Ever since "discovering" Waldemar Januszczak during quarantine, I've been hungrily gobbling up his art films, devouring them daily. With this channel, I feel I've hit the motherlode! Woohoo!!
Dear Waldemar your sense of humour and irreverence combined with the immense knowledge of the art history are the secret ingredients that made your videos addictive to me. I can't stop watching them. Thank you so much for making them. I learn and laugh at the same time.
"Mount Rushmore is seen by many as a sculptural shrine to American values, but it was actually built to be a tourist attraction" I don't know man, building something massive purely to get people to give you money actually seems like a pretty good representation of American values to me
He has what the Car Talk brothers, on NPR, use to have. What Cheech and Chong had, in their most boiled down sense. An ability to stick a finger in power's eye, including the prudish, in a true artistic manner. He knows his art very well.
I thought he was very patronizing of the Rapa Nui - he repeatedly called their rituals "nutty". I really enjoy his documentaries, but have learned to double-check his scholarship.
@@lisakilmer2667 Begging your pardon, but would you mind telling other people what's wrong with his scholarship? And how can you possibly believe that mass producing statues out of sheer vanity, and trashing your own environment, aren't "nutty" things to do? The trouble is, from what I can see our own civilisation is behaving just as stupidly, except that this time it's the whole planet we are wrecking.
From Lithuania to Easter Island it's amazing how they put these together. Waldemar is amazing and charismatic, the depth and breadth of his knowledge of all eras and medium's of art. So glad they've put these together in one place for us to enjoy.
How I wish you had been one of my art professors way back when. You have so many gifts, your knowledge, your passion, your charisma, and your amazing ability to capture people's attention with fantastic stories. I've missed you. Stay safe and happy
I started watching the Perspective channel for the sake of learning about Art around the world, but I was in for a big surprise, one of the best Art History storytellers, Big Waldemar Januszczak!! Now I can't go to sleep without seeing and hearing his charismatic knowledge on some topic that involves Art. -Thanks for the upload, Keep them coming...
I too, love Waldemar’s programs......he is an inspired teacher. So I do hope there are more to come..I have to admit to watching them more than once,they are so dense with insights into all aspects of art.
As a passionate lover and admirer of sculpture and student of art, this was an homage to the art unlike anything I've ever seen. Bringing forth the contrasting political sides of what sculpture really is, and how it affects people, is a monument to your brilliance as a documentary maker. Bravo Waldemar! When shall we have a monument to you? You deserve one! Maybe we should have an award like the "Oscar" for best documentary, called "The Waldemar"!
"If you look like him, but you want to come across like him, there's no use relying on nature...she's already let you down." HAhahahhhaaha I love this guy
I love history. I've watched Waldemar's documentaries for years on PBS and enjoy them so much! He is the 1st Art Historian that I felt was speaking to everyone in the average Joe's language. I'm so excited to have found this channel
Januszczak is a very engaging presenter. Sometimes far-fetched, but fun. He very confidently "explains" Easter Island religion, culture, and history with theories that are pretty odd (I've seen lots of documentaries and read a fair bit, and no one ever said the statues were slid down a mountainside). He confidently tells us Goliath was over 10' tall, when most scholars do the math and come up with 9'9". So I take his assertions with some skepticism till I can check them, but meanwhile I really enjoy his presentations.
Stumbling upon Mr Janusczcak was a stroke of great fortune - this chap is really brilliant - super sharp wit , creative genius of presentation - I find myself laughing on a continual basis - were I had been so fortunate to have had him as a school teacher - he shines in dramatics , humor , brilliant verbal delivery with a delightfully informative societal contextual framewrk of presentation - allways a Bravo to this chap !☺ - he's funnier than Maggie Smith - and she's pretty damned funny 😳☺
Here in the USA of 2020, our petulant juvenile-in-chief unironically says he wants his mug on Mt. Rushmore. The curator told him, sorry, there's no more room.
