More Than Boxing | George Bellows’ Art

[@Shawn.Grenier]

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[@Lomainium]

I freaken love the melt of color and the brushes’ texture like- I can’t stand how much I can’t put my finger on it but i swear it feels… like as if a hazy memory of some sorts.

[@Shawn.Grenier]

If you like the colors, you can check out the Maratta color system which Bellows and Henri often used in their paintings!

[@Masanumi]

Why did the live streaming stopped on sunday? Is it on another channel?

[@MissyGail4eva]

It's basking in the radiance of a summer day, the afternoon sun glazing the sky with such a white-hot vibrance it seemingly shears the very pigments from color itself. Then seeking a shaded shelter of soothing silhouettes and sable-soft serenity, you saunder inside. At once, a shimmering halo hovers in the periphery, pixie points of lights dancing about, then suddenly the darkness deepens from the outside inward; you blink twice, and poof.. it's just the scene before your eyes and not what your mind's eye had just seen before.

[@lovebug9696]

a split second

[@santiagoaguirre8152]

Thanks!

[@stev1c1]

as a big boxing fan, I enjoyed every minute of this video

[@Shawn.Grenier]

I'm very glad you did!!

[@Ariol.v.0]

Lmao i could tell you're a big boxing fan just from that kimura pfp

[@stev1c1]

@@Ariol.v.0 hajime no ippo is where it all started 4 or 5 years ago, after watching first couple of episodes I've watched the classics like Hagler vs Hearns, Ali vs Frazier, Tyson vs Holyfield and whatnot Now it's what I'm thinking of and what I'm doing 24/7 lmao, so fucking glad that I picked up that anime haha

[@Schizohandlers]

He had to make it about communism tho

[@cht2162]

@@Schizohandlers Russian Communism is State Capitalism.

[@jjunbeatable9522]

I'm glad you made a video Combining my 3 favorite subjects Art, Boxing and Politics

[@pjbutton3396]

Boxing is my favorite sport, and boxing in art is one of my favorite subjects. Fantastic video!

[@raulruiz9098]

It's stunning how the style of this boxing matches anticipates Francis Bacon's paintings

[@raulruiz9098]

Oh and just as I'm writing it you are saying the same on the video 😆

[@UsernameDell]

Yoo is that Burial? Love his stuff mate :D

[@ingridllinas5612]

Thanks for making me remember about Bellow’s paintings and his artworks at The Whitney Museum of American Art.

[@Ivan_p24]

Boxing and art, this video is amazing!! Thank you

[@nedanother9382]

wow, this is my introduction to these paintings and artist....amazing work. thanks for sharing

[@refugeinthewind]

Every second, every frame, every word... stunning quality. Keep it up, Shawn. Your contributions to the art world are so important.🙏🧡🙏

[@milaces1323]

Again, discovering artists i've never heard of thanks to you!

[@dees9502]

I’m a native New York City mouse and have always been fascinated by Manhattan’s rich cultural and social history. I LOVE boxing art in all forms, especially film and paintings (pre Ricky Schroeder and Leroy Newman, please). Bellows, like all the others you mention, were masters at capturing old NYC and keep that special place in history alive. Thanks for the outstanding video and all of your first class work 🙏

[@hojosconsal9913]

I remember having to write an essay about a piece of any artist of that era in my first year of college (arts degree). And I found a pic of "The lonely tenement" on a random book. There was something about his brush and lightning work that kept me looking at it. You could understand the context of a city mutating to accommodate the change of old times to the new industrial age, a growing population and decadence by reading the painting. Had fun writing that one

[@vicentejouclas2518]

Valeu!

[@dtcdragon7164]

I wanted to say I’ve been greatly enjoying the return to weekly videos. While your long-form videos were still well-made and interesting, the shorter form content I believe are incredible. Being able to just click on one of your videos, for only around 8-10 minutes long, yet still to gain so much information and analysis with such great detail is phenomenal. Your older videos were what peaked my interest in art and art history, and I’m glad you’ve not only returned to their excellence but improved on your presentation and style. Keep up the good work, The Canvas.

[@amertalibtawfeeq5725]

Your style of presenting and explaining has progressed ever since, thanks a lot for your beautiful efforts.

