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[chrissmou]

The reason I love Art

I never thought, a geology student with a passion for reading Fanfic, would have the hobby of watching Art documentaries. The reason is that in my research for my trip to London a few years back I saw Waldemar Januszczak’s documentary, which changed my life about art and history documentaries. I love his documentaries and see every new one as if they are David Attenborough’s. His documentary makes art funny and exciting with a story that connects all the episodes. For example, the first one I saw about Baroque has a traveling arc from Italy in the first to Spain and England in the last. Also, is not about paintings only, they are about sculpture with architecture and pottery thrown in.  So here are some of my recommendations on where to start. I will try to write only 10 (all of them are on YouTube on a channel named Perspective and Timeline):

1.      Baroque: From St. Peter’s to St Paul’s (the first I saw)

2.      Renaissance Unchained (My inspiration for fics)

3.      Art Mysteries Explained

4.      Sculpture Diaries

5.      Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, And Madness

6.      Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA

7.      The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

8.      The Art of the Night (One of my very Favorites)

9.      Holbein: The eye of Tudors

10.   Impressionists: Painting and Revolution

[progressivegraffiti]

The Outcast Artists: America's Most Underrated Painters | Perspective

Get a dose of American history with your art...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak shows you FDR’s New Deal U.S. Post Office murals, Dust Bowl paintings, steam engine art, River Rouge auto plant art, and more--most of it created by strong, quiet rebels.

[denimbex1986]

'...Play: Hamlet (1599-1601)

Chosen by Dominic Maxwell, the Sunday Times theatre critic

Sometimes biggest is best. Shakespeare’s longest play is also the most enduringly stimulating drama in the English language. A ghost story, a tragedy, a revenge thriller, a repository of some of the Bard’s biggest hits — “to be or not to be”, yes, but also “neither a borrower nor a lender be”, “brevity is the soul of wit”, “there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so”, a dozen more — it’s also got a wicked sense of humour and offers perhaps the greatest leading role. All the greater, really, for the way no single actor can iron out all the kinks in Prince Hamlet, who is at once grieving, confused, poetical, doubting, vindictive, waspish, deceptive, sincere, sensitive and careless, damaged and damaging. Other adjectives are available, and necessary. It’s the role that every classical actor wants to have played; if Benedict Cumberbatch’s fine performance in 2015 was diluted by the lavish set around him, Andrew Scott’s 2017 take got close to his man’s heart. Other fine Hamlets this century include Ben Whishaw, David Tennant, Samuel West, Maxine Peake, Paapa Essiedu, Rory Kinnear and Simon Russell Beale. I won’t say every Hamlet I’ve seen has been an ecstatic experience. Theatre doesn’t work like that. Yet every time you see this astonishing play you find something new in it. Vote for it!...'

[the-paintrist]

William Dobson - Portrait of Abraham van der Doort - ca. 1640

Abraham van der Doort (c. 1575/1580? - June 1640) was a Dutch artist. As Keeper of Charles I's art collections, he was the first Surveyor of the King's Pictures.

The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity – as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle and elsewhere. The office has only been full-time since 1972. It now operates in a professional capacity with a staff of a dozen people. As of the end of 2020, the position has been put in abeyance.

Although the office dates from 1625, there has always been someone responsible for pictures in the Royal Household. Notable recent office-holders have included Sir Lionel Cust (1901–1927), Sir Kenneth Clark (1934–1944), Professor Anthony Blunt (1945–1972), one of the infamous Cambridge Five, and Sir Oliver Millar (1972–1988). The post of Surveyor of the King's Pictures is currently in abeyance; the most recent was Desmond Shawe-Taylor, who held the post from 2005 to 2020.

William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried)) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as “the most excellent painter that England has yet bred”. He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.

Around sixty of Dobson's works survive, mostly half-length portraits dating from 1642 or later. The thick impasto of his early work gave way to a mere skim of paint, perhaps reflecting a wartime scarcity of materials. After Oxford fell to the Parliamentarians, in June 1646, Dobson returned to London. Now without patronage, he was briefly imprisoned for debt and died in poverty at the age of thirty-five.

Ellis Waterhouse described Dobson as "the most distinguished purely British painter before Hogarth", and in the view of Waldemar Januszczak he was "the first British born genius, the first truly dazzling English painter".

There are examples of Dobson's work at the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Queen's House in Greenwich, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in several English country houses including notably Alnwick Castle where Dobson's self-portrait with Nicholas Lanier and Charles Cotterell is displayed, and at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.

The 2011 anniversary of his birth was marked by exhibitions, a 'Dobson Trail' listing his paintings on a website, and a BBC television profile by Januszczak, The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson.

[originalitysquared]

I love Waldemar Januszczak for very specific reasons.

[bbbrianjones]

i was tagged by the lovely penguin @astro-gnome to answer these questions !! thank u boo boo 💋💋

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CURRENT OBSESSION: i have been watching a lot of waldemar januszczak documentaries !! to me he is the only art critic i can actually stand by.

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[alicenpai]

For the art asks - 2 and 14?

hi anon !!

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

characters facing left for sure (I'm right handed). but because of this I think I do try a lot harder at right-facing faces, and most of the time those may end up looking nicer! haha

14. Any favorite motifs

I wish I drew more of my favourite visual motifs more, actually. so if you're surprised by the below I wouldn't blame you LOL because I feel like. I wish I drew from my heart more! I sometimes think my art is really boring if I can be brutally honest. gotta take more risks!

