Meadowlark - A James Jean Solo Exhibition | Exhibition Walkthrough with James

[@tierrabutler3577]

As someone in art school right now i just love how he has all these skills character design, storytelling, sculpture, typography with some graphic design, he way he intertwines all these skills to create some beautiful cohesive and meaningful work is amazing

[@jmaryya]

his work pulls u in so tight you can’t breath and then throws you aback so intensely far that everything is felt all at once

[@bloomsum]

I love this work of art, he is one authentic colourist, good to see new art with so much meaning, connection and beauty, thank you.

[@Toribell1928]

His sense of color is amazing

[@GodLovesComics]

It's perfectly fine to refer to him as James Genius. I interviewed JJ way back in 2003 and he was kind enough to even provide the cover for my magazine. That was when he was still painting covers for DC Comics (primarily Fables). Was sad to see him leave comics, but I know he preferred single images over sequential storytelling. I'll never be able to afford one of his extraordinary paintings, but I do still have a production sketch he did for Chris Nolan's Batman Begins film. I paid $30 for it.

[@arnold2428]

Such a cool story. Where can we find that cover? I believe James was still in art school around that time. Always a trip to see his younger work/early career as an illustrator!

[@ayitm]

When he was in my city, I had a chance to meet him. He made a sketch of me. I have kept that sketch and taken it with me wherever I lived.

[@christianvargas7009]

So incredible 😮 and the way he closes is so funny to me 😂 "i think thats it"

[@brujeriastudios1981]

What a gift this video is! Absolutely amazing to hear James speak about his extraordinary art and process. I was lucky enough to go and see the show in person and am now even more of an admirer. 😊

[@TurnThePage-cp5ce]

Same. I'm a really big admirer of his work. When this video showed in my feed I clicked so fast...Really geeked out 😂

[@dreamlaughwishful]

This work is incredible. I’ve never seen any work like this before. His work is worth traveling for, wow.

[@GingerKitty293]

Am in awe of the dedication, patience, authenticity & talent I see in this work. My favourite piece is Dragon Girl. Thank u for sharing this with wannabe artists like me.

[@TurnThePage-cp5ce]

James's work is very complicated but I love his creativity and the colors he use. It's fascinating

[@MkayKaye]

Stunning. And thank you to him for sharing process and vulnerability behind the visual concepts themselves.

[@berjo]

Not being able to connect with certain aspects of one's culture definitely resonates with me. You can see the beautiful dedication and mastery in James' work. I've followed his art for the past 20 years and it's amazing to see how his painting style has evolved over the years.

[@Barock-mt8bc]

I am so happy to discover today this great artist with an incredible creativity, who is also a true man of culture. I feel lucky 🌱

[@brendawillems4804]

I am á hugeeeeeee fan of your stunning work❗️👏💯👌🏾❤️‍🔥 Thanks for sharing and explaining your pieces!

[@codeninja100]

The color palettes of James Jeans works always amaze me. Such a refined and innovative application of something so simple.

[@giovannifurnari8668]

That sculpture ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Love this guy ❤

[@tokewarming]

Nice! Beautiful Art

[@leroyk6169]

wow! i love his work, he is so inspiring.

[@suzannewalker6741]

Beautiful works! Amazing colors, compositions and storytelling.

[@jeandarc1980]

Impressive and poetic, Love it!

[@nancye7520]

Absolutely inspired work. Each one tells a story. The technique and style is clean and full of beauty even when expressing something sad.

[@robertjschroff6307]

Outstandingly beautiful and also very exciting artwork.

[@nadiasankar67]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.......been a fan for years!!!...love your work!!!...

[@chondele]

I remember when he just burst into the art world. God, what a time to be alive!🤩😄

[@deannfrey3469]

I really love his interpretation of his paintings. ❤

[@chantalrochon3566]

Thank you for sharing this video. Enjoyed the artists narration and his explanation for the artworks❤😊❤😊

[@GeorgeJimenezart]

James Jean will always be the real deal

[@TorchySmurf]

Yonan is so good! I'm infatuated with the color and composition.

[@zargonfuture4046]

I like the surrealism in thought and image, yet each item in the painting are real in their own right and are very rigidly correct graphically .. You can read many things into the imagery as viewers react to the imagery differently based on what's goung on within them.. The colours are ice-cream beautiful and at the same time disconcerting... Nice works..