Regarding the part on Easter Island, there is a great video from the "Fall of Civilizations Podcast" called "Where Giants Walked" that talks about how the civilization of that island once was great and flourishing, but then, as many do, it fell. It also talks more about the big statues and what they meant to the people. Its a little long but well worth it. Link is here, ua-cam.com/video/7j08gxUcBgc/v-deo.html
He actually hinted that David has the features of Goliath. That, for me, adds the new dimension of David that he may have been a sarcastic reference to us being vanquishers of our own enemy. A very Catholic idea.
Throwing that rock over the don't throw rocks sign at 3:05. I mean i like interesting history but this simple act has really endeared me to this presenter!
So fun thing that's come out since this documentary: the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island didn't cut down trees to move the moai. Instead they used ropes and leverage to rock the moai back and forth enough so they could "walk" it from the quarry to the beaches. The fallen moai are mostly failed attempts to reach the shore.
There was a crucial error in the story of Rapa Nui. The Moai walked. They were not transported by wooden sleds nor any other vehicular means, they walked. Also Make Make co-existed at the same time. When the island were named "Easter Island", white man had already been there, several times, and brought diseases and maniacs with guns with him. These diseases and bloody encounters had wiped out most of the population within a few years, and the leftover populus turned against their protectors, the Moai, toppling them down for not protecting them from the White Death. Walking the Moai was a group effort, where the whole island, probably all the islands, gathered and worked together. If the walk was successful, it would bring fortune, but if the Moai fell mid-walk, it would bring misfortune. The "Bird Man" Make Make, was a local Hero, an athletic celebrity, and these two events, swim to the bird island and walking the Moai were the key festivals to keep the society united. The difference between western colossuses and Moai is; Colossus is a display of power, a picture of god, the great divider between mortals and the elite, Moai is a group strentghtening exercise. Everyone had to take part to the walking of the Moai. There were no classes in the society of Rapa Nui. There were only elders, who became the Moai after death and the younger generations, who competed in the bird race, and became elders when got old enough. The size of the Moai was a direct comparison to the size of the elder it represented. Because the features were almost identical, the size told to the viewer, which elder was in the statue. I understand that it is hard for a westener to picture a society without ruling class and a slave class, but the great sailing nation of the pacific, which the Rapa Nui and Tahiti are parts of, demanded a full on equal distribution of wealth and power to prosper.
Brilliant! I had put this “episode” to the side, and reluctantly turned to it months later, not convinced that I had much interest in gigantesque statues of people such as Stalin - but it turned out to be fascinating. Waldemar steps out of his artistic skin and addresses politics, sharply and unforgivingly. From ancient Greece to So. Dakota, humans have never given up their appetite for grandeur, the more undeserved the better. A little humility would behoove us. Perhaps we’ll acquire it by the time we hit a new planet - or do you think it’s inevitable?
Hi, reformed scholar here. I understood it to be that the trees on Easter Island disappeared during a drought, and the men disappeared to slavers, taking their oral history with them. So I guess I need citations. Thanks though; I love the vids.
When I was a boy, I imagined the Moai were a direct product of tribes of central and south Americans who fled to the island escaping the sacrificial death cults that were hunting people for appeasement to the gods. This would have been done on anything from great rafts, canoes or anything that was seaworthy. On their arrival, Easter Islanders erected these statues as a warning to invading tribes from the continent who might think the Moai were giant warriors. The size of the statues might give invaders a second thought partly because of their mysterious appearance and because of their shear size [ie: not transportable by canoe]. As time went by and the land was depleted of resources, a rebellion may have occurred and the looming threat of anihilation, to give the remaining tribe a faint, if not an entirely rational hope of access back to south and or central America. All this, even if it meant capture and even certain death by removing the visual threat to invasion as they may have seen it , in the Moai.....possibly a more preferable option than a slow lingering death from starvation and feuding......but then, I was just a boy.
40:47 The real-life Crazy Horse monument doesn’t appear to match up with the mock-up. The opening in the mountain looks too far over to the right. (Maybe it doesn’t matter because it’s difficult to imagine that the monument will ever be completed.)