I like a lot of genres of media so understandably my art is all over. people have said this is a great quality, others have trouble pinpointing certain traits about my art, or my interests? and I wish that the things I love were more clear. honestly I feel more like the latter part of a "jack of all trades, master of none" but more like. a little court jester with my jingle hat. in 2023 I'd like to be happier with my art, and draw things that are more interesting/emotional/personal to me! 🏃‍♀️💨

- I love gothic/victorian motifs a lot! overly ornate frames (like haunted portraits), mirrors, flowers, complex drapery, and yes, we can't talk about gothic without the macabre stuff that was present in victorian culture too. sorry for being an edgy 2000s kid but I love skeletons in art... and characters sitting in coffins? chef kiss. Just like. the precarious balance of life and death in art is so genuinely interesting. I once saw in a Waldemar Januszczak art history doc that artists are so unapologetically obsessed with this dark stuff hahaha... 🤧👍 media that come to mind are Ib, Pandora Hearts, Black Butler. non anime media like Dracula, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Sherlock Holmes.

- Theatre/Shakespearean motifs as well. curtains, wooden props, stage sets. Opera, classical Greek theatre, ballet, pantomime, the circus. Shakespearean in the way that the characters are very passionate yet oh so tragic. Like. just in general playing on the idea that stories are plays, and the characters are mere puppets in someone's fabrication. thus things like puppets and clown-type characters in plays are fascinating too. things like, characters as the automatons in automaton clocks are so cool. I also LOVE the concept of dolls, however dolls are? quite frankly? terrifying irl. inspirations: Princess Tutu, lots of tragic stage play themes also present in Jun Mochizuki's work in Pandora Hearts and Vanitas no Carte, Rozen Maiden for the dolls thing.

- storybook themes. European fairy tale illustrations, anything whimsical and old fashioned. Witch Hat Atelier comes to mind, Princess Tutu again, also The Girl from the Other Side.

Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui, Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki

Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki

Heinrich Lefler, Austrian artist. "Der Gevatter Tod", "Godfather Death"

A Russian version of the Swedish folk tale The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, if you know who the artist is please let me know! artist is found - Oleg Vassiliev!

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

[liberty1776]

Men Of The North: Waldemar Januszczak Uncovers Viking, Anglo-Saxon & Car...

[ciberio13]

St. George and the Dragon by Jacopo Tintoretto

“You know, whenever I see Saint George adopted as a nationalist symbol by right wing factions ( in england, for instance) it always makes me laugh, because he was actually a turk of Greek origin who was born in palestine near Tel Avi and who served in the Roman Army. So all those Skinheads who’ve got Saint George tattooed on their foreheads they’re actively promoting turkish-greek-palestinian-roman and Jewish unity. Well done lads.”

- Waldemar Januszczak

[fabioperes]

The Happy Dictator: Inside One Of The World's Most Secretive Countries | Absolute Documentaries Deep in the heart of Central Asia lies one of the world’s most secretive countries – Turkmenistan. Run until recently by a dictator whose megalomania spawned a personality cult to rival that of Chairman Mao, this unlikely desert republic has earned itself a grim reputation as ‘the North Korea of Central Asia’. But since no one is usually allowed in or out, the truth about Turkmenistan is impossible to separate from the rumours and the legends. Until now. In this quirky and highly entertaining documentary, well-known critic Waldemar Januszczak journeys to Turkmenistan to investigate the myth of the now deceased Turkmenbashi the Great who retained absolute control over the country, forbidding photography, reporters, dogs, cinemas, circuses, car radios and ballet! Posing as a tourist who goes to Turkmenistan for a stag weekend, Januszczak goes undercover in this bizarre country to separate the facts from the fiction. And he’s taken his camera with him… Absolute Documentaries brings you the best of entertaining and fascinating documentaries for free. Whether you’re into true crime, stories from around the world, family and social life, science or psychology, we’ve got you covered with must-see full-length documentaries every week. Subscribe for more premium documentaries: https://bit.ly/AbsoluteDocumentariesYouTube From: The Happy Dictator Content licensed from ZCZ Films to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZXGLb1faU

[middleageamerican]

global-sized Tony-like pallet

Waldemar Januszczak living David Attenborough living Anthony Bourdain 1956 – 2018 . . Waldemar and David continue as TV media personalities and x perts on their subjects in a style that makes them a living version of Anthony . . eye’m known as an adventurous eater and my cooking has navigated far fr Martha’s my late mother’s . . but even less adventurous eaters can probably say this . . Anthony…

[ilhoonftw]

ngl i watch the most random art documentaries for waldemar januszczak . idk i just enjoy how genuinely passionate the guy is and how he doesn't overcomplicate things, has a very approachable style. in this short 10min video he packed so much information about polish art and the impact the partitions (aka poland disappearing) had on it

[zmkccommonplace]

Among all the self-appointed societal judges who have taken up their posts in the internet age, none is quite as outrageously self-appointed as the modern curator.

Waldemar Januszczak

[lungfuls]

I highly recommend the Waldemar Januszczak art history series on the Perspective youtube channel

[cjjasp]

#FineArtFriday: Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers by Paul Gauguin 1888 (revisited)

Title: Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers Artist: Paul Gauguin Genre: portrait Date: 1888 Medium: oil on jute Dimensions: Height: 73 cm (28.7 ″); Width: 91 cm (35.8 ″) For a brilliant look a the life and art of Paul Gauguin, see: Why Is Gauguin So Controversial? (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary) | Perspective – YouTube For a wonderful documentary on Vincent’s Sunflowers, see: The Mystery of Van Gogh’s…

[copyrightlitigation]

Favorite tweets: I think we can all agree that the world is turning to shit. Britain is broken, social media is ghastly, and all that. Luckily, we still have art. Standing for a few minutes in front of a great Vermeer, or listening to some delicate Chopin, is still a profound joy. Hallelujah. https://t.co/kwKHlB8Eoa — WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) Feb 8, 2023

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