The flowers in his painting of Titania are Morning Glories... which contain enough ergot alkaloids to make them one of the most powerful classical psychedelics of the vegetable world.
That would have been unknown at the time of the paintings. The identification by botanists of species of _Ipomoea_ as the hallucinogens used by some Mexican natives was not achieved until 1941, by Richard Evans Schultes. The flower depicted in that painting is almost certainly the common English wildflower, the Greater Bindweed, _Calystegia sepium_ one of our most spectacular native plants.
As a former art history major..... I am enamored with your channel. I was sad to see I had watched all of the videos so to see this in my sub box this morning was AMAZING
I think his art would be very similar if he had proper treatment. Maybe clearer, but with the same essence still. Treatment can lessen our burdens, ease our woes, but never get rid of them. I'm an artist and I have BPD, sometimes it feels like I am losing my mind, doubting my own thoughts and falling into paranoia and fear, and those times are not productive. I can do more, and more whimsical art, when I am calm. I do also have a friend with schizophrenia, he is an artist as well. He struggles a lot, but when he is treated, he shines, as does his art. What I think people without mental illness must understand is that treatment and medication doesn't make us neurotypical, it eases our worst symptoms, at best. We're still always struggling, and our struggle shall always be visible in our art. I loved the video though! I'm not trying to over critize you.This was very enlightening.
@@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043 we all suffer mentally, it's true. Working as a mental health worker I saw the lines blurred quite a bit in my co-workers. I think, generally, the world tend to define sanity by the ability to earn money consistently, at least while maintaining sobriety, and there's another blurry line for you! Even violent outbursts are tolerated in certain professions, in certain envirnoments.
Thank you for your comments, Julia---they are very insightful, not critical. It's my feeling that Sensitive and Visionary people are almost always labelled as being "aberrant" when what might actually be happening is a very sane reaction to an insane world that we all share. Some just cope with it in more ordinary ways. God Bless!
Ffs, i wish people would stop going on about their mental health. we all have some mental health to some degree but some of us don’t wear it like a badge of honour or glorify it. Most people don’t need medication or therapy. they need to stop attention seeking and get on with life.
Thank you for mentioning the Queen song based on "The Faerie Feller's Master Stroke". This song (one of my personal favorites) is what turned me onto the works and story of Richard Dadd. As I recall, this was one of Freddie Mercury's favorite paintings and he would take breaks while he was working retail as a young man and go to the museum to look at this painting which would later provide (along with Dadd's poetry) inspiration for the song.
Yes A deeper conversation is woven in this particular point I could go on for days...suffice to say,only those who have really truly Listened to Queen 2 have clues as to how genuinely Magikal the band was 70s Early Queen
Queen’s song “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke” is not only an amazingly brilliant song based on this, but the whole album on which it is featured (Queen II from 1974) is just genius.
Correct an important point A very deep pivot point on how deep the band actually was....Early Queen 70s...touching true genuine Madness No other band even comes close
At last 'Dadd' uncovered. I first came across his work as an 8 or 9 yr old child. For years I would talk of this man. People would look at me blankly. I was facinated by him and '.....the Master Stroke'. ( Kept a postcard from the Tate of the The Story Fellers Master Stroke for years.).I have always felt understanding, or knowledge of him but like a jigsaw, much was missing. I am grey haired now and I would like to thank you for bringing this man into modern 'limelight'. There's a great sense within me that say's '... at last!'. (We are all 'mad' in some way, depends on who's judging you!. ).He was a beautiful man, who in my view painted a life changing, beautiful eternal picture.
I had only ever heard about this artist on Shrouded Hand's channel once. I think you make really great in-depth videos about art and mental illness. I don't know much about art or critique or interpretation, etc but you make it very accessible to someone such as myself. Dadd's details are really quite amazing. At 19:32 near the old man's pointed hat, you can also see a line of figures who are like part of the tree branch (or even on the extended brim of the hat?). His work almost reminds me of like a hidden pictures puzzle or an infinite zoom picture (zoomquilt), if you are familiar with those. Worlds within worlds.
I absolutely ADORE your channel. You’re so very kind and empathetic towards the people you talk about; giving a compassionate and nuanced insight into the real stories behind them and their overly-mythologized lives. As an artist myself who’s struggled with OCD and ADHD my whole life, I find myself deeply and personally connected to many of these stories which I know and love. It’s refreshing and wonderful to see someone finally giving them the accuracy and care they deserve. I’m not sure if you ever take suggestions, but I’d be terribly interested in a video about Elizabeth Siddall, the spouse and muse of Rossetti who was an artist in her own rights as well. Her story-among many others of women in art of the past-is typically overlooked and fluffed up for the sake of Victorian-era romanticism. If you don’t feel like it, that’s totally cool too by the way. Either way you can consider me a very pleased subscriber now.
Thank you so much, you're very kind 😁 I always try to give the most respectful and honest perspective for artists and their work as much as I can and I'm releived to hear that it comes across! And welcome to the Dweller family!
Thank you for your work. I come from a family that looks funny at any form of hobby. I was writing when I was younger and nobody in my family was interested in it. So I dropped it. I would love to talk about art with someone, but they don't care and look at me like I'm stupid. I basically have no one to talk to about what I love and cherish. With your channel I feel like there's more people like me and we can together enjoy your essays. It helps me satisfy my artistic curiosity and makes me a little more happy in my kinda sad, boring life.