As a lover of art, I must say that watching this film was painful. I had never thought of sculpture in this way although I do understand this particular viewpoint I must admit that there are other viewpoints as well. Political art is one thing, decorative art is another and is just as valid. It was interesting to know of another facet of the same jewel though I for one prefer the beauty over the political. Thank you, Mr Waldamer J. for opening my mind to another point of view yet again, all of your films do that even when my personal taste does not agree.
"...there stood, for over a thousand years, a colossal statue of the Emperor Nero." That's not what Wikipedia says. According to Wikipedia, the statue was built between 64 and 68 A.D., and was last mentioned in the Chronography of 354 A.D., or possibly in a poem by Bede (c. 672-735), who wrote: "As long as the Colossus stands, Rome will stand, when the Colossus falls, Rome will also fall, when Rome falls, so falls the world." That still doesn't mean that the statue lasted for a thousand years.
At the entrance to all Federal Buildings in the USA, they have huge portraits of the President and Vice President. I found it particularly galling to have to see Bush and Cheney (snarling) in close-up when I lived and worked there as a consultant, often to federal agencies. And these photos were *huge*.
Kinda weird that you mixed in the Tourist show dance right out of a Polynesian show you'd see in a Honolulu tourist trap. As if this were some traditional dance they would know about, when they hardy know anything about this culture. The declaration about the reason some statues were broken is sheer speculation at best. I had to laugh when he added all the drama about the Competition to swim a WHOLE mile! With Sharks! I'm quite sure living on an island in the middle of nowhere a mile swim would be a cake walk. And you know about this from...what source? Half this Easter Island stuff sounds made up.
The founders of the USA never knew Musolinni much less Fascism. Stick to the art and not an artist's political philosophy, sexual orientation, psychological problems, etc.
After the recent unpleasantness over statues as historic patterns of slavery and oppression, I am left to wonder if there could be Any personalities who could be recalled in grand fashion such as a Rushmore or Jefferson's tomb. Even Ghandi, Desmond Tutu and Lincoln had their detractors as did many of the Christian saints. Must we find Humans of perfect character and comportment or is it just a lost cause all together? Thoughts?
The statues in the late "unpleasantness" were put up at the height of the Jim Crow era. They were funded by unreconstructed rebels and southerners intent on presenting the "lost cause" myth of the Confederacy. The general intent was to glorify the rebellion, justify treason, and remind all the African Americans in the South just who was still in charge. Icons are risky. Those who set them up, usually ignore all the negative traits of their heroes and accentuate (or even make up) their good points.
Think you have to admit there's a pretty big difference between being able to find a flaw in Gandhi's character and people not wanting statues of Confederate Presidents and generals in public places and even government buildings in the United States.
the theory that the people of rapanui deforested their island building the moai has been pretty well debunked; there's compelling evidence that wood was not necessary in the moai's construction and they were "rocked" to move them from place to place by teams of people with ropes in a way that would have resembled walking. the fall of civilizations podcast episode on easter island has a good recounting of the story and the new evidence - there are also literal records of the people of rapanui being kidnapped and enslaved by american sailors in the 1800s so the notion that they obsessed over sculpture to their deaths seems pretty wrong
There are a few examples left of the orignal writings of the Easter Island people. Is that record still so completely mysterious ? Is the theory of disastrous over-poplulation still believed to be their undoing ?
@@joannecarrubba4138 It is not known why they tore down the moais in the ahus (those shrines next to the shore), but the main hypothesis is that it happened in the period of a civil war among the islanders clans. Oral tradition about that civil war has been confirmed by archaeological research.
Four adverts in the first ten minutes? Did you tell YT to start ruining the show or are they just taking the piss now? It’s really, really annoying, even with the 5 second skip because they keep appearing mid sentence.
And you know where David was supposed to go because...? Clearly with the long neck, he would not look right unless put up high where the foreshortening would resolve that issue. Not likely that he was to be placed at ground level where idiots could mess with him, but they did anyway while he was being taken to the museum...he had a part broken off by some idiot who probably had a small dick or got scared of the foreskin.
