What Happens to Art When Society Begins to Rot?
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:27 KAWS Biography
2:22 French Revolution
3:50 Rococo
4:42 Neoclassicism
6:25 Weimar Germany
7:37 Bauhaus
8:23 New Objectivity
9:19 I Don't Hate KAWS
10:43 Memes
11:51 Conclusion
In H.P. Lovecraft's "In the Moutains of Madness" the protagonist explores the ruins of an ancient alien city in the antartic, finding murals that tell the story of the species, remarking that, as time went on and the species neared extinction, the mural's art, once beautifully ornate and filled with meaning, slowly turned to a simplfied shell of itself, lacking the skill and meaning, until it devolved into meanigless abstraction.
yes, he also passes a ton of 6 foot penguins. talk about meaningless abstraction evar?
hey free west papua already huh
Are you one of these dudes that romanticizes ultra weak abusive artist who are kinda fascist. HP Lovecraft was a monster. That’s why his stories hit so hard about the monstrosities in his life and how he treated people like monstrosities what’s your point?
you romanticise calling someone a monster so heck
Are you one of these dudes that romanticizes ultra weak abusive artist who are kinda fas-ACKKKKKKKK!!@@Katsnacks
@@dosexu1Acked by an undescriptible unstoppable force...
Should I be ashamed or relieved that I've never seen this until right now?
You haven’t been paying attention for the better part of 15 years
im glad i had no clue who KAWS was, looks like vinyl 'Pop!" bs you'd see in a comic book shop. no one you work with will know or care about any of this. I get the point of this video, the appreciation of art is a sign of where we are headed; yet when we know about this all we seem to experience is the tension between holding said knowledge and the apathy of the common person. TL;DR no one will care until it's too late anyway
Same. Have noticed many other instances of meaningless art though.
Relieved.
Perhaps you’re not very quick of the uptake
The "West" isn't ending. It's just in a rut. Pop artists are the worst place to look for good culture, to be honest. It's like comparing a Funko-pop to a Greek statue. There's still people making good stuff out there, ya just have to hunt for it.
Cultures are starting to combine and give form to new ones, always been so.
I think there's an argument that it's almost too integrated (virtually, not socially) and that's cut the likelyhood of introspective movements and scenes erupting way down. People aren't influenced so much by their immediate anymore, it's strange.
Not saying people aren't being creative, making brilliant art - it's just happening in a way it never has. Fun and scary.
you do coz when you even attempt to paint well in a university, the professor shit on you and tell you to "free yourself" and you are like, but i am--i want to paint well.
examples of such art? @@Lucas-wn3te
hunt where? examples?
This could have been a better video. The Bauhaus was a school that encompassed several philosophies and was not apolitical. It was not simply about combining form and function - more precisely, it was about recognising that artistic style had become detached from the realities of modern materials and manufacturing, and that society was separating artists and manufacturers to their detriment in ways no previous civilisation had. If you read into the organisation of the school, you will find they were taught as apprentices, or journeymen, comparable to a guild. In their aims for ahistoricism, they should most accurately be viewed like medieval masons, or Roman artisans, who produced artistic forms and motifs for their own times with the materials of their times. Furthermore, they did not simply focus on furniture; the Bauhaus produced everything from pottery to stage costumes and was seeking to modernise all aspects of life, rather than reviving motifs of the past. This attitude is present in all enduring civilisations - when all walks of life are geared towards form and function we produce cathedrals, Angkor Wat, or cohesive cities like Athens.
Fax 👍
and it still ended up accelerating our world into modern art and architecture 💀💀💀
@@ambmamb8370 not just that but many things like ww1
@@Lollero200q The Bauhaus opened after WWI
make it,,,make re;What Happens To Art When Society Begins To Rot and address what you think he missed. I'll watch
Putting Bauhaus next to Roccoco and Kaws is a horrible misrepresentation. There is so much more to the Bauhaus school that was missed.