I love how this channel goes so in depth with artists I've never heard of. While I'd also love to see what you'd make of Goya or Bosch, these looks at lesser-known artists are invaluable. It's also really cool that you're doing an artist showcase at the end of videos now, and I'll be sure to check out Kim's work. What you showed us was stunning.
This type of story is so heartbreaking. He had a wonderful gift but the mental health resources available weren't enough. Maybe if he'd lived in another time someone could've helped him.
This video made me tear up, as someone who is working to be a great artist and as someone who has had OCD induced psychosis, the horrific story of this man's murders makes me remember my own worst mental states. Being treated for thinking I was being told to murder my sister is something im very lucky to have gotten
I get obsessive thoughts sometimes it sucks. I find doing two things at once helps like I’ll listen to a book or a podcast and play a game on my phone at the same time it seems to be the only thing that has ever helped it’s almost like turning my brain off. Sometimes it will just be a word I can’t stop thinking it over and over and I can’t shut it off.
This was a wake up call for me as well. How scary it is to see what these illnesses when left untreated can do to a person. Remember you are never alone, and there are always options to live a better life :)
I suffer from borderline personality disorder and PTSD and as a teen I nearly bludgeoned my mum with a dumbbell bar. I'm 40 now and doing much better but rarely leave my home. Just because you have monstrous thoughts does not make you a monster my friend. I hope all your artistic dreams come true. I write poetry to get my feelings out. I did try art therapy but I struggle with a stick man. When my children were little they would moan that my horses looked like weird giraffe's, so I'll stick to the writing 😊.
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created. ~ Terence McKenna
I did as you suggested and read around his case. There was talk that he was exploited. Here’s a scenario. If Dadd only painted landscapes and portraits what would have happened to him in Bedlam and Broadmoor? Would he still have had a career that lasted the rest of his life? Being able to sustain himself with paintings made from imagination and which were very popular meant he could live adequately and free from some of the restraints in the system of the day. He certainly knew about those restraints. He painted them. I think the key to unlocking the asylum life lies in the records he made of what he saw there. The Doctors of the time indicate that he was incoherent a lot of the time. If this was the case then how did he communicate which art materials he needed? Could this also shine a light. His pallet doesn’t seem as bright as his earlier work.
Most current experts agree that Dadd likely suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and was psychotic when he murdered his father. His symptoms seemed to be much, much worse and more desperate and violent than acute mania paired with psychosis, impo The minute details and chaotic presentation of his “masterwork” has always struck me as a vision or window into the insanity of schizophrenia itself. To my mind, it’s the most cruel of all of the different mental illness diagnoses. As to the “Flight Out of Egypt” painting, I think it would have been extremely difficult and bewildering for Dadd to have painted this from real life, as you stated, in regards to the two dimensional quality you observed.
Facinating.... The little man sittling down, his shadow on he left, seems to be the form of a frightnening skull, with another face like form on the ground next to it.. ... Some of the distortions of faces and figures are similar to that seen in reflections on curved surfaces. Thank you for the beautiful analysis and background music.
Wow. What a story. First, you tell it so clearly. Secondly, this man was truly a gifted artist. Soooo sad that he had the murderous rages. So many gifted artists/writers/musicians have had to struggle with mental illness. I do hope this helps anyone struggling out here in the world, to get help for inner dangerous turmoil. Thank you so much for this excellent video! USA
I find it interesting that the axe is left unfinished in the painting, if indeed the tableau between the old man and the woodcutter is supposed to be the focal point. Hesitance to represent (in a way repeat) the act of murder?
What an incredible life story! The ‘Master Stroke’ has long been a favourite image of mine. This presentation is amazing and I’m so thankful for it, as I’d only seen two of his works over my lifetime. Thank you for your humane and discreet discussion of this complex artist.🙏
Dadd is one of my favourite artists...visionary and transcendental. Art history minor, love this channel. My Grandad (an amateur painter who birthed two pretty successful Slade alumni--my Uncle who is collected by fashion designer Paul Smith and painted The Duke and Duchess Of York and John Cleese, among others of the "great and the good" and my Auntie, who's currently teaching at The Slade) always used to reiterate the mnemonic, "Richard Dadd killed his Dad" (I'm sure anyone even slightly au fait with Dadd knows this little "rhyme"). Great channel!
I’m fascinated by Dadd. I’ve subscribed. I’m an artist with chronic and severe OCD. I think I understood Dadd when I was very very young, because it resonated deeply with me. There’s so much subtle strangeness and distortion in his work, entirely original and brilliant. Edit: l would love you to do a video on Elizabeth Siddal, artist and Pre Raphaelite model, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I loved this. Thank you!
