@@jasjkdgerclynregret3272 Exactly lol. I appreciate the fact he does it all dryly and does not make a big deal out of his jokes like he expects you to laugh but people get his jokes bro trust me.
"Personally i make art because...*sigh*... I don't know why i make art." that was my favorite phrase in this video XD i don't know why it made me laugh
It has, and it exposes the main reason Monalisa is the most important painting in Reinascence Art. The technique called sfumato was a revolutionary idea to reproduce nuance of light and shadow, by mixin of different pigments, which is essentially important to recreate a subtle face expression, (or the absence of it.)
When I was little all the kids my age told each other that the Mona Lisa was special and had some sort of strange optical illusion that made her eyes look right at you no matter where you were. Now, years later, I'm only half sure this isn't true.
Machiavelli and Da Vinci actually conspired to reroute and steal the Arno river in the background of the painting, but when several workers were killed in the attempt they went their separate ways. Machiavelli left politics and wrote The Prince, and Da Vinci threw the river in his painting.
+Roos Vervelde he did it on purpose in order to make the left side look bigger, therefore enhancing the feminine within the painting. considering the Mona Lisa is of a hermaphrodite, and Da Vinci believed in the divine feminine, I think it's a pretty important mistake d:
In order to paint you must first learn to draw, because drawing is understanding how to see. And you can't create without understanding what you see. And someone else once said "I don't paint, I draw with a brush instead of a pencil."
"You don't have to be good at drawing feet. At all. Not even a little bit. You can draw feet...really bad" 19:25 That part is funny AND encouraging, since all the toes I draw look like diseased caterpillars
Whenever I see your videos it feels like when you visit a friend's house, but he's an artsy dude. And then he starts talking about art and/or showing you his drawings and stuff. I like it
You are a fantastic teacher. The art world needs the pretension to go. Goodness all the cruel art critiques I suffered through. Hopefully you are the beginning to new art education. You are awesome!
i really didn't see this coming, but it's a great idea for a series! i thoroughly enjoyed this, hope you'll do more in the future. have a nice day, peter!
I see what you are doing, Sir. Lulling us into this tongue-in-cheek banter, all the while giving us a solid art history lesson. Not to mention telling us it's alright to feel how we feel about a painting, giving us agency to have confidence in our own opinion. The little caveats of intrigue to lead us into thinking critically for OUURSELVES. Kudos to you! (And yes, I wrote this purposely in a somewhat "high-brow" manner) wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
I really thoroughly enjoyed your humorous critique of famous artwork, especially coming from an artist like you. I have always found it bizarre that to "appreciate" famous artwork, we must take classes like art history (which I did and always aced) to be told what to think about them. I think there is a correlation between poetry at its height and "drawings/paintings": At one point, poetry was soooooooo popular like pop music. It was the rage at the time. Then people tried to complicate it so as to come across as intellectually superior to the others in order to outdo the other poets while others read more into the poems than was actually there. Suddenly, no one liked poetry the way it used to be liked and poets could not earn a living off of their work. This kind of art is the same way. If it's too complicated for the average Joe to understand, people are going to stop paying attention. So to try be "the best" at art isn't necessarily a good thing because it loses people.
I have another example of what I'm trying to say. My sons were wonderful and greatly promising composers of a type of rock music when they were younger, composing many songs before they were eighteen. Their songs had great hooks, carried great weight emotionally, and encouraged the listeners even possibly to step into the spiritual side of things to bring about a kind of worshipful attitude toward God while listening to it. Then they met a little twerp who thought he was "all that" musically because his grandfather was a famous pianist. He corrupted their art by telling them the chords needed to be more complicated. But in so doing, their work lost the simplistic beauty they originally had, feeling forced and not emotionally uplifting and freeing, losing what was originally great about it. After the loser burned them, several years later, they came out of that problem with music and once again began creating the emotionally and spiritually rich music they used to create and love.
So no one should have to explain art if it is really art. If it moves a person in whatever way emotionally, it's art. If not, it's practice. But what moves one person might not another. The saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is really applicable here. To complicate it just means there is something lacking inherently in the work itself. And so I enjoyed the tongue in cheek observations with regard to these famous works of art since the art snobs have way overcomplicated them as well as other works, corrupting many new aspiring artists so that they create things like a dot on a white canvas. Oh brother!
yeah, art is supposed to be the opposite of science. so putting art in "borders", linearizing it and making it scientific (basically telling artists and audiences what they should or should not like) should really be unappreciated in the art world. I mean there is technicality in art, and you can be taught to appreciate it, but I dont believe for a second that (for example) people should flock to the mona lisa just because it's supposed to be "beautiful" or what not
As someone who’s been struggling with bringing himself to create more art work, this video has helped me a lot. Since I seldomly create anything, watching your channel was making disappointed in myself, and also envious of you for always creating with your unique style almost every day. Anyway this was oddly inspiring because I do know that when I put my all into something I want to make I end up pretty happy with it. So I’ve realized maybe I just haven’t been inspired enough to make those types of pieces recently, and if that’s so then it’s okay, because if I can bring myself to create something when I know I feel like it’s right then I think I can be happier with myself. Thanks Peter…lol also your goofy little side tangents always crack me up
"Personally, I make art, because... I don't know why I make art... She's got a big earring" taken out of context, this had me giggling :D keep doing all the things!
