Barnett Newman speaks about his Art

[@hartgetzen7867]

Thank you for putting this video up. For me, Newman took painting to its conclusion. Far and away my favorite artist.

[@kunstspektrum]

Very great!

[@adamstejskal8106]

I really love Newman's work and use of creating the illusion of depth and space with his zips. I actually do some painting as a hobby and I'm exploring how I can take these zips to the next step.

[@DrMrManGuy]

Looking at a comments section on youtube about art is like watching a bunch of chimpanzees try to figure out a toaster.

[@markofsaltburn]

True. That’s why I only came here to say how strangely sexy he is.

[@sonjar1853]

Art is a man made vehicle of communication of unusual aesthetic perception, capturing an essence, and touching the heart, to be displayed, digested, and reflected upon. Whether it is the visual arts, or theatre, or music. An art professor of mine once said, it is the appleness of the apple the artist tries to capture. Schools teach us the sun has to be yellow. It doesn’t. As concerns abstract art, the seemingly simple is actually complex, thought wise. There is a distinction to be made between conception(complex) and execution(sometimes less complex). Newman’s genius lies in the immense beauty of his playing with color, line, texture, hard edge vs non-hard edge, the components of art. Abstract art is reduced, non-objective work, non-representational work.

[@chezceleste]

Well spoken.

[@sashadomo3100]

The first time I saw a Newman Painting, i froze in shock. So good!

[@ArranVid]

@@sashadomo3100 lol

[@paigeopenshaw3798]

I believe anything can be art as long as you explain it to the point people think you are smart. I've done it several times in class now, last minute art response of just throwing paint at some paper or putting holes into a cup and letting water pout out of it. I have no clue what it means but because I made it sound like I did, my teacher loves it. Art is a strange subject, anyone can do it, you literally just need to be good with words and people will love it.

[@EverlastMsg]

Paige Openshaw you are kinda wrong. Art is not only about words but it's especially about feelings and emotions. When you manage to broadcast your emotions through an artifact, you have performed art.

[@THE_IMMORTAL_JOE]

achterlijk wijf!

[@AldoApachi-]

All tough Barett Newman's art requires practically zero skill, I enjoy his paintings. They give me some kind of feeling of comfort, or calmness. I don't think they should cost 44$ million, but it's an interesting hindsight.

[@nardini87]

Creating something that is visually interesting and being able to manifest a meaning behind is not art whatsoever.. that is the direct opposite of art.. See your problem is what you're describing does not define the word you're focusing on. Art is expression .. An artist has not only a will but an instinct to manifest emotions and experiences into something that is also visually pleasant to look at. You describe one class in which your teacher was probably completely aware of what you were doing and didn't want to embarrass you, or she was as ignorant as you. What you created was not art, but a piece of the machine of manipulation and fabrication that art stands to defile.

[@kristiann4346]

Paige Openshaw thats why its all complete bs

[@citruses]

I love him

[@uuuuu1111]

Thank you for putting this up

[@lucsteurbaut6748]

His paintings are very beautiful

[@richardmackota5267]

they are, especially if you see them in person

[@richardmackota5267]

take it easy, it's only art my friend

[@lucsteurbaut6748]

I haven't seen backfire 1 but cathedra is the most beautiful landscape have ever seen. Vermeer his landscape has the same impact to me

[@richardmackota5267]

Vermeer's landscapes have the same impact? HA! Newman would have loved to have heard that......ha! to think that he got the same reaction from a painting that probably took an hour to produce compared to Vermeer's probably taking several days, if not weeks would have given him great satisfaction.

[@ReiChiquita567]

@@richardmackota5267 hours? They spent a full YEAR trying to restore "who is afraid of red yellow and blue 3" (and they failled)

[@1..0w0..3]

Me: let's focus on what he says about the "zips" in his paintings. Him looking at the zip: so what had I done? what was it? My brain: look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane.

[@rasplez9889]

That quote at 6:10 was by Ad Reinhardt, not Newman.

[@keylupveintisiete7552]

Can you provide proof? Thanks!

[@jazw4649]

@@keylupveintisiete7552 Ad Reinhardt, yes, it is for sure a mistake. There's this thing... its called an internet search engine... Google.. have you heard of it? ... You can find proof for yourself on there.

