.
Munch's *_Self Portrait with Cigarette_* has always fascinated me. He seems to have turned around and is caught in a scalding light while the cigarette smoke creates a halo around his hand... something sinister shimmers on the canvas. Spellbindingly brilliant! Great presentation!
Very incisive and engaging analysis. I love how the convergence of so many things (mental illness, existential dread, class friction, adventurous art) is explored so accessibly.
I probably shouldn't have clicked on this video. Decided to put a break on smoking for one-two months and I've been feeling like crap these past few days. The image and numerous mention of cigarette makes my craving much worse hahaha.
hey evan. I'm a student from germany, trying to figure out myself, man, society and just life in general. So there's a lot going on in my head. Which is why I would just like to thank you for the content you give me, for every new video you release is a gift, allowing me to spend at least a couple of minutes just looking at culture and the world through your eyes, and not that mess of mine. So... thanks. A lot. Your work is beautiful and, above all, necessary.
I absolutely love your videos. No matter what topic the video is about, after watching any video of your channel I feel so deeply inspired to think and research more about things. The way you showcase things, the emphasis on each word captivates me immensely. Always looking forwards to your videos.
This remains my favourite piece you've done. It's a wonderful glimpse into a world I would've otherwise passed over. I especially love the complicated sense of awe and reflection the musical pause at the end of your video evokes. Really hope you do more of these.
Or he simply loved smoking..you'd have always seen him holding a cigarette, so he thought "well, the cigarette has to go in the there"...This is coming from an artist. We don't always consciously throw in symbolism. Following intuition and doing what feels right are more dominant. Most of the time, it starts with the desire to draw/paint a subject, then we throw in other elements (it feels right, makes sense and makes the painting more interesting) and finally think of a story to go with it because people today are more interested in the story than the art itself!
Nerdwriter1 is a man who literally can impact and change your mind. You delicately pick up the words and blend them into pieces. Thank you for your work and being sincere in all means!!!
A very good and insightful view both art and the influences that inspire it. The Scream has been a good identifier in explaining to others what anxiety often feels like. It may not be my perfect representation but it is something that is illuminative. I appreciate this as someone who has experienced the harness of the mind and as an artist who tries to express the wonders of the mind. Thank you.
hey man. I'm kind of going to break off into a digression but here goes: UA-camr Channel Criswell is going through some rough times what with copyright infringement on one of his recent videos (his stanley kubrick one from february to be exact.) now the reason i'm commenting on your video is because i believe you have the growing fan base and the potential knowledge to help his situation. from everything i know, he is in the right. he doesn't know what to do at all. his videos are spectacular -- just as yours. his videos open up the mind in the most natural sense of the word and allow for his audiences to truly consider and reconsider every sort of factor in the beautiful time-spelling art of film making. it is understood that you are a youtuber and he is a youtuber and you both use this wonderful platform of youtube to dispel wondrous information to the public. but you can help out too. if even just a shout out to his cause in one of your coming videos were to dispense, the context of the situation would radiate throughout and we could all democratically help each other, you know? thanks
I don't know if anyone will ever read this but I really like this video! I recently choose this Self Portrait to make it into something new, so I photoshoped some air pods and a smartphone into his hands. It fits surprisingly well. I felt like I kinda destroyed the art but at the end of the day that's what art is. A never ending remix of what's already there. The popcultural elements of a certain time will always inflence art and will always have impact of what people interprate into it. I think the self portrait as a format for a image of ones self is the equivalent to what we call a selfie today but the difference is that, before cameras were available to the mass, far less people had even the option to think of that. A self portrait was something else tho, artists made them to express their emotions and reflect their lifes they painted themselfs, not how they saw themself but more how they felt.
I try not to criticize people personally when I see them smoking because I know there are a lot of reasons for then to be doing so. But I've always thought of cigarettes and other smoking products as nothing more than something that companies sell at the cost of people's health. They litter the streets, they smell awful, and they're a huge danger even to people who aren't smoking. So this was fascinating to see you talking about them in relation to a piece of artwork. I've never heard someone analyze paintings like you do. Keep up the great work!
painters don't (or at least didn't) integrate elements into their paintings "just because". i think what he said in this video about cigarettes is really smart
I watched this video years ago, but it stuck with me and last month I got to see this painting at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris as part of a Munch exhibition, and I was so grateful for having watched this video, as it gave me a lot of context. Munch is definitely one of my favorite artists..