I have been watching your videos for about two years now and you have inspired me to make my drawings more abstract, yet I have just started painting and I would love for you to do more painting to help me get inspiration. Keep doing what your doing because I love your videos
Your thoughts on art are interesting to someone like me who has only a little formal training in art history. Even when I don't outright agree with you, your ideas are still interesting and well spoken. Your theory that the Mona Lisa's fame rests with its having gone viral after the theft is plausible. Though in some cases-the Vermeer and Munch, for examples-the fame legitimately rests in the art itself though perhaps in subtleties that might be beyond my reach. My friend Hugh Starbuck has written about Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. This is a Renaissance painting, which means it's at the beginning of the Western tradition of classical art, which in turn means it is one of the first if not THE first nude, and this in Florence where the Church literally breathed down the necks of artists. Botticelli got away with the nude because an important aspect of the Renaissance was the revival of the classical Greek and Roman texts that had been preserved in the scriptoria of Medieval monasteries. The classical writings preserved civilization through the slow-motion disaster of the Dark Ages, so their value was highly esteemed. The Greek and Roman texts naturally referenced the pagan gods, but the Neo-platonic movement of Renaissance Florence tolerated these gods not as gods per se but as symbolic values in allegorical works. The Greeks and Romans had used nude physically perfect specimens to represent gods. So, as an allegory, the Birth of Venus represents the awakening at puberty of love and sexuality in an adolescent female, which is why Venus is born full-grown: puberty in the 15th century marked the onset of adulthood. But, allegory shmallegory, any adult human male, even a priest, isn't going to care about the allegorical value of a painting with a naked woman in the picture. He's going to be into the nude human form. That conflict is the cutting edge of the eternal conflict between authoritarians, who have always sought to shame women for their bodies, and the artists, who have always realized that the concept of beauty has its origins in the form of the nude female (or perhaps in the nude human). Art exploited the Church's tolerance for nude gods with a series of reclining nude Venus paintings ranging from Giorgione in 1510 all the way to Manet's Olympia (1863). In that 350-year span of reclining nudes, the allegorical value of Venus became more and more lip service. By the time Olympia comes along, she's become a rather emo whore ready for her next customer. Starbuck's book, which explains all this much better than I can, is at a.co/g9NDNyT
"Your thoughts on art are interesting to someone like me who has only a little formal training in art history." May I suggest you shop around a bit more, then? As someone who has a great deal of formal training in art history, I can tell you there are much more worthwhile thoughts out there on the subject. And I'm not just saying this because his views are unconventional. I couldn't care less about convention myself. I'm saying it because his views are ill-informed.
EyeLean5280 oh of course I realize I've not got the brass ring yet, thank you, so of course I continue when I can with dozens of searches. "his views" meaning the guy in the video or High Starbuck?
In life now and forever, always assume people are joking. They usually are. Likewise, you yourself should never take anything seriously and always be joking. You're welcome
The Mona Lisa is famous because it is one of the first paintings that explored the idea of foreground, middle ground, and background. Davinci was one of the first Renaissance artists to capture a since of depth.
I saw The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel last year and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Seeing the Sistine Chapel was literally the only goal I set for myself when I was younger. I'm 16 and I have no more life goals. Nice.
Dani Siclari Absolutely! When I first saw the Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel my mind was figuratively blown away and I literally had a stroke. Humbling as it is awesome!
The vanishing point in the last supper is actually a big part of why it was famous. It was considered revolutionary at the time, because people were still figuring out depth and perspective.
Munch is actually good but after seeing a whole gallery of his work in Bergen, The Scream was actually the most underwhelming. Same with Van Gogh, tourists gathered around sunflowers, when its not his best-possibly the most mundane, and there's great other stuff around in the van gogh gallery people just walk past like zombies. And the last supper was just really shit(at least in person nowadays), compared to basically every church in Italy-or art in the very same church.. There's a massive door in the middle of it and its always re-edited in pictures for colours.
and yeh, same with vermeer....his other work is actually great and stands out......girl with a pearl earing is just a boring nice painting, someone wrote a book about it or something. Dali is just a bad painter, technically even in the modern sense. He improved 500% when he used film and photography...