I just wanted to echo the sentiments of many others. I am so, so grateful that I found this channel. I an learning so much and it is presented in a way that keeps me captivated. As someone who has always longed to support themselves with art, but also suffers from bipolar type 1 which has made my life extremely tumultuous and unstable, I sincerely appreciate how you approach your subject matter, and are able to talk about the artists struggles without judgment. Instead using their experience as a way to more readily understand their art. It means so much to see that people who back then were probably treated extremely poorly due to their mental state, now at least being given the reverence that they deserve. This channel has opened my eyes to so much art I'd not known or known much about. I hope this channel continues to see success and keeps posting.
i rarely comment but this was such a well made, wonderful video that i had to! I've been obsessed with this painting ever since reading an illustrated copy of The Wee Free Men when I was 7, and finally got to see it last year (I've been trying to see it for years but bad luck has always intervened). It's one of those paintings that takes on a wild quality in person. Neil Gaiman said in a podcast once (I believe w/ Janina Ramirez) that, standing in front of it, you can almost feel the summer heat radiating off it. And it's so small, for all the detail in it! It's hard to believe someone actually painted it and that it wasn't just found in the middle of a ring of toadstools :) Thank you so much for the video - immediate subscription!
The nervous and fearful-looking little-old fae reminds me so much of William Blake's rendering of Ugolino della Gherardesca from his 1820's painting of Count Ugolino and His Sons in Prison. Blake's painting, which is taken from Dante's Inferno Canto XXXIII, captures the horror of the moments before Ugolino cannibalizes his children. It makes me wonder what Dadd's relationship was like with his father.
I'm a young artist and these videos inspire me to make my own art, thank you for making these videos! It is amazing how you make these videos in such details about people I have never heard about. You keep art interesting! And even though this story is a very sad story, it really excercises the importance of mental health. :D
watching this video, i thought it would have had a million views at least. your work totally deserves more attention and recognition, very intriguing and refined content :)
I’ve never been too interested in art or its techniques, however your style of narration makes it interesting and easy to understand. Very wonderful video!
This reminds me of another amazing painter that isn't all that widely known: Rudolf Hausner. His odysseus painting reminds me particularly of Dadd's great painting
I'm so glad I stumbled on your channel recently--I'd almost forgotten about Richard Dadd's paintings until you reminded me of them. May I also suggest looking into outsider artists? Some people consider Richard Dadd to be "sort of" an outsider artist. Henry Darger is probably the most well-known outsider artist, but I like James Hampton's throne room sculptures and the story behind them as well. I'd love to hear your take on their works sometime.
I wish I'd discovered your channel a few years from now so that I could just binge watch all of your videos. but at the same time, I'm happy I discovered your channel now because it's literally one of the best I've found. your passion for art shines through in every video and I'm obsessed.
Have you thought about covering Francisco Goya's Black Paintings? Seems like something up your alley. I'd like to hear your take on them. Edit: Oh wow, I didn't realize everyone was thinking the same thing!
I'm 40 now but when I was 12 I got into witchcraft. In our school library we had a book about art and I got a Stanley knife and cut out all the Goya and William Blake prints. I feel terrible about it now. I still have them and a book I stole on strange mysteries. Maybe i should go and drop £20 in their next charity event. I still live in the same village.
So pleased you have high lighted this genious' work! I feel he has been lost in regard to his killing his father and not remembered for his skill and talent! Sad sad story! Thankyou,well presented and researched! Thoroughly enjoyed !
Thank you for putting this into the public consciousness, unfortunately too few people outside the establishment even know the name of this remarkable individual. I will never forget the mesmerising effect these works had on me many years ago whilst on a special visit to a touring exhibition of a collection of the works in Hull, I still vividly recall the experience to this day and expect I always will.
Thank you so much for this. I've just finished watching a compilation of past Antiques Roadshow episodes and one of his paintings came up after being found in a loft in a couples home. I was intrigued by the artist and wanted to know more. Very interesting story about such an amazing artist. Thanks again.
I just found your channel and I must say, as one who has ignored art his whole life, that you certainly woke an interest in me. I've spent whole evening watch your vids. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Czech Republic
Such a great video!! I had never heard of this artist or this painting before this video and now it's opened up a huge tome for me to delve into. Thanks for shedding some light on this and the artist's life.
I saw this video in my recommended and was drawn in by the beauty. You presented the life of Dadd in a clear conscience and respectful way. I enjoyed the presentation of the subject matter along with the cadence of your narration. Subscribed after watching the video. I am most Impressed by the maturity of the comments and commenters., by this I mean...it is nice to see the internets intention of communication...information and bringing people together is apparent (to myself of course) on this channel. I will be binge watching this weekend Indeed as my curiosity has been peaked. Well Met!
Thank you so much for sharing your research. This is one of the most unique approaches to teaching at history I've encountered. So many wonderful layers from the music and editing style to your thoughts and even introduction to new artists. It was gripping. Sharing with others. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video, I loved it! The ending segment where you showcased the drawings of Kim Myatt was a welcome surprise, I love discovering new artists and her art is right up my alley. Keep up the good work!
That you so much for this. I'm not an "art" person as far as knowledge goes but this was so interesting and you do a wonderful job of explaining his life which in turn helps to understand his paintings on a deeper level. Thank you!
"My skill and art(if I may lay claim to such) lies in Poetry and Rhyme, you have gained a Sub however with the "Masterstroke" divine, with repetitiveness of a line, from Dadd's own poetic mind, you captured and enraptured me, and drew me like his (in)famous drawn lines." Thank you!