I have some English friends who regularly "take the piss" out of anything American. I tend to not return the favor as they are a lot more sensitive about English things than I am about American ideas.
Ever since "discovering" Waldemar Januszczak during quarantine, I've been hungrily gobbling up his art films, devouring them daily. With this channel, I feel I've hit the motherlode! Woohoo!!
Me too!
Same
Same😁
He’s so much FUN. Welcome to the fan base.
Me too!
Dear Waldemar your sense of humour and irreverence combined with the immense knowledge of the art history are the secret ingredients that made your videos addictive to me. I can't stop watching them. Thank you so much for making them. I learn and laugh at the same time.
His sense of humour is at its best in his books. You'd love them
He writes books? I need to check that out... didn't know that
"Mount Rushmore is seen by many as a sculptural shrine to American values, but it was actually built to be a tourist attraction"
I don't know man, building something massive purely to get people to give you money actually seems like a pretty good representation of American values to me
'Merica! 🇺🇸 🧗♂️
My favorites are the lifesize concrete dinosaurs of Cabazon, California. Tourist trap of my childhood.
Especially By A Klu Klux Klan Sculptor
RIGHT MATE ----THEY'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE NAME TO THE FOUR INCOMES OF MOUNT PAYMORE.
HERE WE'RE LEARNING THE TRICKS QUICK.
No one else wants money?
This is the best host I have ever seen, engaging, intelligent, witty, educational without being patronizing and so FUNNY!
He has what the Car Talk brothers, on NPR, use to have. What Cheech and Chong had, in their most boiled down sense. An ability to stick a finger in power's eye, including the prudish, in a true artistic manner. He knows his art very well.
I thought he was very patronizing of the Rapa Nui - he repeatedly called their rituals "nutty". I really enjoy his documentaries, but have learned to double-check his scholarship.
@@lisakilmer2667 Begging your pardon, but would you mind telling other people what's wrong with his scholarship?
And how can you possibly believe that mass producing statues out of sheer vanity, and trashing your own environment, aren't "nutty" things to do?
The trouble is, from what I can see our own civilisation is behaving just as stupidly, except that this time it's the whole planet we are wrecking.
@@rainmanjr2007 you mean Click and Clack the Tapper Brothers! I miss them on NPR; every Saturday at 2 on my way to work I’d listen 😊
From Lithuania to Easter Island it's amazing how they put these together. Waldemar is amazing and charismatic, the depth and breadth of his knowledge of all eras and medium's of art. So glad they've put these together in one place for us to enjoy.
A visit to Abu Simbel would've been appropriate as well.
How I wish you had been one of my art professors way back when. You have so many gifts, your knowledge, your passion, your charisma, and your amazing ability to capture people's attention with fantastic stories. I've missed you.
Stay safe and happy
I started watching the Perspective channel for the sake of learning about Art around the world, but I was in for a big surprise, one of the best Art History storytellers, Big Waldemar Januszczak!! Now I can't go to sleep without seeing and hearing his charismatic knowledge on some topic that involves Art.
-Thanks for the upload, Keep them coming...
Wonderful
I too, love Waldemar’s programs......he is an inspired teacher. So I do hope there are more to come..I have to admit to watching them more than once,they are so dense with insights into all aspects of art.
same, same...
same, same, same
Same..(x4)
Waldemar is the best
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
As a passionate lover and admirer of sculpture and student of art, this was an homage to the art unlike anything I've ever seen. Bringing forth the contrasting political sides of what sculpture really is, and how it affects people, is a monument to your brilliance as a documentary maker. Bravo Waldemar!
When shall we have a monument to you? You deserve one!
Maybe we should have an award like the "Oscar" for best documentary, called "The Waldemar"!
"If you look like him, but you want to come across like him, there's no use relying on nature...she's already let you down."
HAhahahhhaaha I love this guy
For all the bombast - much of which is amusing - this man makes art history come alive! Brilliant
Waldemar, your documentaries are always so captivating, I think, I love you! :)
Waldemar is a wonderful presenter. Great storytelling, fantastic docu series.
Waldemar Januszczak is The Best!!!!