Yeah, I felt the same thing. Even though I don't like bauhaus, it's a very interesting move
I agree, but he even missed important cultural points about Roccoco. Just utterly dismissed it as an art movement. Hell, I don’t even like Roccoco but… wow. And the Bauhaus movement is more modern and relatable to explain and he just…didn’t.
Roccoco AS WELL!
Yeah, in the conceptualization of it. That doesnt make it look less hollow. Modern art is obsessed with concept while forgetting beauty
He didn't put it, its his interpretation... sit back in your couch.
Art should reinvigorated life and society. And if Nietzsche was right about art, then to get great art we need a great society that has life-affirming values, something that modern day soul-consuming capitalism actively suppresses.
Did you know that Hitler could quite will to power word for word
no, art "should" not do anything, we make art by expression and it is fully linked to the time and experiences we live
@@Six6_Six_6Six6based as fuck
Nietzsche was a fucking rube. Ubermensch my ass, all he was was a protofascist in disguise who was butthurt his god wasn't dominant in the west anymore. A sad little man and his sad little writings.
It's not capitalism, what we have now is fascism in the words of Mussolini himself. Corporates cooperating with the government, and then the soullessness encroaches after.
Watching a whole video filled with words and sentences for over 12 mins and learning absolutely nothing is wild.
Based. The levels of chad OOOOOOzes off of you. I can slurp it up and get an instant Sox pack
For USA society has been "falling apart" since the 60s, it's just babbling
The video is as meaningless as the art he was criticizing
Did you forget your side of subway surfers tiktok slop to stimulate your little brain ?
How is having low comprehension to the point you got nothing out of this video.... the uploader's fault? That's on you if you got nothing from it.
This isn't some complex literary spiel written in Old English
”The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin is a fooking great book about this topic. Highly recommended/10
I will give it a go thanks
Your videos often leave me kinda empty, but also a bit more weightless. Like life is kinda fucked but also a thing worth living. Thank you.
I like your videos :)
Art is a mirror held up to society. This is art doing what its supposed to do. Art's function is to remind humanity of the dreams it betrays and the crimes it forgets.
unless the society you live in starts making holding up mirrors illegal, or morally wrong... then art starts looking like current day disney.... the modern disney message is: "you're not allowed to show or even believe in the real world, only the manufactured one we want you to believe exists."
@@AKATennescapism’s always been Disney’s thing so idk what u mean by modern
@nickg5341 I'm talking about the morals, the factual elements of the fictional stories... Disney was all about sharing good moral family values, even if the stories themselves were fictional... and modern day political beliefs do not align with real world, average person morals.
@@AKATenn Political beliefs like what
@nickg5341 this is for hollywood in general... like that race/gender swapping, making slavers look like the good guys, making male characters all deadbeats, morons, or needing to be saved by women, while at the same time making women never be saved by men... this whole equity and equality thing, thats actually just more equitable and more equal to a new group of people, while being less equal and less equitable for another group of people.
Good video, but I think you slightly misrepresented the bauhaus history. Bauhaus was not a-poltikal because they wanted to be because there desins where insemselvs called radical as there abstract form had simmilarteys ro Russian aventgardist at the time. The school had for a brief time even a socialist leader who created building plans for affordable housing and furniture, but he was fired because the nazis were even more sceptical of this school in this time period. Many avantgard artist in fields of painting, fotographie, or scupturing came out of this school even though the architecture and design classes had more of a focus on them. I recommend reading the bauhaus history book at it is an goof entry level start in the bauhaus history with It's nuances.
I like the idea that memes are an art movement and everyone’s an artist
Agreed! Was a really cool point. However that also makes Kaws an artist, as many memes aren’t depressing and deeply political as well 😄
Offending people isn't the aim of art
It's merely a side effect.
What matters is when it has actual meaning.
It doesn't matter if it's just silly, the potential of meaning itself holds power. Memes have meaning, and it's atleast slightly up lifting.
@@necrosteel5013
Meaning isn't the aim of art either. meaning is also just a side effect.
