How to Compose Your Paintings. Cesar Santos vlog 045

Composition can be very intricate and complicated to explain since it comes from intuition. I walk through the museum looking at how the elements were arranged in terms of value, depth, color and linear layout.
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[@nikolabackovic6621]

Let's rap this coment up ...Cesar you are the art king ,about paintings you know everything 😀

[@CPTkeyes317]

Around 12:30 when the king looks just like Cesar

[@vfxhomie8141]

In a time period where contemporary art is praised; I love seeing someone who still has a passion and love for the old masters. We need another renaissance in modern times, so that we can show people that art is truly beautiful.

[@rdnylj]

You explain art better than any teacher i ever had, Thank You.

[@Elderscroller]

You´re a great teacher, very passionate, never dull and communicating knowledge very well! Keep the vids coming :)

[@becky3064]

What a fantastic video! You are truly so generous to share your knowledge with us Cesar. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@rosered103]

Absolutely!

[@rosered103]

Thank you for being you! I love your "strolls" through galleries and your wonderful explanations of what and why. Now I get it! Really get it, where I struggled before to comprehend, now I can apply what you have explained to canvas. Your teaching style is great! Please keep doing your galleries...they are so loved, as is your art!

[@markcaselius5993]

I always get so much from your videos. Not just the hows but, the whys. Really helps me re-see my own work.

[@daleg9355]

I love your museum visits! Please travel the world for me!

[@rosered103]

I agree!

[@SebastianTinajero]

And take me with lol

[@ronaldoadoptante9539]

You really know what you’re talking about.....a real artist from inside and out....bravo!

[@jbonemansho]

You are an incredible teacher. Easy to understand concepts, insight and instruction. Gracias de nuevo.

[@crisalidathomassie1811]

An eye opening video to look for the most important areas when painting. Absolutely genius! Thanks so much for the detailed and visually explanation.

[@MrKatzuka]

your ideology has really resonated with the way i work, thank you for sharing all your tips and tricks with us. reason why never went to art school was because all the schools here in Puerto Rico pretty much reject the "classical" style of representational drawing, so i took my own route XD cheers!

[@SurajVerma-wp1bf]

Very helpful.. thank you very much.. upload more like these.. thank you again👍👍

[@maaleize]

I'm french art student and I love you

[@tomsabatello]

Cesar, you have an amazing way of articulating. I have learned so much from your breakdowns of the classical paintings in all respects. Thank you so much!

[@Mixawelle]

Thank You Grand Maestro for sharing your knowledge with us! Your work is an inspiration for me! 👍 🎨 👏

[@wildroses6667]

Thanks for this video Cesar! That was a proper lecture on composition! We always learn so much from your videos!

[@mazinalmoumen]

Great presentation with deep artistic knowledge ✌️

[@alikiran6109]

after 2 videos of you, considering how much I learned from you, I respect you. fantastic. I was trying to buy books to tell me about these.

[@roxannekeomaka4754]

I loved looking at the comps in quarters. Thirds confuse me. My eye is everywhere in thirds. I will never look at composition any other way again. Great tips about the cools and the reds and supporting muted colors. Thank you

[@canalcerrado2433]

Very nice... never thought of that cross idea, also composition depends much about the “historia” or the narrative part, describing what stories are told within the visual vocabulary explains why the painter uses those compositional techniques... they go hand in hand...enjoying these videos👍

[@bradwatson7324]

Excellent, Cesar. Thank you! 😊

[@adildraws]

Your explanation are just amazing and entertaining. I'm taking painting class next semester.

[@supersaiyan_420]

This guy is just too great ..

[@LaVictoireRosee]

Wow. best lesson ever!

[@mihaelacolibasu5753]

You are great! Love your videos ❤️🙏👍

[@generalfishcake]

Fantastic analysis! Great observations. It actually helped me with my current painting :)

[@thenoodledog]

You are a great teacher and inspire:)

[@VIJAY-hw3lt]

I love your paintings

[@drbnanda]

Love your explanations

[@mateusfontes8080]

Always very good !

[@josephtermeer4595]

Your rap... Its perfect!

[@CLdrums]

Great video. Cheers, Cesar! :)

[@bulanhu]

Damn I got fast notice!!! Great video man!