[@chezceleste]

What brings the envious and the haters to look at art videos...if you don't like something, why bother....it's not like I look at videos about office management or van driving or jobsworth subjects and then start to attack them for being boring or overpaid...I just don't go there...I know these kinds of places are the natural habitat of the art haters and I leave them to their world....there's really something wrong with you if you want to hate dead artists when the 20th Century gave the world so much to hate....Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Margaret Thatcher, most American presidents, Isis, hurricanes, tsunamis, AIDS, famine, refugees....how can you get so animated about Barnett Newman....where did you hear about him, what monstrous form does he assume in your minds or maybe you are all just seeing RED...proving that his art is effective. I rest my case.

[@chezceleste]

@star 3 But I bet you know nothing at all about painting and don't even think about it...he was a painter...if the corporate world want to usurp his art when he's dead then it's not really his problem is it?? ...it's not like he painted over those Leonardos and Rembrandts that you love so much...and it's not a herd mentality that appreciates art...only 1% of people ever leave their house to go to an art exhibition in their whole life...you are the herd mentality, common sense feet of clay envious and semi-literate masses that feel they have to comment when their simple view of the world seems threatened...yes, you could paint pictures like that, but did you? Did you ever see a Barnett Newman in the flesh? Have you ever been to an art gallery??? Have you ever bought an original work of art from a struggling artist who has not been exploited by the corporate world?? I doubt it. Make America Great Again...support the arts....wonder what your views are on classical literature, architecture and philosophy...love to see you post a video of your musings.

[@chezceleste]

@star 3 That's a beautiful reply and I thank you for that. I don't want to win an argument but I love to help to open people's eyes to the possibilities of art, which, to me, is the most magical thing in the world and although we don't all like the same things at the same time, the existence of different kinds of art doesn't hurt us or diminish other kinds of art. In the 20th century, the world stopped standing still and space travel and nuclear explosions and cars etc made the world a blur of colours and emotions and the camera recorded apparent reality which had previously been the responsibility of artists. We just don't see things until our experience catches up and keeping an open mind and believing in the integrity of artists (people who love money become merchant bankers, not artists) we may get a sudden rush of recognition and kindred spirit across the ages...whether cave paintings or Barnet Newman or Leonardo. I never got Piet Mondrian til I found myself wandering round Rotterdam in the night when it suddenly hit me like a sledgehammer. I've enjoyed our debate and I wish you much joy in your appreciation of art...your own included because your own art is probably the best.

[@chezceleste]

@star 3 Hey Star 3...just wrote you a long reply and it has disappeared...but just to say that is a great and noble thing to say and I hope your appreciation of art is enhanced and your own art can flourish.

[@chezceleste]

@star 3 Corrupt politicians, bankers, bent cops, poverty, prejudice, cruelty are things that make me mad. Art is like the menu in a restaurant...I don't have to like everything on the menu, but it doesn't bother me if other people like things I don't. I have been an artist since I was old enough to hold a pencil...about 60 years ago, and I reject the gallery system and the money people who want to control what you do and I don't care about money and I love my own work and I don't want to be famous or called a genius...I just want materials to create with and do whatever I feel and if one person likes it, that's fine by me...even if I am that only person and I'm sure most artists would probably feel the same but it's easy to get misled by flattery and money and so many successful (fame fortune) artists become victims and lose themselves. I envy those stone age artists whose names we don't know and who must never have expected their work to be discovered in caves 30,000 years later...pure.

[@chezceleste]

@star 3 Being an artist seems to me like something you can't escape from and I never judge art or think about genius...you just do what you do and it's not to get compliments or give people what they want....all our experiences are unique and Picasso didn't sell any work for years when he stopped giving people what they wanted and poor old Van Goch never sold a painting ever because at that time, no one got it...but there are great artists who you never heard of...theres a great video on KZbin called Outsider Art...mainly artists in asylums around the world...kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2m1hoiei8x_iJI...check it out.

[@esauvelasquez3484]

This video was very interesting I understand the author was going in detail about his work but it seem a lot to take in . Considering that the video seems a little outdated but over all the author purpose in Making this video is very educational and some of the part pieces he used were very old and not modern . -Esau velasquez

[@michaelh2541]

Newman is a legend anyone who thinks otherwise probs loves banksy.

[@chopin65]

Michael H I love both.

[@chezceleste]

@@chopin65 Only there is no Banksy...just a clever conspiracy of dealers and banks which milks the anarchist market for massive profit.

[@chezceleste]

Well said.

[@da1t036]

What’s wrong with Banksy?

[@aspiknf]

Newman is no legend, a kid could do his stuff. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Raphael are legends.

