There are quite a few ignorant people here on youtube, however i wouldn't imagine to find that many degrading comments in a video of art. I mean - who the fuck are you, to declare what is art, and what isn't? To me, art is that which has meaning. 20.000 year old paintings on a cave wall - is it art? To me it is, because it inspires emotion and thoughts. You watch abstract art and expect the meaning of the art to be given. I feel sorry for you, and your lack of imagination and understanding.
bravo, Excellent Artiste, j'ai aimé les couleurs la libertés des touches la matière... . vraiment je suis heureux de voir la mélange entre la musique et la peinture . merci beaucoup .
All art must have content, abstract or not. That artists are still exploring the philosophies and practices of High Modernism today may be valid and fine for the artist personally, I would argue that it is a reactionary practice and is not doing much to push painting (or art in general for that matter) forward. That being said... nice compositions, good use of color, and atta boy for having some fucking fun!
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." -- Wassily Kandinsky.
@cinnabear. No, abstract art does not need to have a meaning.Please look up abstract art - does it need a meaning? on the net. tried to post links here but would not allow me.
There are some very rude, incorrect and nasty comments here. People who wrote them do not appreciate or understand abstract or surrealistic art. Jonas Gerard is my artist mentor and I want to learn to paint more freely and happily like him. One needs to know about composition, shape, colour, and design to paint abstract . It is not just throwing paint around. Check out Jonas's website - he has beautiful paintings that he sells regularly.
@Mariontl While the abstract paintings that Gerard creates are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, where are their meanings? I thought that abstraction was supposed to still hold some representational purpose while taking all of those properties into consideration, not solely focus on the properties alone and neglect realism as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed viewing his abstract work but I can't help but feel that something is missing.
Surely he is fat, but art is having emotion in doing it, if someone else likes this too, way better, others simply don't buy it and look at something more conventional. He is having fun, so go on!
How many more of these buffoons are there dancing around slapping paint everywhere like some sort of fat messiah??
I for one am fed up with this pretentious crap, it is just sheer arrogance that they feel themselves superior to others and charge extortionate prices for such drivel.
Sam Francis being another fat prime example of these overfed slop pigs living in a dream world.
he flows with such instinct. his art represents his internal music - it is a dance and it is beautiful. i am sure that he can his account his skill of blending to experience. his art is pure emotion.
Happy paining! Just have fun with it!! Don't paint too long on one, keep starting new ones and go back with fresh eyes to add if needed on the older ones. It keeps them fresh and you don't allow yourself to get stuck! ;-)
I like very much the strong connection between color and movement, I think that's really a good idea to show the action. Very interesting, nice and excellent work.
This is so worthless. I could literally do this. What's the point? Where's the talent? He all does is smear paint onto a wall. I like real artists who can paint something of actual talent. This is just shit...
@TrueScandinavia Haha, I totally agree. As a blog I read somewhere aptly puts it, the merits of modern art are inversely proportional to the talent, proficiency, experience required to create them, and directly proportional to the explanation required to understand them.
Apparently, according to modernists, if something is beautiful, simple, accessible and immediately understandable, it isn't art. Morons.
He is sort of an abstract Bob Ross, except that he isn't trying to teach... he spends his time making a better picture and does better than anyone I've seen considering the time constraints.
Fantastic painting and great combination of colors in your mind made this painting more creative.This is a great video to get some knowledge in painting abstract art for every one who is interested in paintings and art."thumbs up"
Time and things changes, if you want to stay in a safe zone you are not going to be a great artist. By my experience is more difficult to make an abstract than a picture .
About the colors, i am pretty sure that "His pallet is in his heart".
The Proof is in the taste of the pudding. Try it at home. I guarantee you'll get a horrid mess. Not as easy as it looks to be so loose and free and unconscious in composition, color, shape and line. I'd like to see yours before you describe "talent." This is fantastic. I'd like to paint with him.
The Proof is in the taste of the pudding. Try it at home. I guarantee you'll get a horrid mess. Not as easy as it looks to be so loose and free and unconscious in composition, color, shape and line. I'd like to see yours before you describe "talent."
@aporonju This spontaneous expression helps break the canvas down into "parts" or "rooms" which helps the artist "see" where he is going. At least this is true in my case. lol
Wowwww, me dejaste sin palabras, simplemente maravilloso!!!! toda una obra llena de colores que transmiten alegria pero paz a la vez. No soy de las personas que le gusta mucho lo abstracto, pero tus pinturas me dejaron boquiabierta. Tienes el arte no solo en tu interior, sino hasta en el aire! felicitaciones.
This guy is having so much fun showing the joy of creating. That's what art is creating joy and happiness and I like it!! Keep up the good work. You're one authentic dude...
