What Is Good Art? : Crash Course Art History #6

[@Kaalyn_HOW]

I have watched so many of these episodes more than once. And while they haven't gotten as much attention from others YET, I need you to know how much I deeply deeply value it. And you. And the art showcased, along with the stories told alongside it. So powerful and helpful. They themselves are art.

[@Pookie515]

I am so grateful for this crash course. I had never seen those photos from Lange of the internment camps. Art is so important, I really appreciate this series as well as the others on Crash Course!!

[@isacami25]

i'm a fan of your 3rd grade's master piece

[@TheAJKahn]

As a person who doesn't understand the allure of modern art and most art pieces, this series has been a godsend. The bite-sized episodes going through interesting topics is exactly what I needed. Thank you CrashCourse.

[@mariaborges498]

I've wanted to study art history for a long time, but most books on the topic written for the general public only list art movements and analyse some artworks in detail without explaining how I should try to analyse them myself. I keep visiting museums and looking at the works there with the mindset I already had before reading anything about it. Finally, I have a chance to learn properly and actually understand how to look at things (I'm no longer one of the tourists who spends less than 30 seconds looking at a painting). Thank you so much for these lessons! (I apologize for my grammar, English is not my first language)

[@aryausingh]

love this art history series so much, something i look forward to every week

[@Bargadiel]

Lang wasn't going for beauty per-say but I will say that the photos themselves are still aesthetically pleasing to view and follow standard rules of composition and value.

[@billyfox6368]

That's probably to attract easier attention to them rather than to bring pleasure to those seeing it.

[@rosestormwolf]

Yeah, that was precisely my mom’s reaction to the Mona Lisa, plus a negative memory from being pickpocketed while at the louvre

[@jesseknight5835]

The problem is that I dont think words like "good" and "bad" apply to art. You can discuss whether art "works" or whether you "like" art... but I've never understood the concept of art being "good."

[@astor-naut9555]

Agreed, art can be good at doing something or bad at it. The only real "bad" art, if you can even call it that, is art that makes you feel nothing but indifference. And even then, the experience is so individual.

[@renevelation6586]

It is in the eye of the beholder. If it is good for you it is good.

[@Davlavi]

Informative thanks.

[@kevind814]

had no idea the Mona Lisa was so small

[@pongop]

Very cool lesson! I didn't know the story about the Mona Lisa! Speaking of famous art heists, where are the paintings from Gardner Museum Theft?! I need to know! (ever since watching Netflix's "This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist")

[@wiandryadiwasistio2062]

i’d like to know more about photography as a form of art/fine art photography/the art of photography/how photography defines contemporary art

[@jean-pierrep6844]

Thanks for the knowledge

[@imaginairydotcom]

Would love to hear your take on art and its location, and how location (space and setting, white cube vs. a wall at home, etc.) can not only affect the perception of an artwork but also add to or subtract from its meaning. I wrote an essay on this topic a while back, but I’m curious to hear what others think. Always enjoy your contributions to the discourse of art!

[@TadpoleArtz]

Great series

[@isabbygabbyorcrabby]

An anthropocene reviewed joke 😂😂 Five stars Sarah, five stars 😂

[@hadassahhorenstein5532]

Good to see you again!

[@HistoryfortheAges]

I cover this with my students when I talk about Michaelangelo and others from the Renaissance. Long story short they had standards. Then you get the impressionists and standards began to slowly fade. To the point today where are is all "relative" so someone can put a big rock someplace and call it "art" or have a blank white canvas and say it is "art" This may upset some folks, but think about this way. Are there any artists today that people will be familiar with 500 years from now and seen as genius the way we see the Renaissance artists? My guess is no. There is always something to beauty in the eye of the beholder, but if we are honest with ourselves, there is also objectively amazing art and objectively bad art.

[@julietatonello]

Love this video

[@jonmartinson6830]

2.5/4 seems about right for the Mona lisa.

[@sheelaghdonaldson7100]

There's also mood, age, or state of mind to consider. Even the company you are with can influence your opinion about a work, and not just in a "go with the crowd" sort of way.

[@shadebug]

I feel like there’s a significant section of art that is just art because museums have wall space to fill. I’ll walk around the national gallery and see paintings that are just a painting commissioned by some random noble and can’t help thinking that’s just some nepo baby’s headshot

[@miriam4235]

I love this series! Thank you Mrs Urist Green 🍎

[@samwill7259]

Does it make you feel things? Then its good art

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

I saw the Mona Lisa 22 years ago lucky enough that there wasn't a line of people but photography was banned....

[@JoRiver11]

When it comes to art, I tend to use "beautiful" and "moving" interchangeably (though logically I get that they aren't really)

[@chrisdiver6224]

Is the greatest art inexhaustible? An evocative depth, always fresh, newly engaging? Something beyond even the highest technical mastery? Like when we feel a persons authenticity?

[@LynnnnnnnnnN]

The Salvator Mundi is the most beautiful painting I've ever seen

[@tomako3a]

2.5 stars, Anthropocene Reviewed 😉

[@TristanFrodelius]

Liking it. Next question. The best pizza in the world is the one that the person eating it likes the most. This is true of art.

[@lyzioen]

Good art brings happiness, bad art brings suffering. It's vague, but encapsulates everything. Even if something makes you sad, it can still make others happier.

[@bradwatson7324]

There’s a book titled What Art Is: The Aesthetic Theory of Ayn Rand that has a lot of good philosophy regarding this subject.

[@BroBromans]

What makes a novel a good novel?:)

[@DanteRodriguez.]

It’s all about the proportions and golden ratio

[@matthew_thefallen]

I'm Italian but personally I never liked Leonardo DaVinci's art 😂 I quite despise him.

[@pyeitme508]

RAD!

[@shadw4701]

Pretty much anything that takes skill, time, and patience. If it's a blank canvas painted a single color it isn't art, it's money laundering. Art is creative expression. Nothing is creative about a single color canvas

[@shadw4701]

I'd also like to add this applies to most of what you see on a daily basis as well like the technology we use, movies, games, music, architecture ect. Art is all around you but that doesn't mean there aren't acceptions to what can be art

[@ndemers]

How many colours does it take to be art?

[@Herr_Vorragender]

Today we over compensate by calling everything art. Even the things that picture generating "AI" spits out.

[@tortillachip8029]

The mona lisa is indeed very disappointing.