Your Five Year Old Couldn't Paint This | AmorSciendi

[@Bozemanscience1]

Spectacular video. So happy you got to make this.

[@AmorSciendi]

Thanks Paul. I've probably talked to you about this idea before. Happy I was able to do it as well. Looking forward to your return to KZbin

[@ajground1238]

Mr Earle is so cool and witty

[@AmorSciendi]

Thanks dude

[@tiesthijsthejs]

Thanks! I wish I was told such analytic and narrative perspectives in highschool, it would have made me more engaged with different disciplines, instead of lacking motivation. Such connections fuel my fire of interest, they give peak experiences. I hope to one day transmit knowledge in such a bridging manner.

[@AmorSciendi]

That's honestly the goal of this channel. It's more for educators than students, I think. I want to get teachers using art and architecture more as provocations in the classroom and blur the margins between the disciplines.

[@Kelly_C]

I'm lucky enough to go to a high school that offers two AP Language classes: Rhetorical Analysis and Interrelated Arts. In IA, rather than analyzing just literature, we analysis literature, art, and architecture and basically treat them as equals. We have two teachers: one who's an art teacher and one who's an English and history teacher. We look at literature, art, and architecture in historical/chronological order, from neoclassicism to present day, and look and understand their historical context and relate all three to each other and the movement to which they belong. In my humble opinion, it's the best class of the hundreds of classes offered at my school. I was already an artist myself, but within the first two weeks of taking the class, my entire world view changed. I didn't give a shit about architecture, now I never shut up about it whenever I'm in a city. I used to like most art, but now I've learned to analyze and appreciate both "boring" and "difficult" art and I can now spend half an hour looking at a single painting in a museum. My rhetorical analysis and writing skills have also exponentially improved, of course. We also go on monthly field trips to art museums, architecture-y places, operas, symphonies, and the like. We happen to live in the suburbs of Chicago, so we get the best orchestra and one of the operas in America, the Art Institute (the best non-government-affilated art museum in the world), Frank Lloyd Wright, and the best of Gilded Age architecture. oops that was long

[@FeOfTheElement]

Very concise but really opened my understanding, thank you!

[@Innoxious_]

You have articulated what every Pollock appreciator had always felt. Thank you.

[@AmorSciendi]

I'm so happy you liked it. and thank YOU for taking the time to watch it.

[@GabrielKnightz]

I can genuinely say that i have a new found appreciation for Jackson Pollock paintings. Thank you.

[@AmorSciendi]

me too

[@StormiidaeBlogspot]

Thank you. A shift in perspective to see anew.

[@panglossed]

I love this channel! Thank you for uploading whenever you do. I always learn and get inspired by this :)

[@AmorSciendi]

Aw, Thanks. I'm trying to keep a consistent upload schedule these days. Should be the fifteenth of every month. If I can keep that schedule, I have a video on Henry O. Tanner, The American Renaissance, and one on Grand Central Terminal coming up for Jan, Feb, March.

[@berkay4844]

Awesome video! You approach to the study and teaching of art history is a true advancement of the field, thanks again for great content. (Yay! the new video style works with paintings! I think narrative pace is perfect, but visually maybe staying on stills for slightly longer could help those who dont know the works as well)

[@AmorSciendi]

I was able to hire a videographer for this one thanks to the Making and Science Initiative. I'm still learning about what works. This video taught me that a catchy title gets people to click on it.

[@peachesmcginty]

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed this video, I do like Pollock's work and you gave me a great understanding and insight I didn't have before.

[@AmorSciendi]

+peaches mcginty you're very welcome.

[@error.418]

you earned my subscription, thank you

[@AmorSciendi]

+Anonymous User thanks! It's so great to have you join this community.

[@knowingissurviving4986]

Wow, I really learned something cool here. I've always liked Jackson Pollock, and now I know why! Thanks Earle -) and Happy Holidays.

[@AmorSciendi]

Thanks Anita. I'm flattered you took the time to watch it.

[@RangKlos]

Brilliant!

[@AmorSciendi]

+Rang Klos thanks!

[@navymcz]

Great video!

[@nincomboob2]

Very nice

[@KayWhyz]

This was great, thank you for it! Makes me want to go explore Carl Jung-archetypal imagery feels related to Northrop Frye's ideas on archetypes, and it's interesting to see Pollock seemingly both upholding and refuting that idea.

[@AmorSciendi]

That's such an interesting idea. "artists are always ahead of the curve on this sort of thing"

[@TheGerogero]

Jung and fractals? I'm in.

[@AmorSciendi]

great to have you here

[@MarkHatlestad]

Wow, fantastic video and channel (came from Tom Scott)! Finally makes me appreciate Pollock's work. You should reach out to the art assignment KZbin channel- it'd be great to see a collaboration (or at least mutual promotion).

[@AmorSciendi]

+Mark Hatlestad thanks for stopping by. Yes I'd love to work with The Art Assignment. I'll try reaching out to them.

[@Akoalawithshades]

"The fractal" explanation did not really make sense. You definitely can tell how close you are to something, I literally cannot grasp the concept that you cannot tell if you have the whole or a section of something, as these boundaries are socially constructed but nonetheless real definitions that we see. A tree is seen by a human and divided from the surroundings and into parts. Pollock's work cannot be broken up because it is of nothing recognisable, other than paint smear randomly on a canvas. Was it meant holistically, that everything is never a whole because the universe is interconnected? And nothing in nature is geometric? Not true at all, only, these shapes only really make themselves present under close examination, such as a bee's honeycomb or a snowflake. The knowledge - the study - of shapes and their presence in nature, has allowed humanity to build huge structures and many intricate devices. When you stand back very far then the evidence of work will disappear, but then it contradicts the meaning of Pollock's work. Of course, I'm not claiming you know this science, merely you are a messenger, but the idea seems fundamentally flawed, make his paintings just stupid. I will still believe he is an idiot. Just pause on 3:47. Then look out of you window. Think about how someone wasted the precious moments of their life squirting paint on a canvas, instead of enjoying the real world, and possibly capturing it in a way that we can look back and forces us to think. His work exists in museums for tourists who want to see something funny. His name now is used as a punchline. Yet he made not one but many of these wastes of precious moments. The only good thing is, some strange people paid him a lot of money, (possibly another piece used by billionaires to traffic money illegally), but many who follow the same path will receive nothing.

[@galvaconsultant]

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[@jjc5475]

its fun that its therapy for that person, bad thing it killed "real" art. people make crap. and its all around me here. i wish the old dutch masters art would still be appreciated. i rather go into nature then to watch modern art.

[@levprotter1231]

I have seen art by 1st graders that looked exactly like this.