Jacob Geller
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token…how often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.
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Big thanks to the voices of Zac Frazier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcVWQA-buWJc9Qm0SFqsLA), GamesD (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_r8gFeezEBZVnazvbv75pQ), and ChariotRider (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpDbrcXS-giiD0PkZLC5Kw)
99% Invisible: The Many Deaths of a Painting: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-many-deaths-of-a-painting/
The Barbarism of Representation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0031322X.1994.9970135
The Museum of Modern Art’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoMAvideos
Visual Media used: 2:22AM, Depression Quest, Speech by Goebbels (British Pathe), The Power of Art- Mark Rothko (BBC), The Truth about Modern Art, Modern art is still Sh*t (Paul Joseph Watson), Andres Serrano documentary (1989), various ABC news reports, The Return of Red, Yellow, and Blue (Stedelijk Museum), Ron Mueck- Making of (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain), Degenerate Art Exhibition (sveinbjornt), Mark Rothko Exhibit (Jeromet Ryan)
Music used: Just Like You (Gone Girl), All You Are Going to Want to do is Get Back There (The Caretaker), Dies Irae (Giuseppi Verdi), Old piano adventure; the saloon sound (Rick22228), Max Docks, Torture (Max Payne 3), Frolic (Luciano Michelini)
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I know the music levels get a little dicey at points, sorry about that y'all.
This is brilliant. I loved it all. Thank you.
Thinking out loud, is there a way to rate art generally, like we do for movies/oscars for example, to have a less subjective definitive relative score for all existing art, we will have hundreds of parameters, like complexity, disturbance, time to make, rarity, emotion… Part of the score will be the evolution of the score through time.
i loved this video! reached to the "like" button so many times just to discover ive already clicked it
The Caretaker was a perfect choice of music for this video.
This is some real pretentious shit
Look, i don't know if this is what you meant, mainly because out of the last 48 hours, three of them have been spent sleeping, so my comprehension is taking an absolute nosedive, but im gonna put this out there regardless. Gamer gate was NOT a targeted harassment campaingn. It was a movement pushing for ethics in games jornolism. The people who were "harassed" so brutally made bank from the whole situation and just turned it into a cash-grab scheme by convincing people that the movement was a harassment campaign. There were not as many bomb, rape, or death threats as you think. Of course there were some, every well intentioned movement has its outliers. You only ever hear about them though because they fit the narrative that was being pushed by zoe, anita, and the media.
And there you actually said it. If you dont like art you are upholding white supremacist ideas. At first i was willing to listem but on your side but you're just wrong, infact you validated the point you made just before where you said that people say they have to like things to not seem like facsists or racsists, because right after that you said they are trying to uphold nazi beleifs.
So if you dont like modern art you're a fascist and white also whybdo you day a sign saying itd okay to be white is bad. If you're saying that that is fascism then you cant blame people for feeling attacked for their skin colour.
Brilliant.
me: art is not political and never will be
politics: we'll make it political by destroying a piece of art and hold protests for no reason other than the protest itself
me: wait that's i-
artistic me: there's some real sophisticated artistic texture to all of this
me again: i was going to say illegal
artistic me: too late, i am the voice inside your head, make more cthulhu drawings
me: i already got cthulhu drawings at home
cthulhu drawings at home:
question: "who's afraid of red yellow blue"
answer: "whoever destroyed the painting, obviously"
I like the story behind art, I dont like the art itself like at all… its weird I know but the story behind it all is the only thing that makes art art to me
This is reshreshlying interesting. Thank you
yo what is the jazz trumpet song? big mood @Jacob Geller
9:15 The care taker!! great music
I notced some music from The Caretaker in here! Any plans to touch on Everywhere at the End of Time down the road?
I just realized for the first time in, like, a year, that you and Big Joel are two different people.
People getting upset at modern art perplexes me, as I used to hate modern art myself until I became an artist in an art form.
Then I understood. People don't say David Lynch's movies arent movies because they don't follow the predetermined structure of other films, why is it so with contemporary artists?
Its fuckin perplexing.
The Nazi "Degenerate Art museum" definitely seems like something that inspired the 2 minutes hate from 1984
Okay, I find myself agreeing mostly to this video except for the one INCREDIBLY crucial portion of Depression Quest that you neglected to mention, which is the implication that games jounalism can be bought by money or sex. The whole scandal concerning this was because the maker used sexual favors to get stellar reviews on this game.
Now, I'm not going to argue here about whether or not this game is good, but neglecting to mention this is honestly incredibly insulting as a whole. I don't particularly condone the folks who harassed this woman because all it did was hurt what Gamergate was trying to achieve. So yeah, I can tell that this video had much of a political slant compared to your other videos, and I dont know if you just missed this part to negligence or if it's on purpose.