I love Richard Dadd's art, it takes you somewhere else. So terribly sad that in his psychosis he murdered the father he was so close to. 🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸
This is slightly tangential, although you sort of touched upon it in your video, but I've always been sold on the theory that the Victorian interest in folklore/mythology/occult was a response to the aftermath of the industrial revolution. I think that's something that looms pretty large in the art and literature of the time. Ronald Hutton's book Triumph of the Moon about the roots of British neo-paganism goes into depth about these trends of the Victorian era, it's really pretty interesting.
What a wonderful and sensitive video about Richard Dadd. I have learnt a lot more about him and his work from this ✨✨✨ looking forward to watching Of your videos now 😊
Great video I am glad I got recommended this by UA-cam, I really know nothing about art or art history but you make it very well explained and easy to understand and all around entertaining.
your approach to art and mental life is so in tune with mine, I just love your perspective and sympathetic feelings. also how you meld the work of artists with their lives.. Dadd is fascinating creating both beautiful works and the weird. how both can exist in one mind is amazing, though not unknown. I often wonder about the mind of Hieronymus Bosch? thank you for these brilliant videos :}
I finally finished reading my book Victorian Fairy Painting, which I bought at the Frick Museum in NYC during an exhibit of fairy art. That's when I discovered Richard Dadd's art and the ... Master Stroke painting was there to examine in detail up close. I am so tired of modern art. Discovering the work of Dadd and Gerome and the pre-Raphaelites has been a joy, and I want to find as much more as possible.
Thank you, Dadd became lost to the general public as a painter. It was only when "Halt in the desert" turned up on "Antiques Road Show" that interest started to gather. The painting had been thought lost. I believe the owner discovered it rolled up in a loft. I first came across Dadds work in the "Bedford Museum" there was a painting of "Madonna and child" two of the most grumpiest looking characters I have ever seen but what made it stand out was the embroidery on the madonna's dress every stitch had been painstakingly painted. Absolutely incredible detail. Because of the revived interest in Richard Dadd the Museum put the work up for auction and it sold for £30,000. I don't know where it went but I've never seen it since.
The flowers in his painting of Titania are Morning Glories... which contain enough ergot alkaloids to make them one of the most powerful classical psychedelics of the vegetable world.
That would have been unknown at the time of the paintings. The identification by botanists of species of _Ipomoea_ as the hallucinogens used by some Mexican natives was not achieved until 1941, by Richard Evans Schultes. The flower depicted in that painting is almost certainly the common English wildflower, the Greater Bindweed, _Calystegia sepium_ one of our most spectacular native plants.
@@pattheplanter knowledge of hallucinagenics is ancient.
I've heard that those alkaloids are of the delriant class
@@lewishamel8105 no they are not. They're ergot alkaloids, mainly lysergic acid. They are classical psychedelics
Look like they could be devil's trumpet to me. Not sure morning glory was common here at the time of Dad
As a former art history major..... I am enamored with your channel. I was sad to see I had watched all of the videos so to see this in my sub box this morning was AMAZING
For real. So in depth.
I’m not an art major but I love learning and documentary style content. Every one of your videos is lovely.
whats the song in the video?
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I think his art would be very similar if he had proper treatment. Maybe clearer, but with the same essence still. Treatment can lessen our burdens, ease our woes, but never get rid of them. I'm an artist and I have BPD, sometimes it feels like I am losing my mind, doubting my own thoughts and falling into paranoia and fear, and those times are not productive. I can do more, and more whimsical art, when I am calm. I do also have a friend with schizophrenia, he is an artist as well. He struggles a lot, but when he is treated, he shines, as does his art. What I think people without mental illness must understand is that treatment and medication doesn't make us neurotypical, it eases our worst symptoms, at best. We're still always struggling, and our struggle shall always be visible in our art. I loved the video though! I'm not trying to over critize you.This was very enlightening.
well, when do you become neurotypical, and where do you stop being one? it seems like a blury line
@@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043 we all suffer mentally, it's true. Working as a mental health worker I saw the lines blurred quite a bit in my co-workers. I think, generally, the world tend to define sanity by the ability to earn money consistently, at least while maintaining sobriety, and there's another blurry line for you! Even violent outbursts are tolerated in certain professions, in certain envirnoments.
@@squirlmy makes me think of a CEO of a company. Not one, many.
Thank you for your comments, Julia---they are very insightful, not critical. It's my feeling that Sensitive and Visionary people are almost always labelled as being "aberrant" when what might actually be happening is a very sane reaction to an insane world that we all share. Some just cope with it in more ordinary ways. God Bless!
Ffs, i wish people would stop going on about their mental health. we all have some mental health to some degree but some of us don’t wear it like a badge of honour or glorify it. Most people don’t need medication or therapy. they need to stop attention seeking and get on with life.
Thank you for mentioning the Queen song based on "The Faerie Feller's Master Stroke". This song (one of my personal favorites) is what turned me onto the works and story of Richard Dadd. As I recall, this was one of Freddie Mercury's favorite paintings and he would take breaks while he was working retail as a young man and go to the museum to look at this painting which would later provide (along with Dadd's poetry) inspiration for the song.
What is the song called
@@johnnyferalcat896 I think it's the same as the painting.
yes.
Yes
A deeper conversation is woven in this particular point
I could go on for days...suffice to say,only those who have really truly Listened to Queen 2 have clues as to how genuinely Magikal the band was
70s
Early Queen
Queen’s song “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke” is not only an amazingly brilliant song based on this, but the whole album on which it is featured (Queen II from 1974) is just genius.