Nighthawks by Munch is probably my favourite painting ever. You should watch TheNerdwriter1's video on Nighthawks. Actually, all of TheNerdwriter1's videos
A cool fact is that the "parachute" and the God's part of the painting in The creation of Adam, actually represents the anatomy of a human brain, Michelangelo didn't belive in God so he painted it like saying that God is a human creation... Isn't that cool?
Hey, Peter. It's been a while. But dang you've grown huge! 144k subs? I remember back when you had not even 200. The good old days, well you deserve it, keep up the good work
After listening to so many art lectures basically saying the same things and analysing these same paintings far too deeply it's nice to just hear someones unscripted thoughts and honest personal opinions on these paintings. It's also nice to just hear some well researched context about each of the individual paintings :)
Hi Peter! I just recently started watching your videos, though I have seen quite a few already. I really appreciate your art and your sense of humor :D please make another one of these videos, just for fun, you got me laughing :) You're incredibly talented and it's a pleasure to watch you work :) Keep it up, my friend!
I was fortunate enough to visit MoMa once on a trip to New York with my art class. Right before closing time my friend and I managed to get a look at Starry Night which we were very excited about, both of us being big Van Gogh lovers. It was about 15 minuted to closing time, and barely any people looking at the painting, so I could stick my face real close to it and get a look at the nitty gritty details. You see, I had something to investigate. Earlier in the year, home in Norway we got an assignement to recreate a painting we liked to practice painting with acrylic paint. I chose the one by Van Gogh where he's painted his room with a bed, a table and a chair. And from the pictures I could find online I thought it looked like he had just smeared on the paint and almost molded the shapes with thick strokes of paint. Therefore I wanted to try that, but my art teacher told me I couldn't. I wondered what the point of the excercise was if we couldn't try to copy the perceived technique as well as the motive. But my art teacher said that the point was to learn basic acrylic painting techniques, and so I had to build my picture up layer by thin layer of paint. So I did. I sketched up the picture with a pencil and started painting. I never finished. Rarely do to be honest. But I was a little peeved at the whole thing, so when I got to MoMa I hoped to prove my theory right, even if only to myself. Even though it wasn't even the right painting and the whole thing was quite childish. But I am childish I guess. And so I took a good look at Starry Night by mister Vincent Van Gogh. Let me first say I really like it, and think it's beautiful. I saw what you talked about. Gaps in the painting with the bare canvas showing through, thick smeared on strokes of painting like he was sculpting with the paint. Even the corners of the canvas was left naked. I was very pleased and amused by this. And some people around me also seemed a bit amused by me sticking my fave close and squinting at the Starry Night. But I had proved my theory sort-of right, and that was good enough for me. So then I took a picture of it and my friend and I left MoMa. I think I told my art teacher about my findings. She was mildly amused, but didn't seem to care much.
I think one of my favourite things are ‘The Girl with the Pearl earring” is how the earring is actually just two smudges of paint, like, just wow. It’s a really good show on how paintings utilise illusion, idk, i just really like it🤷♀️
You’re that type of UA-camr that could have done videos on anything and still be entertaining. Just an all round entertaining person. I’m not a fan of art I guess but enjoy your videos.
the one thing I love the most is about peter is how quirky and amazing he is. i always find myself laughing at his commentary and i just imagine him being one of my teachers and i know that if he was one of my teachers, he would've been my favorite
So.. new subscriber here, im not sure if you're being sarcastic or for real or you hop from one to the other hahha Also you sound drunk and like you're going to burp at any time lol
This is probably a weird comment but I stumbled upon one of your videos during a mental break from thesis writing and your voice is really relaxing. Really helped relax, de-stress and refocus. Thanks!
The thing about just a white canvas, is that it's literally been done 100s of times by different people. You can find meaning in it if you try, and maybe the artist had meaning in mind when painting it. but in reality, it's just a white canvas and it's lazy, crappy art.
A lot of that type of art is meant to question whether or not art even has to have a meaning. I don't think it's meant to be some sort of great work, but it opens up the conversation about the role art plays in society and the role an artist has in creating art.
you are all seriously tumblr artists. Some art isn't about appreciating it's aesthetic qualities, but instead looking at the meaning, heck, some artwork is intentionally bad. Bad art is still art, a blank canvas is still art. Your comment only proves how little galleries you have been to and how little you know about art, I have never seen an entirely white canvas, and most of the significant artists these days are actually doing astounding work. Minimalistic artwork is about emphasising the art elements and principles of the work, that in itself is a meaning.
Sometimes in art I like to think that it doesn't really matter how it looks, but it really only matters how it makes you feel. But then if you think about that, the look overall affects how you feel also. So yeah. Love your bids peter!!!
