Anguish by August Friedrich Schenck is a painting of grief, sadness and loneliness. Join the Discord: / discord Support us on Patreon: / thecanvas #arthistory #art
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@mishkaw9983Місяць тому
To me on a personal level it also illustrates part of loss and grieving when all eyes are on you and you’re surrounded by people but still alone in it you’re the only one who has to and or can process your grief
@chester1882Місяць тому
I also get similar themes of onlookers that are unable or inexperienced in consoling grief in the crows beyond the likeness of death
@DrewskiTheLegendМісяць тому
Considering corvids and their habit to gather to grieve the loss of a member of their community, this was my first interpretation. They are morbid onlookers, mourners, but they are emotionally detached also. Nobody can understand such deep and profound loss without experiencing it, and the alienation between the mother and the “mourners” is unsettling, even without the context of what you know what’s coming next if we take the subject matter literally.
@storyteller56221Місяць тому
Another detail I noticed is the rather relaxed expression of the lamb, the 'smile' and the eyes as if it's asleep. It doesn't seem in pain. It has already let go and has accpeted the fact that it died and has peace with it, whilst the mother is destroyed with pain
@youretotallyrightbut6646Місяць тому
its probably a biological smile that is often seen with babies. it happens involuntarily because of the muscles on the face.
@nathana.m.162229 днів тому
As a former Slaughterman, I can confirm that is exactly how a lambs face looks when dead
@modernmajorgeneral4669Місяць тому
I think that the fact we see a dead lamb could hint at a more religious aspect to the painting too.
@nikkivenable73Місяць тому
Yes!
@deforestshell3037Місяць тому
Just like you said lambs and sheep are associated with Jesus a lot of positive emotions with are also associated with Jesus but things like Purity and innocence. It's literally a dead baby lamb and his mother over him just like Jesus and Mary
@__-vb3htМісяць тому
@@deforestshell3037 Not just Mary, but God as a grieving parent also
@Moonshine1234Місяць тому
It’s like Nietzsche says that “god is dead”. Maybe it’s a nihilistic peice. But that’s js my interpretation 🫶
@lonesome3958Місяць тому
@@Moonshine1234but nietzsche wasnt a nihilist
@jayfolkМісяць тому
Props to the artist not only using the murder of crows to frame the subjects by bordering the sheep with their varied poses , but also props for the little gap in the forefront of the scene which lets the viewer be treated as a fellow encircling crow; we can do nothing for the anguish except participate in its viewing as the scavengers watch it.
@surgeonsergio683910 днів тому
Props to you for using "murder!"
@kubakowalik6598Місяць тому
The saddest part about this painting is the lamb. It is smiling, cuddling to the snow, like its quilt. Like its enjoying going to sleep, knowing it will wake up with its mom tomorrow. But it won't. Its a symbol of innocence of a child, and it contrasts with the pain of the mother, who knows what death is. The snow is peaceful, resembling clouds, a dream or heaven, but its also harsh and cold and indifferent. And it will happen to all of us.
@nikkivenable73Місяць тому
Why am I crying? I’m 51 and have never seen this painting before. I’m gutted😢
@lindanorris2455Місяць тому
RIGHT ON, NE TOO!
@Ghostyfrost96886 днів тому
I’m a 32 year old man and I’m crying lol
@Ghostyfrost96886 днів тому
Art is powerful if you respect it!
@nikkivenable736 днів тому
@Ghostyfrost9688 I made the comment you're responding to a month ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I've considered getting it as a print and framing it, but it makes me too sad. Ugh. It'll stick with you, too, I bet. ❤️
@borealmarinda4337Місяць тому
I see some remorse in the crows, too. Many look at each other, or just away from the sight, as if their waiting for the mother to stop is uncomfortable. There is a hint of embarassment there I feel, not just hungry instinct. This might be my personal crow-loving bias. Perhaps it's having seen a crow funeral unfold. They gather when one of them dies, they observe, they try to bury the corpse, they attack predators trying to access the corpse. They understand what death of a kin means, and that seeing over the corpse is important. Survival or grief, they are familiar with the situation. And they do understand other animals. There is a video of a crow encountering a mouse. The crow was eating a piece of bread, and the mouse tried to approached shily, but eventually got scared and ran away. So the crow bit off a piece, walked over to the side of the row where the mouse was hiding, left the piece there and went back to its bread, letting the mouse share the meal with safety. This isn't the only instance of crows feeding befriended animals; they show clear signs of empathy. (they are also predators, so they show signs of killing and eating animals as well, of course) In a strange way, there is an implied respect from the crows who seem to avoid scaring the mother away, which they easily could in their numbers. They observe and wait. They know what will happen. They can afford not interfering with the same kind of grief they engage in. Death can wait. The mother, for now, can grieve.
