I wish that happened in this era. Art needs to be mastered and valued.

this makes me think about how a lot of artists today are "self taught" because of how easy its is to get into things like drawing, and how many of those who are self taught develops distinct styles because there is no one that teaches them how to best capture something in an image and they all find their own special ways of drawing things

A lot of japanese manga and (if I’m not mistaken) anime productions use a similar model. Artists start by doing less important work like backgrounds and rendering and take on increasingly important tasks as their experience grows, the whole time learning from their superiors and guiding their juniors. Many assistants in manga projects eventually start their own manga projects with their own assistants, and the cycle continues. It’s a great way to keep a craft alive.

what a privilege to be able to live and breathe the craft that you love 24/7, without having to work a 9/5 to “just get by” 😢❤

I like the idea of apprenticeship. You weren't thrown to the wild immediately after high school. You would already be training and ready to work a job that you were comfortable with and make a living.

I think it's also important to remember that time is a quality filter. there have been artists of every level from the beginning of humanity to the modern day. we preserve and cherish the pieces we find worth keeping, and the rest fade into obscurity. (this is why people think older tv shows and were better than modern media)

As a professional artist working on the film industry, I can asure you that the renaissance artists were beasts, legit disciplined people at its finnest (don't take away their effort by calling them "talented"). Art disciplines like Drawing, Painting or Sculpting are NOT innate talents, do not get fed with that misleading believe. Art disciplines have a lot of science behind them, and anyone who wants to become an artist, has to learn them. The problem is, the science behind art disciplines is so complex that most people give up and then say that "they didnt have the talent" as an excuse. I couldn't draw even a simple cube nor any straight line or circle about 3 years ago, but I learned from my mentors that with discipline, analitical thinking and hard work, I could become an artist without a big art school, and thats exactly what happened. You dont need an art school to become an artist or to copy what is in front of you (thats the old way of learning, which is very unefficient today) but you need to learn the "fundamentals" and control them well, and there are books and some pretty cheap short courses for that, so there is no excuse for not making your dreams come true. If you really want to learn how to draw and paint, you need to learn Perspective, no matter what. And I am talking about the science of Perspective, im not talking about "they way you see things". Perspective is the most important fundamental of any visual artist, it gives you the knoledge and tools to calculate a 3D drawing inside a 2D space (aka, a flat paper/PC Screen if you draw digitally, which is the same as drawing on paper btw, sometimes it is more difficult to draw digitally, dont listen to people who say digital art is easy, it is not). I dropped out of college to become an artist and now I earn more than most my friends who did finish college, so art is a good career path, but again, it is a hard one and if you dont have the discipline, then it will be a very ugly path to follow, since Art does not forgive laziness and companies only hire artists that have a proper Portfolio (art pieces online that show that you can design/create and manipulate 3D forms with consistency); and to achive that, you need to study and practice like crazy, at least 5 hourse a day if you want to make it really fast, and 7 days a week (with 3 hours you can do it in 2 years, which is also very fast for this carreer). Follow the steps from Leonardo and Michael Angelo, they were not geniuses, they were clearly some of the most disciplined human beens ever, thats why they became 2 of the most amazing masters of all time. If you like art, try it, give it your best, do not give up, remember that it takes time and art feels like magic at first, but it is only because to learn it, you need to study, draw and then when you sleep its when your brain truly starts to process the information to learn it well, thats why in 1 day you can not learn nor feel like you have learned how to draw 1 subject; you need to wait until next day to feel that new information and skill, and at least 2 weeks to see a big improvement. do not give up, its just like going to the gym, you will not see a big change in 1 week, you will see it in 1 month of study and practice

I hope y’all realize that history only acknowledges the pretty paintings, not all renaissance artists were good.

We think there are lots of amazing artists working today, including many who are faithfully training in traditional methods. Works of the past that have been deemed worthy of conservation and preservation tend to be stunning examples of the very best. This video shows paintings and drawings spanning centuries, from across Europe, and that's what we see in museums and books, and not the many works that haven't survived due to poor quality, bad luck, or the whims of fickle taste. Another thing is that Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces were often team projects, rather than a single artist's expression, and often an apprentice would contribute special, signature touches and fail to be credited at all. Also, while traditional workshops did prepare their own colors in-house, often the supports- the primed panels- were prepared by specialist panel makers/cabinet makers; artists today often proudly make their own supports in-house, so we don't think there's any reason to feel inferior just because you buy colors in a tube! Art materials are higher quality, more permanent, and more widely accessible today than at any time in history, and art comes from real people, real voices, with a diversity of experience that has never before been seen.