An interesting thing to note about Van Gogh, is even through his period of "blue paintings", he was acutely aware of his mental state, even in his depression, and especially in his mania.
I want a starry night umbrella. T_T I saw it at an art museum shop. But it was on display only. And they only had the other umbrella. WHYYYYYYYYY? Starry night is my favorite painting! And this video brought back tragic memories!
your sense of humor is so fantastically dry and subtle that it goes over a lot of heads. thankyou
no, I get the jokes, they're just not funny
Jasjkdgerclyn regret thats always subjective friendo
and youre here complaining on his videos anyway??
Keresiya Lovely-Girl I agree. I love it. He's very intriguing and attractive to me.
Didn't know people who don't find something humorous, is considered a hater. Thanks for the lesson, @Keres.
@@jasjkdgerclynregret3272 Exactly lol. I appreciate the fact he does it all dryly and does not make a big deal out of his jokes like he expects you to laugh but people get his jokes bro trust me.
"Personally i make art because...*sigh*... I don't know why i make art." that was my favorite phrase in this video XD i don't know why it made me laugh
TowerProductions i can relate lol
For an instant it looked Peter would finally settle the Plato vs Aquinas feud. It fizzled.
His follow up and redirection is just as funny. ......shes got a really big earring.... lol
I never EVER noticed that the Mona Lisa had a veil. That's so trippy.
Same here!
It has, and it exposes the main reason Monalisa is the most important painting in Reinascence Art. The technique called sfumato was a revolutionary idea to reproduce nuance of light and shadow, by mixin of
different pigments, which is essentially important to recreate a subtle face expression,
(or the absence of it.)
Mandela effect
@@ricardorochadev I think the mina lisa as a man and a woman.
From one angle she is smiling and from a different angle, she's not.
Not same here.... I always knew
2:18 ..and this was painted by Leonardo Di Capr%$% Di Vinchi... You killed me with that dude. subbed
not sure... is this a comedy- or an artchannel?
xelsor art requires high IQ, high IQ likes humor, art without a bit of humor isn't art. I think.
i take that comment is comedy as well?
Da Vinci, not Di Vinchi
what if he did, like inception innit.
When I was little all the kids my age told each other that the Mona Lisa was special and had some sort of strange optical illusion that made her eyes look right at you no matter where you were. Now, years later, I'm only half sure this isn't true.
Did you notice that the two parts of the horizon don't line up? One is higher than the other. Pretty awesome mistake for such a famous painting.
A mistake easily avoided by drawing her headless.
Machiavelli and Da Vinci actually conspired to reroute and steal the Arno river in the background of the painting, but when several workers were killed in the attempt they went their separate ways. Machiavelli left politics and wrote The Prince, and Da Vinci threw the river in his painting.
+Roos Vervelde he did it on purpose in order to make the left side look bigger, therefore enhancing the feminine within the painting. considering the Mona Lisa is of a hermaphrodite, and Da Vinci believed in the divine feminine, I think it's a pretty important mistake d:
+Jordan elliott Did it really have a reason? I did not know!
My favourite part is all the unnecessary camera angles
i hit subscibe the moment you said "if they chopped off her head right here and i could see more of the background..."
I like him. I like that he is comfortable admitting he doesn't know things. He doesn't seek to impress, only to express.
He has my sub.
I almost thought the last full brown page was going to be a rant on some modern art piece
LOL...I thought the same thing....That would have been very funny
Especially since he sighed at it.
SAME
😂
me too
Yup, that *painting* was really well *drawn*
Well, to be fair, most paintings have drawing at their foundation.
Of course, that's completely understandable.
Fruit500 LMAO
My teachers always said painting is drawing.
In order to paint you must first learn to draw, because drawing is understanding how to see. And you can't create without understanding what you see. And someone else once said "I don't paint, I draw with a brush instead of a pencil."
By Leonardo Dicaprio...lol
ahahahhaa
"You don't have to be good at drawing feet. At all. Not even a little bit. You can draw feet...really bad" 19:25
That part is funny AND encouraging, since all the toes I draw look like diseased caterpillars
fey yknow what else is deceased? Me after reading this comment 😏
Athletes foot has been the bane of man since the invention of boots! Now that I think of it, sometimes my toes feel like hairless catapillars.
I don't know how to draw feet so I just draw socks instead
francis. yr comment has me wheezing ghtdniheszvfgf
francis poor caterpillars
Whenever I see your videos it feels like when you visit a friend's house, but he's an artsy dude.
And then he starts talking about art and/or showing you his drawings and stuff.
