Thank you for posting this. Loved it. All the best from Greece

I sometimes have difficulty to focus on lectures but somehow I am able to focus and understand your videos. Incredible.

thank you for transforming this era of art for something i always walked past to something fascinating!

Thank you, Travis. I love your lectures. You're spectacular

the overlapping is the show movment, i think

Ancient Egypt also briefly (very briefly, really) favored naturalism under Akhenaten, and then quickly reverted to a highly stylized canon once he and his son Tutankhamen passed away.

So glad I stumbled upon this playlist - thank you!

NSFW in 10000BC hits different

Sir, I don't know why but this video isn't showing up in the Art History From the Renaissance playlist.

When I'm checking out the textbook on reserve for this class and the librarian remarks on the cover going, "why were they so bad at art back then?" I cry so much ;-; They weren't bad they were doing so good!!! THE CRYSTALS IN THE EYES THE SCULTED PORTRAITS OML

Great lecture. Pure passion while talkng. respect

This video deserves more attention.

Dear Mr. Clark Travis, I am Antonia, a student from the Bulgarian Art Academy in Sofia. After several days is my exam of the subject History of Art. Everything was such a mess in my head, all those artists and movements, especially after the Second World War. After I met your lovely, funny, and clear lectures here, I began to order Leyer by Leyer and somehow I wasn't afraid of the exam anymore. Thank you very much for sharing here your knowledge. Kind regards. Antonia

These sound effects don’t go on throughout the course, do they?

Ancient DNA analysis will evenutally provide answers

Wow thank you for this first episode it was brilliant! . I am Spanish and have to say we think islamic culture is part of our Christian culture,,, as a Spanish person we mix both in our food, art, traditions, parties... we celebrate both together. even in the fiestas of "moros and cristianos" we play both sides, and most of my friends are mixed raced. i must say we dont understand the unfortunate fanatisme of some people nowadays.. that is another story

I love the background story of the Lothar Crystal.

Gunna rewatch this one because the class now puts a specific focus on Mesopotamia and Persia, so I really gotta pay attention now.

Excellent

Thank you SO MUCH for your inspiring lecture ! Looking forward to more video! From a MFA student in Taiwan.

im not your student but i just need a review for my quiz

The racism is wild

What a legend, these are helping with my current 2710 art history class 😊😊

There are 3 videos named Lecture 04 then jumps to Lecture 7. No lectures 5 or 6 Am I missing some? Lecture 04 N Renn Ventetian Part 1 Lecture 04 Northern & Venetian Renaissance & Mannerism Part 2 Lecture 04 The Baroque in Italy and Spain Part 1 Lecture 07 The French Baroque & Rococo

There are 3 videos named Lecture 04 then jumps to Lecture 7. No lectures 5 or 6 Am I missing some? Lecture 04 N Renn Ventetian Part 1 Lecture 04 Northern & Venetian Renaissance & Mannerism Part 2 Lecture 04 The Baroque in Italy and Spain Part 1 Lecture 07 The French Baroque & Rococo

There are 3 Lecture 04 then jumps to Lecture 7. Am I missing some?

\where is Lecture 03 High Renaissance Part 1?

all this is nonsense... 1) Plato was right - all art is mimetic by nature 2) art is illustrative - no matter what form it is expressed in.. this cannot be avoided.. and Kossuth created nothing more than an imitation of an illustration in an encyclopedia about furniture (see pp. 1-2) or linguistics... the idea of ​​three hypostases of an object is not his idea.. he only illustrated it

THANK YOU for sharing these lectures!! Travis for president 😄

There's a lot of incorrect info and opinion here that makes this less valuable than it may seem. His Warhol section is particularly laced with wrong info presented as facts. Oh, and btw, the word picture has a C in it. It's not pronounced pitcher.

broncos fans 😀

this channel is the most exciting thing to ever happen in my lifetime

God I love this guy lol

Thank you for making this online course available! it was an amazing trip! I learned so much! Your storytelling style is very engaging, thank you again!

For those looking for the Lecture 4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3Xck4KVmJ6sqbs

Nicely explained with contextual ongoings .

Why is the last lecture missing? I watched the last 2720 lecture instead which I suppose would be similar..