This show is art in itself. I adore the humor.
really though
I agree.. I love his narration, humor and the content!👍👏🤭🙏
but you get outta wind fat humor ...
I love history. I've watched Waldemar's documentaries for years on PBS and enjoy them so much! He is the 1st Art Historian that I felt was speaking to everyone in the average Joe's language. I'm so excited to have found this channel
I hope Waldemar never ever stops making videos. I could watch nothing but this forever
This guy is amazing in telling stories
I just love the music in these beautiful documentaries they add so much to the brilliance and enjoyment .
Januszczak is a very engaging presenter. Sometimes far-fetched, but fun. He very confidently "explains" Easter Island religion, culture, and history with theories that are pretty odd (I've seen lots of documentaries and read a fair bit, and no one ever said the statues were slid down a mountainside). He confidently tells us Goliath was over 10' tall, when most scholars do the math and come up with 9'9". So I take his assertions with some skepticism till I can check them, but meanwhile I really enjoy his presentations.
He is as much -if not more - an entertainer as an academic.
He's following the principle of "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
17:45 "Look at that huuuuuuuge right hand" yes sir we are all looking at that hand! 😲
my favorite art programme!
Stumbling upon Mr Janusczcak was a stroke of great fortune - this chap is really brilliant - super sharp wit , creative genius of presentation - I find myself laughing on a continual basis - were I had been so fortunate to have had him as a school teacher - he shines in dramatics , humor , brilliant verbal delivery with a delightfully informative societal contextual framewrk of presentation - allways a Bravo to this chap !☺ - he's funnier than Maggie Smith - and she's pretty damned funny 😳☺
"When Smashing monuments, save the pedestals, they always come in handy." Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Waldemar Januszczak the best there is!
I laughed so hard there were tears...genius.
What’s so funny?
@@whitedragon9731 right? How did that comment get 13 likes?
Piss. Hehehehehe
@@adamlane6453 You don't find humour in this? Check pulse.
@@adamlane6453 32.
Here in the USA of 2020, our petulant juvenile-in-chief unironically says he wants his mug on Mt. Rushmore. The curator told him, sorry, there's no more room.
Tone deaf humorless leftist.
@Laura Streeter But we don't know if a future President will be destructive enough to rescue Trump from the abyss.
Regarding the part on Easter Island, there is a great video from the "Fall of Civilizations Podcast" called "Where Giants Walked" that talks about how the civilization of that island once was great and flourishing, but then, as many do, it fell. It also talks more about the big statues and what they meant to the people. Its a little long but well worth it. Link is here, ua-cam.com/video/7j08gxUcBgc/v-deo.html
Fall of Civilizations also disagrees with the explanation given here for why the statues were toppled.
Oh yes, that’s my favorite podcast!
Excellent writing-educational, quirky, transporting. Thank you.
Love this series .. The commentary by Waldemar Januszczak ... so very enlightening and enjoyable.
One of the most perfect sculptures in history and he finds three things wrong with it, that is hilarious
He actually hinted that David has the features of Goliath. That, for me, adds the new dimension of David that he may have been a sarcastic reference to us being vanquishers of our own enemy. A very Catholic idea.
Seems like a nice show they squeeze in between the commercial main event.
Throwing that rock over the don't throw rocks sign at 3:05. I mean i like interesting history but this simple act has really endeared me to this presenter!
I love Waldemar’s dig at Mount Rushmore.
oooh waldemar ... makes interesting topics exciting and really interesting!
Wow! From Easter Island to a megachurch. This guy gets around! Gotta love him.
So fun thing that's come out since this documentary: the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island didn't cut down trees to move the moai. Instead they used ropes and leverage to rock the moai back and forth enough so they could "walk" it from the quarry to the beaches. The fallen moai are mostly failed attempts to reach the shore.
This guy always seems to be climbing and climbing, and huffing and puffing! I love spending an evening with Waldy.😊
He lets me call him Waldy.