I enjoyed the way you moved from topic to topic in this videos. Cigarettes, bohemian lifestyles, art, and mental illness. I thought it tied together nicely. Learned a lot, as always.
I am SO glad I came across this channel... this is so amazing and educational... I love how you dive into the individual subject, how you express everything, the editing, the narration, all just perfect... I could watch this for hours!
Speaking of anxiety, Nerdwriter's video-essays are therapeutic in themselves. They're each crafted just so, with every image and sound picked out and ordered, and when I watch them I'm taken out of my own mind a bit. The video pulls my attention and places it on topics larger than life, just for five or ten minutes. It's very nice.
Thank you for this one, I've been struggling with depression...and my art, mostly my art thankfully, all of my life. I can say first hand that the only people who truly understand and get it, are other creative people... and yes...I'm a smoker.
I subscribed to your channel for your videos on film, but I keep coming back for the ones about painting. These videos are so well made, I hope they help modern audiences appreciate painting more.
Love when you cover artists or art pieces, especially this time because it was a Norwegian one. Thank you for putting so much effort into making a nuanced and accurate video, and congratulations on the anniversary!
"The tragic relationship between madness & creativity is undeniable. Some ran from that fact, others refused to look away."
Tally Bee This is really beautiful and extremely relatable for me as a musician. The more passionate I become about it, the crazier I seem to get.
Iwasneverhere Do you associate panic attacks with madness?
@Iwasneverhere nice
Just think about Jung when hear that sentence...
😲☝ Hear Ye , Here Yii
Arise Sir Lion of Beef !
A fun and frustrating story: My grandfather had a store in Tønsberg, an hour away from Oslo. One day a crooked and shoddy figure showed up to buy paint and brushes.. but he had no money and offered my grandfather some paintings as payment. My grandfather said no, and since he felt sorry for this man, he gave him the paint and brushes for free. That man was Edvard Munch, and my family would be rich today if he took those painting.. Damn you, grandpa!
😂😂😂😂bruh
Biringvad no way oh my god that makes me mad for u... ik i would’ve taken the paintings if they looked nice
Biringvad come on that story already exists...Francis Bacon
Bullshit
@@Herodollus Edvard Munch actually asked quite often if he could pay with a painting in his early career. So this story could just as well be true.
P.S. Don't smoke.
but I want to be Bohemian cool
you're espousing the same conservative values as Max Nordau. Do you consider yourself a hipster?
Congrats to you and Lissette on your new chapter in life and thanks to both you for contributing so much on youtube via Nerdwriter, Seeker News, and Dnews. These channels make a healthy part of my regularly balanced newspaper-read routine. Cheers!
yes
+Bricky John Locke?
I interviewed many drug addicts once for a project. One of the common statements about cigarettes is that they were anchoring. Even in the midst of hallucination or paranoia the cigarette, independently, remained stable and anchored in reality. By smoking the drug addict could keep something of a grip on the real world. Nicotine is a useful drug when removed from the harm of the tobacco leaf. Keep 'em coming.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons most people with schizophrenia smoke cigs.
Nicotine beyond the smoking aspect does appear to ground one, even in the midst of creative endeavors. I read something about a month ago on the writers for franchises like Star Wars and Marvel and others. They found a boost to the creative process when working together on scripts, seemingly helping them ground exotic stories in our commonplace world.
The issue is the tar in the tobacco is the absolute worst thing for you. If anyone actually cared about the health of smokers, they would hand out e-cigarettes to all the world's smokers.