@panther774816 днів тому
Crows are just like us in almost every aspect.
@Mmjk_12Місяць тому
Always reminds me of what i saw as a kid one day whilst out walking in Wales alone. A mother sheep and her lamb were stuck on a rocky outcrop on a steep hill, maybe 100 feet from where i was on the path, it was pouring down and the surrounding stones and grass were extremely slippy. The mother tried to leave first but predictably slipped and tumbled down the hill to her death, not even a minute later her lamb followed her to the same fate. I think about it quite often tbh, the sole witness to the event.
@frankniti4647Місяць тому
Incredible how a painting of an animal can evoke such powerful human emotions
@kattihattМісяць тому
We are also animals.
@frankniti4647Місяць тому
@@kattihatt That is true to a certain degree
@kattihattМісяць тому
@@frankniti4647 what do you mean?
@KyungShotwellМісяць тому
Emotions are emotions, human or not. Animals mourn their young. It’s tragic we humans fail to see that 😭
@leanneturner8023Місяць тому
We share similar emotions as animals ourself.
@gasparbdsp4425Місяць тому
small detail that pains one even more is the trace of the leg of the lamb in the snow showing the last reflex his body ever had or will have ( you can see it moved forth and back erasing the mother's foot print around it ) powerful painting tho
@coolactionvideosМісяць тому
My first thought as a crow fan: "aww, look how the crows showed up to support the mom!"
@mimobaseМісяць тому
This hangs in the National Gallery of Victoria (my city) it's a must see everytime passing through that side of the gallery. It's a huge painting and you feel it's pain radiating out into the whole room. Thank you for covering this work!!
@valentinapa4947Місяць тому
One of my favorite paintings! It’s so touching !!
@rebahensley5323Місяць тому
I can't take this painting. It breaks my heart.
@antoinepetrovМісяць тому
At first glance, this painting's message seemed too obvious to be engaging, but thanks to this analysis I appreciate it more now.
@eclipssezzМісяць тому
This painting always makes me have this specific aching feeling in my chest, like man… also sure I saw another painting called ‘Orphan’ by the same author with the roles reversed. I might say that one is even more devastating
@k3nAddersМісяць тому
Powerful I am moved.
@Bookdragon-cn2tq2 дні тому
Absolutely staggering work of art.
@douken_tvМісяць тому
I love these breakdowns and interpretations, some of my favorite videos.
@DvffyX3Місяць тому
I feel this video helped push the idea of the price's message stronger. Help show the anguish more
@fotouhiМісяць тому
Your art selections are truly inspiring! I've gained so much knowledge and appreciation from following this channel.
@thedaking488028 днів тому
This portrait reminds me of how true love it’s depicted in Vinland Saga. “Only dead people can express true love. Because they no longer can hate”.
@JessieDadioМісяць тому
Paintings don't have sounds sadly. To hear what this truly represents to probably any viewer.
@majakoren1746Місяць тому
It makes me cry💔
@jemgeddes3866Місяць тому
I see this piece all the time at the NGV here in Melbourne, Australia. Always leaves an impression.
@farshadshamsyahooМісяць тому
"Anguish" poignantly echoes in today's world, symbolizing the pervasive loneliness and isolation felt by many, reminding us that the profound emotions of loss and solitude transcend time and connect us across the ages.
@rocipoki232227 днів тому
The footprints in the snow could also indicate that she was part of a group of sheeps that abandoned her when her baby died and the screams could indicate a call for the group to come back , to help her baby , to save them and thqt us truly horrifying to me the fear of being abandoned
@mrmikejsteeleМісяць тому
Maybe it’s the music or maybe it’s your delicate narration, but I swear there’s an intense humanity in the sheep’s expression that comes through more because it’s found on a sheep. It’s almost like I’m noticing the detail more. What tragically beautiful painting.
@nicnicchu27 днів тому
I was lucky to see this painting last Sep when I visited the NGV. There are many beautiful paintings hanging on the walls of the NGV Salon. But this is the one impressed me the most. You can feel the sorrow of the mother sheep and the chilling of the crow gang. Thank you for your interpretation.
@socialswine3656Місяць тому
very lucky to have this painting hanging in at my local gallery!
@fredwood1490Місяць тому
My heart cries.
@luisotavionovetis.demoraes9384Місяць тому
Um olá do Brasil, novamente. O aumento da violência policial no Brasil, nas últimas semanas, seja em São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,, Bahia etc., e a violência histórica pela qual a população pobre, preta e indígena passou e passa, torna essa pintura muito tocante pra mim. Todas as mães que perderam seus filhos pela violência urbana, rural e nas regiões florestadas... E nós sabemos bem quem são os corvos de colarinho branco e festejam essas mortes
@iferid58Місяць тому
You explained the emotions that I felt, but could not articulate. As always, you keep giving us great content.
