You probably know their names and work, but you might not know the stories of their personal lives. They’re impressionists, artists who worked during the 19th-century art movement that started with a group of Paris painters who faced stiff opposition from the conventional art world. In this series, art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the back stories and works of four of the movement’s most influential painters: Pissarro, Monet, Renoir and Bazille. To get a complete picture, Januszczak visits the cities and towns where the men lived and from which they drew their inspirations.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:11 Episode 1: Gang Of Four
00:59:13 Episode 2: The Great Outdoors
01:58:09 Episode 2: Painting The People
02:55:30 Episode 4: Final Flourish
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… was a bitch to paint… Brilliant historian.. I really enjoy your efforts. Thank you
No one can waddle around the art world like Waldemar! Keep it up!
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Shut up Waldemar. I am bailing at 1:09.
What? No Hassim?
One voice in a hurricane of blah blah blah
I get so excited when I see Waldemar anyway, but over three hours!?!! I’m over the moon!!
Great artists, great host,great documentary! This is a recipe for perfection, imho.
I love hearing about the artists lives before they became the artists we know. It's all so very fascinating! Who knew there were "starving artists" who were filthy rich? Nearly 4 hours of this straight is wonderful, too. I'd rather not spend my time hunting for things to watch, so I love long documentaries.
Another hit @Perspective Thank you.
Love you Waldy. Love the information and the humour with which it is presented. Loved the shot of your ? producer sitting on the beach in the USVI (my home for a while).
An art dealer once said, Impressionism with it's emphasis on colour and vibration – rather than anecdote – is cheerful, nice to live with. Only art intellectuals hype up the demonic images now found everywhere.
Thank you for this video
Excellent !
Such a grand documentary on one of the greatest times in art…
1:52:37 "Edinburgh…yes, Edinburgh".🙂
The king of art docus hehe thank you Waldemar very enjoyable.
Brilliant love this series.
The best!
Waldemar in Londen jij gebruikt het verkeerde gereedschap ,wat jij gebruikt is voor straattegels en niet om een bord in de grond te slaan😅ach kruintje van alles afwetend vind ik prachtig hoe jij je daarmee druk maakt is de schep al een paar maten te kort en ook niet om te spitten kortom zou ik zeggen schoenmaker hou jij je bij de leest ,de grootste verteller over kunst / historische spitter maar toch zo aandoenlijk ,nee meer zeg ik niet anders verval ik in herhaling ☺️
Love me some Waldemar
I enjoy all your videos so much! Wondering what you think of Albrecht Durer. Some of his paintings in the late 1400's to early1500's look surprisingly modern to me. Way before the Impressionist era yet similar. Thank you.
Waldemar is my favorite thing on the internet. What a great presenter! 🧑🏼🎨
My favorite subject by my favorite documentarian 🥰
Brilliant – so looking forward to watching this with a few wines later
This is why i subscribed to Perspective. This man makes me feel like i am with all these artists and brings them to life.
really enjoyed this "deep dive'. Beyond the artists and their muses but also the equipment they used and why there were changes at that time, geographic influences.
Seurat's dots remind me of the printing process by which images ("halftones") are rendered. In four-color printing, each of four plates on a printing press carries the same image but in different colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). The resulting overlaps and dots of different colors and sizes create the illusion of a continuous tone image. The halftone process dates back to the 1850s and was commercialized in the 1880s. Was Seurat commenting on modernity with his technique or was it coincidental?
Wonderful Waldemar 😍 What an absolute joy . I don’t pretend to know much about art , but I was so enthralled by this wonderful series. The humour, the music…perfect. Thank you for this ❤️
Is it just me or am I the only one who notices his sarcasm. I think a world without all these sick depraved artists would most definitely be a better place. Perverts and pedophiles Is all I can see in modern art! Love the channel very Insightful. Keep up the good work 👏
Have seen all four docu’s before, but had to watch it again… best art-storyteller in the world!! Most wonderful!!
Brilliant storytelling! Thank you so much! Well done!
@3:02 I laughed out loud! He is such a comedic charmer
Love your videos! Have learned so much that l thought l already knew!!!
Passionnant!
So edifying and enriching. A most welcome and sustaining relief from the usual guano served up on this platform.
I love this dude! I’d marry him if I didn’t have a fiancé 😆
Squirrels and foxes are very cute for sure but in truth they should be kept down as much as possible. ie killed
hello, so much looking forward to this, it just poped up in my feed ! so happy 😉😄
Your videos are the best there is for art lovers. Thank you for making them. I have been spending all my free time at your company.
Thank you, Mr Waldemar.
Thankyou!
I love these documentaries. There is always something more to look at with the Impressionists and their story.
Do a documentary on Albert Namatjira please, the best plein air painter in the world.
Rosicrucians are sworn to cure every disease on earth for free.
I've always loved art history and Waldemar is so knowledgeable, and so likable. He does such a great job!
Thanks!
Fabulous documentary on the Impressionists. The host's love of and knowledge of and passion for art is fully conveyed, and joyously so. I could do without the clanging piano – it adds nothing – and screeching singing. The musical accompaniments is this series are everlastingly distracting and generally awful. But the series itself is terrific and this one in particular tells the story of the Impressionists with great passion, understanding and delight. Well done.