Some Of My Favourite Vídeo Essays About Art History:

some of my favourite vídeo essays about art history:

whose migrant mother was this? the story of the native american woman who became the face of the 1930s depression (and got almost nothing for it)

bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political how even a simple choice between what font to use can be a political act

edvard munch: what a cigarette means munch + tobacco = art? (yes we’re still on the topic of art as a political weapon)

art that was never finished how great masters sometimes even didn’t finish stuff. also! the history behind the colour aquamarine

fka twigs on mary magdalene (if you like asmr you’re gonna love this)

having a coke with frank ohara (technically not art history but this video is too good for me not to mention)

video postcard: woman at her toilette a quick dive into my favourite painting of woman impressionist berthe morisot

this documentary about georgia o´keeffe (that ive seen about 10 times)

david hockney on vincent van gogh on love of nature, beauty, attention, and the art of looking (essentially a mary oliver poem in interview format!!!!)

musicals as untranslatable words

Anastasia:

hiraeth (Welsh): longing for something lost; a deep grief for a time, place, or feeling that one cannot return to.

The Band’s Visit:

mamihlapinatapei (Yagan): a wordless look two people share, both parties hoping for something to start, but neither willing to initiate it.

Dear Evan Hansen:

litost (Czech): a despairing regret at something that should not have happened or that one should not have done; defined by Milan Kundera as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”

Falsettos:

mokita (Kivila): a painful truth that is not at all a secret, but that everyone agrees not to mention out of compassion.

Hamilton:

jijivisha (Hindi): an indomitable spirit; the intense will to live.

The Last Five Years:

razbliuto (Russian): a sentimental feeling towards the person one once loved, but no longer do. A neologism from the 1960s.

Les Misérables:

hüzün (Turkish): an often communal, collective experience of spiritual anguish rooted in worldly suffering; defined by Orhan Pamuk as “a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating.”

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

yūgen (Japanese): an deep experience of the natural world defined by Benito Ortolani as "a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe…and the sad beauty of human suffering.”

Newsies:

Fernweh (German): literally “farsickness”; feeling homesick for a place you may have never been.

Next to Normal:

won (Korean): bitter reluctance to let go of an illusion or thing past.

Tuck Everlasting:

aware (Japanese): an empathy towards the bittersweetness of transcendent and transient beauty.

Waitress:

wabi-sabi (Japanese): the lonely beauty of imperfection. According to Richard Powell, wabi-sabi acknowledges the simple realities that “nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

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Art by Maren Karlson.

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My name is Daniela Eliana Flores. I’m 25 and I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I’ve been taking pictures since 2013 and all of them are analog.

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