There's also another reason that people tend to overlook which is that unlike today people back then didn't have distractions such as smartphones, social media, television, video games etc so they had more time to focus on their craft without getting distracted so that is another reason why they were so good and why it would be harder for people today to replicate that level of skill that people back then had.

Reminds me a lot of a video from the Met called Revisiting Rembrandt: Case Histories in Connoisseurship. They discuss the way Rembrandt's workshop functioned and how curators have struggled to tell the difference by ones created by the artist himself vs the students. Good stuff!

Its rare, but sometimes I come across a YT video and think "Ive never wondered this, but now I'm intrigued." Great video sir, subbed.

This is definitely a reason why I wouldn’t mind a time machine ,I’d give all my painting skill just to get a chance to be an apprentice during those times and learn from the masters 😭

The 10,000 hours principle really comes into play with apprenticeships. I wish they were commonplace in every industry today.

I wish we still did art this way, or at the very least fine arts. The same way we give licenses to Engineers and Architects, or doctorates to professors and medical practitioners, imagine having the title "Master" in your name

Wow! This was fascinating to watch! Artists had to be very knowledgeable and understanding of their craft from materials to the actual piece! Love it!

Love the Renaissance days. Beautiful. Glad my husband been an artist with degree in art 39 years. He’s always talking with me about these days. 🙌. Painted Alfresco ❤

Awesome and informative, wanted to know about the process and this video has given me a good exposure

Thank you for the exciting insights!

I love the series I intend to follow it and thank you for educating all of us❤❤😊

I have seen a lot of statements made by art students in colleges saying that they received very little actual instruction there, the tendency being rather to allow the student to explore their own style and manifestation of it. It results in spending many thousands of dollars to basically rent a 4x4’ space in a room with an easel, and a teacher comes by once in a while and goes hmmmmmm……. The students are disheartened by oversimplified paintings that could be done by anyone, going for millions. Abstract ideas are now valued more than artistic ability. However, there are many talented artists online sharing their skills and information about products that work, and we thank them for gifting us with these videos. But as for the mainstream, high ability art is not valued or encouraged as it used to be. Beauty is important for the soul, creativity is a gift that should not be put aside and wasted.

I appreciate the time you took to make this. Thank you. 🙏

This channel is goldmine for artist

Should be at least 30 minutes! It's pretty entertaining. Cheers!

i wish this kind of teaching methods were still around

I see a lot of similarities to these methods in the modern-day tattoo industry, from the apprentice-master dynamic to young artists graduating to owning there own shops. A lot of people say the tattoo industry is in a renaissance period rn as well, with how much advancement has been made in the last decade or 2

Nicely described, bravo !

Amazing video. There is MUCH to be learned from history. That's for sure.

These are too addicting 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

so many of these paintings you show are from the baroque era lollll, but I appreciate you shedding light on this subject!! We never hear about the artists lives and their training.

we still do that in our art groups here in the Philippines where apprentices start as workshoppers and eventually become assistant art instructors to the master upon finishing the course. Art groups here usually hold exhibits as a group, accepts mural commissions as group collaborative work. Art Masters will influence workshoppers by mentoring them. We hold weekend meetings and plein air sessions with different art masters per week. This activities not only train beginners but develop a fellowship as well among the art community.

One painting shown was by Vermeer .100 years after the Renaissance. Another by Courbet, 1855.

Very good watch, and informative! Thank you 🎉

Western civilization, regarding visual arts, peaked in the Renaissance and Baroque eras

Great video! I learned a lot, thanks.

we need to bring this back!!

Such an interesting video. Please keep making more!!

This is so interesting 😊thanks for posting

Wow such an informative, eye opening video, it all makes so much sense!!! Dude the video itself is beautiful with all the paintings, and how you explained the whole process, made me look at art just like any other business, some sort of factory, profesional, collaborative environment, with some structure and plan. Before I kind of accepted the idea of a talented genius, who is born and just paints very well right away. Now I see it completely differently. Wow great work, you video is an art! thank you!!!

Such a interesting video thanks for sharing ❤🔥

makes sense, even now, making art collaboratively makes more creative artworks, or even spark more inspiration. Although not to the point of mastering their crafts.. some do, but not the majority as others just view it as a hobby. and even if you did do it solo, I bet it is still FOR someone or something.

Wow, incredible.Thx ❤

I wish all these continued even today I'd love to be a part of such a workshop

This is so interesting thanks for posting

Woah, awesome video!