John Smith > i dont know about e-cigarettes but they sure should make nicotine replacement products a lot more affordable
Carolyn Lozan I understand the hesitancy when it comes to e-cogs. They're new and untested, and a lot of people don't know if they actually. But, anything is better for you than a cigarette. Cigarettes are literally the worst thing for you; Heroin doesn't kill you as painfully and meth doesn't make you feel as awful ( hypothetically speaking, trust me, I hypothetically know ). The fact is, I would rather have people smoking flavored water that tastes almost exactly like the real thing than the kind of tar that could be used to fill in potholes.
You think they'll analyze blunts and Snoop Dogg in 250 years?
Emily Beauvais xdddddddddd
Fo-shizzle.
"They" already do. It's called cultural studies.
Genuinely, the war on drugs and its effects on predominantly black communities siphoned off into the US prison complex to create unpaid manual laborers, paired with Snoop Dogg’s ability to smoke weed in public uncontested and unpunished for decades as both a sign of his status and also as a subtle revolt against that system is likely worthy of examination right now, even without hindsight.
Maybe
I asked him personally and he said he just wanted to paint the cig to fuck with you.
that was funny, i lol'd.
Just a side note, when Munch is describing an “infinite scream passing through nature” there is speculation that it’s possible he was looking at the volcanic ash of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption was so great it was heard for over a 1,000 miles and caused a tsunami. The cubic volume of ash ejected into the atmosphere was enormous and would have caused redder sunsets around the globe.
Art Curious I think that was in 1818 and partly inspired Mary shelley to write Frankenstein due to the year without a winter. Her group of friends wanted to write a ghost story that became the work known as Frankenstein
@@sleekostrich4367 theres a movie about this, GOTHIC...from 1986 directed by ken russell.
The sky often turns blood red in Scandinavia during the summer, its very common.
*sevenith*
This makes sense, because where i live in Turkey sky turns dark oranges, blood reds time to time. I was thinking like "why people made a big deal about this red sky, it is normal??" (But i love this painting.)
"Attacked pretty much every kind of art that wasn't up to his moral standards as poisonous and corrupting." Ugh, every generation has one of these, doesn't it.
Seems like history keeps repeating itself in a loop.
Ben Shapiro lmao
_Only one ?!?_
People having different opinions is something I respect even if I don't always understand
max nordeau was a very weird individual to the point that he would consider the eradication of all other races but European/caucasion. this man was a zionist nutcase to begin with.
It would be nice if enough people still gave a shit about art for paintings to be called a corrupting influence on society
People do still care, and art is called corrupting to society often, but in different forms. Think movies, music, even television shows. They are still an art form that people still often consider corrupting.
that answer was fire
Jacob Montgomery
That's why I specifically mentioned "paintings" in my original post. Geezus
I know, what I'm saying is paintings aren't the only form of art. Just because there are more popular forms of art today than there were 100 years ago doesn't mean that people just "don't give a shit about art." Art does not equal painting. Art is expression that can take many forms and people care very much about it still today. Paintings aren't as much of a force on society today because they are not as easily accessed by the majority of society, not because people don't care about art.
A few years ago in Texas, two Muslims tried to commence a mass shooting at a "draw Mohammed contest". Change it to "paint" Mohammed, and there you go.
literally the best cigarette ad ever
ah bohemians, the hipsters before hipsters.
What is bohemians?
Pretty much 😂😂😂
Alam Vilanova Marquez
Bohemia is basically the predecessor of the Czech Republic. That’s how that region was called in the HRE
@@alanbilzerian3055 People of unconventional lifestyles with artistic pursuits.
Sure bro, just call everything "hipster"
I like how you offhandedly mention stuff with the visuals without incorporating it into the script. like briefly showing a picture of oscar wilde and allowing the view to make the connection. it makes it more enjoyable and rewarding for attentive viewing yet keeps the attentiveness optional - the video can be enjoyed at whatever level you choose. im sure i would have enjoyed it on another level again if i had known all the art that was on the screen so i could have linked my understanding of them to the ideas in the video. top notch
That's so true
the portrait of oscar wilde made my heart skip
Nice! One of the comments last video was to let the end breathe before he moved onto the thank you section, and he did!
I noticed that also
Took him long enough.
Needs more breath though. Just a bit more, to let it sink in before breaking the tone with "Hey everybody".