Correct an important point
A very deep pivot point on how deep the band actually was....Early Queen 70s...touching true genuine Madness
No other band even comes close
Thank you for your post
Maybe the unfinished axe was to difficult to complete, due to the artist not wanting to face the reality of killing his father.
maybe he left it out because just like the axe, his "list" (of victims) wasnt complete either.
At last 'Dadd' uncovered. I first came across his work as an 8 or 9 yr old child. For years I would talk of this man. People would look at me blankly. I was facinated by him and '.....the Master Stroke'. ( Kept a postcard from the Tate of the The Story Fellers Master Stroke for years.).I have always felt understanding, or knowledge of him but like a jigsaw, much was missing. I am grey haired now and I would like to thank you for bringing this man into modern 'limelight'. There's a great sense within me that say's '... at last!'. (We are all 'mad' in some way, depends on who's judging you!. ).He was a beautiful man, who in my view painted a life changing, beautiful eternal picture.
I had only ever heard about this artist on Shrouded Hand's channel once. I think you make really great in-depth videos about art and mental illness. I don't know much about art or critique or interpretation, etc but you make it very accessible to someone such as myself. Dadd's details are really quite amazing. At 19:32 near the old man's pointed hat, you can also see a line of figures who are like part of the tree branch (or even on the extended brim of the hat?). His work almost reminds me of like a hidden pictures puzzle or an infinite zoom picture (zoomquilt), if you are familiar with those. Worlds within worlds.
I absolutely ADORE your channel. You’re so very kind and empathetic towards the people you talk about; giving a compassionate and nuanced insight into the real stories behind them and their overly-mythologized lives. As an artist myself who’s struggled with OCD and ADHD my whole life, I find myself deeply and personally connected to many of these stories which I know and love. It’s refreshing and wonderful to see someone finally giving them the accuracy and care they deserve.
I’m not sure if you ever take suggestions, but I’d be terribly interested in a video about Elizabeth Siddall, the spouse and muse of Rossetti who was an artist in her own rights as well. Her story-among many others of women in art of the past-is typically overlooked and fluffed up for the sake of Victorian-era romanticism. If you don’t feel like it, that’s totally cool too by the way. Either way you can consider me a very pleased subscriber now.
Thank you so much, you're very kind 😁 I always try to give the most respectful and honest perspective for artists and their work as much as I can and I'm releived to hear that it comes across! And welcome to the Dweller family!
Thank you for your work. I come from a family that looks funny at any form of hobby. I was writing when I was younger and nobody in my family was interested in it. So I dropped it. I would love to talk about art with someone, but they don't care and look at me like I'm stupid. I basically have no one to talk to about what I love and cherish. With your channel I feel like there's more people like me and we can together enjoy your essays. It helps me satisfy my artistic curiosity and makes me a little more happy in my kinda sad, boring life.
Queen introduced me to him in the 70's. "He's a fairy fellaaah" 👑🧚♂️
I love how this channel goes so in depth with artists I've never heard of. While I'd also love to see what you'd make of Goya or Bosch, these looks at lesser-known artists are invaluable.
It's also really cool that you're doing an artist showcase at the end of videos now, and I'll be sure to check out Kim's work. What you showed us was stunning.
This type of story is so heartbreaking. He had a wonderful gift but the mental health resources available weren't enough. Maybe if he'd lived in another time someone could've helped him.
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This video made me tear up, as someone who is working to be a great artist and as someone who has had OCD induced psychosis, the horrific story of this man's murders makes me remember my own worst mental states. Being treated for thinking I was being told to murder my sister is something im very lucky to have gotten
I get obsessive thoughts sometimes it sucks. I find doing two things at once helps like I’ll listen to a book or a podcast and play a game on my phone at the same time it seems to be the only thing that has ever helped it’s almost like turning my brain off. Sometimes it will just be a word I can’t stop thinking it over and over and I can’t shut it off.
This was a wake up call for me as well. How scary it is to see what these illnesses when left untreated can do to a person. Remember you are never alone, and there are always options to live a better life :)
I suffer from borderline personality disorder and PTSD and as a teen I nearly bludgeoned my mum with a dumbbell bar. I'm 40 now and doing much better but rarely leave my home. Just because you have monstrous thoughts does not make you a monster my friend. I hope all your artistic dreams come true. I write poetry to get my feelings out. I did try art therapy but I struggle with a stick man. When my children were little they would moan that my horses looked like weird giraffe's, so I'll stick to the writing 😊.
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
~ Terence McKenna
Society is what makes folks crazy.
A cat forced to live in a lake would feel insane af.
I've never seen art at this level of detail! What a fascinating story.
i’m so surprised this channel doesn’t have more attention, the videos are so well researched and produced :))))
The world seems pretty stupefied today. We live in idiocracy,...
@@mikehunt8375 Could be Hell 🧐
I can't make any sense of this existence.
Most folks I know are either daft or evil 🤷
I did as you suggested and read around his case. There was talk that he was exploited. Here’s a scenario. If Dadd only painted landscapes and portraits what would have happened to him in Bedlam and Broadmoor? Would he still have had a career that lasted the rest of his life? Being able to sustain himself with paintings made from imagination and which were very popular meant he could live adequately and free from some of the restraints in the system of the day. He certainly knew about those restraints. He painted them. I think the key to unlocking the asylum life lies in the records he made of what he saw there. The Doctors of the time indicate that he was incoherent a lot of the time. If this was the case then how did he communicate which art materials he needed? Could this also shine a light. His pallet doesn’t seem as bright as his earlier work.