He’s BRILLIANT... very gifted! Makes it fun to learn and wanting more!!!🙋‼️✌🏾😂
Very entertaining. "Drop kick me Jesus through the goal post of life", what a verse in that song. Thanks for posting.
Not only do bigger statues make your detractors madder, but also the bigger the statue the bigger the statement made by tearing them down.
Love how he keeps joking about Midwest taste of art
Think the point is- it’s the same world over ..Bigger is Better. “it stops people on the Highway”😊
The snobbery of the English amuses me. Without the patriotism of the American boys, the UK would be speaking another language.
Why is that?
There was a crucial error in the story of Rapa Nui. The Moai walked. They were not transported by wooden sleds nor any other vehicular means, they walked. Also Make Make co-existed at the same time. When the island were named "Easter Island", white man had already been there, several times, and brought diseases and maniacs with guns with him. These diseases and bloody encounters had wiped out most of the population within a few years, and the leftover populus turned against their protectors, the Moai, toppling them down for not protecting them from the White Death. Walking the Moai was a group effort, where the whole island, probably all the islands, gathered and worked together. If the walk was successful, it would bring fortune, but if the Moai fell mid-walk, it would bring misfortune. The "Bird Man" Make Make, was a local Hero, an athletic celebrity, and these two events, swim to the bird island and walking the Moai were the key festivals to keep the society united. The difference between western colossuses and Moai is; Colossus is a display of power, a picture of god, the great divider between mortals and the elite, Moai is a group strentghtening exercise. Everyone had to take part to the walking of the Moai. There were no classes in the society of Rapa Nui. There were only elders, who became the Moai after death and the younger generations, who competed in the bird race, and became elders when got old enough. The size of the Moai was a direct comparison to the size of the elder it represented. Because the features were almost identical, the size told to the viewer, which elder was in the statue. I understand that it is hard for a westener to picture a society without ruling class and a slave class, but the great sailing nation of the pacific, which the Rapa Nui and Tahiti are parts of, demanded a full on equal distribution of wealth and power to prosper.
Cool story bro 😎
Another interesting programme almost destroyed by too many bloody adverts!
There was Franklin Roosevelt who served two terms during the most tumultuous world war in a wheelchair due to polio...
I'm now all enamoured with Waldemar. So called bitten by the bug. He's so gregarious n is full of charisma. Full of British humour. Haha
Welcome.
Brilliant! I had put this “episode” to the side, and reluctantly turned to it months later, not convinced that I had much interest in gigantesque statues of people such as Stalin - but it turned out to be fascinating. Waldemar steps out of his artistic skin and addresses politics, sharply and unforgivingly. From ancient Greece to So. Dakota, humans have never given up their appetite for grandeur, the more undeserved the better. A little humility would behoove us. Perhaps we’ll acquire it by the time we hit a new planet - or do you think it’s inevitable?
Walderma !!!! What can I say. Simply brilliant & honest !
I respected him throwing that rock right in front of the sign 3:06
Waldemar is the best 🔥🔥🔥.....the Soviet songs 🔥🔥🔥🔥
soviet union sucked
What a great work!!!
All these sculptures have very chiselled features. 😄
😂😂😂😂😂‼️
Indeed! Well-sculpted, if I may add!
I love this in every way!
As humans we are insignificant, hence the need to create idols and deify humans
love it all, well done, but less ads would be nice
I have been on UA-cam long enough to remember when there were no ads at all here, sigh, now I hate the intrusion.
Thanks for the very entertaining perspective on sculptures, specially David.
Hi, reformed scholar here. I understood it to be that the trees on Easter Island disappeared during a drought, and the men disappeared to slavers, taking their oral history with them. So I guess I need citations. Thanks though; I love the vids.
You are correct. They didn't use the trees to move the statues. European diseases and slavery ruined their lives.
34:00 "Throw it here! I'm open!"
Where Waldemar goes, I go.
From 'Standing Bare' to 'David', they uncover it all.
Massive entertainment 👌 👏
All interesting and different
What a story - the birdman.
Drowning Jesus!
Crazy horse!!