To take something you see and to express, through art, an interpretation compounded with the artists feeling and emotion, by using skill and effort shows artistic talent, in my opinion. That you get something from the art he creates serves the purpose and thus justifies the fact that it IS art however turn on your media player and turn on visualizations. That is the same degree of "skill" as this guy uses.
The reason people like this is because the colors are vibrant and attractive, diverse. The artists skill is in that he can mix them and slop them on a canvas without making too many browns or 'ugly' colors. Other than that anyone can do this, and coupled with a name and a sense of "you are a deep person if you see how special these colors slopped together are" you get "great art".
@ritsoupify The reason a lot of people beleive that contemporary art requires no skill is because we can look at older art, artists for the most part were able to layer and mix and create with color but they also captured something real or a theme. Therefore, they had to use there skill in a way where there is a critical eye and possibility for flaw or error. The great thing about just slopping vibrant color is there is no "wrong."
I used to think like you do, & I'm a working professional artist. My work is similar to Jonas Gerrard's. I used to call it "scribbling" and wonder why any sane person would buy my work, since it was so easy for me to do. A few friends expressed interest in painting. I invited them to my studio to paint alongside me. Their work was unattractive even to them. They could never sell what they'd painted. Not everyone can do what this guy does. Yeah, It looks easy, but it's not.
When I first saw the video I thought here is a guy that is going to scrawl over the canvas and call it art. But further viewing took me from pessimistic to in awe in about 3 minutes flat. He makes it look so easy, I wish I could blend color as well as he does.
I love his work too many people think art has to be landscapes, seascapes, people, those are places and objects, art as we by now should all know, is anything that we can originate from our minds and hearts and thoughts, it doesnt have to be something relevant, in my opinion there is nothing more f-----kng boring than a landscape or a pic of a deer laying in the woods, but again, my personality is not demure, i prefer laughter fun and i always have had unique taste
@jude3235 From the last little bit there I'm pretty certain you like what you like because it's the opposite of what you feel the majority likes. This doesn't make you unique, it makes you contrary. People enjoy artists renderings of things they see with their own eyes is because they can judge skill. This art succeeds in one of the many faceted purposes of art because it moves people, fine it's good art. My opinion is that it required little or no skill.
Je trouve cela superbe merveilleux j'aime la façon dont vous vous laisser emporter par vos gestes cette désinvolture entre parenthèse c'est fantastique je n'ai pas de mots que de l'admiration signe Kolico
is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
He doesn't care about being filmed. As for the paintings, I do something similar on 3 large wood panels, except I am constantly changing the rotation around, and flipping them over in different combos, and reworking them dozens of times. These paintings of his are a little to fast and direct imo.
in my opinion it doesn't matter how much skill is involved in the making of paintings its the energy put into them and the thought that goes into them. I appreciate skill but on the same note if its visually appealing, what ever the subject may be it can be just as good as a painting that has lots of talent behind it. As for the video I'm loving both the paintings and now I'm going to look for more.. adios
I love paintings at 8:458:539:21 and 9:27. Those paintings have beautiful energy. Don't like this one so much, but it's hard to paint when you are being filmed. So got to give him that. Still, I liked the video.
Tthis is some of the best abstract i've seen. Also this may be more difficult to do than a representational painting because in order to create a good piece of abstract art, you need to have a great composition that includes movement, space, etc., etc.
@MOCOKEMSR And these, in your opinion, are great compositions? Jonas Gerard has indeed chosen the easy way - fast, colorful, nice, and completely random. It's not hard at all if you have a good flow (Gerard doesn't claim it to be hard, though, I'll give him that). He's signing his name at a point where more serious painters would consider having just started the piece (that is, after dumping a lot of pleasing colors on canvas with a good rhythm & feeling). This is utterly shallow. Look deeper...
I'm thrilled by this way of painting and what I call the zen-approach of "wu-wei" or letting go of every benefit (in Japanese called "mushotoku") by just being the medium of something that comes out of Nothingness. You showed me the path, approach, mindset, ... I have to follow while painting. Thank you very much, Jonas.
so i can see all u are still stuck on art history. which is safe to an extant. what the guy in this video is doin is justpainting at its core. sure he had color comp class and design. he just using basic tools that can be learned by anyone. personally i think it lacks narritive which is what all collecters, patrons, art historians, curators and all the other hob nobs look for. not hatin on the guy for makin a living though. cash still rules.