[@numbersix8919]

Outstanding. I knew not of the Ashcan School, please do more on them and Bellows any time you like.

[@nathang6376]

I just got to admire “Stag at Sharkey’s” in person today. My sister and I were at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I just watched this video last week, and had no idea it was part of my home city’s collection.

[@ludleththelost6824]

You got me with the Francis Bacon reference. Great stuff!

[@paulsoare2176]

Hey @the canvas can you please provide the exact photocopy of the "return of the useless" you showed us at 3:45? There are copies that dont exactly have the lovely colours that yours has. Thank you in advance!

[@Zoobastank]

love the ashcan school 🔥first learned about when reading about edward hopper and henri

[@yzma_the_great]

there is a george bellows piece at my local art museum. ‘The Knockout’. the first time i saw it, i was absolutely floored. its so dynamite and energetic. i felt like i could hear it, smell it and feel it. it even inspired a boxer character in a novel im writing. unfortunately i never did any more research on the artist or his other works. when watching this video i was like “that art style looks familiar…” and sure enough it was the same guy. i finally recognized him when ‘The Stag’ was shown

[@womenwotreads]

I am currently reading The Golum and the DJinni which is set in New York in 1909 among the immigrants. It describes the noise, the struggle and poverty . I love the painting of the lower east side, the detail is fascinating. I can picture it while I'm reading.

[@mrmowjorisin]

Another great video. Love that you went back on shorter videos. Congrats, as always

[@oscarpetersenicardi5862]

Excelente artista ,visceral ,expresivo adelantado a su tiempo ...no lo conocía . OJALÁ PUDIERA PINTAR ASÍ...gracias por tu video

[@rw8538]

Great video about a great painter 🙏

[@MeatyPeach]

Thank you for deconstructing Bellow’s paintings of boxers! I’ve always been especially drawn to them but never fully understood why. The combination of the composition and other aspects of the painting itself and the often unpleasant reality of the social movements and how those can cause both divisions (the spectator with the ghoulish face delighting in the brutality of the fight and missing the humanity that drives it sitting amidst people who are watching fights for escapism from their daily harsh reality or any other number of reasons other than to watch men make each other bleed) and unexpected but wonderful unions (a mixed race sporting event in a time of segregation) caused by a desire to change the status quo that is bordering on unbearable for many sometimes feels at odds with fine art, as his critics said. Nonetheless he felt it was important to capture in a medium and style worthy of the most beautiful scene - only presenting the highlight reel of wondrous moments and landscapes in art instead of the full spectrum of human experience can have so many unfortunate implications. (kind of like people curating their social media today….gonna have to think more on this) Representation does matter and seeing oneself depicted in art of any kind is validating but is also a way in to the conversation, a way to understand how you are relevant to the zeitgeist and perhaps take inspiration to act rather than feel irrelevant and unnoticed…. His paintings are challenging and important reminder that worth and value are much harder to define than traditionally aesthetically pleasing or fancy or rich and that art is important not just as human expression but as communication when words simply cannot convey quite the same punch to the gut as encountering a work of art that evokes the intensity of emotion that spurs thoughts and actions or provides just the right sound or image for an epiphany to crystallize in a way that a thousand debates could never. Sometimes it’s the connecting force of a punch to the face (the paint to the canvas, the canvas to the eyeballs) that’s needed. Sidenote - I was drawn to the paintings as someone who went to art school in New York City and ended up feeling ill at ease with the disconnect between the art I was making and studying and helping to sell to ultra wealthy collectors at my gallery job and the gritty reality of trying to survive in an expensive city and still have the energy to make art and pay to study it and sell pieces that cost more than my tuition and rent combined to people to whom that was a pittance and overthinking all of that drove me to an existential crisis - and so I dropped out of school for awhile and trained a minimum of four hours a day to become an amateur boxer because nothing is more real and assures you of your existence - and the pain and the sublime contained within said existence - than getting punched in the face and remaining standing to be able to take more blows and land some of your own. I’ve been stuck in overthinking again and this might be a less literal but still visceral, necessary punch to the face to get out of the crisis of overthinking and disconnection and back to existence and creating. Struggle is an intrinsic part of existence. Not something one must be completely free of to be a worthy subject or art nor must one be free of struggle to have the wisdom or clarity to convey something essential through art. Art is another way of engaging with the struggle from so many possible angles. My patreon membership is under a different username that also contains my initials and it’s definitely money well spent for your work has been an essential part of reconnecting with art and life after a prolonged period of stagnation among other things. Thank you.