When I was a boy, I imagined the Moai were a direct product of tribes of central and south Americans who fled to the island escaping the sacrificial death cults that were hunting people for appeasement to the gods. This would have been done on anything from great rafts, canoes or anything that was seaworthy.
On their arrival, Easter Islanders erected these statues as a warning to invading tribes from the continent who might think the Moai were giant warriors. The size of the statues might give invaders a second thought partly because of their mysterious appearance and because of their shear size [ie: not transportable by canoe].
As time went by and the land was depleted of resources, a rebellion may have occurred and the looming threat of anihilation, to give the remaining tribe a faint, if not an entirely rational hope of access back to south and or central America. All this, even if it meant capture and even certain death by removing the visual threat to invasion as they may have seen it , in the Moai.....possibly a more preferable option than a slow lingering death from starvation and feuding......but then, I was just a boy.
Best host ever
The power of Wiley Waldy is supernatural. Waldy is a brilliant arty-farty freak.
40:47 The real-life Crazy Horse monument doesn’t appear to match up with the mock-up. The opening in the mountain looks too far over to the right. (Maybe it doesn’t matter because it’s difficult to imagine that the monument will ever be completed.)
Deep Purple is not heavy metal. It is Classic Rock!
Of course, in its day, we didn't call it classic rock. Not until we got older.
Pat, in Chicago
As a lover of art, I must say that watching this film was painful. I had never thought of sculpture in this way although I do understand this particular viewpoint I must admit that there are other viewpoints as well. Political art is one thing, decorative art is another and is just as valid. It was interesting to know of another facet of the same jewel though I for one prefer the beauty over the political. Thank you, Mr Waldamer J. for opening my mind to another point of view yet again, all of your films do that even when my personal taste does not agree.
People need to build a lot of scaffolding in order to have the perspective of Waldemar Januszczak.
"...there stood, for over a thousand years, a colossal statue of the Emperor Nero." That's not what Wikipedia says. According to Wikipedia, the statue was built between 64 and 68 A.D., and was last mentioned in the Chronography of 354 A.D., or possibly in a poem by Bede (c. 672-735), who wrote: "As long as the Colossus stands, Rome will stand, when the Colossus falls, Rome will also fall, when Rome falls, so falls the world." That still doesn't mean that the statue lasted for a thousand years.
Love it, love it, love it - why I haven't known this before - shame on me!
soooo.... funny, working as an art historian in GERMANY, this will never happen here!
Nice Art Sir. I ve subscribed.
Must watch.
A dig at the mid-west, when those carving are in the west
They've been working on the Crazy Horse monument for as long as I can remember and I haven't seen any progress at all.
I think there's argument over whether to even touch it and change anything
“Drop kick me Jesus through the goal post of life.” Score!
At the entrance to all Federal Buildings in the USA, they have huge portraits of the President and Vice President. I found it particularly galling to have to see Bush and Cheney (snarling) in close-up when I lived and worked there as a consultant, often to federal agencies. And these photos were *huge*.
You poor boy! How did you STAND it?
I don’t recall this and I lived there for 5 years.
Amazing.
I bet he loves the idea of all the statues finally coming down now. I do.
You're a moron.
“The first battlefield is to rewrite history… Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded.” Karl Marx
Commie Btard
@@AleadaA Marx' ideas have brought the world nothing but pain and death.
The real name, Rapa Nui has way more mystery and power than calling it Easter Island...
Kinda weird that you mixed in the Tourist show dance right out of a Polynesian show you'd see in a Honolulu tourist trap. As if this were some traditional dance they would know about, when they hardy know anything about this culture. The declaration about the reason some statues were broken is sheer speculation at best.
I had to laugh when he added all the drama about the Competition to swim a WHOLE mile! With Sharks! I'm quite sure living on an island in the middle of nowhere a mile swim would be a cake walk. And you know about this from...what source? Half this Easter Island stuff sounds made up.
Do we have this documentary with french subtitles ?
Amazing!
The founders of the USA never knew Musolinni much less Fascism. Stick to the art and not an artist's political philosophy, sexual orientation, psychological problems, etc.