[@pauloclavero184]

Beautiful words and descriptions to go with your Art work.. thank you for Sharing, sorry for the loss of language..

[@jonahart8095]

so unique. i love this style. i love it.

[@plantsforlife1120]

AMAZING WORK!!!!!! Thank you James Jean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@petitelocal]

Absolutely Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@AMEHOELA]

True legend! 🔥

[@creativelabspace]

Beautiful!

[@everydaysamething]

I'll go to one of your exhibitions one day one of the few legendary illustrators/fine artists of our time

[@Njordok]

Really enjoyed this tour and the detailed explanations of the work process, hidden meanings and ideas. Very interesting!

[@AI-xs4fp]

I just missed the show! Beautiful creations.

[@Kontorgh_art]

Beautiful paintings.

[@76652-j]

I'm amazed ❤

[@vaughngaminghd]

Great to see James Jean talk about his work… Too bad about that constant beeping!

[@hondorama]

Wonderful . Thank you.

[@pepelepeau]

Yay! This is good stuff! Reminds me of Kenny Scharf, a little bit of Keith Haring and Stephen Sprouse and of course Walt Disney!

[@sometimesjacob]

Bravo 👏🏼

[@androidjones5209]

The GOAT !

[@Mr.Monster1313]

Great art...wow

[@berneyknox]

I LOVE YOU OMG

[@inf0tr8r]

This is one of the reasons Vancouver is the best city in the world.

[@aoki556]

I like him all over again now

[@AlexaOleksa]

I found J Jean works somewhen in 2018, then i became fan of BTS, and in 2021 James Jean did collab with them he made seven huge paintings representing each member of the group. I am amazed with his imagination and color work. Also his layers are so complex and he uses enamel also if i am not mistaken...it is always a treat when he posts speed paint video

[@Moodboard39]

Looks like a girl did that lol

[@gonzameza5198]

Inspirador.

[@CelestialShaman44]

The art is very dream visons of mythical yearning.

[@tabuena.fineart]

Fantastical surrealist

[@pattykelly6621]

He did the sketches for these works a year ago? Impressive. And beautiful.

[@mariafernandez5087]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@xitapedrao1377]

He painting nature with strong colors

[@DanielRojas-wk1oh]

🖤

[@Mithras444]

I might have missed it, but is this Arylic paint? Also GREAT SHOW thank you! I love your work!!!❤😊 Also love you show your thumbnails to your paintings! And choosing your pallette! I hope you get better with your Mandarin.❤

[@dallassegno]

Yes acrylic

[@Mithras444]

@@dallassegno Thank you very much.

[@coolcoolercoolest212]

Great art, good interview. Someone needs to get him a duolingo membership because it sounds like he really wants to learn Chinese.

[@damiloification]

lol

[@Moodboard39]

Lol family pressure...I guess .he could relax we not in Taiwan ...Taiwan ain't Chinese language doofu

[@AndersonAdoN]

💚

[@TheBlueFishHotel]

If you know James Jean, you know he hates explaining his paintings. “I like to let the work speak for itself.” He said once. So you know this was really hard for him to go on a rant about his work 😂😂 😂

[@MauricioTapia]

😍

[@ktpeng-zp4qm]

마지막에 한국어 하신건가요

[@glowboyglow315]

Your art is amazing. Just love your style. You don´t need all those stains, dots, grunge textures on all those big beautiful paintings. Sometimes less is more:) I am a perfectionist and it hurts when i get stains, spots on my clothing haha.

[@jmaryya]

i think he adds and keeps those marks because they support his theme of miscommunication : the imperfect within what appears to be perfect but is filled with ‘flaws or quirks” ?

[@93hothead]

When he just makes art, but needs to do a presentation so he is just winging it and explaining whatever he is seeing lmao

[@archadeinteriors]

now that i know you have a comics background it makes sense, i was going to say i can see there is definitely nothing pertaining to the world of academic " fine art ", the art history cannon of art. These works do indeed seem like blown up versions of little comics, i can't help try to encourage immersion into the world of fine arts education, and not be afraid of it. I grew up loving comics and drawing as a North American kid and really was completely clueless about fine art, till post secondary education, there, where i learned of the big ol' world of "art " and the world of painting proper, for lack of a better description, that exists. I think a lot of people with a more graphic art background reject the "art" world, but if you actually are immersed in the cannon of art, it eventually succeeds in opening your eyes and soul, that is if it doesn't totally offend you or disinterest you outright, but on that note, i think it might be a good conclusion of thoughts to say that fine arts at it's best can tend toward the " spiritual" in art, to borrow Kandinsky's term, whereas i think the graphic arts tradition possibly leans more towards fashion or industry : )

[@mojoryse7836]

all these negative comments are just seething with cope 😂

[@GodLovesComics]

Where are the "negative" comments? I see nothing but praise.