It makes me think of the way lot of mangaka create their manga, surrounded by young assistants who sometimes end up being masters too.

Wonderful video! ❤❤❤

This was really good. I’d love to see this implemented in the church

These days the motto is « : anyone can be an artist « and usually takes a few classes !! Great video, thank you.

"Always two, there are. No more. No less. A Master and an Apprentice"

Very interesting video, I learned a lot. Thank you.

20 looks at the subject and one look aat your drawing said my european art teacher!

Very interesting video!

~ very well presented as a summary ~

i would have loved this type of apprenticeship growing up.

very collaborative and depends on community. stark contrast to the individualist bootstrap approach artists are pushed into by our economy and society today

Respect to those who created them

check out The Atelier in Minneapolis MN where students are trained to paint like the old masters. Also many other ateliers have opened up around the world. Including Florance Italy.

So the channel has started just 4 months ago. It's amazing to follow you from a point where it isn't that popular. This video is fantastic and I can hope for similar bangers in the future too

There are VERY FEW who still practice these styles, we need to keep them alive. My style aside from my cartoons, i choose the older style of inking, with crosshatching

Artists were talented. Their drawing are frank and very interesting for my ayes

I am an artist: I m subscribing. Just discovered your channel.😊

All the time one needs for practice has been taken away by tablets and smart phones and before that by radio and tv , there was a time when artists would work on their craft 24/7 working diligently to improve their abilities, learning from mistakes, and striving for excellence and that time was the Renaissance

It seems to me, important part was not how they were trained, but the way art was judged. There was no subjectivism and ridiculous abstract shapes on the canvas that are presented as art today. Difference is in esthetics, in ideas of people of that time. And even better was art and ideas of later time of enlightenment. This is why today's artists look at the past for inspiration instead of being even greater artists with all the new technology we have. Ideas shape society~

I guess at this time in history we are in the great exhibition, observing and looking back upon on all the art

valuable !

Cool video. Interestingly the painting at the 5 second mark is called The Painter's Studio and was painted by Gustave Courbet in 1855. It isn't a renaissance painting but does somewhat refer to the method outlined in this video. The painting shows people in allegorical representations of Courbet's experience in his art training.

They have the motivations to do that. Apprenticeship is part of it; but also the commissioners

this all could be an analogy for 2016 soundcloudrap

Another thing to consider.. they were beast back then because they also didn’t hae the modern society problems and worries.. aka taxes, etc.. lol.. when society is good you end up having ALOT of innovation.. art flourishes.. because life is good.. When life is slow. And good.. people slow down.. liek you said.. they made everything fro scratch.. now we have everything.. digital has made it even easier to the point we really do take everything for granted.. vs the artist.. who made their own pigment.. canvas.. and they focus on one thing for a very long time.. ther eis love and cherish of paints.. you don’t take things for granted.. That stone.. that was carted all the way to Rome.. it’s the only stone you got there.. so you are careful.. you go slowly.. you put everything in it.. and you really see that with sculptures.. there is love for the material. - we have lost that.. but we also don’t’ have the privledge of that anymore.. because - gotta pay those bills.. gotta make those deadlines, etc.. Art now is amazing.. but.. there really isn’t as much love and appreciation for the art itself and materials.. we need to slow down.. we need to get back to good times.. slow things down.. and really enjoy the craft..

Ive been obsessed for 25 years, and what ive found is there is no longer appreciation for this today because people dont know the discipline involved, nor the process of drawing and painting. Few care, many allow their ego to stand in the way of awe. To become adept at making marks that convey more as a compositon than as a whole rather than accidental clumsy individual marks is falling in love with living. Then comes the recignition that the lessons of a work of art bestow; the yin yang, the negative space defines the positive, take care the mark (positive) and what shape that isnt the mark (negative) are created simultaneously with 1 act. 1 act creates 2 things. "An equal or opposite" so to speak. Pervasive lessons in our reality. Perhsps people will encounter it in different ways but i say unto the reader - for them to be comparable life lessons they must manifest in our physical reality. When things are made "real" through work, the lesson is engrained (real) because you lived through it, you worked through it, it wasnt just an idea. The same way you fell in love with someone, rather than being told what love is, so too is art creation vs talking about concepts & lessons. If you made it this far, thanks for your time.

The people of that time were studying creation.... they were interested in the higher self. The inner was important. Today, people are in love with an empty image of themselves

they painted for the divine and their works were divine.

