2020-11-06

[public] 1.32M views, 41.6K likes, dislikes audio only

Great Art Explained

My other channel, Great Books Explained here - https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksexplained371

Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon (and getting exclusive content), thanks! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53686503

or if you prefer a one-off donation - https://paypal.me/GreatArtExplained?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB

Alternatively, every video has a "thanks" button under it- I appreciate it!

Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePD...

"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020

"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020

I started "Great Art Explained" during lockdown. My aim is to make videos which focus on one great artwork. I want to present art in a jargon free, entertaining, clear and concise way with no gimmicks.

Subscribe and click the bell icon to get more arts content. Each video takes me about three weeks to a month, so I download at least once a month:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePD...

Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His last works, the enormous water lily canvasses are among the most popular art works in the world.

Yet there is nothing tame, traditionalist, or cosy about these last paintings. These are his most radical works of all. They turn the world upside down with their strange, disorientating and immersive vision.

Monet’s water lilies have come to be viewed as simply an aesthetic interpretation of the garden that obsessed him. But they are so much more.

These works were created as a direct response to the most savage and apocalyptic period of modern history. They were in fact conceived as a war memorial to the millions of lives tragically lost in the First World War.

CREDITS

All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them.

Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

Chinese subtitles by Charles Xue

Dutch Subtitles by Ana Glyph

German Subtitles by Victoria Drabik

Portuguese Subtitles by Gustavo Lyra

BOOKS

Monet by Christopher Heinrich

Claude Monet: Waterlillies and the Garden of Giverny by Dr. Julian Beecroft

Mad Enchantment: Ross King

Monet by Himself - Kendall publishing

Music by: Alexei Surovykh

Channel: http://bit.ly/2Ij7ElD

"Theme" music: JS Bach “Sonata for violin solo No.1 in G Minor”