[@MrKite_]

The movement is something else

[@Vinlyguyx420x]

This is this 1st time I’ve seen contour paintings! Very cool! I thought foolishly you could only do that in pencil like mediums. The talent required to pull that off is amazing 🤩

[@Betortitas89]

realism is for me a way to find beauty on the ordinary, you explaining it becomes almost therapeutic in whearas you help dissect what our eyes have seen and our minds absorb

[@dylanjames7082]

I was just at Columbus Museum of Art, which hosts a diverse bunch of his work given he grew up there. He was diverse indeed!

[@e.lycopersicon9720]

Sitting here in C'bus having no idea that he was from here!!! I guess I don't get to our museum often enough.

[@smartdoctorphysicist3095]

Hi I love the art work thank you.

[@benitoharrycollmann132]

You're putting the *art* in martial arts. Would love to see more combat-sports oriented content.

[@harmonic5107]

Its interesting to see the root of the sport. How it went from working class men fighting working class men in front of working class men. To semi-working class fighting in front of rich people. To the sham boxing nowadays of rich men fighting rich men.

[@rutbrea8796]

It's a pity that I cannot support you financially because I don't have the financial means. At my age it's not easy to survive. But I really appreciate your video about this great artist. Painting is my passion 😍. Thanks for sharing with us.😊

[@axvlnmusic3188]

Awesome video as always, dear The Canvas. Could you please include the names of the paintings in the descpritions of future videos? :)

[@ELY3358]

Fucking art! (Ps. I applaud you In your editing, your narrative and sound really drive home your points well. )

[@buddharuci2701]

Balcony, eh? Those be fire escapes. Our nyc version of balconies, I guess.

[@klecal]

Bellow was a fantastic painter

[@alanknight1597]

George Bellows was originally from Columbus, Ohio, and the Columbus Museum of Art has a large number of his works. The museum is definitely worth checking out.

[@Dani-xz1uw]

In my opinion he perfectly captured the beautiful brutality of boxing

[@hongleong5537]

If Bellows was an author he would be a Shakespeare or a Dickens or any other literary giants. Instead he became an artist with works that speak so eloquently and uniquely his own…… each a classic masterpiece.

[@jacobheiringsrensen5728]

Great input, man. Could you adjust your microphone to be less bass filled?

[@axvlnmusic3188]

Can somebody please tell me what the painting at 1:15 is called?

[@lapitiadedelfos1159]

Me recuerda a Goya and Francis Bacon.

[@Cystlib]

Does anyone know where the music is from?

[@halfpintrr]

I think that’s why I love professional wrestling; it’s still working class.

[@indricotherium4802]

4:41 "Part 2 Bellow's Boxers". That should read "Part 2 Bellows' Boxers".

[@CiaoRooster]

Having seen Dempsey hang in the Whitney over 20 years ago, I’ve hung a print of it on my apartment and later my living room ever since. (I particularly like the striped sleeve of the spectator in the lower left.) It’s one of my favorite artworks ever. Anyway, there is one word that is glaringly missing from your analysis of these three paintings: homoeroticism.

[@Xx_SwagitUpxSwaglord69_xX]

❤❤❤

[@piccalillipit9211]

*VIDEO REQUEST* please do a video on "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER* by George Orwell - I am just reading it and I was shocked how far we have regressed towards Britain in 1935 when it was written

[@ey67]

True. Down and out in Paris and London. Another great read. Anthony Bourdain read it and wrote kitchen confidential inspired by that book. Etc etc

[@splaineguy7168]

I think it's just my mind but in Bellow's piece against the Germans in WWI the naked figure in the middle looks a lot like Hitler...

[@kaic-m2865]

is the audio at the start from gaethje vs Ferguson

[@mmelo2334]

Was looking for this! Indeed it is

[@RD-lt3ht]

❤

[@friedricengravy6646]

He must have switched up styles a bit. He moves from being an obvious influence on Bacon to a much smoother approach. I like the rough & monster like appearance of the earlier fight scenes.