[@lukaszwawrzyszczuk6591]

true artist

[@jessejzetteart5180]

Thank u, Cesar

[@osnieldiazyings9162]

gracias por mostrar y dar conócimiento

[@nambundilko]

I love your vlogs. :)

[@josephtermeer4595]

Cesar, I even appreciate your blue stripped shirt contrasting with your beard!

[@garywillis7467]

Joseph Ter Meer 🤣🤭

[@turgorojare575]

Awesome sir, but could you name the paintings you saw so I could study them with what you have said in mind as I copy?

[@j.mthierryjerome9296]

Great video

[@Onnya-Lemox]

Very nice video. Will you ever give suggestions on composition for portraits (of just one person)? It's hard to find good advice on that, and I don't relate much to tutorials for photographers, the approach of a painter is different. Thanks, if you ever want to take my suggestion, and thanks in any case for your nice channel.

[@artriot4758]

Check out his portrait video. CESAR SANTOS: SECRETS OF PORTRAIT PAINTING

[@Onnya-Lemox]

I know that video, but it's not exactly on what I'm talking about. Anyway, thanks for trying to help.

[@sorsofia]

I wish you would put the titles and artists names so we can study these elsewhere.

[@aenicolas]

I can only help with the last one: "Salome" painted by Robert Henri in 1909.

[@Nivenization]

Thank you.

[@sebastianrafiq4107]

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@akayaannlevinzer7857]

In 13:43 is it judith and holofernes? Who is the artist?

[@onoriacarrasco7165]

hola Cesar porque no traduces por escrito en español no hablo Ingles soy de Venezuela y me gustan tus videos. Dios te Bendiga. Gracias

[@esraaezz162]

great .... what is the name of the last painting please

[@flowingqi8735]

"Salome " Robert Henri

[@redhawktojtli3618]

Please note the names of the paintings and the artists you analizd for us so maybe we can look for them and analize the points your making after watching the video. Thanks for inspiring.

[@OliviaMomich9214]

🖌💬💙

[@ilcaravaggio3740]

who’s the last painting from?

[@mellamoarts]

Salome by Henri Robert

[@adildraws]

You are comedian artist. Lol. !

[@ador.anomie82]

Sinister and baroque lines

[@Miserableplace]

4th comment.

[@АлександрСавенко-я2щ]

Santos вітаю!як можна скинуть тобі бабла на карточку?твої роботи блискучі!я хочу малювати так як ти!та я розумію що ти нікому нічого не винен!тож навіть дивитися тебе -чути та розуміти в інтернеті-цього навіть вже дуже багато !щоб чомусь навчитися!тому я готовий тобі навіть за це платити!бо в тобі безцінний талант!тож непогано було б !щоб ти дав якось можливість тобі платити гроші!за ці безцінні відео!надхнення тобі!божої любові!та божого благословення!

[@dragonsong86]

Visual arts is the oldest of all the art forms? I haven't researched that, but I find it very hard to believe. Visual art is older than singing? Older than somebody beating out a rhythm on a rock? hmmm.... I'm not saying he's definitely wrong, I'm just saying, hmmm....

[@procrast]

yep, I´m pretty sure music is the 1st art tho drawing with a stick on the ground must have happened not too long after beating bones on a rock

[@artriot4758]

Don't you think people arranged things and ascribed meaning and arrangement to things in their environment?

[@dragonsong86]

Fair point, Art Riot. Possibly, I suppose. I guess it then depends on how loose your definition of art is. And whether people started humming or arranging first, which I reckon we'll never really know. lol

[@artriot4758]

dragonsong86 I believe that the capacity or tendency to ascribe meaning to objects is considered one of the markers of the threshold of consciousnesses?

[@isabeedemski3635]

dragonsong86 i

[@AnhjunLozfen]

Cuban? LIES...! Cesar, you're obviously an Italian time-traveler from... The Renaissance!

[@frostycold1689]

Mean while a dudes head is on a plate in the first picture reminding you that heads will roll if you don’t do that painting right

[@anonymalias]

if i could paint like you i would try to rearrange this picture 18:00 . I would set the second guy with the turban and white beard on position of the nude girl and play with the positions - this could be funny

[@dickbudig6693]

Cesar . . . Speak to us about green . . . the green I see in the cheek of the woman in your first part of your subject in this video. I also see a green cheeked-woman in Boureureau's painting of Grabriel Cot. Can, or will you tell us how this is done . . . which green is used/mixed so that it gives the appearance of flesh, and yet clearly looks green.