The ONLY thing art has to do is to be beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. Everything else comes after that.
@@jejethejeplalq821 why be beautiful or aesthetically pleasing?
To invoke joy, naturally.
That's it's meaning, the pursuit of happiness. So it's still meaning albeit it's a very basic meaning, but it's still meaning.
@@necrosteel5013
Yes, that's pretty much what i meant. That's the first and most important meaning that art should have.
I mean, call me an uncultured bumpkin - but I think you can like both: rococo and baroque style.
And there's nothing wrong with Art that's 'apolitical', just created to make you feel happy, fuzzy and at ease.
There's a time and place for that, just as there's place for art that's grimdark, critical and disturbing.
There's a place for smiling flowers and candy coloured anime girls ( *cough* Murakami *cough* )
And there's a place for monochrome and depressing Wojak.
sometimes i want a piece of art to challenge me, sometimes i just want a nice landscape painting.
Very interesting topic I've been thinking about alot lately. It's really obvious that in the pursuit of art through industry, which is the only thing we know, art itself is as you said completely devoid of any meaning or substance. All surface level, all for the aesthetics, all for marketing. And this all is embedded into the way we go about art, all we know is consume and sell since thousands of years. Every artist comes from the mind of a consumer and this makes every piece of art just a little foul. Maybe someday we will disconnect the selling from the creation.
Yeah this is what modern art basically is. I would say small artists that sell affordable art to make a living, not collectors items or shit like that, but small local affordable art is about as close as we can come to something genuine in our society.
Like this small kinda of late night college pizza joint near the bars in my town has. They have local affordable art hanging for sale from local artists. The art is max like 100-200$ but you can find cheaper stuff as well. It’s still made for the mind of a consumer and to make a living off of but they aren’t selling stupid collab new age collectors nft type bull shit and they aren’t selling these things for 6 figures either. I’d bet most of these artists don’t make to much in terms of these modern art producers which makes it feel much more genuine.
Affordable local art is about a genuine as your going to get in a capitalist society. I mean even Vincent can gogh, arguably one of the greatest painters of all time tried to make a living selling art.
There’s nothing wrong with that but our capitalist society strips a lot of the things that makes art great and replaces those things with stuff that’ll make the most money. That’s why I think local affordable art is better. It’s not trying to be mainstream. You can still find art that captivates and maybe even challenges societal expectations. Something art nowadays is all about collections, conformity, marketing, to make money
You're looking for the Art that is cathedrals and in cathedrals. It was commissioned yes but beyond meaning of consumerism. For God.
Banksy is real art. No money just pure vandalism and expression.
@@millenialmuscle8254 I hope you are trolling
@@evangreenberg1666 Thats why i love music sm, cant wait to do shows local one day
The woman in the painting in the swing shown while saying "Rococo means nothing" actually has a ton of subtle details and secret meanings.
The irony, lmao
This is golden, thank you I won't end myself. I'll buy all the possible kaws figurines, set them alight and inhale all the vapor. It's for art, it is performance, I have a cause, I feel alive again.
damn great freaking video!
love the comparisons to art movements in different transitory times, convincing
Bauhaus is an extremely important & beautiful art movement bro is tripping
I wrote a paper in art school that memes are the new agitprop, I feel like a prophetic madman who was educated in a literal former mental asylum (RIP Sydney College of the Arts Callum Park campus).
Interesting topic but your vilification of Bauhaus as “elite, meaningless” art doesn’t make sense especially when you frame it as opposing New objectivity. The two styles came from the same school of thought of tearing down excesses/decadence of German society in order to create art that more closely reflects the current realities of life. Bauhaus sought to advance society with mass produceable yet artistic objects, in accordance with the quickly industrializing world. Its whole point was to eliminate empty ornamentation which is not easily mass produced. Quite the opposite of elite and meaningless if you ask me. It certainly has no parallel with Rococo- take a look at Bauhaus designs and see if you can find bougie decoration like Rococo. Btw fun fact Gropius was also a WWI vet.