Also needs more cowbell.
Always listening.
it's nice to see you replying as well as listening. I've always wondered if UA-camrs who make these types of videos actually care about what their fan base is thinking about their videos and if they even will act on constructive criticism. The only thing that saddens me is that eventually the crowd will become so large that individuals become like a drop in the bucket.
No one will probably read this, but this was damn touching. Touching in that realm between reason and feeling. All explained with a damn cigarette. Thank you Nerdwriter1, I will no longer look away
Danny Leichtfuss yup.
That piano track in this video is beautiful.
Any idea where to find it?
AWeirdette “Dreams become real” by Kevin Macleod.
You are awesome mate. Thanks for letting us know
Nerdwriter: "Munch uses the cigarette as a symbol of the bohemian lifestyle and mental health issues arising in the period"
Munch: "Idk, I thought it looked cool"
Right lol
@nazli mehrpoor ok chill Picasso...
SRAVIS TCOTT why does it matter if it wasn’t Munch’s intention
theres so many whooshing here i cant do it alone.
@@mtrude Wait are you from /r/WOOOOOSH? Reddit is such a great underground website!
Edward munch and his bohemian contemporaries can generally be categorised as a people who completely immersed and lost themselves into the world of art, perceived in their own way, so that they don’t feel any sort of existence other than their artistic expression. This gives an impression about falling into the artistic insanity, a part which is present in each and everyone of us, but in this case conquered all of their mental state giving rise to their complete loss of them self and immersing themselves in their art. Can this be considered as a sort of artistic existentialism?
what if he was like "no.i just added a cigarette cause i thought it looked cool."?
ben dover ☝👏👏👏👏👏👏
the funny thing is a lot of that comes from your brain subconsciously making these connections and pushing you towards doing it
Most of the times it is a non rational decision, it is afterwards that you rationalize it and get to think why you felt like doing that.
ben dover I doubt that.
Even if he did, the reason why he thought it was cool where the reasons described here. :)
I appreciate that you really tried to pronounce his name correctly.
He pronounced his name correctly. Edvard Munch (M-oo-nk)
I just had lunch
+Harry no he didn't it's a short u like in Munich not a u like in Latin..
Rothnacum1 That didn't make any sense.
+Harry no maybe it doesn't in English. u in Latin is oo and in Germanic languages it's a uh like in München not und (oond) i guess it doesn't exist in the English language..
Creativity is about perceiving and approaching the universe in an uncustomary way.
Madness and art are forever intertwined.
Really enjoyed this, and seriously good luck in LA!
This video was amazing!
I love you Ryan
Evan, great video. I would love if you could do a video on modern art. Me and my friends got into a fierce discussion about modern art; me arguing for it's merits, and my friend argueing about its "pointlessness" and "meaninglessness", it's empty attempt to be as edgy as possible. I am far from an art expert, i'm not even that knowledgeable at all about it, so I would love to hear your viewpoint about it. Regardless, great video and keep up the good work!
I agree. I've recently studied the painting "Melancholy" by Munch as well as "Vampier" so when they showed up, it connected with me and said a houndred words without him saying even one about it.
(P.s. I apologize if this comment showed up twice, I was logged in to a different account and had no control over the comments...)
you should watch Modern Art Is Sh*t by Paul Joseph Watson.
+Key | iamSmexx idd or by PragerU. modern art is not art.. they did studies on modern art and showed a close-up of a mixing pallet and of IKEA art. lol you should have heard all those posers talking about it.
+Rothnacum1 well not all. I agree that random splashes of paint and doodles are kinda pointless but I've also seen some pretty amazing modern art, aesthetically speaking, that requires a lot of effort and skill to make
asdfgh123456978 i agree. There's a line but that line is so obvious.
How? How is it possible that you consistently release such quality content?
I wish you had listed the art you displayed.