[@taylorervin264]

What's the original source of that interview?

[@people174]

I Like his art, his pieces always have serious presence despite (lets be honest here) it just being a line. (edit: FUCK ROTHCO ALL MY HOMIES HATE ROTHCO)

[@violetartichoke]

To all who are calling Mr. Newman a con artist: open your minds a little. Read, learn, think, and perhaps most of all, look. Mass media (television, pop songs, etc.) have taught us that art should be dumbed-down, obvious and self-evident. Whether you like what Newman is doing is almost beside the point; you should at least try to understand it before you dismiss it out-of-hand.

[@boleyn123]

You are absolutely right, I think. Mr. Newman's colossal paintings are breathtaking. Had a friend who visited New York recently, who does not like modern art, but he said they are magnificent in a way that he could not explain (perhaps like most of us). I suppose they need to be contemplated over a long period rather than just glanced at. I'll get there one day hope.

[@violetartichoke]

Did you not read my comment? I said "Whether you like what Newman is doing is almost beside the point; you should at least try to understand it before you dismiss it out-of-hand." You have not tried to understand it. I don't disagree with you that video games are an amazing art form that doesn't receive enough credit. But I don't understand why video games and abstract paintings are somehow mutually exclusive; both can be appreciated for different reasons.

[@TheGoddon]

Any art that cannot be understood unless the artist himself explains it, according to me, is a pile of dog shit. Because if i ask someone other than the artist, to explain the meaning, they are going to tell me their own over-intellectual, bullshit interpretation of it. And a thousand different people are going to have a thousand different interpretations. As usual. What is the point of a painting if its meaning(expression) can never be certain?

[@jonathanmitchell9886]

"To be honest, my greatest gripe with such works is the ridiculous price that comes along with his art." And by what tortuous snarl of logic do you associate the artist with the price of the art? Newman died in 1970; he had nothing to do with the fact that someone paid $43.8 million for the painting at auction.

[@stephenpitkin5492]

prashams reddy , if the meaning of a piece of art were certain, it would be a street sign or a mystery novel where the ending is given away in the first page.

[@yohei72]

Which Christopher Guest mockumentary is this excerpted from?

[@deeplyseated7427]

Hearing him talk is better than looking at his Art.

[@zitoworkphone1800]

He was the master of artist double talk😊

[@markofsaltburn]

His style of dress was so outmoded that it was clearly a knowing affectation. I presume he was reacting to both the bohemian and blue collar pretensions of his post war contemporaries. Leonardo said that painters were gentlemen, and Newman was clearly one of those despite his spiritual ambitions. It was a style that suited him and it lent him a handsomeness that he wouldn’t have had otherwise.

[@lilamjazeefa9466]

Music name?

[@kamapogorzelska2707]

Hello, I would like to ask about the possibility of using this material for educational purposes. How could I contact you? Greetings

[@kunstspektrum]

Hello. I'm not the copyright owner. For me it's o.k.

[@kamapogorzelska2707]

Ok, thank you. What if I wanted to show an excerpt to a wider audience or even further share it. Do you perhaps know the owner of the rights to this footage? (for future reference)

[@kunstspektrum]

I think, then you need to have the permission of the copyright owner. Unfortunately I don't know who it is in this case.

[@kamapogorzelska2707]

Ok I see, thank you anyway :)@@kunstspektrum

[@beardmedia2661]

Hi I am interested in using this footage. What is the copyright status? Thanks, Katie

[@PingkomMes]

too bad there was no answer on this, im also struggling with using it...

[@deluxemediaservice]

@@PingkomMes This is from the movie Painters Painting from 1972 by Emile De Antonio - Hope this helps!

[@deluxemediaservice]

This is from the movie Painters Painting from 1972 by Emile De Antonio - Hope this helps!

[@jazw4649]

2:20 min Fred Flintstone voice

[@richardmackota5267]

This man is an absolute genius.

[@sonjar1853]

Thank you.

[@hectorlamar806]

Yeah, to retards. His "works" are shit.

[@JO-oc3ne]

Absolute genius in trolling

[@Purpurita_2023]

Comedic genius

[@vaibhavbiradar9451]

ya. looks at his square paintings man.

[@dormaettu302]

Music at the end ?

[@ollie-d]

I think so, yeah

[@saladdays4883]

“Anyone can do this”. Anyone didn’t. He did. Ha!!

[@vaibhavbiradar9451]

wow. take my millions.

[@chezceleste]

Well said...in a nutshell. Bravo.