As for KAWS, it’s really easy to see him as an artist in it for the money, perfectly exemplifying Western cultural rot BUT you have to realize that art and the art MARKET are two completely different things. Artists don’t (usually) have a say in the monetary worth of their works anymore than you and I have a say in home prices, it’s just rich people in their detached money playgrounds finding new ways to evade taxes.. or in the case of StockX and streamers kaws collections, tasteless people believing that which is expensive is good. What you should be blaming for cultural rot is not supposedly “meaningless” art but rather the circumstances that allowed that kind of art to arise (capitalism).
speak yo shit 🗣
Good video except for the Bauhaus part. Plus the angular chair you used to signify Bauhaus is actually De Stijl.
Nvm, vid was kinda mid due to Bauhaus slander
Bauhaus was the radical, for the commoner style. It was pure modernism’s fortress against neoclassical and the already dead preview style of art nouveau. Bauhaus was the reconciliation of artistry and industrial construction in the modern world. Not lol goofy Barcelona chair or Wasily chair. Modernist designs all come from Bauhaus.
Your channel is a real gem dude
youre easily one of my new fav channels, I cant believe youre under 10k subs but i feel like youll get huge soon!
I dont think you are taking into account the fact that the internet is also at this point a sight of select number of people driven by spectacle. The internet is already, and going to become less and less, reflective of "actual lived reality".
Dude you are on fire, literally every video lately has been 10/10. Keep it up :)
Oh my goodness! I stumbled on your video and my favorite art pieces and artist are featured in the most refreshing way.
I couldn´t be more happy that this video blew up! Congrats man, you deserve every view
This is an amazing channel. I am surprised that I never knew about this.
Just discovered your channel. This is fun and informative!
THANK YOU. I do not know how the biggest gallery in Canada thought it would be a good idea to present what is essentially a fortnite skin.
"It's all art?"
"Always has been."
Favourite yt channel rn thanks for uploads!
Bro this was such a cool video! Can you try making video about different styles of art and its history that you like?
This was fing fire my dude, I had never heard about “neue Sachlichkeit” until now, this video was also the first time I took the words “memes are art” serious.
Great video, I wish you all the best
I wish we lived in a Hudson River School kind of world, but I’m happy with memes
You put the picture of "freedom leading the people" as being by David, but it was by Delacroix
Also, not only was Bauhaus such an important school that it became a movement in itself, it also had teachers from various styles from Europe and had the goal of not separating major art from minor art (crafts). The idea of building furniture was because the economy was screwed and being able to create artistic furniture was a way of having "art for the people", contributing to society and making art accessible and useful for the common population.
(Sorry, english isn't my first language)
*writes a beautifully written paragraph*
“Sorry english isn’t my first language”
there is actually meaning to rococo many of the artists were commentating on certain things, I see why u simplified the movement for the sake of the video now tho u fit a lot of content and history in it
That you singing in the end?! Bloody good chap!!
First time seeing one of your videos. I'm a fan - subscirbed!
9:45 I have always said that at the end of the day art is a form of communication. It can communicate poorly, it can vapidly communicate next to nothing, but no matter what the function of art is communication.
In a sense, I think if art offends people, it does mean you communicated your controversial point, but, if it *only* offends, then you didnt do it well. If your art can change minds, that's good art.
kaws is a cia psyop to make me buy a funny little statue instead of a home
So Kaws is the effect?
Literally looked at my sink full of dishes and, coincidentally, hear "you can't even do you fucking dishes" 😳
How can you say weimar 13 times and pronounce it wrong everytime. V-eye-mear not why-ma. You got me screaming why ma. Good video 👍
This is fantastic, just commenting so if we have UA-cam in the new age I can show my AI friends I was here
dude i just found your channel and youre so fucking cool, love this video so much!!!!!! thank you!
Your channel is awesome. You are awesome.
Love your work
Rococo is pronounced like "ruh-KO-ko" where the caps are the emphasis. Like "cocoa" with the sound "ruh" before it.
