Thank you for this truly bracing presentation. Twombly is and always will be my favorite artist and I have never felt the need for verbal explanations -- I can lose myself in his marks and colors and the way he incorporates words as gestures that sort of slip by any one meaning. And yet here Immerwahr provides an infrastructure of sound and story that actually adds another dimension of pleasure.

I enjoyed this video! Thanks for putting this together!

Adoro Vermeer,que luz!!!!❤

Thank you for the informative interpretation! I couldn't help but notice something that was similar in Botticelli's Birth of Venus. Taking the PG audience into account, I'm thinking that the top of the instrument in his left hand looks like something that correlates with what he's holding in his right hand. As for the Botticelli painting, I've always wondered why the woman on the far right has something in her right hand that looks similar. Could that be a clue as well?

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Both of those were probably done by his daughter, Elizabeth. Look at the hand of those compared to The Music Lesson. The latter is obviously done by the master, Vermeer. These two look like “paint by number” in comparison. He taught his daughter his method of using mirrors. Tim is correct in his acclimation. Vermeer’s style had a soft and highly detailed stroke using chiaroscuro even akin to Leonardo. The Milkmaid is phenomenal to that of the guitar players.. no comparison. The worst is The Girl in Front of the Pianoforte. The model is the same girl at the same age that is the other portrait of a young girl.. Anne, his other daughter. This proves that there was another painter in his studio. That person did the leg work of preparation. The Girl With The Flute is definitely by Vermeer because of its masterly style, despite the ground being different. The curator of the National Gallery should listen to the greatest authority of Vermeer, the newly retired head of the Rijks Museum. His swan song was the greatest exhibition in the history of art and we should all bow down in gratitude.

that’s my work

The Kenwood house painting looking at it with the right eye and the other looking at that with the left eye combining them makes the background picture sink back, the figure pull forward and the knee pop forward. There's a nice 3D effect happening.

Far fetched to think that is a Vermeer. It simply lacks the quality one sees in authenticated Vermeers. In addition it is highly unlikely Vermeer would have copied his own painting, but changed various details. A non issue.

super art

My 5 year old could also do this if I had a 5 year old.

This video took infinitely more effort to produce than Cy Twombly's aimless scribbles.

rubbish work… i saw it in royal academy gallery show, they are really big canvas, but to me such rubbish work, the mind is an interesting thing, simply madness..

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This is actually a very good short overview of a complex subject: where science, commerce, intrigue and art overlapped to the max!

thank you for the great storytelling... I saw the exhibit in Paris- so amazing...

Turn down the volume and look. Then it would make sense. Oh, nevermind

the armory show was historical!

art history has many inconsistencies in it...

I had to write a comment. The reading of these canvases is brilliant. I couldn't have done better myself😅. But I just wanted to ask a question. I always keep in mind my first reading of a painting or in this case, paintings. I thought it was a study of an attack of a man out of control on a vegetable garden. And please allow me to express what I saw in these paintings. The tomatoes seemed to have got the worst blow by the angy carrots.

It really makes sense that the velatura layer was scrubbed away. That final layer is the magic layer.

His name is Albert Bierstadt.

No. Solved it for you.

Thank You for this magnificent presentation! You have given me much to think about.

There’s no way that is a Vermeer … notwithstanding possible damage, it just lacks the subtlety and refinement of his work. Also, there’s no other examples of Vermeer duplicating one of his compositions

As always John, you pack so much information into a short video--you are a master teacher. I've never loved the Kenwood painting, and actually like the Philadelphoia painting more. Here the suggestions seems to be that she is indeed playing for an udience of one, a lover. Music was commonly a symbol of love, illicit and otherwise. This is certainly a most interesting painting, and how sad that the overcleaning has impacted a definitive attribution.

Such a fascinating discussion of this intriguing possibility -- a Vermeer at the Philadelphia Museum. Wow!

Appreciate the brief course on 'reading' a painting. Have got to visit the Museum again on my next visit back home from Florida. Been too long.

Excellent!

This is amazing. I learned so much about the question and about Vermeer.

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The attempt to question the loss of child innocence and questioning everything. That occurs on the journey to adulthood.

Thank you for the great narration. Personally I think the music is not necessary. it's a little distracting to the efforts getting into the details of the paintings.

Wonderful explanation! Thank-you! You truly make Duchamp understandable.

Amazing explanation! Thank-you!

Brilliant, great clarity in both the text and images.

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The Israelites were dark-skinned people.

Muchas gracias, muy buen vídeo!

Nice narration

Ang galing talaga sa marketing ng amerikano. Parang mansanas lang yan na pinaniwala tayo pinaka espesyal na prutas. Kung titingnan ko c Twombly ay para syang sicko at isip bata. Kayo lang naman ang nagbigay ng malalim na kahulugan sa masterpiece ng isip bata

Doin this for a quiz

Hi is eventually abstract or narrative … I like it but somehow not as a story

The black slave story is fake.. Nice video

Warning!! this is for the gullible and/or those who believe this shallow pretentious crap should be considered great art! wise up.

I love watching these. Makes me feel like I'm back in ACS class...so many great memories! :-)

Please don’t stop posting. Its good good stuff

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Amazing!