How Joshua Reynolds' Unorthodox Style Redefined British Portraiture | Great Artists

Just got a Christmas book from my wife on Reynolds. After a 35 year career as an artist I still love drawing out the masters from yesteryear. At 67 years old there is so much more to learn from artists like Reynolds and this video is a great place to continue the journey. Excellent video it gets a well done.

That last piece they showed was amazing. ❤

Art historians have next to no understanding of the methods of painting—which is understandable, because none of them can paint. To say that Reynolds couldn't draw is absurd—what they mean, I assume, is that Reynolds didn't draw with a pencil. Like many painters before him (Rembrandt, for example), Reynolds drew with colour, directly on the canvas. This is not to say that he didn't use an underpainting: he did. At one period of his career, he used a thoroughly drawn grisaille underpainting, followed by thin glazes of colour (which have since faded).

6:32 "It was the Sistine Chapel that made the greatest impression on Reynolds, and from that moment on de developed a passion for the man who created it a quarter of a century before, Michelangelo." Um. What? Michelangelo finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the early 16th Century, between 1508 and 1512. That was two hundred years before Joshua Reynolds was even born. That is a pretty huge blunder. I don't think this is the most carefully produced program, if a mistake like that got through. 🤨

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Just finished watching! What a delightful episode! Greetings from Mexico City and wishing you a Happy Christmas. 🎉🌲

To me his work looked more like caravaggio than Michaelangelos work. The dramatic light , the lack of drawing , the dark shadows. I liked Reynolds alot.

Technically, Reynolds was a great experimenter: he tried all kinds of weird combinations of materials (eggs, wax, unstable pigments …). Many of his paintings darkened, cracked and became greenish very quickly, because of his experimentations. One of his clients wrote a poem: "Paintings of old were well designed To keep the features of the dead in mind. But this great rascal has reversed the plan For the paintings die before the man!" Interestingly enough, he wouldn't let his students experiment.

23min... looks like Sargent. Amazing channel

Serious question(sorry this is not my native language): why the use of the word “unorthodox”? I mean the antonym of orthodox is heterodox isn’t it? Well, at least in my language, Spanish.

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hey guys how about them Mannerism documentaries by Waldemar Januszczak

Annibale (Carracci) is pronounced an-EE-bah-lay.

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A lot of taking heads little paintings

Michelangelo "a quarter of a century before" Reynolds? You should check your dates, m'dears.

Who writes this fluff? Give the job to Waldemar for godsake. Also, who else didn’t know Michelangelo and Reynolds were contemporaries? Holy A.I. Batman!

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Can you spell "camera obscure" (sp) ... nothing like a new technology to boost a tired tradition.