An Artist Before And After The War

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[antoinepetrov]

War is (sadly) one of the oldest and most consistent themes in art. It always seems like there is no new way to present war, but here the same artist presented it in three very different ways. Outstanding artist. Thank you so much for the video!

[proph]

An ironic detail about "Taube" is that, whilst there was a light bomber called the Taube, taube means "dove" in German. The bird of peace.

[Eckendenker]

Reminds me of Felix Nußbaum. The museum in Osnabrück is such a harrowing experience. A joyful young artist slowly changing until he is painting nothing but skeletons.

[Xarthis]

For more on this theme I can also recommend Otto Dix' "Der Krieg" and his other works during and after the great war.

[En]

In the second painting the further back soldier is actually way bigger than the one that’s closer to us. Now either he didn’t understand perspective (unlikely) or that’s an adult in the back and a child in the foreground which makes it even more unsettling

[Wyattinous]

I was just talking to a family member about you and Art Deco. You can really make a man cry, you’re a gift to us all. Thanks for everything you do.

[estherlowlands]

As a Brit it was really nice to see this talked about, WWI and its memory has always been a big deal here - every town or village or neighbourhood has memorials to the people who came from there and died in WWI (and WW2). Part of what made it so tragic was that the young boys who were sent to die in the trenches were lied to by recruiters about the reality of war and told they had a duty to fight ''for king and country'''. This changed the way a lot of us thought about how a country should be ran and was the start of us becoming a more liberal country (believe it or not I would say we are more liberal now than then, though we still have a way to go in many ways, obviously)

[remko]

I had to look up if title of the third painting was indeed 'A Taube' as I suspected. the 'au' is pronouced as in 'how' and the 'e' is not silent, but I was not exactly here to nitpick about that, just to point out that 'A taube' means 'A dove' which is of course ironic as doves most usually are seen as symbols of peace, and not of destruction.
(and yes, it is of course revering to the name of a type of German warplane)

[artfrontgalleries]

Paths of Glory" was one of Kubric's first movies. It is a stunning anti war statement. I swear this happened. On the night that the US said that the war in Vietnam had ended and the US was starting to withdraw troops NYC's channel PIX changed their scheduled 10:00 PM movie to Paths of Glory"

[Caligulette_]

I saw Nevinson’s “After a Push” in person at the Imperial War Museum in London this past summer and thought it so beautiful in its simplicity and horror that I’ve been seeking a print for my home ever since. Thank you for covering this incredible Great War artist.

[FalandraAoC]

Very great video, I always love watching your channel!
The first part with the quote about the soldiers becoming machines I find super interesting, in Erich-Maria Remarques book "Im Westen nichts Neues" some very similar descriptions can be found, becoming machine-like but at the same time you very often find animalistic descriptions of machines and humans in the situation. As if they are stripped off their humanity - they function, they are led by their basic survival instincts.
And then come the descriptions of dead people, suddenly, they start to become humans again, they find passports and pictures of their family, same in the painting here, suddenly the two soldiers become realistic humans but seemingly only once the battle is over and their life ended. Only then we seem to realize what we lost, that we shouldn't kill each other, that these are individuals that can't be repaired like a machine and will be forever lost because of this gruesome conflict.

[zetectic]

The Great War was transformational is so many ways. I had seen the machine gunners before but not the artists' other paintings featured.
Thanks for the video!

[Cherriesrgood]

Love your videos!! Keep up the amazing work

[James-vwyy]

Reminds me of the Futurist movement in Italy, except that they never really changed their tune. Kept with the pro-military stance until they joined up with Mussolini (for a little while). One of those instances where you can't remove the (interesting and neat looking) art from the proto-fascist movement of Futurism.

Every video make gives me an opportunity to learn something new about a new artist. And every time I have been printing out one or two paintings which you include and adding them to my collection. I just want to say thank you for filling such a needed spot on YouTube for exploring creativity, history and sensibility through art!

[saint-tebp]

u keep cooking up so many great videos

[ibnfawda]

As Judge Holden said: “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.”

[EchChamber]

Your descriptive wording's a fine flavor I cannot see elsewhere online, and it's like a poetic orchestra, detailing the presented visuals through refined vocabulary.

[casbienbarr]

"war never changes" is a Fallout Quote

[KlaasBakker-vdhx]

You make me look at art in a way i never looked at it before! You are a master at describing and focussing on an artpiece, for that, i thank you. You got a new subscriber.