I like it
Michelangelo really knocked it out the park painting these weird bulbous people
Favorite thing anyone's ever said probably
haha agree
I make art, I don't know why I make art,... She has a big earring 😂
Kirsty Oshea but she looks nice :)
Kirsty Oshea I
"This is the first thing that struck me besides the naked girl in the middle"
You are a fantastic teacher. The art world needs the pretension to go. Goodness all the cruel art critiques I suffered through. Hopefully you are the beginning to new art education. You are awesome!
"Personally, I make art cause...........I don't know why I make art" LOL that distressed expression made me spit out my rice
thank you for thinking for me, i think i appreciate it.. do i appreciate it? idk
Yes, you appreciate it.
how distraught you were at girl with a pearl earring
i feel like you want to be mad but you don't know how
i really didn't see this coming, but it's a great idea for a series! i thoroughly enjoyed this, hope you'll do more in the future.
have a nice day, peter!
"its okay to not think every painting is amazing just 'cause it famous."
preach!
"its by Leonardo DiCapr- DaVinci" that would have been golden
came down to comment that, but you beat me to it
I would bet he beats something else as well
Maybe something along the lines of ham?
+Dat One Boi
I see what you are doing, Sir. Lulling us into this tongue-in-cheek banter, all the while giving us a solid art history lesson. Not to mention telling us it's alright to feel how we feel about a painting, giving us agency to have confidence in our own opinion. The little caveats of intrigue to lead us into thinking critically for OUURSELVES. Kudos to you! (And yes, I wrote this purposely in a somewhat "high-brow" manner) wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
I really thoroughly enjoyed your humorous critique of famous artwork, especially coming from an artist like you. I have always found it bizarre that to "appreciate" famous artwork, we must take classes like art history (which I did and always aced) to be told what to think about them. I think there is a correlation between poetry at its height and "drawings/paintings": At one point, poetry was soooooooo popular like pop music. It was the rage at the time. Then people tried to complicate it so as to come across as intellectually superior to the others in order to outdo the other poets while others read more into the poems than was actually there. Suddenly, no one liked poetry the way it used to be liked and poets could not earn a living off of their work. This kind of art is the same way. If it's too complicated for the average Joe to understand, people are going to stop paying attention. So to try be "the best" at art isn't necessarily a good thing because it loses people.
I have another example of what I'm trying to say. My sons were wonderful and greatly promising composers of a type of rock music when they were younger, composing many songs before they were eighteen. Their songs had great hooks, carried great weight emotionally, and encouraged the listeners even possibly to step into the spiritual side of things to bring about a kind of worshipful attitude toward God while listening to it. Then they met a little twerp who thought he was "all that" musically because his grandfather was a famous pianist. He corrupted their art by telling them the chords needed to be more complicated. But in so doing, their work lost the simplistic beauty they originally had, feeling forced and not emotionally uplifting and freeing, losing what was originally great about it. After the loser burned them, several years later, they came out of that problem with music and once again began creating the emotionally and spiritually rich music they used to create and love.
So no one should have to explain art if it is really art. If it moves a person in whatever way emotionally, it's art. If not, it's practice. But what moves one person might not another. The saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is really applicable here. To complicate it just means there is something lacking inherently in the work itself. And so I enjoyed the tongue in cheek observations with regard to these famous works of art since the art snobs have way overcomplicated them as well as other works, corrupting many new aspiring artists so that they create things like a dot on a white canvas. Oh brother!
+BeardedBarley1 Nice comment. I think intellectualizing art is a bit like marrying your second cousin. Just kinda wrong.
yeah, art is supposed to be the opposite of science. so putting art in "borders", linearizing it and making it scientific (basically telling artists and audiences what they should or should not like) should really be unappreciated in the art world. I mean there is technicality in art, and you can be taught to appreciate it, but I dont believe for a second that (for example) people should flock to the mona lisa just because it's supposed to be "beautiful" or what not
BeardedBarley1 very interesting perspective. i think your onto something
I like your face. and your art.
TauPhi and his voice
His voice.
You know LAHFW? Check him out, they're like twin brothers.
he looks like woody allen
dang im surprised about how knowledgeable Peter is about art history. I love it!!
As someone who’s been struggling with bringing himself to create more art work, this video has helped me a lot. Since I seldomly create anything, watching your channel was making disappointed in myself, and also envious of you for always creating with your unique style almost every day. Anyway this was oddly inspiring because I do know that when I put my all into something I want to make I end up pretty happy with it. So I’ve realized maybe I just haven’t been inspired enough to make those types of pieces recently, and if that’s so then it’s okay, because if I can bring myself to create something when I know I feel like it’s right then I think I can be happier with myself. Thanks Peter…lol also your goofy little side tangents always crack me up
"Personally, I make art, because...
I don't know why I make art...