[@krisc6216]

Is that the definition of what art should be about? doing something, that no one ever did before? What about doing something no one else can?

[@aspiknf]

Toddlers and kids already did this before Newman was born.

[@ReiChiquita567]

@@aspiknf so why dont you do it?

[@proych78]

You appreciate his art to show off that you are smart and an intellectual. For me Sistine Chapel or The Birth of Venus is art...

[@arctichare8185]

This is so damned interesting. That's the problem.

[@Jilli3331]

what year is this interview from??

[@eggman09]

it's from painters painting, a 1972 documentary.

[@333shayna]

Andy Davis but he died in 1970. Does anyone know the date of the interview ?

[@brahmarishi_mission]

is this philosophy or painting he's talking about? O~o

[@weirdguy4948]

Brahmarishi Mission art can be philosophy, just as philosophy can be art

[@vaibhavbiradar9451]

@@weirdguy4948 no.

[@myoldmanbaby]

both!

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

It's being. Conveyed visually

[@amandaalamarramsay2270]

biggest troll of all time

[@LordDirus007]

Amanda Alamar of the art world yes.

[@brianweaver0]

You mean like your comment?

[@starmanjesus5679]

you mean the troll with your name commenting one of the best painter of the century? yes

[@starwatcherusa]

I don't get it.

[@helgen1111]

7:08 49 millions

[@anuragpaul4039]

An important part of modern art is the cunning side of human psychology...and newman is recognised for the pretentious aspect of modern artists...and his paintings are the finest example of an "absurdist transition" in the visual art...

[@simongorremans438]

AL THE CHEMIST

[@jinny82]

Ok, I can do it, I can script this down for my niece ... * 40 seconds later* HAS ANYONE A SCRIPT?! T____T Ok, Englis isn't my language, but following what he is saying it's quite difficult, moreover if you are asked to write down every single word ... siiigh

[@buffhooper7417]

has he been drinking?

[@teflonmagnet]

@1:23 he takes a big swig of ice-chilled vodka...or possibly paint thinner. i think barnett never got over his beautiful dark hair going white. he was never the same. "paint your bald spot?"

[@buffhooper7417]

For a good laugh... smarthistory.khanacademy.org/barnett-newman.html Oh Tom Wolfe's the painted word!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gabrielgauvain1185]

Lıke that ❤️

[@jinny82]

Ceciiii ci sono i sottotitoli in ingleseeee (se ci torni) XDDDDDD Quindi adesso baro U_U

[@spacerider12]

he played them all. haha maybe i will become such a great artist (con-man) one day. one can only dream...

[@chezceleste]

Have you done your first work of art yet...maybe you could become a top athlete too...how hard can it be?? Just run round in circles. Just Do It.

[@jamesdude8399]

No matter how simple or complex his process was, he did what he loved and the sincerity shows through his paintings.

[@buffhooper7417]

"I prefer to let the paintings speak for themselves." I guess then that he painted over and over and only portraits of a young Helen Keller. Utter non-sense but that is what the art world wanted to achieve back then so I guess you achieved your goals Barry.

[@kennethmatthew9638]

HOW INSPIRING, A FUCKING LINE

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

Thank you for demonstrating the absolute truth of Western man: If I can't see it It's not there LMAO you just showed the world the origins of imperialistic genocide, abortion, and the massive greed shadow of the West That's hard to paint, so Goya did it as etchings Enjoy your clearly highly trained aesthetic analysis

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

Accidental fatuousness is still fatuous and hilarious Get this man a Greek chorus to justify his ignorance and a clown car to help us appreciate the quality of his thought

[@OrunitaVivi]

Profound statements + a canvas that requires no skill to create x good marketing = multi million dollar 'artwork.' Don't hate the player hate the game.

[@DrMrManGuy]

It did require skill tho

[@ReiChiquita567]

So why dont you replicate it?

[@OrunitaVivi]

@@ReiChiquita567 I will once I get a space to do it

[@jejh1971]

Word salad self-delusion.

[@SoWAHHHT]

Just fancy words.. I see no art. People still making money selling these garbage while real artists suffer... this world is strange.

[@chezceleste]

How much original art have you ever bought from suffering artists??

[@SoWAHHHT]

@@chezceleste a few ... and I am an artist myself (not the suffering one though .. I have other sources of income... not relying on this dodgy world of morden art. An art should speak for itself through visual sensory of an observer ... if it needs to be backed by verbal diarrhoea then it is not serving its purpose.

