4/4 The Glorious Grinling Gibbons - Carved with Love

[@finch45lear]

Gibbons work is splendid and should remain a treasure for all to appreciate. Wonderful documentary thanks for sharing.

[@lordwessex9553]

A great series of videos. Also good to see the carver David Esterly who died 2 years ago, but tragic as it was from Motor Neurone Disease.

[@jeanto7739]

David Esterly fue un gran tallador. Amigo, qué madera usó Grinling Gibbons??

[@megaswenson]

The commercial for this, was for some sort of vacuum duster, with many little sucking straws - perfect for getting into tight spaces. How appropriate - although I'd never allow anything but the softest artist's brushes, for fine wood carvings.

[@catsinhouse]

Thank you for posting this. Splendid documentary.

[@impunitythebagpuss]

Breathtaking is the word! Amazing!

[@thondupandrugtsang]

Gibbons should be celebrated up there with the likes of Michael Angelo.

[@shaneraven2621]

As a man who took part in this film I totally agree with you.

[@EleanorCharlotte8855]

A very interesting and insightful video. He gave a breath of life to every single petal and foilage by his hands. The leaves and flowers do look forever alive. It was particularly interesting to see how the woodcaver's hands might have looked like in his portrait, and to imagine how they might have used the delicate movement through their hands. Love to know more about the life and career of the artists involved here.

[@ralphpaxton3634]

InstaBlaster...

[@cherylsemrau7100]

Amazing.

[@musamor75]

stefanos2691 It's good of you to take an interest in this unique and inimitable carver. I hope you saw all four KZbin videos. The documentary is well done all round, because it does put quite a few things in their historical context. However, I will recommend the two main.specialised books on this genius: 1) "Grinling Gibbons & the English Woodcarving Tradition" by Frederick Oughton , Stobart:London (excellent and authorative!), 2) "Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving" by David Esterly, V&A Publications. The fact that he (Gibbons) is little known can be only explained by the fact that we today live in an age of mediocrity and self-glorification. The ancient Masters, no matter how talented, knew the merits of hard work, humbleness, and kept the sacred flame of the Ideal of Beauty all through their lives, without the aid of media, publicity, and alot of other detractors that sever Man from Nature. Today, only a few of us-if we take the pain to do so- can admire these Great Men.

[@juliancoulden1753]

Extraordinary

[@graphiquejack]

I find it amusing that in the Duke of Somerset's House, instead of his ancestor, Jane Seymour, the queen under Henry VIII's large portrait is her rival, Anne Boleyn, in a small portrait just above the fireplace in pride of place.

[@TheFiown]

I went to school in Scotland in the 60's and we were taught woodwork, metal work, architectural drawing, painting , sewing, cooking, sailing and tons of sports, today girls cannot sew on a button and boys don't use their hands except for texting !! sad ,,

[@chadsimmons6347]

How on earth can you carve stuff that delicate, without any modern power tools?

[@muskduh]

Geniuses gon' genius.

[@johnstrawson8226]

Did anyone notice when he ( the woodcarver and historian ) tries to show us the difference between lime wood or whatever and the wood they used to use. So he's going perfectly with the grain with the line wood and against the grain with the ( Old ) Wood. If it's so different why try and do a little cheat like that. Kinda weird. Yes I've worked with wood so I know what he's doing. Very strange.

[@sutil5078]

renovate or die professionally, is the key when it comes to earn a living personally I do not like his work at all, he is very talented no doubt, but every major works of his looks like a mound of zillion objects put together glued without harmony. Plus wood look dark, so it cast an even darker shdow, shade upon shade, and you can not not make anything out of it. At least if it were light in color like marble ..

[@peterkohn2517]

limewood is naturally light, only later taste darkened these carvings dark brown

[@sutil5078]

So it darken with time? thanks for the info Peter

[@peterkohn2517]

@@sutil5078 Sadly, many were deliberately darkened to suit later aesthetic tastes

[@jeanto7739]

@@peterkohn2517 Dude, what wood did Grinling Gibbons use? Linden? I read around that he used Oak wood.