@arianeguima3633Місяць тому
i love this one 😭😭
@TheCanvasArtHistoryМісяць тому
Thanks you!
@bzxshor67mptsМісяць тому
Love these story telling paintings which touch ones soul. Much better than modern art which says nothing but maybe a boost to someones talentless ego
@cgautzМісяць тому
Thanks!
@JxHМісяць тому
"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." Sadness.
@benhue367113 днів тому
Composition wise, there are 2 crows flying next to the lamb. One is "leaving" and the other is "arriving". To me It might refers to the cycle of life and nature
@AlistairKarimМісяць тому
One of my all-time favorites. So happy to have accidentally stumbled upon it on UKposts.
@Cree8Ball26 днів тому
I think the fact it's a sheep is also revepant, since it makes the feast of the crows more inevitably. If it were a human mother, then she could just carry her baby's body back with her, but a sheep doesn't have that option.
@jeromeyromethinkМісяць тому
thank you for making a video about this. i’m from melbourne and i see it at the ngv constantly and i hardly see anything about it.
@jacodelangevandykМісяць тому
thank you
@eclipsehorizon7655Місяць тому
imma need that song man, boosted to mood to a 100
@a.mie.533Місяць тому
It's like a very dark vision of how exposed you can feel as a human, being struck by fate and facing a dark, cruel and merciless clockwork of physical determinations.
@tr1ppyh1ppy9 днів тому
love your videos
@diamondtiara84Місяць тому
That painting makes me want to believe that animals have souls and someday she'll be with her baby again. (I don't care how corny that sounds!)
@lucasvals4354Місяць тому
I hope you’re vegan
@sebastianrosa7935Місяць тому
Of course they have souls, they feel emotion, pain, they love, they grieve. Anybody who thinks animals can't have souls is just arrogant and foolish.
@triumph.over.shipwreckМісяць тому
@@sebastianrosa7935what is a soul?
@goldappleberryМісяць тому
"So please, please, please Let me, let me, let me Let me get what I want"
@lindanorris2455Місяць тому
SHEEP AND ELEPHANTS MOURN THEIR LOSSES FOR LONG PERIODS.
@jfu5222Місяць тому
I like to put myself in the crow's place, the lamb's death nourishing them in the bleak winter.
@christianurena510Місяць тому
Heartbreaking to say the least
@lagautmdМісяць тому
The winter wind blowing at the mother's wool is another signal of fleeting life. I see the crows as sinister, seeing rapacious opportunity in the death that is causing another pain. They wish she would just get out of their way so they can feast on the lamb.
@adamhbrennanМісяць тому
🕊️🇵🇸🐑🇵🇸🕊️
@barneybetsington7501Місяць тому
?
@domenigo97Місяць тому
Thanks, now I'm sad
@noheroespublishing1907Місяць тому
The Future isn't Promise, but Crows and Loss.
@liltick10229 днів тому
WILSONNNNNN Crying af
@shoroukahmed7955Місяць тому
I feel like I want to write about it! What if sheep could talk! Can language help us from pain? Can the pain go away? Thanks to u ❤
@brendacova8311Місяць тому
I perceive it as a representation of Mary mourning Jesus.
@xotwod3254Місяць тому
Yes
@lux2132Місяць тому
You should check out Pavel Ryzhenko's art. His paintings usually portray historical events of Russia and it reflects on his monarquist views. Maybe could be a good topic on what is happening now in Russia
@Ghostyfrost96886 днів тому
I’m fucking crying?!
@rebahensley5323Місяць тому
Haulin' to see Ballen. Lol
@ipolinstinplageМісяць тому
This painting strongly reminds me of the ending of Bresson's "Au hazard Balthazar", with the now calm corpse of the tormented donkey lying on the ground and the sheep around it worshipping it
@seantaylor2046Місяць тому
Consider the Sheep as the encompassment of a life soon played out and the baby, a metaphor of her impending death. The Crows are the debt owed to a life at its end. Approaching, unconquerable. In the Sheep's cry she is imploring lifes' lament; more time. Ask why the blood is only visible from the lambs' mouth. No sign of trauma without. It suggests an internal meaning not immediately present in the composition as a whole.