[@SW-zb6bf]

Great art, but he's spewing nonsense

[@melissakennedy5897]

@@GodLovesComics i’ve noticed that people say that maybe they just want likes I don’t get it. They’ll talk about all the negative comments and then you looked down there and there’s nothing and this has been happening a lot lately so that’s very strange.

[@melissakennedy5897]

@@SW-zb6bfsometimes artists are a bit like that

[@GodLovesComics]

@@melissakennedy5897 Yeah that one may have been bait. I do often see streamers/youtubers (or their fans) complain about all the negative comments and there will be a thousand filled with drooling praise and maybe one mildly critical one if that. It never fails.

[@biancaglitterati7922]

👏🪷

[@denisedecarlo9311]

Script is very 60's. look at the posters from the 60's

[@michaelepp6212]

or Art Nouveau

[@HandleToBeDetermined]

With how much floral motif James Jean uses, I think it's intentional

[@hiimnewhere]

used to love james' stuff until he sold out to the nft grift 🤮 traitor

[@vladgromov2684]

Это не живопись нету глубины цвета

[@JustTiisLeague]

If he struggles to connect with meaning making what is stopping him from going home and why doesn’t he empower himself to learn his native language? He should stay for a couple of years in Taiwan and immerse himself in his culture.

[@barbaricbri]

Ppl will overlook art like this but call an entire canvas of a shade a blue a “masterpiece” 🤡

[@armandogavilan1815]

The silver sculpture of the kid really is cheesy but the paintings are cool.

[@matthiasbargholz5126]

Comic for Kids.

[@williamroberts1819]

It's as if a video gamer/comic book fan just got out of art school. Or he just fished ideas out of an AI program.

[@dallassegno]

The envy is palpable

[@williamroberts1819]

@@dallassegno Envy the comic book character?

[@HandleToBeDetermined]

Sorry to say, Matthias, but I looked at your channel. The German Expressionism train passed by 100 years ago.

[@sapphic.flower]

name me the kid comic you're thinking of because it sounds like a visually stunning trip

[@SymbolsPatternsGnosis]

Viscously overrated coloring book artist glazes paint by numbers histhe assistants actually paint. Another monetized sketchbook scam. Razzle dazzle

[@williamroberts1819]

Im not i to the videogame comic book looks. Its as if he was influenced by AI designs.

[@baumhan]

He’s been working on this style for decades.

[@williamroberts1819]

@@baumhan So has many others including AI. Nothing wrong with a winning formula but do we can it fine art? Or do we call it original art? I don't think so my friend.

[@williamroberts1819]

@@MeisterCooke I have a clue. It looks like crappy AI generated art. Or just look I to any comic book store. The clues are all around us my friend.

[@HandleToBeDetermined]

Granted, James Jean did work on covers for The Fables comic series so you're not wrong about the comic-illustrative look of his paintings. If you're questioning his credentials as a fine artist, you can see his evolution from a more academic style to the more stylized works in present. His technical prowess and understanding of colors is comparable to the draftsmen of the old from the sketches he did in 2008-09.

[@jordanromano4452]

You’re hella ignorant of this man’s portfolio to comment something like that

[@Moodboard39]

It looks more like a woman did it 😂 what's up with the kiddy like art ? Pinkish etc .. I would've questioned his method in doing that art ....

[@vaIentinerose]

Just say you know nothing and be quiet

[@carbonfiberwizard5416]

very good artist, but who else lost a million neurons, from hearing so many uhmmms.. uhhhs..

[@Moodboard39]

They shouldve edit that out

[@Moodboard39]

Assuming hes gay ...

[@jmaryya]

awww and im assuming ur an insecure incel 😊

[@CarlosCalvoG]

😍