Richard Dadd!!! Wonderful to see him getting a much deserved spotlight!!
As a crazy effin murderer....
@@Death_by_NOLA I agree.
Most current experts agree that Dadd likely suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and was psychotic when he murdered his father. His symptoms seemed to be much, much worse and more desperate and violent than acute mania paired with psychosis, impo The minute details and chaotic presentation of his “masterwork” has always struck me as a vision or window into the insanity of schizophrenia itself. To my mind, it’s the most cruel of all of the different mental illness diagnoses. As to the “Flight Out of Egypt” painting, I think it would have been extremely difficult and bewildering for Dadd to have painted this from real life, as you stated, in regards to the two dimensional quality you observed.
Facinating.... The little man sittling down, his shadow on he left, seems to be the form of a frightnening skull, with another face like form on the ground next to it.. ... Some of the distortions of faces and figures are similar to that seen in reflections on curved surfaces. Thank you for the beautiful analysis and background music.
Wow. What a story. First, you tell it so clearly. Secondly, this man was truly a gifted artist. Soooo sad that he had the murderous rages. So many gifted artists/writers/musicians have had to struggle with mental illness. I do hope this helps anyone struggling out here in the world, to get help for inner dangerous turmoil. Thank you so much for this excellent video! USA
Their mental health is all an act to come off more edgy
Every time you say "Dadd" my brain thinks you're talking about your own father
I usually address the artist in my videos by their surname, but I have to admit I thought the exact same thing at first 😂
Poor guy. Sheeeeesh.
I find it interesting that the axe is left unfinished in the painting, if indeed the tableau between the old man and the woodcutter is supposed to be the focal point. Hesitance to represent (in a way repeat) the act of murder?
It was intentional no doubt.
- Queen - The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke - Lyrics - - - - - He's a fairy feller - The fairy folk have gathered 'round the new moon shine - To see the feller crack a nut at night's noon time - To swing his axe he swears, as he climbs he dares - To deliver - The master stroke - Ploughman, "waggoner will" and types - Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o - Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown - And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow - What a dirty laddio - Tatterdemalion and the junketer - There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero - Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend - The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke) - What a quaere fellow - Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy - Waiting to hear the sound - And the arch-magician presides - He is the leader - Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan - Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man - Come to say hello - Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend - The nymph in yellow - What a quaere fellow - The ostler stares with hands on his knees - Come on mister feller, crack it open if you please - - - - - Songwriters: Freddie Mercury - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC - - Available on - iHeartRadio - Spotify - UA-cam Music - Artist: Queen - Album: Queen II - Released: 1974 - ua-cam.com/video/IGNILpVcgz4/v-deo.html
Thank you for your post
He was what He was and We are fortunate enough to view it. Thank-you dear one.
What an incredible life story! The ‘Master Stroke’ has long been a favourite image of mine. This presentation is amazing and I’m so thankful for it, as I’d only seen two of his works over my lifetime. Thank you for your humane and discreet discussion of this complex artist.🙏
Dadd is one of my favourite artists...visionary and transcendental. Art history minor, love this channel. My Grandad (an amateur painter who birthed two pretty successful Slade alumni--my Uncle who is collected by fashion designer Paul Smith and painted The Duke and Duchess Of York and John Cleese, among others of the "great and the good" and my Auntie, who's currently teaching at The Slade) always used to reiterate the mnemonic, "Richard Dadd killed his Dad" (I'm sure anyone even slightly au fait with Dadd knows this little "rhyme"). Great channel!
An artist that I hadn't heard of before but I'm so glad that I have now.
Thank you, Blind Dweller, for another wonderful video.
I started watching this on my phone, but will immediately re-watch on my iMac to see more detail. Thanks for the video.
I’m fascinated by Dadd. I’ve subscribed. I’m an artist with chronic and severe OCD. I think I understood Dadd when I was very very young, because it resonated deeply with me. There’s so much subtle strangeness and distortion in his work, entirely original and brilliant. Edit: l would love you to do a video on Elizabeth Siddal, artist and Pre Raphaelite model, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I loved this. Thank you!
These profiles of more obscure artists and their art are amazingly well done, your channel was a great find, looking forward to more.
I just wanted to echo the sentiments of many others. I am so, so grateful that I found this channel. I an learning so much and it is presented in a way that keeps me captivated. As someone who has always longed to support themselves with art, but also suffers from bipolar type 1 which has made my life extremely tumultuous and unstable, I sincerely appreciate how you approach your subject matter, and are able to talk about the artists struggles without judgment. Instead using their experience as a way to more readily understand their art. It means so much to see that people who back then were probably treated extremely poorly due to their mental state, now at least being given the reverence that they deserve. This channel has opened my eyes to so much art I'd not known or known much about. I hope this channel continues to see success and keeps posting.
i rarely comment but this was such a well made, wonderful video that i had to! I've been obsessed with this painting ever since reading an illustrated copy of The Wee Free Men when I was 7, and finally got to see it last year (I've been trying to see it for years but bad luck has always intervened). It's one of those paintings that takes on a wild quality in person. Neil Gaiman said in a podcast once (I believe w/ Janina Ramirez) that, standing in front of it, you can almost feel the summer heat radiating off it. And it's so small, for all the detail in it! It's hard to believe someone actually painted it and that it wasn't just found in the middle of a ring of toadstools :)
Thank you so much for the video - immediate subscription!