@leanneturner8023Місяць тому
Does anyone know what music is playing in the background
@headlessspaceman5681Місяць тому
This is the circle of life. Animals eat other animals. Carrion eat dead things. There's no reason to waste a dead animal when other animals are hungry. In this case though, the crows will eat the bloody snow and the eyeballs, but they will be unable to get through the lamb's hide unless a bigger predator comes along and tears into it. The presence of the crows may very well attract a wolf or mountain lion or eagle or buzzard. We assume the sheep in the painting is a domesticated sheep for lack of horns and would otherwise not necessarily be exposed to harsh Northern winter elements if they weren't being used as livestock. In other words, wild animals don't live where they can't survive. They just don't. Whereas humans have introduced livestock to climates where they wouldn't otherwise survive, without humans to provide a shelter, a warm barn, guidance down off the mountain, etc. Additionally, the lamb may have died not just of exposure to cold, but of a disease which is communicable among sheep and other animals or even humans. That's very common in the history of the domestication of livestock. Buzzards and vultures specifically serve as a stop to the spread of communicable diseases, which cannot survive the buzzard's digestive system. On the other hand, dogs and wolves and humans which eat a diseased animal might very well spread that disease. When a buzzard or vulture consumes the remains of a diseased animal, it prevents that disease from spreading any further, to other sheep, or to other animal species. Food for thought.
@triumph.over.shipwreckМісяць тому
What arrangements have you made for you to be eaten after you expire?
@alexwschan185Місяць тому
Why did the lil bebe die tho 😭
@hammel-cМісяць тому
it was a murder
@krehnah7541Місяць тому
@@hammel-c ba-dum tsss
@jackcarlson5313Місяць тому
What is the music in this video?
@LMarie-dx8reМісяць тому
Well sheep don't really live on their own ever, so it's quite far to interpretate that the sheep would end up alone and wouldn't go back to the flock. It wouldn't survive that probably and it wouldn't go far away from a flock either.
@souzanemayes5670Місяць тому
Reminds me of what Jesus, Himself went through..
@barneybetsington7501Місяць тому
Impregnating a teen with himself?
@xE-fi3kdМісяць тому
Anyone knows what music is in the video?
@jackcarlson5313Місяць тому
Ecosystem by Anna Dager
@johnmanole477917 днів тому
Anyone knows the name of the song used in the video?
@userfatima15 днів тому
ecosystem by anna dager
@barbaravoss7014Місяць тому
Nature is cruel at times. Can we, although part of nature, transcend this cruelty? I feel ambivalent about this painting. While obviously wanting us to identify with the anguish of the sheep mother, the heavy-handed symbolism of the scene bothers me. It also disregards how humans remove lambs from their mothers routinely without anyone shedding a tear.
@leanneturner8023Місяць тому
Is this truly nature or is it simply the inevitable consequence of humans oppresing sentient beings
@triumph.over.shipwreckМісяць тому
Humanity is far more cruel in our momentary ascendancy than the natural order permits.
@leanneturner8023Місяць тому
Why does it impact us in a painting but not when it’s on our plate
@generalyapwtМісяць тому
first here?
@Ty-mo7fnМісяць тому
To comment I suppose
@sergioalcantar3290Місяць тому
Yes, you're first...
@Tablis0Місяць тому
I like the colour and composition of this painting, but I cannot emphasise with it. It feels forced, staged, unnatural. When I look at it, it is easier for me to take the perspective of the crow in the bottom right, to feel its reserve, but also anticipation.
@sebastianrosa7935Місяць тому
Have you ever lost somone, somone who meant the world to you, that you truly loved with every piece of your soul?
@Aris-ur6iyМісяць тому
Don't use music! Let the painting speak.
@davidsauer8783Місяць тому
This picture is vegan propaganda. You empathize with an animal.
@triumph.over.shipwreckМісяць тому
Is there something wrong with having empathy for a living creature?
@erwhite3571Місяць тому
But... Don't you believe non-human animals have no moral value and that, thus, their suffering matters not? Why would the suffering of a fictitious sheep (even if anthropomorphized in its depiction) be in any way moving if an actual sheep's suffering is as moving as the splintering of a rock?
@Outstanding_GalМісяць тому
I haven't seen the video, but I hate this painting its so cartoony and over the top. Thoughts after the video: Ok it's not as bad as I thought it was. It has its merits
@KekimusМісяць тому
Please make a video essay about why you hate it please 😊
@mitsunori222000Місяць тому
Yes, Landseer on steroids at his most mawkish.
@stadiumarcadium2351Місяць тому
over the top?
@MasanumiМісяць тому
Cartoony?
@Outstanding_GalМісяць тому
Guys! I can't explain it! Don't ask me questions! I just can't take it seriously.
@NipplePinchGenocideМісяць тому
Only death can pay for life.
@madfokkersМісяць тому
That was a bit brief???
@leanneturner8023Місяць тому
Does anyone know what music is playing in the background