Amor Sciendi
For any Theory of Knowledge students out there looking to write an essay or give a presentation using Art as an Area of Knowledge, this video will help you understand some of the art theory you need.
I’ve been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.
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Playlists:
London: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBPzilOXB-budalmCFLU8ujM
Rome: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBMKMiuZs4cfcunrHd2t8nqr
Paris: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBOOOIenrdNOEKGPo8qPSaJN
New York: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBOe4t-uuWvI7XRxa2QfJhBc
Florence: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVvCCEORxLBN9eVa303aFN61bznS0L3Kp
collaboration with TED-Ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReM-G9V5VrY&list=PLVvCCEORxLBNdEh0q8g43VTyD-GWm6Zm3
The Brooklyn Bridge is a metaphor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNONAzqLr4&t=2s
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This is one of the better made videos on aesthetics that I've seen.
And here we are, in the age of V A P O R W A V E
Subbed !
As an art student myself, I´d say you managed to capture the general idea of the evolution of art pretty neatly!! And all in barely more than ten minutes!! All my teachers could managed was six semesters, lol. Amazing video, I instantly subscribed after watching.
It literally makes me loss hope in man you do not have more subs & veiws and yet at the same time you and the art you review and that I love returns that hope as fast as it left me.. Thank you for your beautiful video's.
loved this – unapologetically intelligent. looking forward to going through all your vids. thank you.
A really interesting and concise video, even as a longer format one. I'm always fascinated at the ways art history slots together and has an influence on the culture and vice versa. i didnt know about the medieval art and representation thing before! <3
Love this long form video essay style! Hope you can do more like this for your channel
Great content as always! [notification issues on the last couple of videos, fyi, came thru but late]
Great video, but if you film yourself, don't just stand there please
I've recently started watching an art critic channel, and most of what you said in this video summarizes like 5 videos. It's an interesting idea, the way of portraying the real word into a canvas is the reason of art. Of course, the way to do it depends on the artist as well as the spectator, and artists are always looking for ways to make their work feel different from others.
Always a treat when your videos come out. Thank you.
The rise of photography being a driving force in the move towards abstraction in art is an angle that I never considered. That's quite interesting.
I remember when I was very young having an epiphany at first seeing Magritte's "The Treachery of Images". It's a piece that I imagine you might have considered for this topic due to its honest and straightforward message regarding the nature of representative artwork. It seems obvious upon reflection, but as a child it was important for me to understand that a painting is not a pipe.
Fast forward several years and trying to grapple with concepts such as "The medium is the message" and postmodernism when it once again becomes much more complex.
What a coincidence, I had just read an essay 'The Artworld' by Arthur Danto on Mimetic theory VS Reality theory) I would highly recommend it to everybody.
("The Artworld" (1964) Journal of PhilosophyLXI, 571-584)
Thank you so much for the video!
I don't know if his work is still highly regarded, but I was interested by an idea from E. H. Gombrich that artists were not always interested in representing the world accurately. At least not principally.
Egyptian art looks stiff and people carved on the walls of temples and tombs are impossibly twisted. From the waist down they are shown in profile while the torso is shown front forward and the head is in profile again–except for the eye, which is shown straight on.
There is a bust of Nefertiti, however, that appears very natural if a little idealized. Gombrich's idea, if I remember it correctly, was that the Egyptian artist was interested in representing ideas, religious beliefs, and social status (important people were shown larger than slaves) and they used formal visual clichés to do so. Apparently the Nefertiti bust was used by artists as a design aid, it didn't have to convey abstract ideas, which is why it is conventionally realistic. Animals that were domesticated by the Egyptians later in their history were often more natural looking because they weren't tangled up in traditional ideas and schemata.
Thank you, I love the history of Art. I remeber most of those art works from my school days, I was lucky to have an Art teacher who was also passionate about her subject, 30 yeas later I still have a deep love for the subject.
This video took me on a great journey through the history of art theory. Thanks!
Within the space of just under 10 minutes, you helped me understand and appreciate both medieval paintings and Jackson Pollock's work. Thank you for this great video!