The nervous and fearful-looking little-old fae reminds me so much of William Blake's rendering of Ugolino della Gherardesca from his 1820's painting of Count Ugolino and His Sons in Prison. Blake's painting, which is taken from Dante's Inferno Canto XXXIII, captures the horror of the moments before Ugolino cannibalizes his children. It makes me wonder what Dadd's relationship was like with his father.
Very sad and tragic story about a Genius artist....!!!
Amazing video ..
Great coverage of a remarkable artist - thanks!
Props to the doctors who encouraged this troubled and gifted artist :)
Wow. You had me completely enchanted with Dadd's story and work. Amazing video!!
Thank you. Never knew of his work or life before. Wonderful revelation.
I'm a young artist and these videos inspire me to make my own art, thank you for making these videos!
It is amazing how you make these videos in such details about people I have never heard about. You keep art interesting! And even though this story is a very sad story, it really excercises the importance of mental health. :D
Thank you for bringing this artist to my knowledge and my attention
this showed up on my homepage and i'm absolutely captivated! about to bingewatch your videos for sure
watching this video, i thought it would have had a million views at least. your work totally deserves more attention and recognition, very intriguing and refined content :)
Exceptional short documentary my friend thanks 🙏 ❤
Wonderfully put together , thank you .
I’ve never been too interested in art or its techniques, however your style of narration makes it interesting and easy to understand. Very wonderful video!
Very thorough video! What a truly captivating documentary honoring Dadd’s life, work and the influence of his mental health. Thank you!
I fell in love with your channel. You're truly part of the best of UA-cam. Only few channels can move me and make me dream, learn and feel like yours
Thank you for this beautiful video on Richard Dadd.
It’s like hypergraphia with pictures instead of words, it’s fascinating and also tragic.
Regardless, beautiful.
Love the tangent lines and liminal spaces making scenes within scenes… genius!
Incredible work, mate. Another superb analysis.
The ethereal background music compliments this presentation perfectly
I've never seen such a interristing and enriching video about a painter 😍
This reminds me of another amazing painter that isn't all that widely known: Rudolf Hausner. His odysseus painting reminds me particularly of Dadd's great painting
I'm so glad I stumbled on your channel recently--I'd almost forgotten about Richard Dadd's paintings until you reminded me of them.
May I also suggest looking into outsider artists? Some people consider Richard Dadd to be "sort of" an outsider artist. Henry Darger is probably the most well-known outsider artist, but I like James Hampton's throne room sculptures and the story behind them as well. I'd love to hear your take on their works sometime.
I’d love to see something on outsider art, also! 🥰
I wish I'd discovered your channel a few years from now so that I could just binge watch all of your videos.
but at the same time, I'm happy I discovered your channel now because it's literally one of the best I've found.
your passion for art shines through in every video and I'm obsessed.
❤
Really Good. Great to Discover the Unknown...Thanks for your dedication to the artists.
Wow, Kim's art and skill are amazing. I love it when this format is used to share something I would never have heard or seen otherwise. Thanks.
Have you thought about covering Francisco Goya's Black Paintings? Seems like something up your alley. I'd like to hear your take on them.
Edit: Oh wow, I didn't realize everyone was thinking the same thing!
I might need to read up a bit more research for Goya but I've always been fascinated in the Black Paintings series, that is definitely a good shout!
@@BlindDweller if you don't mind me asking, what's the song name that started playing at around 10:39
@@imafuckingsimpthatsall2629 It doesn't have a song name yet. The music I produced myself, I will be releasing the music separately soon!
@@BlindDweller Ah thank you! That's really cool that you made that yourself! I'll be sure to keep and eye out for when you do
I'm 40 now but when I was 12 I got into witchcraft. In our school library we had a book about art and I got a Stanley knife and cut out all the Goya and William Blake prints. I feel terrible about it now. I still have them and a book I stole on strange mysteries. Maybe i should go and drop £20 in their next charity event. I still live in the same village.
Louis Wain and Richard Dadd are two of my favorite artists.
Binge watching your videos tonight!!!! This was fantastic
So pleased you have high lighted this genious' work! I feel he has been lost in regard to his killing his father and not remembered for his skill and talent! Sad sad story! Thankyou,well presented and researched! Thoroughly enjoyed !
Very well researched, presented, and produced. Many thanks for uploading.
Thank you for putting this into the public consciousness, unfortunately too few people outside the establishment even know the name of this remarkable individual.
I will never forget the mesmerising effect these works had on me many years ago whilst on a special visit to a touring exhibition of a collection of the works in Hull, I still vividly recall the experience to this day and expect I always will.
Thoroughly enjoyed your post. Thank you. Went to K.Myatt's gallery and bought a print. Her artwork is beautiful.
Thank you so much for this. I've just finished watching a compilation of past Antiques Roadshow episodes and one of his paintings came up after being found in a loft in a couples home. I was intrigued by the artist and wanted to know more. Very interesting story about such an amazing artist. Thanks again.