Muteteli Harvey i can tell you at least one is a painting from Akseli gallen-kallela called "symposion" (or officially: "probleemi" or "Kajustaflan"), a painting featuring finnish composers/conductors Oskar Merikanto, Jean Sibelius and Robert Kajanus. I'm also fairly sure I saw a self portrait of Vincent van Gogh there
1:38 "At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1:47 "Karl Lueger at a ball in Vienna City Hall 1904" by Wilhelm Gause
2:55 "At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
3:34 "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" by Edouard Manet
3:53 "Grainstack (Sunset)" by Claude Monet
5:03 "Self-Portrait, 1889" by Vincent van Gogh
5:22 "Symposium" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Kristian Toimil THANK YOU VERY MUCH GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL!!! 🤧🤧🤧🌝😆🤣
what about the one at 5:05???? pls reply, cant seem to find it myself
Edvard Munch - Two women on the shore
I love Munch, he is one of my favourites, I'm just disappointed by how the scream is often the only considered painting.
He ha been so avantguard, such a great landscapist, symbolic, a surrealism that trascended realism for emotional, existential reasons.
He truly represents one of my guru.
I like the the one with the fragmented sun beams a lot, can't remember the name.
An idea: when finishing the video, soon after all the reflection, put the painting of the episode at the end. I think this is the best time to enjoy painting.
As a medical student interested in art, I loved this video about Munch. For me, Munch has always been one of the greats. An artist who understood his suffering and relayed them through his art. The raw emotions displayed from his early paintings to later in the career is a testament of how Munch's psyche shaped his work.
Wow! this one really resonated with me. I didn't know this painting. They never mentioned it in art school and I never looked into Munch's work either. I will message you privately and send you a painting I made and I think you'll understand why This one really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing this work and your insights on it. This (among many other reasons) is why I love your channel and the work you produce. Thank you! and Congratulations on your anniversary, it's just the most wonderful feeling when you realize you've finally met "That Person" who changes it all for you, eh?
And thank you for posting that comment! Awesome art you have there. If it is ok, can i ask you for how long you are painting? the "raised all wrong" one looks so detailed and perfect, that i think that you are doing this for a long time. keep it up, your paintings are awesome. i hope that one day i can get that good!
Would love to see a video on 'Midnight in Paris' on theme of 'nostalgia' and 'golden age thinking'
“The tragic relationship between madness and creativity is undeniable.”
I had no idea you were dating Lissette from DNews. You make such a sweet couple! Gratz on the one year!
Thanks!
what. the. fuck?
kaingates My thoughts exactly. I think it may be a "lost in translation" type situation here... well I hope it is actually...
I have a problem making sound complements as well
omg Lissette I love you on Seeker!!!! You guys are THE BEST!!!!! I am so addicted to your videos
Wow, this was crazy insightful. I wonder if this in any way connects to me and my feelings as of some time. Recently I feel like I've been my whole life in thoughts, doubting myself, but since I've gotten to grow up, I'm starting to process a lot of my childhood and my surroundings. A lot of these feelings unload in creative actions. I fear, that I will never have the raw talent of the great people in this world, but I'm just used to putting myself down. That's why I'm trying to knock this idea out of my head. I feel like it's something that happens if you bottle up your feelings. It's nice to know this solitude is just an illusion and even great artists shared these irrational doubts.
Oh, and happy anniversary from Germany!
Happy Anniversary! :-) And thanks for the continuous flow of great info!
Thanks Chrissie!
Just followed you on IG. You really make a great couple! Beautiful!
Lissette Padilla
WHAT IS THAT PIANO PIECE STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING???
The dissonance is somehow so calming for me, I love it.
Nick M. It's "Fianto Beau-gorgio 11th symphony" - by Augustus schwimfer
VeganRevolution couldn't find it
ZDC keep looking ^__*
ZDC it's in B sharp minor
Awesome, thank you, however-
I will say that I can't seem to find it either. Both on UA-cam and Google. I've done the search without certain words (like w/o "11th symphony", or his name, "Augustus Schwimfer")
These videos are absolutely stunning. Thank you.
2:42 I appreciate this piece. A stereotypical aristocratic rich man passing the proverbial torch to a everyday man. A nice and accurate depiction of the little things everyday people rich or small do to help others.