[@Masanumi]

Why did the live streaming stopped on sunday? Is it on another channel?

[@jackpayne4658]

Goya meets Lucien Freud.

[@AI-Hallucination]

I am a huge boxing fan as well as an artist jack Dempsey getting knocked out the ring

[@supervillainvoldemort]

Isn't the pronunciation of Robert Henri's name more like "Robert An-ree" not "Hen-rai"

[@Shawn.Grenier]

From the research I’ve done, it’s pronounced Hen-rai. For example, the National Gallery of Art’s video on George Bellows (narrated by Ethan Hawke) pronounce Henri as Hen-rai.

[@pariaheep]

👍🙏

[@antoinepetrov]

Please correct the mistake in the title: "...George Bellows' Art"

[@theGENIUSofART-understood]

man you are doing 35 videos in a year! that's a lot! you're getting about 15k for it. I guess they'll keep accumulating views long-term too right? How do you find time to research and make these?!

[@denalinorsen6180]

I think the lithograph of a stag at sharkys is better than the painting

[@katherinelangdon2450]

Please do Elizabeth siddall

[@Alek-g2z]

I may be wrong, but I feel like this video was in part inspired by the film Oppenheimer. Great work.

[@AficionadoKO]

Boxing is just beyond the scope of your commentary.

[@mattoni553]

[@swordguy1243]

Dude I consider myself someone who knows most of Art History and I've never heard of the Ashcan school . Its kind of like the Boston School but more modern on it's approach . Now Im going to research it . Thank you for showing me something new

[@guillermosahuquillo4499]

In my (extremely) humble opinion, the artist is heavily influenced by the work of Francisco de Goya

[@tannjaminobraham5170]

Just do good follownwhat is true to you just do good just do and find you by do just do good just do ❤.

[@Eudaimonia88]

The artist's name is George Bellows. The subject line accompanying your video suggests that you are unaware of this.

[@MissyGail4eva]

Well, for one, we are all now aware that you didn't view it's accompanying video as suggested.

[@Eudaimonia88]

​@MissyGail4eva It's not at all surprising to me of course, but you have failed to identify what I was critiquing. I will break it down for you. I was critiquing the erroneous use of the punctuation mark denoting the possessive case in the plural, when the singular for the proper name would have been the appropriate and ONLY choice in this case. Watching the video has nothing to do with my comment. The latter is true whether the video has been watched or not. What renders your comment hilariously embarrassing is that - in trying to post a clever comment - you not only abused the English language ("for one" ... and "we" don't mix!), but you also committed the very punctuation mark error that I criticised the uploader for in the first place. Isn't it ironic? And, we are all now aware of the fact that you need to sit down and study the correct use of apostrophes! 😂

[@MissyGail4eva]

@@Eudaimonia88 What is not at all surprising to me is your inability to see that I was joking, a slight ribbing at the hint of pomposity underpinning your rhetorical stylings. Thanks again for reinforcing my initial impression. Tootles!

[@Eudaimonia88]

@MissyGail4eva Your name ought to be Dunning-Kruger, not Missy. I have rarely laughed as much though. 🤣😂 Must dash... don't trouble yourself with further comments. They won't be read. You're not astute enough, love!

[@alejandromendoza6536]

Box sucks

[@P.Aether]

looks like ai art tbh

[@timrutter5025]

Amazing painting amazing artist...difficult to take seriously with the dreadful neration.

[@MarquisDeSang]

He paints like an AI

[@BigHenFor]

Wrong. AI tries paints like him. You are looking at Impressionism-influenced art, and you need to go back up the English artist Turner, who continued to paint landscapes and cityscapes as his eyesight was failing, to see the roots of that dreamlike, and felt more than seen it style of painting. AI can't understand that. AI is like the cloudy water that is created when one washes rice. Good for congee and soup, but not a full meal.

[@MarquisDeSang]

@@BigHenFor The AI learned from the best. The latest AI stuff is very close to that.

[@StarGaze725]

@@MarquisDeSangI can’t wait for AI to replace you people so you can finally shut up.

[@MissyGail4eva]

​@@MarquisDeSangNoooo... but that's okie-dokey.. you're enthusiasm is encouraging.

[@miguelg1370]

But you’re not American…. Thankfully

[@cgautz]

Thanks!