She's got a big earring"
taken out of context, this had me giggling :D
keep doing all the things!
This was genuinely really enjoyable. I hope there are more to come
this is it
this is my favorite video on the internet
thank you Peter, i can't wait to see the next episode, this is absolute gold
"I think I would like this more if she was headless." oh man i lost it there. Love your humor and videos. You got yourself a sub 👍
Why does it feel like Peter is slowly turning into Bob Ross xD
NO ONE CAN REPLACE BOB ROSS.
BOB ROSS IS LOVE... BOB ROSS IS LIFE
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Lol
It feels like he's just Peter.
Rose Farfields asmr feelings
👍
I love your commentary and critique on art.
I have been watching your videos for about two years now and you have inspired me to make my drawings more abstract, yet I have just started painting and I would love for you to do more painting to help me get inspiration. Keep doing what your doing because I love your videos
Your thoughts on art are interesting to someone like me who has only a little formal training in art history. Even when I don't outright agree with you, your ideas are still interesting and well spoken. Your theory that the Mona Lisa's fame rests with its having gone viral after the theft is plausible. Though in some cases-the Vermeer and Munch, for examples-the fame legitimately rests in the art itself though perhaps in subtleties that might be beyond my reach.
My friend Hugh Starbuck has written about Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. This is a Renaissance painting, which means it's at the beginning of the Western tradition of classical art, which in turn means it is one of the first if not THE first nude, and this in Florence where the Church literally breathed down the necks of artists. Botticelli got away with the nude because an important aspect of the Renaissance was the revival of the classical Greek and Roman texts that had been preserved in the scriptoria of Medieval monasteries. The classical writings preserved civilization through the slow-motion disaster of the Dark Ages, so their value was highly esteemed. The Greek and Roman texts naturally referenced the pagan gods, but the Neo-platonic movement of Renaissance Florence tolerated these gods not as gods per se but as symbolic values in allegorical works. The Greeks and Romans had used nude physically perfect specimens to represent gods. So, as an allegory, the Birth of Venus represents the awakening at puberty of love and sexuality in an adolescent female, which is why Venus is born full-grown: puberty in the 15th century marked the onset of adulthood.
But, allegory shmallegory, any adult human male, even a priest, isn't going to care about the allegorical value of a painting with a naked woman in the picture. He's going to be into the nude human form. That conflict is the cutting edge of the eternal conflict between authoritarians, who have always sought to shame women for their bodies, and the artists, who have always realized that the concept of beauty has its origins in the form of the nude female (or perhaps in the nude human). Art exploited the Church's tolerance for nude gods with a series of reclining nude Venus paintings ranging from Giorgione in 1510 all the way to Manet's Olympia (1863). In that 350-year span of reclining nudes, the allegorical value of Venus became more and more lip service. By the time Olympia comes along, she's become a rather emo whore ready for her next customer.
Starbuck's book, which explains all this much better than I can, is at a.co/g9NDNyT
Mason West m'kayyy!
"Your thoughts on art are interesting to someone like me who has only a little formal training in art history."
May I suggest you shop around a bit more, then? As someone who has a great deal of formal training in art history, I can tell you there are much more worthwhile thoughts out there on the subject.
And I'm not just saying this because his views are unconventional. I couldn't care less about convention myself. I'm saying it because his views are ill-informed.
EyeLean5280 oh of course I realize I've not got the brass ring yet, thank you, so of course I continue when I can with dozens of searches.
"his views" meaning the guy in the video or High Starbuck?
In the video. He seems well-intentioned but...
EyeLean5280 yes, that's true. All dressed up in good intentions, but...
I don't even like art but this man is the new Bob Ross, his voice is so relaxing
And he has the afro too !!!!
How do you not like art
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Hmmm
perfection.
I litteraly laughed my ass off XD
Oh my gosh.. it's nearly perfect. Just needs the veil draped over her.. severed neck region.
you can't tell if he's joking or not
In life now and forever, always assume people are joking. They usually are. Likewise, you yourself should never take anything seriously and always be joking.
You're welcome
Greg Garrison you are joking right?
Neither he.
Assumption is the mother of all failures
The Mona Lisa is famous because it is one of the first paintings that explored the idea of foreground, middle ground, and background. Davinci was one of the first Renaissance artists to capture a since of depth.
I saw The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel last year and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Seeing the Sistine Chapel was literally the only goal I set for myself when I was younger. I'm 16 and I have no more life goals. Nice.
Next goal: Earn all achievements in Clicker Heroes!
Dani Siclari Absolutely! When I first saw the Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel my mind was figuratively blown away and I literally had a stroke. Humbling as it is awesome!
The vanishing point in the last supper is actually a big part of why it was famous. It was considered revolutionary at the time, because people were still figuring out depth and perspective.