Ofcourse it gains a bit of likely unintended meaning from the now known danger of smoking which I think could lead to interesting thoughts about the messaging attempting to be conveyed if it had been made more recently.
YES I LOVE THE PAINTING ONES!
Aww, the ending confession of love to your sweetheart was adorable. I'm sure she liked it very much ✨😁💖
Hey Nerdwriter! Could you maybe do an 'Understanding the Art'-Episode on the movie Enemy, directed by Denis
Villeneuve?
I've seen both Sicario and prisoners, so I really need to get to that film sometime soon
This would be most excellent, that movie is fantastic
yes!!!! please do this. I need Nerdwriter to cover this
I would love that. I didn't quite... "get" the movie when I watched it, so It'd be interesting to hear someone else's perspective of the film
Chris Stuckman already did one on this movie, pretty much everything has been said already. He would just fall into repetition. That's the great thing about this channel, everything is original and hasn't been done before.
I find it amazing that he could expose and express his inner self. I think we all feel the way he seems to feel in his self portrait. Maybe a little scared and confused, maybe not knowing why we are even here. He might be becoming my favorite artist.
beautiful, could you maybe (possibly a bit of a stretch) do a video on the beatles and thier music/image etc. and why they were so popular?. love the videos, thnx
he already did. it's called "how the beatles changed album covers" and it talks about their image and growth.
_No doc has ever summed it up perfectly, but here are my favourite:_
- *The Beatles Anthology* Multi-part series
- *George Harrison: Living in the Material World* by Martin Scorsese
- *The Compleat Beatles*
- *The Beatles - a musical appreciation* by Howard Goodall
- *Nowhere Boy* a dramatisation of Lennon's youth
and keep an eye out for Ron Howard's upcoming Beatles Film!
+zac Hallgaten cheerz blud
+Romana Amatucci thats more specific doh to one thing
I've a degree in Art History and I really enjoyed this video. It's stimulating. Thanks for the effort. I love your channel.
Happy anniversary!! Thanks for the awesome video, Munch is my favorite artist!
That self portrait is so beautiful, I love it so much
Happy anniversary to you and your girlfriend! Thanks for the upload always love watching these, I find that my university lectures are always quite dry and the information is hard to absorb. You make the information easy to digest! Also I'm wondering what the picture at 5:42 is from.
The picture in question is probably from:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Billroth
***** Thank you!
UA-cam recommended one of these videos and keeps doing so. I love watching them. I’ve always wondered my whole life what people saw in paintings cause I didn’t know. I didn’t see anything. I’m 66. Now I’m starting to learn. Makes me want to go to a art showing with someone and stand in front of a painting pointing out things and make people think I’m a real art critic. Ha ha. It’s fun to learn something new. Thank you.
coming back to this video i've come to realise that most artists paint what they like not knowing what the painting projects in some kind of way the viewers fill whats needed to make a story out of a portrait
You really have mastered the video essay - well produced, fascinating, and informative in a way that can interest me in things I did not know I was interested in
feel like a smoke now.
Watching nerdwriter while tripping is mind blowing and beautiful.
Me: Edward Munch
The guys name: Evard Moonk
I am in love with Munch and his art and I am incredibly thankful for this informative video.
There is a correlation in addiction, particularly in tobacco with mental problems (eg. Schzophrenia) physicians back then were probably making some (though unscientific) accurate observation. But they are very much wrong since correlation is far from causation.
You deserve all the best, man! I hope you get 1 million subscribers not just for your dreams to be fulfilled and you to speak to a whole lot of people, but for the said lot of people to connect through your work and to understand that life a continuous process of creation. We are created&creative creations. Art can come in many forms, but it will flow only if you understand and know yourself/your selves, as in many personalities :)
May you grow to become a model for people who don't have enough faith in themselves! Keep up the amazing job! Cheers from Romania
The music in the beginning is called:
Dreams become real - Keven Macleod
Analytical interpretation is somewhat amazing to me. It's different for each viewer depending on so many things that apply to what makes sense to them. Having created some surrealistic/realism & listening to others critique it, not knowing I am the artist, their explanations and interpretations showed me things I never in my wildest dreams would have thought about. As long as it gave them a sense of satisfaction about it, who was I to spoil the party. Many things can be found in a grain of sand.