[@jameschi3223]

Barnett Newman is a clown

[@chezceleste]

He's dead...as will you be one day, but no one will notice your demise.

[@aspiknf]

@@chezceleste That was rude.

[@underthebridgetv7637]

His works are not art period.

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

The international universal art arbiter has spoken Please post your resume as international universal art arbiter thanks

[@aspiknf]

@@oceanecastelnau9821 His name is Michael Angelo Sabado and he is a better artist than Newman.

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

@@aspiknf LMAO next

[@aspiknf]

@@oceanecastelnau9821 By the way, I like your profile pic more than Newman's art...because I have always had love for the ocean because my family comes from an island and we have beaches. Newman's art...just bores me.

[@oceanecastelnau9821]

@@aspiknf That is not what I object to. What I object to is the arrogance of the notion that just because one personally cannot read a work of art, it means the works of the artist have no value. That strikes me as arrogance in the extreme, but only if one is not actually the arbiter of the transpersonal dimension that makes great art great art, and also if one is the sole possessor of the full human potential for different modes of perception, their awakening, training, and successful track record of originally accurate and defensible discernment, and the profound spiritual awareness to recognize portraits of reality even when the iconography, though arguaby within the parameters of the Western canon, is unquestionably also brand new.

[@talon6890]

what a con artist. made rich by the pseudo-intellectual hipsters of his day

[@richardmackota5267]

actually your totally wrong. mr newman helped lay the groundwork for minimalism and hard-edge painting that dominated NY art for most of the 1960's.....the only thing con about his work is possibly the 'con-fusion' that people might have in understanding the understatement of his subject matter

[@andrewchong8017]

"you look at it and you see it; and if you don't...." - 4:00

[@pooanddoo]

you're

[@superga5]

@Andrew Chong thannks for having spotted this. As Giorgio De Chrico said once about his dreamlike world vision: a part from the technical issues, i do not pretend that everybody finds something touching in my silent compositions. you have it or you just don't have it in yourself, there's nothing you can do about it. I think that this is the real truth, you surely can evolve your tastes etc.. but you need to feel in a visceral way at first, otherwise is just intellectual speculation in my opinion. and i kind of feel this in BN. That said, BN's trait is very clear/net and, being widely repurposed in different contests nowadays (have a look at instagrams minimal art/photos profiles) it seems not that original, but this doesn't mean that it lacks a certain complexity behind but maybe i'm wrong.

[@chezceleste]

That can't be your name even though it is perfect for someone with your opinions...though why would anyone choose that as a pseudo?

[@LordDirus007]

Terrible artist and the most overrated!

[@chezceleste]

Love to see your work...you must be an amazing artist...must google your name though never heard of it...no...no artists of that name

[@aaronhiggins986]

chezceleste so it’s about having the name not the talent... got it

[@LordDirus007]

@@chezceleste Yeah here is a the recipe. 1. Create some artwork (Can be any ol crap) 2. Live some crazy lifestyle 3. Die 4. Have some Art financier "Discover" the art in mysterious circumstance. 5. Create a massive amount of hype. 6. Watch a bunch of Plebs mouth water over the so called "Art"

[@chezceleste]

@@LordDirus007 Just do it then if it's that easy...and plebs perfer ball games and soap operas.

[@LordDirus007]

@@chezceleste Why so I can benefit "Big Art" It's all Corporate manufactured bullsh|t. Just look at the state of Music. The sh|t all sounds the same. The "Millennial Whoop" I am sorry you aren't going to convince me that a single paint line on canvas is somehow Revolutionary in art.

[@kristiann4346]

"Aesthetics is for painting as ornithology is for the birds" I'm sorry but that's a completely false statement lol. A painting isnt a living thing that has its own mind. Its literally created by a person, birds arent created by ornithology. So whether you like it or not you cant detach yourself from a painting as if it was created on its own, your aesthetics create the painting....literally just said stupid crap like this so he could get rich off his paintings. Whether it worked or not we shouldnt idolize him for this, its wrong

[@stephenpitkin5492]

Kristian Nunez Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, as ornithology is a scientific study of birds. Each, being noetic, is separate from the reality of its subject. He probably could have said that the map is not the territory, but it wouldn't be so nicely tailored to the subject of his discussion.

[@cuneytsonmez]

Modern art?! This guy was just an house painter. And not a good one. I wouldn't hire him.

[@armystud6929]

His work is junk. I can paint a line too