I feel like the video is divided in two distinct parts. There are: apologetics of "modern" art and the second part, that concists of emotional arguments and calling everybody nazis.
I really appreciate art in various forms. I don't think, that any art should be banned. But I also think, that people have a right to have their own opinions on it, and there is nothing wrong in it. I'm ok with prosecuting vandals, but it is wrong to blame the public for its opinion on vandalized works of art. And, by making politicians and wierdo-altrights responsible for pubic opinion, you are rendering public incapable of making their own judgments. Also I don't think white supremacists are the cause of this problem, because if it was so, then there will be no similar things in Iran, China, etc. It could be generalized that the critique of art from this points is prominant in any conservative (not politicaly, but ideologicaly) societies.
Maybe I've got it wrong in some places and maybe I don't fully understend the context of all this "white supremacy" thing. I leave in a very distant and different country.
PS: Sorry for my english if it wasn't good. It's not my native language.
Bro, first of all, Paul Joseph Watson is more of a libertarian than anything and also you chose two guys and then based on what they said just called half of America fascists… Prolly my least favorite vid and I thought that you'd be more philosophical and less politically inclined… Either say it or don't say it. Stop hinting that you think Republicans are fascists…
I like Paul Joseph Watson but I don't exactly agree with his stance on art…
I'm french, and I read and listen english for years. But, wtf ? I couldn't understand a quarter of the video xD
the fact that you used The Caretaker music while talking about Depression Quest elevates this video a lot for me. The devil is in the details, well done!
bruh its not even art its just shit if it doent take any talent to make ''art'' that is worth a couple millions what is even special about it
you know, I wander around on the internet, and I see left and right content alike.
sometimes I see hippocracy, and sometimes I see lies, sometimes I see truth and learn something new.
But lately, I just see confusion, I see the 2 sides always present something, which is 99% of the time harmless, sometimes even nice, and the other side slamming their fist on the table shouting outrage.
I learned in this video that art doesn't need a function, and for 0,004% of my paycheck I wouldn't care what art is bought with it, because some art that I might like offends others.
also, I do have to say, while 4chan is full of trolls who can't help but to piss people off, "it's okay to be white" holds a different meaning to the left and the right.
to the left it is seen as a supremesist campaign, and I am sure that some lunatics may have used it as such.
but to the right, the outrage over a single piece of paper saying "it's okay to be white" is just proof that being white is not okay in this society.
and they have a point, in a society where people proudly wave slogans like "black lives matter" "I am proud to be gay" and such, having even entire rallies about these slogans, about being proud who you are, a very humble statement about it being okay to have a certian skin colour should be accepted right? but is not.
you could even say that "it's okay to be white" is a form of art, hated and resented by the left, because it goes right against their message, yet it is always brought up again and again, to fuel the outrage fire… huh… seems that right and left aren't that different after all. maybe that is why I get confused when wandering around on the internet.
Why do Republicans always have to be the bad guys (I mean for good reason, but like… why do they dig themselves into this ridiculous ideological holes over and over again).
I generally consider myself a right-leaning moderate. Of course, I love the Hudson River School, Van Gogh, Monet, Rembrandt, Goya… all the classic "real" art, etc… but I cannot exclude Magritte, Pollock, Dali, Rothko, and many more. I believe that art is what defines our cultures. It transcends visual stimulation to include music, literature, food, all things that work to connect people and cultures in unique ways. If I look at nearly any Rothko for more than 30 seconds, I begin feel an immense sense of dread and hopelessness that mirrors his lifelong struggle with mental health. As a student hoping to go into medicine, I believe art is an invaluable asset that can guide us to better empathize and love other people. This blind party loyalty to hatred for the arts is incredibly frustrating. I just don't know why art can't just be separated from political beliefs. Of course artists like Kahlo, Banksy, Picasso, etc. have the intention of making politcally-charged art, but why not listen to them? You don't have to agree to gain perspective. Maybe there's a reason they feel the way that they do, and that's important to 1) interpret their work and 2) approach them with empathy and love.
One of my favorite paintings that I recently discovered is "Dancer No. I" by Agnes Martin (you can find it here https://aci-iac.ca/content/art-books/41/agnes-martin-dancer-no-i-lt-contextual.jpg ). I think its crisp, elegant, and simplistic design really speaks to my perfectionist tendencies. It's calming. Organized. Now this desire of mine to be perfect isn't necessarily a healthy thing, but to be able to see that same tendency in another person, through their art alone, is breathtaking. Sure enough, Martin struggled with perfection and falling short of her own standards. Yet she found peace in her mistakes, as discussed here: https://improvisedlife.com/2017/09/11/agnes-martin-perfection-underlying-life-panic-complete-helplessness/.
Even if my thoughts aren't read by anyone else here, I just wanted to share my own *very moderate* Christian Republican perspective on art. Thanks, great video.