Great vid bro
I don’t know much about art movements but the way you packaged the video at least kept me watching
Thank you artchad
Bro you're sharp, great video.
I made it to 1:08 so forgive me if I missed a point, I couldn't listen to any more. Saying that Kaws is devoid of meaning is the complete opposite of being an Art Chad. The dude was a legit graffiti writer, he still has some pieces up today, illegally of course. The dude risked his life and freedom by climbing up on tall shit and spraypainting it. He came from the peak era of graffiti. He found a way to make a career out of it which is something that millions of people dream of/dreamt of. Some of the arguably best graffiti writers have never had half the success of Kaws. And how does he do it? By making a parody of everything wrong with American greed and making it dead. A dead cartoon mouse. And he charges a thousand dollars a pop, sometimes more. He's literally selling them a parody of themselves and they lap it up like thirsty dogs. That is irony. It's a mirror to the face of people don't understand what they are buying. It's a middle finger to people who will never understand what it's like to run from police at 3 am in the summer time. It's a flawless satire of a dying system who is birthing a new monstrosity to take its place. Art without context is always perceived as irrelevant
Live long enough to become the villain.
Boooring
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totally laughable, whatever scrap of subversive graffiti ethos you could lay claim to by drawing x's on pop culture figures becomes completely recuperated, benign, and soulless the second you start doing brand deal after brand deal.
earnest "culture jamming" efforts are now considered lame, uncool, ineffective; the reason why kaws still sells is because his aesthetics of being antagonistic and rebellious are transparently empty and hollow-just like his dolls. every corporation is open to a brand deal will him because it is painfully obvious that hes is not a threat. he assists corporations in appropriating anticapitalist, rebellious, graffiti ethos as just another aesthetic with which to make money off
you can tell when the guy is a m450n... spin spin spin buddy
see you in west papua
I find it funny how you overlooked Post Modernism as an art movement since I'd argue it plays a bit if a role in the creation if KAWS. If anything Post Modernism completely debunks this video's narrative since art just boils down to a person's own interpretation.
That thing was part of some Reese's Puffs promo at one point. So I just associate it with chocolate and peanut flavored diabetus.
Make longer videos please! Lots of potential here.
lov the jreg camio, what a lovely schitzo
Legendary video dude
Phenomenal content!!! 🎉
pretty timely for me as I just saw a KAWS exhibition at the Moco Museum in Amsterdam. also saw a George Grosz ("the Agitator") at the Stedelijk so that was neat
great video, bless your soul 🧃
You got me curious. I subscribed.
Art is a reflection of the society and times of it's creation. If it's about shallowness and commodification then that's a reflection.
video starts with "you've seen these figurines at sneakers stores, gallery gift shops, and background of famous streamers"
me: huh? i'm seeing those things for the first time in your video /turns off the video and goes away/
how tf do you never miss at bringing up an interesting topic 😩
Nice pfp lol
this guy didn't get it @@wackyglobe5447
I did not expect to get called out for being a Rococo enjoyer.
Fair enough.
Interesting video :D
I always thought those were them funko pop things.
"yes, that would be funny" this was a great one, thanks Art Chad!
5:50 I feel so called out with my week old dishes.. 😂
Interesting and also funny, thanks!
Nice project 🎉
wait i unironically need a full cover of the little dark age acoustic from you now please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Good thing he added that reminder at the end. I almost forgot.
Roccoco is great though. I want a picture of cats on a piano and girls playing in a field.
That channel is a gem in the youtube sphere
im an expeditor of financial markets (its my life’s work) and i can confirm it has already started and 2024 is going to blow ya all minds (most of you will literally unalive or starve to death) it will get better starting 2030 but the next few years will be hell on earth for the middle and low classes even most of rich aren’t protected idk what really happens but it already is hard and will get much much much harder i hope you find peace
I love how all the Canadian UA-camrs know each other. Jreg, JJ McCullough, and Art Chad. The only UA-camrs to ever exist in Canada
Rococo looks like the frosting on a wedding cake.