Let me begin by telling you that when my brother was just starting school, he rebelled at the rules of spelling. Why did words have to be spelled in a particular way? Why couldn't he spell them as he wanted to spell them? He resented the rules and he resisted the authority of those who made them ! Keep this in mind. I think that Conceptual art originated with people who could not and would not do the difficult work required to become a 'traditional' artist. Can't master the necessary skills ? No knowledge of perspective? Can't draw? Don't want to have to learn color theory? Can't master composition? No knowledge of human anatomy? Can't render tonal values Can’t be bothered ? These are skills that you have to WORK to perfect. It’s difficult. It takes…..effort. But, you want a fast track to the exalted position of "artist “. Well then, belittle the importance of those skills and debase the notion that they are a prerequisite to creating art. Instead, create an art genre that you CAN do. A new genre. And let's call it Conceptual art. Conceptual artists claim that IDEAS and CONCEPTS are the main feature of their art. They can slap anything together and call it ''conceptual art'' confident that viewers will find SOMETHING to think about it no matter how banal or trivial the artist's concept! There is no way conceptual art pieces can be judged. The promoters of this art have attacked the motives and credibility of authorities and critics who might disparage the work. They have rejected museums and galleries as defining authorities. They reject the idea that art can be judged or criticized . All of this results in a decline in standards. And when you jettison standards, quality suffers. There really IS such a thing as BAD art ! We know this only because we have standards and criteria by which such things can be evaluated. It seems that conceptual art comes down to a basic idea: No one has the right or authority to make any judgements about art ! Art is anything you can get away with ! A whole new language has been created to give the work an air of legitimacy and gravitas. Conceptual art is 'sold' to the unwary public with ....."ArtSpeak". ArtSpeak is a unique assemblage of English words and phrases that the International Art world uses but which are devoid of meaning! Have you ever found yourself confronted by an art gallery’s description of an exhibition which seems completely indecipherable? Or an artist’s statement about their work which left you more confused than enlightened? You’re not alone. Here are examples of ArtSpeak: 'Works that probe the dialectic between innovations that seem to have been forgotten, the ruinous present state of projects once created amid great euphoria, and the present as an era of transitions and new beginnings.'' Or ''The exhibition reactivates his career-long investigation into the social mutations of desire and repression. But his earlier concerns with repression production--in the adolescent or in the family as a whole--give way to the vertiginous retrieval and wayward reinvention of mythical community and sub-cultural traditions.'' ----------------------------- This language is meant to convince me that there is real substance to this drivel which is being passed off as art. I don't buy it. But plenty of other people DO buy it. Not because they love the work. They are laying out enormous sums in the belief that their investment will bring them high returns in the future. One Jeff Koons conceptual piece is three basketballs suspended in a fish tank. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Ball_Total_Equilibrium_Tank_by_Jeff_Koons,_Tate_Liverpool.jpg Here is Koons' own ArtSpeak explanation of his floating basketball 'concept' verbatim: “ This is an ultimate state of being. I wanted to play with people’s desires. They desire this equilibrium. They desire pre-birth. I was giving a definition of life and death. This is the eternal. This is what life is like, also, after death. Aspects of the eternal” Rather lofty goals for 3 basketballs suspended in a fish tank!! It sold for $350,000. I wonder what it would have fetched without Koons' name attached to it. Or take the case of Martin Creed's ball of crumpled white copy paper. www.abebooks.com/signed/Work-sheet-paper-crumpled-ball-Creed/7404135374/bd He made almost 700 of them! Some sold for hundreds of dollars. Martin Creed, when asked during an interview how he would respond to those who say the crumpled paper ball isn’t art said : “ I wouldn’t call this art either. Who says, anyway, what’s good and what’s bad?” Interviewer: ''When confronted with conceptual art, we shouldn’t worry whether it’s art or not because no one really knows what art is.'' Is this what art has come to?? _________________________________ Something radical has happened to the art scene in the past 60 years. Cubism slid into non-representational art....what is often called Abstract. Abstract or non-representational art is a legitimate and often profound genre. But to many people, it appeared as if this new style had no structure, principles or standards of evaluation. It’s markings seemed random and arbitrary. Something that anyone could do. Any composition of blotches or scribbles was “Abstract Art”. This was the slippery slope that led to the abandonment of standards in art. Art is what I say it is....and lots of people jumped on the art bandwagon. Anyone can be an artist. Anyone can mount a show. And who is to say if it has value or not ? A tacit agreement has formed among critics, galleries, publications and auction houses to promote and celebrate certain artists and styles. Objects with no artistic merit are touted and praised . Their value increases with every magazine article, every exhibition in a prestigious gallery. And when they come up for auction, sometimes the auction houses will lend vast sums to a bidder so that it appears as if the work of the particular artist is increasing in value. The upward spiral begins and fortunes are made. And many are reluctant to declare that the Emperor is, in fact, naked lest they appear boorish unsophisticated Philistines ! This is what dominates the art market today. The love of money is the root of all evil. It has corrupted politics. It has corrupted sport. It has corrupted healthcare. It has corrupted religion. And now it has corrupted art. But, there is reason to hope. As much of the wisdom of the Greeks and Romans was kept alive through the Middle Ages in small pockets of learning and culture, ateliers have sprung up around the world that are devoted to preserving and handing down the traditional visual arts: drawing, painting and sculpting to each new generation. And when this craze for conceptual art has burned itself out and when visual art is no longer looked on as mere decoration and when schools that have dissolved their art programs want to reestablish them again, the world will find these skills preserved through the atelier movement.

If you say that artist’s paint in a photo-realistic way because they find it rewarding to meet the challenge of it,fine. There are all sorts of challenges: building a house of cards, pie eating contests etc. When a painter produces a photo-realistic piece,only the challenge of making the subject look exactly like the real object is met. There is no art to it. It’s a form of showing off technical skills. “See what I can do!?” There’s no interpretation of reality. There is only reproduction of reality. It takes a technician to do that, not an artist. If I make an exact copy of a Cézanne still life, who is the artist me or Cézanne? My copy shows skill but not creativity. And if there is no creativity, there is no real art.

I'm taking this class at UVU rn with a different professor but I think I'll use this as a resource.

57:30 the bull, eagle, lion and man are also symbols that represent the fixed signs of the zodiac. I noticed them on a few pages of the book of Kells. Bull = Taurus, eagle = Scorpio, lion = Leo and man = Aquarius.

best series <3!!! thank you

i never understood why we think hunter gatherers didnt have passtime. if there are 100 people only 10 need to hunt a day

you should check out incredibism.

Great videos. Thank you so much.

I'm so grateful for these uploads. I'm in my early 40s and since I could not go to art school in my youth I'm covering some things now on youtube and with the help of used books. Good times.

love your channel thank you so much! You are such a phenomenal teacher! Thank you for posting these!

I come back to this episode. so important and so incredible what this lecture goes through

15:03 gothic portal terms

the golden throne of tutankhamun belongs to egypt so it’s eastern not western. It doesn’t belong to the western culture at all. Why you stick it there !?