Hey Peter! can we get part 2? this was so fun to watch and i need more.
Your videos always make me laugh, I love your sense of humor. Also, I love your art so it's a win-win!
I was cracking up at the Botticelli foot montage haha
I love these videos! My fave. Thank you
🖼💛from Ontario🇨🇦
Munch is actually good but after seeing a whole gallery of his work in Bergen, The Scream was actually the most underwhelming.
Same with Van Gogh, tourists gathered around sunflowers, when its not his best-possibly the most mundane, and there's great other stuff around in the van gogh gallery people just walk past like zombies.
And the last supper was just really shit(at least in person nowadays), compared to basically every church in Italy-or art in the very same church.. There's a massive door in the middle of it and its always re-edited in pictures for colours.
and yeh, same with vermeer....his other work is actually great and stands out......girl with a pearl earing is just a boring nice painting, someone wrote a book about it or something.
Dali is just a bad painter, technically even in the modern sense.
He improved 500% when he used film and photography...
Nighthawks by Munch is probably my favourite painting ever. You should watch TheNerdwriter1's video on Nighthawks. Actually, all of TheNerdwriter1's videos
Sam Collins as in the one by Hopper or is this something else?
jorgepeterbarton The channel is TheNerdwriter1
@@jorgepeterbarton Yeah, it's hoppers'
The most humorous art critiques and I love it!
Honestly I never saw that veil until today. Thanks for zooming in, really
This was really Interesting to hear your take on these paintings.
I'd love to see another installment of this.
Great channel. I love his sense of humor.
Really enjoyed this video. Can't wait for the next one :)
"Personally I make art because... I don't know why I make art..."
I had always wondered what I thought about things. Thanks for clearing that up
A cool fact is that the "parachute" and the God's part of the painting in The creation of Adam, actually represents the anatomy of a human brain, Michelangelo didn't belive in God so he painted it like saying that God is a human creation... Isn't that cool?
Love this commentary, cant wait for part 2 Peter!!
3:05 “... and her hands”
I think I know a certain cat loving serial killer who feels the same way.
This channel is a gem I’m so happy I found it
22:13 I'm so glad he didn't start talking about the brown painting after American Gothic.
Please make a part 2!! I love this video of yours :)
"Done by Leonardo DiCapr... Davinci, of course" LMAO You just caught yourself Peter!
He is unusually funny for some reason. I know about all these paintings but his take on them is hysterical.
I like it how he doesn't praise all these paintings just because they're famous.
Good to hear that from a guy on UA-cam who has 200.000 subs.
13:18 I love how done he is xD And the way he strokes the paper with resignation omg
Hey, Peter. It's been a while. But dang you've grown huge! 144k subs? I remember back when you had not even 200. The good old days, well you deserve it, keep up the good work
Thanks for sticking around!
10:13 love your casual humor
I love your voice so much, it makes me sleepy so I watch it before I sleep
This is my favorite series by far
After listening to so many art lectures basically saying the same things and analysing these same paintings far too deeply it's nice to just hear someones unscripted thoughts and honest personal opinions on these paintings. It's also nice to just hear some well researched context about each of the individual paintings :)
You are a massive inspiration and I've known about your channel for around 30 minutes
Hi Peter! I just recently started watching your videos, though I have seen quite a few already. I really appreciate your art and your sense of humor :D please make another one of these videos, just for fun, you got me laughing :)
You're incredibly talented and it's a pleasure to watch you work :) Keep it up, my friend!
I was fortunate enough to visit MoMa once on a trip to New York with my art class. Right before closing time my friend and I managed to get a look at Starry Night which we were very excited about, both of us being big Van Gogh lovers. It was about 15 minuted to closing time, and barely any people looking at the painting, so I could stick my face real close to it and get a look at the nitty gritty details. You see, I had something to investigate. Earlier in the year, home in Norway we got an assignement to recreate a painting we liked to practice painting with acrylic paint. I chose the one by Van Gogh where he's painted his room with a bed, a table and a chair. And from the pictures I could find online I thought it looked like he had just smeared on the paint and almost molded the shapes with thick strokes of paint. Therefore I wanted to try that, but my art teacher told me I couldn't. I wondered what the point of the excercise was if we couldn't try to copy the perceived technique as well as the motive. But my art teacher said that the point was to learn basic acrylic painting techniques, and so I had to build my picture up layer by thin layer of paint. So I did. I sketched up the picture with a pencil and started painting. I never finished. Rarely do to be honest. But I was a little peeved at the whole thing, so when I got to MoMa I hoped to prove my theory right, even if only to myself. Even though it wasn't even the right painting and the whole thing was quite childish. But I am childish I guess. And so I took a good look at Starry Night by mister Vincent Van Gogh. Let me first say I really like it, and think it's beautiful. I saw what you talked about. Gaps in the painting with the bare canvas showing through, thick smeared on strokes of painting like he was sculpting with the paint. Even the corners of the canvas was left naked. I was very pleased and amused by this. And some people around me also seemed a bit amused by me sticking my fave close and squinting at the Starry Night. But I had proved my theory sort-of right, and that was good enough for me. So then I took a picture of it and my friend and I left MoMa. I think I told my art teacher about my findings. She was mildly amused, but didn't seem to care much.