Hi
Your videos are so high quality, im impressed
Munch's *_Self Portrait with Cigarette_* has always fascinated me.
He seems to have turned around and is caught in a scalding light
while the cigarette smoke creates a halo around his hand...
something sinister shimmers on the canvas. Spellbindingly brilliant!
Great presentation!
I've learnt more from you in the past 3 hours than I have in the past 5 years. Please, never stop making videos.
You're a genius in how you put this together. Thanks for making me and others appreciate art. I love your show.
this is such a great video, such a strong message and I've learned so much. glad I found this channel
Very incisive and engaging analysis. I love how the convergence of so many things (mental illness, existential dread, class friction, adventurous art) is explored so accessibly.
I probably shouldn't have clicked on this video. Decided to put a break on smoking for one-two months and I've been feeling like crap these past few days. The image and numerous mention of cigarette makes my craving much worse hahaha.
pkc1998ax get through it. afterwards it's better and you're saving hella money.
You can do it!! I believe in you! Think of the money you will save :D
I just smoked after the video :)
Same
I am smoking weed, tobacco and an e cig at the moment. I need to quit.
hey evan.
I'm a student from germany, trying to figure out myself, man, society and just life in general. So there's a lot going on in my head.
Which is why I would just like to thank you for the content you give me, for every new video you release is a gift, allowing me to spend at least a couple of minutes just looking at culture and the world through your eyes, and not that mess of mine. So... thanks. A lot. Your work is beautiful and, above all, necessary.
Congrats guys
Thanks man
woah she replied lucky
This might be your best video to date...just the right balance of substance and personal interpretation
I smoke a pipe, however t'is not a pipe.
I absolutely love your videos. No matter what topic the video is about, after watching any video of your channel I feel so deeply inspired to think and research more about things. The way you showcase things, the emphasis on each word captivates me immensely. Always looking forwards to your videos.
Such a goddamn masterpiece of artistic analysis and creative meaning.
With love,
Another guy with Depression.
This remains my favourite piece you've done. It's a wonderful glimpse into a world I would've otherwise passed over. I especially love the complicated sense of awe and reflection the musical pause at the end of your video evokes. Really hope you do more of these.
Or he simply loved smoking..you'd have always seen him holding a cigarette, so he thought "well, the cigarette has to go in the there"...This is coming from an artist. We don't always consciously throw in symbolism. Following intuition and doing what feels right are more dominant. Most of the time, it starts with the desire to draw/paint a subject, then we throw in other elements (it feels right, makes sense and makes the painting more interesting) and finally think of a story to go with it because people today are more interested in the story than the art itself!
Nerdwriter1 is a man who literally can impact and change your mind. You delicately pick up the words and blend them into pieces. Thank you for your work and being sincere in all means!!!
So enjoyable man, keep it up!
A very good and insightful view both art and the influences that inspire it.
The Scream has been a good identifier in explaining to others what anxiety often feels like. It may not be my perfect representation but it is something that is illuminative. I appreciate this as someone who has experienced the harness of the mind and as an artist who tries to express the wonders of the mind.
Thank you.
hey man. I'm kind of going to break off into a digression but here goes:
UA-camr Channel Criswell is going through some rough times what with copyright infringement on one of his recent videos (his stanley kubrick one from february to be exact.)
now the reason i'm commenting on your video is because i believe you have the growing fan base and the potential knowledge to help his situation.
from everything i know, he is in the right. he doesn't know what to do at all.
his videos are spectacular -- just as yours. his videos open up the mind in the most natural sense of the word and allow for his audiences to truly consider and reconsider every sort of factor in the beautiful time-spelling art of film making.
it is understood that you are a youtuber and he is a youtuber and you both use this wonderful platform of youtube to dispel wondrous information to the public. but you can help out too.
if even just a shout out to his cause in one of your coming videos were to dispense, the context of the situation would radiate throughout and we could all democratically help each other, you know?