After the recent unpleasantness over statues as historic patterns of slavery and oppression, I am left to wonder if there could be Any personalities who could be recalled in grand fashion such as a Rushmore or Jefferson's tomb. Even Ghandi, Desmond Tutu and Lincoln had their detractors as did many of the Christian saints. Must we find Humans of perfect character and comportment or is it just a lost cause all together? Thoughts?
The statues in the late "unpleasantness" were put up at the height of the Jim Crow era. They were funded by unreconstructed rebels and southerners intent on presenting the "lost cause" myth of the Confederacy. The general intent was to glorify the rebellion, justify treason, and remind all the African Americans in the South just who was still in charge.
Icons are risky. Those who set them up, usually ignore all the negative traits of their heroes and accentuate (or even make up) their good points.
Think you have to admit there's a pretty big difference between being able to find a flaw in Gandhi's character and people not wanting statues of Confederate Presidents and generals in public places and even government buildings in the United States.
I’d like a video of the emotionally intense rulers of Hungarian area that are in a circle in Budapest by yo
One common rule of leadership- go big or go home.
Brilliant!
You got to get your name in the title ! New glasses and a hair cut ,. I missed this for 30 days or more , great ! Goode ! An glorious ! More longer !
the theory that the people of rapanui deforested their island building the moai has been pretty well debunked; there's compelling evidence that wood was not necessary in the moai's construction and they were "rocked" to move them from place to place by teams of people with ropes in a way that would have resembled walking. the fall of civilizations podcast episode on easter island has a good recounting of the story and the new evidence - there are also literal records of the people of rapanui being kidnapped and enslaved by american sailors in the 1800s so the notion that they obsessed over sculpture to their deaths seems pretty wrong
There are a few examples left of the orignal writings of the Easter Island people. Is that record still so completely mysterious ? Is the theory of disastrous over-poplulation still believed to be their undoing ?
@@robertmusacchio9409 No. We are certain they tore down their own statues but because of colonization, and the diseases and enslavement those brought.
@@joannecarrubba4138 It is not known why they tore down the moais in the ahus (those shrines next to the shore), but the main hypothesis is that it happened in the period of a civil war among the islanders clans. Oral tradition about that civil war has been confirmed by archaeological research.
Left out Jesus overlooking Rio, and Davis, Jackson, and Lee on Stone Mountain Georgia, USA.
This sounds more political than any of your other videos funny for a guy who’s not even from here, I’m Native American/American ....god bless America!
I believe that is exactly his point. Sculpture is political.
He's what the superior Europeans like, someone who throws garbage on the U.S. He acts like an unnecessary person.
Four adverts in the first ten minutes? Did you tell YT to start ruining the show or are they just taking the piss now? It’s really, really annoying, even with the 5 second skip because they keep appearing mid sentence.
18:00 The David was never really supposed to go on the parapet. The proportions are not adjusted to suit such a placement. They have other meanings.
And you know where David was supposed to go because...? Clearly with the long neck, he would not look right unless put up high where the foreshortening would resolve that issue. Not likely that he was to be placed at ground level where idiots could mess with him, but they did anyway while he was being taken to the museum...he had a part broken off by some idiot who probably had a small dick or got scared of the foreskin.
No comments about Waldemar peeing!!! :-O
I guess the usual UA-cam denizens do not watch art channels.
Probably done on post though
Thank God for small favors lol
Lol
I have some English friends who regularly "take the piss" out of anything American. I tend to not return the favor as they are a lot more sensitive about English things than I am about American ideas.
3:50 Man--that is an epic Star Spangled Banner.
I had to skip ads every 45 seconds. C'mon UA-cam. Greed much?
You do realize ads come from the CHANNEL and not UA-cam? Right?
Also, get a job and pay for premium.
@@Wayzor_ No. I didn't "realize" that because it isn't true. While I'm out getting a job so that I can watch You Tube why don't you get a brain?
an ad every two minutes... great
get adblock plus. no more ads.
So funny …Waldemar throwing a rock where it says “ don’t throw rocks”
2:25 Ouch