I've never seen Woody Allen so relaxed
vizibongo you're the opposite of funny and/or likable. Stop existing please
that sounds about right, what A childish comment. But I guess your parents never taught you to think before you speak. 🤔
I thought it was funny.
IT was a funny comment tbh
I think one of my favourite things are ‘The Girl with the Pearl earring” is how the earring is actually just two smudges of paint, like, just wow. It’s a really good show on how paintings utilise illusion, idk, i just really like it🤷♀️
I absolutely love this, Peter :)
You’re that type of UA-camr that could have done videos on anything and still be entertaining. Just an all round entertaining person. I’m not a fan of art I guess but enjoy your videos.
WHAT AN AWESOME VIDEO KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK PETER
"the disintegration of the persistence of memory" is my new favourite piece of art ever, thanks for introducing it to me
Some people do not understand your sense of humor. blows my mind
That was soooooo amazing! AH! I can't wait to see more!
13:14 "personally I make art because... I don't know why I make art"
He sounded so sad..
12:12 I'll be honest I love that painting If I had the money I would buy it. There is something about it that just captivates me
I'm hoping that some day there will be a VR tour of the Louvre and the Chicago Art Museum....
the one thing I love the most is about peter is how quirky and amazing he is. i always find myself laughing at his commentary and i just imagine him being one of my teachers and i know that if he was one of my teachers, he would've been my favorite
So.. new subscriber here, im not sure if you're being sarcastic or for real or you hop from one to the other hahha
Also you sound drunk and like you're going to burp at any time lol
I am almost always riding the crest of a burp and sarcasm. And welcome.
***** Haha keep up the good work.
+Peter Draws HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
this is hilarious
You ARE new! ✌🏼
This is probably a weird comment but I stumbled upon one of your videos during a mental break from thesis writing and your voice is really relaxing. Really helped relax, de-stress and refocus. Thanks!
I'm dying to know. What printer did you use to print so big?
I went to a print shop
Do they sell big printers there?
why not just write on a piece of paper why waste your time and money for a print
I would love to see more of this, it was great!
what a wonderful show i just watched. you are hilarious, i laughed so much. thank you for being you. ;)
I love your casual sense of humor. It's just so subtle and silly.
will you do one about modern art, like canvases painted completely white being taken seriously as artwork :)
The thing about just a white canvas, is that it's literally been done 100s of times by different people. You can find meaning in it if you try, and maybe the artist had meaning in mind when painting it. but in reality, it's just a white canvas and it's lazy, crappy art.
It hadn't been done hundreds of times when the first guy did it.
stuffandpoop I did it when I picked up an empty canvas and set it down.
A lot of that type of art is meant to question whether or not art even has to have a meaning. I don't think it's meant to be some sort of great work, but it opens up the conversation about the role art plays in society and the role an artist has in creating art.
you are all seriously tumblr artists. Some art isn't about appreciating it's aesthetic qualities, but instead looking at the meaning, heck, some artwork is intentionally bad. Bad art is still art, a blank canvas is still art. Your comment only proves how little galleries you have been to and how little you know about art, I have never seen an entirely white canvas, and most of the significant artists these days are actually doing astounding work. Minimalistic artwork is about emphasising the art elements and principles of the work, that in itself is a meaning.
Sometimes in art I like to think that it doesn't really matter how it looks, but it really only matters how it makes you feel. But then if you think about that, the look overall affects how you feel also. So yeah. Love your bids peter!!!
13:26 I love how distressed he is.
An interesting thing to note about Van Gogh, is even through his period of "blue paintings", he was acutely aware of his mental state, even in his depression, and especially in his mania.
Nothing about Malevich's Black Square? Would have loved to get your opinion about that one ;-) Maybe in a second part?
"the background looks like it was coloured in with crayon" - literally made me giggle out loud
I want a starry night umbrella. T_T
I saw it at an art museum shop.
But it was on display only.
And they only had the other umbrella.
WHYYYYYYYYY?
Starry night is my favorite painting!
And this video brought back tragic memories!
I love your style of comedy it's so dry I love it
Where is the second video? I really loved this video/series.
This video is more valuable than a lot of the art history classes I took in college!