Awesome stuff. Please cover Heironymus as well.
Thank you so much for this! Wonderful presentation.
YES I LOVE this piece!!! Your channel keeps delivering. I'd love if you covered William Blake one day, his artwork is an absolute occult rabbithole
That's so true.
I just found your channel and I must say, as one who has ignored art his whole life, that you certainly woke an interest in me. I've spent whole evening watch your vids. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Czech Republic
It feels disrespectful of me to be this amused by a guy named Dadd killing his dad
his son gonna be Daddd
And he killed him at Dadd's Hole
It kind of is.
It’s been long enough
I don't think you should take the matter any father.
Dadd is one of my favorite artists. Much like Bosch, you can study one of his paintings over and over and still find something new.
Great videos I’m always happy when I see a new one
Such a great video!! I had never heard of this artist or this painting before this video and now it's opened up a huge tome for me to delve into. Thanks for shedding some light on this and the artist's life.
Fascinating art & artist, and I really enjoyed your treatment of both! Thank You!
I saw this video in my recommended and was drawn in by the beauty. You presented the life of Dadd in a clear conscience and respectful way. I enjoyed the presentation of the subject matter along with the cadence of your narration.
Subscribed after watching the video.
I am most Impressed by the maturity of the comments and commenters., by this I mean...it is nice to see the internets intention of communication...information and bringing people together is apparent (to myself of course) on this channel.
I will be binge watching this weekend Indeed as my curiosity has been peaked.
Well Met!
An excellent video of a unique and tragic artist. I have known of Dadd for decades but learned much from this video.
Fascinating and absorbing. Huge gratitude for your work.
my favorite video of yours :) thank you for being a content creator
Thank you so much for sharing your research. This is one of the most unique approaches to teaching at history I've encountered. So many wonderful layers from the music and editing style to your thoughts and even introduction to new artists. It was gripping. Sharing with others. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video, I loved it!
The ending segment where you showcased the drawings of Kim Myatt was a welcome surprise, I love discovering new artists and her art is right up my alley.
Keep up the good work!
That you so much for this. I'm not an "art" person as far as knowledge goes but this was so interesting and you do a wonderful job of explaining his life which in turn helps to understand his paintings on a deeper level. Thank you!
Intelligently and beautifully done ! Instant subscriber . Thank you !
Thanks so much and welcome aboard!
Your videos are fantastic! Really like your editing and speaking voice
"My skill and art(if I may lay claim to such) lies in Poetry and Rhyme,
you have gained a Sub however with the "Masterstroke" divine,
with repetitiveness of a line, from Dadd's own poetic mind,
you captured and enraptured me, and drew me like his (in)famous drawn lines."
Thank you!
I love Richard Dadd's art, it takes you somewhere else. So terribly sad that in his psychosis he murdered the father he was so close to. 🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸🧚🌸🧚♂🌸🧚♀🌸
WOW.. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING AND TELLING US ABOUT A REAL ARTIST!
I enjoy your work so much… thank you for doing what you do.
This is slightly tangential, although you sort of touched upon it in your video, but I've always been sold on the theory that the Victorian interest in folklore/mythology/occult was a response to the aftermath of the industrial revolution. I think that's something that looms pretty large in the art and literature of the time.
Ronald Hutton's book Triumph of the Moon about the roots of British neo-paganism goes into depth about these trends of the Victorian era, it's really pretty interesting.
What a wonderful and sensitive video about Richard Dadd. I have learnt a lot more about him and his work from this ✨✨✨ looking forward to watching Of your videos now 😊
I love how your channel open my eyes for artist I’ve never heard of
Great video I am glad I got recommended this by UA-cam, I really know nothing about art or art history but you make it very well explained and easy to understand and all around entertaining.
your approach to art and mental life is so in tune with mine, I just love your perspective and sympathetic feelings. also how you meld the work of artists with their lives.. Dadd is fascinating creating both beautiful works and the weird. how both can exist in one mind is amazing, though not unknown.
I often wonder about the mind of Hieronymus Bosch? thank you for these brilliant videos :}
Man got so stoned he thought his bong was osiris
I finally finished reading my book Victorian Fairy Painting, which I bought at the Frick Museum in NYC during an
exhibit of fairy art. That's when I discovered Richard Dadd's art and the ... Master Stroke painting was there to
examine in detail up close. I am so tired of modern art. Discovering the work of Dadd and Gerome and the
pre-Raphaelites has been a joy, and I want to find as much more as possible.
Oh my! Love your voice and videos. Wish there were more.
Thank you, Dadd became lost to the general public as a painter. It was only when "Halt in the desert" turned up on "Antiques Road Show" that interest started to gather. The painting had been thought lost. I believe the owner discovered it rolled up in a loft. I first came across Dadds work in the "Bedford Museum" there was a painting of "Madonna and child" two of the most grumpiest looking characters I have ever seen but what made it stand out was the embroidery on the madonna's dress every stitch had been painstakingly painted. Absolutely incredible detail. Because of the revived interest in Richard Dadd the Museum put the work up for auction and it sold for £30,000. I don't know where it went but I've never seen it since.
Fantastic research and history explained!
thank you for sharing this and introducing me to this artist