The apprentice-master dynamic seems similar to how someone like Hans Zimmer works.

sobbing my eyes out cuz i wanna learn to draw like that for The Vampire Armand reasons

Sounds a lot like the Law industry to me nowadays. How I wish this still exist, deeply appreciate the time and effort they put in learning Art!

and now art is taken for granted.

Why were they so good?: They started early in their childhood and got taught by art masters themselves

4:00 that painting has some very strong meme potential

I'll sign up just for the "referencing poses" part.

I NEED the music you played in the background 😭

Artists of Middle Ages were producing comically bad looking art. Then suddenly their apprentices started to make masterpieces. Go figure...

I appreciate good craftsmanship like that! Its certainly more understandable and than the contemporary BullSt art we have now.

We need ''Master and Apprentice'' drama back 😢

Without photography ruining the eye, they saw things different. A different expression.

So college try's to replicate this but fails to do so in most cases with art programs. Every time I step into a studio we are all very anti social and uncollaborative. I think more about if I become a better artist and go to teaching I want to teach artist to work together to learn I feel like it would make the process go by much faster.

Paper was super expensive back then, so I’m convinced the apprentices started learning to draw on something temporary like slates/blackboards/wax tablets. Is there any documentary evidence of their basic training in draughtsmanship?

Sad I wish I can go to back in time

I really love the idea of apprenticeship that isn’t exploitation.. but garantee you work hard, show passion and drive you can keep climbing in if you want. It hink the problem now is school.. and getting in through that more than passion.. Maybe people who don’t have the skills can’t even get a foot in the door.. but they have MORe passion than the top students, talent. Etc.. skills can be taught and learnt.. and improv.. you can’t do that with passion and drive.. So i would hope that fields would be more open to those even with no talent and skill and let people cook.. cause you notice some of the bets people in the industry, woh really change the game.. had no training or skills at the beginning - but a vision and different perspective. I think that is actually more important than a portfolio in my eyes.. - i want someone with drive passion, show up , and enjoy leveling up

i'll tell you that apprenticeship is the most important thing and the thing im missing the most. You have no idea how hermit and closed the art environment is. If you are like me, a self tought who didnt go to any art schools and have no contacts from this group, you are basicly alone. You can go to some private schools but mostly the experience is not that good because they make money on you and you will never be treated as an apprentice would be. How i wish i would have a mentor who would share its knowledge and care for its student. Tell you what the only way is to publish on internet and hope, lol, that someone will discover you and contact you. But then you are fked by algorithms that just dont show your work to the peaople..

Interesting.

The training of the “ Master” cannot happen today. It was arduous and painstaking. As an art teacher, many who come to me don’t want to go through the process of drawing from casts. Following a master teachers advice or understand painting skills take time and effort. Constant effort. Did I mention Time! Most don’t want to spend all that time learning. Instant results are wanted. They want the “ secrets”. This is why many go straight to abstract painting. No skill, no effort, no time and no talent. What child of nine or ten will devote his/ her life in an atelier to learning to paint? Their parents will invariably push them into sports. Or computer technology. There is no money in art. Which is the reason much art today is inferior third rate trash. So your answer is we are not equipped to be masters today. Few have the time, the will or desire to accomplish what it takes to be a great artist. And even if you become great, few are educated enough to appreciate what it is you do. This isn’t sour grapes. It is a fact of today’s rush, quick, now mentality. I fear the possibility of becoming a great artist is no more.

1. Draw from life 2. Don’t draw from photographs 3. Draw more 4. Draw from memory 5. Paint

Because they knew that beauty was not subjective, relative or a matter of opinion. Beauty is what it is and they knew it

I saw this great anime called Arte on Funimation and I can’t believe how accurate most of this is! Obviously not all of it it’s still an anime after all but still😞!

It's so sad that when Leo, Mike,l and Raph died there were no more great artists

It’s kinda like that today with movies and video games with the demand aspect

This apprenticeship system is similar to the ‘Gurukul’ System in India

What find amazing is the limited pallet day had to use and the abundance of pygmy that they had the wasn't many and it's freezing of fat belly can free amazing soft like baby features in the face what then technical and detailed clothing and dislike you don't see the anymore and it's absolutely outstanding the fact that the people that the other pick pen there like a couple feel way and the family together find detail they must have really good eyes maybe they will username on a call something but still that absolutely fascinating that they can get that much detail out of a brush stroke job

Oh, I never knew that apprentices finished the majority of the paintings. Strange how this feels like a cop out yet we do this exact same thing in a lot of industries like manga, animation, games. Basically anything that requires a lot of people to punch out several things to meet strict deadlines.