I have never heard of KAWS until this video was in my recommended. Could have done without knowing about him.
real. love the song at the end of video
:D
Does that mean in the future art students would have to look at memes and analyse what they could have meant 🤣🤣
So many people have these grand ideas of what art “should” be instead of appreciating it for what it is…or even better yet, going and making the art they want to see
now on a serious note, this is just another phase of the human condition, and I love it.
Am I going crazy or do Kaws figures have a Totenkopf bones sticking out of their heads?
"By the end of this video youll understand why these $1000 figurines are a sign of the end of our world.."
Looks at figurine: ... no, no. I get it already.
I have never seen this figurine til now. Might be a good thing?
Good video, i don't even watch art videos normally.
@11:00 : DAMN! I was trying not to get political, but I literally have a "memes" folder in my open source code base .
Good one, art chad. You show that memes are boss.
While I don’t agree with the linearity that you put forth, the video is definitely entertaining and you bring up troubling topics for a lot of artists, specifically selling-out. KAWS and Shepherd Fairey both kinda disappoint me in the same way, despite them being skilled as artists and craftspeople.
Definitely though, all art is political. Apolitical stances are political. I think making art true to one’s beliefs yields the kind of quality that gives energy back to people.
the cycle goes like this:
1. find new politics/art/satirist youtuber
2. think I am safe from Jreg
3. miraculous Jreg appearance
You aren't the only one to grow up on the killing fields. War is a cruel parent, but an effective teacher. Its final lesson is carved deep in my psyche: that this world, and all of its people, are diseased. Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns of something even greater: MEMES , the DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture. They are everything we pass on. Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. Envy, greed, despair: all memes, all passed on. You can't fight nature, Jack. Wind blows, rain falls, and the strong prey upon the weak. Sam tells me you see your weapon as a "tool": something that saves lives, a means of justice. Now, there's a pretty meme! Exquisite! It spared you the burden of all the lives you've taken, absolved you of guilt when you enjoyed it.
Damn 😓 guilted
OK think of it this way..Rococo was like the the 18th centurys way of social media influence. It was like IG but in person at large estates for the very few to all pretend they were #blessed…
Bro what. Love the channel holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bro this is way better than any Art History Uni Course
Decent video that lands on a solid conclusion, but i think you couldve rethought a couple points, most importantly your summary of the weimar republic.
The Bauhaus school actually had multiple iterations, the city i live in having the second and arguably most recognisable one, with most of their well known projects coming from the period of work that took place here. Their philosophy of form>function actually was quite controversial at the time, since art and industry were seen as firmly seperate aspects of society. The Bauhaus "Meister" and students essentially tried to recombine these sectors, and make them accessable to all walks of life. Their work can be seen mirrored in a lot of things later constructed by the soviets and eastern block architects, like commyblocks or standardised furniture. Their "bland" aesthetic also is a product of their affirmation to stay true to their materials, hence they would not mask concrete and play broadly with glass and steel, showing off what (at the time) otherworldly creations the common, cheap material 'for the masses' could achive.
Im also slightly disappointed that you used new objectivity as a "counter cultural answer" to bauhaus, which, seeing as bauhaus itself was in many ways counter cultural, doesnt really make sense ^^' but more importantly, that you left out some of the most infuential authors of the time; Brecht, Nietzsche or even kafka (even tho he wasnt german, a lot of his writing was still massively important/emblematic for the time) would have made amazing examples and gone along very well with the themes you established.
Overall, could have used more consideration and could have been fleshed out more, but still a decent essay.
6,9/10, you gotta look further into this stuff ^^"
Dont take this as an insult tho, theres unused potential here ^^
bauhaus is good asf
bauhaus é o caralho estileira > função
@@joaolemes8757 what
if you mean the band, then yes
@@stars_will_fall i meant the art group
Both the band and the art school in the Weimar Republic
i learned more from this than in art history class touching upon the same periods