thanks
I don't know if anyone will ever read this but I really like this video! I recently choose this Self Portrait to make it into something new, so I photoshoped some air pods and a smartphone into his hands. It fits surprisingly well. I felt like I kinda destroyed the art but at the end of the day that's what art is. A never ending remix of what's already there. The popcultural elements of a certain time will always inflence art and will always have impact of what people interprate into it. I think the self portrait as a format for a image of ones self is the equivalent to what we call a selfie today but the difference is that, before cameras were available to the mass, far less people had even the option to think of that. A self portrait was something else tho, artists made them to express their emotions and reflect their lifes they painted themselfs, not how they saw themself but more how they felt.
The last part - he moving into his new apartment with his girlfriend ..made me sad for some reason
I try not to criticize people personally when I see them smoking because I know there are a lot of reasons for then to be doing so. But I've always thought of cigarettes and other smoking products as nothing more than something that companies sell at the cost of people's health. They litter the streets, they smell awful, and they're a huge danger even to people who aren't smoking. So this was fascinating to see you talking about them in relation to a piece of artwork. I've never heard someone analyze paintings like you do. Keep up the great work!
It is believed that the first cigarette was made by an Ottoman officer who, in lack of a pipe, filled a used shotgun slug (of carton) with tobacco.
Saw this painting in person yesterday. Your video helped me enjoy the work even more now that I know the historical significance behind it.
Sometimes a cigarette is just a cigarette
that's not... really how art tends to work
Not when it's center frame in a Munch painting.
painters don't (or at least didn't) integrate elements into their paintings "just because". i think what he said in this video about cigarettes is really smart
To all that don't get it, it is a reference to Freud
lmaooo my bad
I watched this video years ago, but it stuck with me and last month I got to see this painting at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris as part of a Munch exhibition, and I was so grateful for having watched this video, as it gave me a lot of context. Munch is definitely one of my favorite artists..
So this means I don't have to quit smoking right
I enjoyed the way you moved from topic to topic in this videos. Cigarettes, bohemian lifestyles, art, and mental illness. I thought it tied together nicely. Learned a lot, as always.
Happy anniversary! That was so cute
I am SO glad I came across this channel... this is so amazing and educational... I love how you dive into the individual subject, how you express everything, the editing, the narration, all just perfect... I could watch this for hours!
Since I am an artist, recluse, anxiety ridden, and smoker. I can relate. Thank you. Oh and Happy Anniversary!!!
2:59 - "Cigarettes became the essential prop of the bohemian lifestyle."
Fascinating!
Extraordinary!
Did Lisette leave Seeker/TestTube? She is the best presenter there.
Aww so sweet of you to say that. Yes, my last episode aired May 31. Miss being in the comments with you guys there.
Lissette Padilla So sad :( Well Jules is doing a good job too, so we still have him :) I wish you much success and good luck in your new endeavours!
But WHYYYY!? :'(
Speaking of anxiety, Nerdwriter's video-essays are therapeutic in themselves. They're each crafted just so, with every image and sound picked out and ordered, and when I watch them I'm taken out of my own mind a bit. The video pulls my attention and places it on topics larger than life, just for five or ten minutes. It's very nice.
This made me crave a smoke so so bad.
Fight it
Thank you for this one, I've been struggling with depression...and my art, mostly my art thankfully, all of my life. I can say first hand that the only people who truly understand and get it, are other creative people... and yes...I'm a smoker.
Some channels shouldnt have dislike button.
I subscribed to your channel for your videos on film, but I keep coming back for the ones about painting. These videos are so well made, I hope they help modern audiences appreciate painting more.
damn...
thats all I had to say after the video, great job
This video was so deeply analytical that it almost went completely over my head. Well done.
No matter how brilliant this video is (and, as usual, it's plenty brilliant), you yourself should quit smoking.
He smokes?
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Really feel that this is your best production, always come back to this one
beautifully written dude, well done. love this shit. who's got a lighter? lol
Love when you cover artists or art pieces, especially this time because it was a Norwegian one. Thank you for putting so much effort into making a nuanced and accurate video, and congratulations on the anniversary!