What a ridiculous critique of this piece. The stippling shows the intent of the photo not the expressions of the depicted. 0/10 evaluation.

What makes them a saint ?

And we think cops are bad NOW!

My god 😨

there certainly was a point.

Love your channel ❤

Besides the person paying his trumpet, this resembles serenity to me. I always feel this when I’m close to a large body of calm water.

I'd argue that if you see politics in EVERY piece of art, then maybe you are simply artistically blind. You cannot tell me that a simple art made by a child is also political, for example. How are landscapes political? Some art is political. And the other art is only political if you want it to be. You can twist and turn whatever you see to fit into your belief system. That doesn't mean all art is inherently political.

This is a wonderful video and analysis!!

I would call it the End of Big Ideas in any cultural discipline. Art now is fragmented into micro-ideas only if any and the rehashing of the past..

THIS IS SO COOL

Why do you care about other peoples man hours? I think you’re just jealous that you come up with it that you’re not smart enough to even build something like that that you can’t even comprehend or fathom what it’s used for you’re very ignorant person and I pity you do not suffice.

Very good analysis, all the best for future projects

Brilliant vid. Thank you.

Bravo🎉

Thanks -- bravo!!!

Bronze Nazareth

Art is not a progress.

You left Cubism out. One of the most important, in my view of course. You managed to mention every movement except that one.

Thanks for this video. God is interested in what his children thinks Proverbs 25:2 KJV It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the honor of kings to search out a matter

ypur insights are refreshing and well[articulated/ I hope you may go on to extend them into other artist"s exemplars - Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, deKooning, to cite a few

I concur and appreciate your definition of art…by God, He was just showing off by the time He got around to creating woman.

She is exhibiting July 1, 2024 at SFMOMA. I can't wait to Kara's work.

Rather a stretch to claim that power and wounds came from a portrait of Marlowe. Here's a man giving a feminist interpretation of the poem. Good for him. I think the poem, called just power, applied more broadly, too.

When you start pixelating works of art because of nudity you lose all credibility mate. What on earth has gone wrong with the world.

How are the ideas in this video, and even the concept of "naturalization" itself, not themselves mere artifacts, no more natural or real than what went before? Yet, you present them as if we have finally found the "Truth" (while you simultaneously lay a foundation for their deconstruction). Though I must admit, your explication of Durer's and Saville's paintings is brilliant. We are born a body; we do not exist without it. It exists before its conceptualization or representation. The classical Greeks, by the time the cultural artifacts we have from them were created, were not at this starting point, but they were fewer steps removed from it than we are. .

Great essay but I am surprised that you didn’t make much of sex and (given the cultural span of the essay) christian attitudes towards it. This is a story of men ogling women and the ideology you describe is in no small part a fig leaf (pun intended) to hide the perceived sinfulness or vulgarity of the transaction. This aspect is glaring in late allegories by salon painters such as Bouguereau, in whose work the lofty symbolism is at odds with the physicality of the bodies, which is the result of a centuries long arms race toward ever greater illusionism.

great video, subbed!

...im sorry but pixalating the paintings in your video ...contraducts the message in it...

Also a call back to Da Vinci’s mirrored writing.

The censorship is disgusting! Terrible! Censoring nature.

Always worth the patreon $

Oh, ffs...

Very interesting. Would love a follow up focused on male nudes and the narratives around them through history.

Wow, this really expanded my horizons. As an artist myself, I am trying to understand what my goal should be in art, and this video is very helpful. Thank you. Do you have any book or video recommendations on the philosophies of art?

Am I the only one that sees nipples on her knees? I was surprised he didn't mention it. Knees don't have those round red bits on them. About the shoes - they look to me like slingbacks that had an almost flat heel, and quite comfortable being soft leather. Not high heels. I think these are just a pair of her own shoes.

wow, very great subject and explanation.

This… this was AMAZING. I can only aspire to your level of understanding

Very interesting. I wasn't familiar with either piece before.

Great video - I saw this painting first at the YBA show in the 90s, after Saatchi bought it - the work then was overshadowed by a the work of a man, Marcus Harvey, whose portrait of a female child killer grabbed all the headlines. Then when the painting hit a new auction high for a living female artist a few years ago, she was overshadowed by a man again, as in the same auction was Banksy's dreadful and fake self-destruct painting which grabbed all the headlines. Thanks for the film!

An insightful and thought-provoking essay. As always, you've covered so much ground within a short span of time. Thanks for the list of references as well, but mostly thank you for always making my day.

You are a genius, James. So insightful and meaningful. (And, I, personally love your voice.)

If Jenny is looking into a mirror, then every person looking back at her is a reflection of her, like the plane is a portal into our world. Jenny in the painting is looking into our world and seeing all of femininity in her reflection. It also makes me think about how the painting inverts the male gaze.

I was 13, just starting to experiment with acrylics, when I first saw Jenny Saville's "Strategy" - on an album by the Manic Street Preachers. Bought it just for that cover (though the music ended up being the soundtrack of my angsty teenage years). Back then, I had never seen anything so real represented in art. There are still three somewhat faded A5 prints of it on my childhood bedroom. This video is excellent. Very well researched and beautifully presented despite the necessity to please the Algorithm Gods.

i always thought that the school was trying to find out whether there was a possibility that , in addition to body parts, they could harvest souls as well- though i was pretty stoned when i came up with this idea!

This is well explained. More people need to see this. It covers so much cultural and social territory relevant today.