@n8bordeaux yeah. wonder what art they'd b doing with no cash. it's a paint in the what next. I hardly make any money with my art and I've become totally unknown in a sea of spam and it's-who-u-know-s... I do paintings of the future so I can travel through time. kida actually there's another side of art. the functional side.
ronniegrey2003....The point is NOT how long it took Duchamp to sign a urinal R. Mutt, but how long it took him to concieve of the READYMADE. Up to that point in time, one can argue, it took him his entire life up to that point. And since you brought up Duchamp, if you were astute, you would remember that it is not what Duchamp did or made, it is what he DID NOT DO that caused his sensation in the art world that still lives today. There goes a saying: Some people do...others Duchamp.
@englabide One could argue the same for this painter. Just because he can do one so quickly it isn't art? Like my response to MATTDUNCAN1. One doesn't have to languish on something for it to be art. Not all art is about changing peoples viewpoints. In some cases it is merely made to be beautiful, and yes for crass commercialism.
Go to your local Museum of Modern Art and seek out REAL art, not this commercial stuff made for video to impress people who can't make art because they are totally untrained visually. As I said before, you cannot make a painting in a matter of hours that will have a LASTING impression and stand the test of time. Check out HANS HOFFMAN, the father of Abstract Expressionism if think you like this guys work, Hoffman will blow your mind if you will spend hours looking at it!
@englabide are you kidding me?......Hoffmans work will take hours looking at it trying to figure out why he even made a living at anything he took a paintbrush to....my 4 year old does better work than that in school.....lasting impression you say?....to each his own i guess....but man you have a closed mind
It looks easy because what he is doing is easy. His work is NOT significant, and never will be. It takes weeks or months to make a painting that is going to last the test of time, or at least look interesting. This stuff is in acrylics, so it dries fast, and can be completed in a few hours...so what? If it is comleted in a few hours, the it's impact can only last a few hours...
@englabide lol... perhaps you didnt paid much to anything when you were younger, perhaps you did and you forgot about it when you made this last statement...art makes lasting impressions in minds bc they are original thoughts or ideas... it is the most viral.... perception dictates reality my friend, or have you not climbed that tree yet either?
@englabide That's a really absurd thing to say. Marcel Duchamp bought a fucking urinal, signed it R. Mutt, and put it in an art show. It's now considered a major landmark in 20th century art. How long do you think it took him to sign it?
@ronniegrey2003 by taking an object out of context and asking us to look at it in a totally different way, for example..as a sculptural form., the conceptual transformation, when extended, allows us to see a more interesting world..if you choose to see it as a only a signed urinal, then unfortunately you will continue to see the world through the eyes of a person who asks...how long did it take to sign that ?
@MATTDUNCAN1 I don't see it as just a urinal. Jesus. I was merely pointing out that one doesn't have to languish in a basement painting one thing for a lifetime for it to be art. It can be something that already exists and the artist changes our viewpoint of it.
@ronniegrey2003 this sounds dangerous... comparing conceptual art to representative art in this context will lead nowhere but confusion and disagreement, man. Talk about painters.
@englabide i must ask you then englablade,how would you interpret a brilliant piece of improvisational music ,or a once in a lifetime sunset,or a fleeting moment of love with a beautiful woman,it seems your judgment of art is rooted in the notariaty one gets from a single piece,or how famous you can get from art.to REAL artists this is a foreign concept,a selfish concept. have you ever done performance art for a live audience obviously not.its quite liberating . try it then post on it!
@englabide I half agree with you - his work, as it is, will never be significant. But i don't think it has to do with speed - it's very possible to make great art in a relatively short time (think Zen calligraphy, for example... Or the obvious, Pollock & abstract expressionism...) - BUT, if you strip your process of all intention, meaning, idea, self-criticism, like Gardner... You end up with a heap of cheap, bright colored, easy-to-swallow, even-easier-to-forget eye candy. Good flow, though.
It's like a talk show host. When you watch them talk you just feel no effort.They look like they're just having a good time and joking and fooling around. But the training and the talent must be there or it will not be presentable.
Many of the negative comments here totally show a disregard for what art is He paints to make himself happy and express his feelings for others. For haters and artistic know-it-all critics, Jonas is an talented "traditional" painter who can paint landscapes and portraits like no one's business. He choses to paint abstracts because they capture his real emotion. Paint an abstract like Jonas and post it. I bet It's no where near as easy as you'd seem to think. Go ahead, I dare you.
Agreed. When I first starting doing abstract art I actually found it more difficult than when I was doing portraits. It's hard to let go of all the feelings stopping you from 'going outside the circle' regarding painting. I thought it would be simple but it's taken me a long time to find my artistic skill with abstract.
@AstronomyGuru1 .. i refer back to your original comment.."you no longer need talent to be an artist"..that is a statement..NOT an opinion. You offer only a moral argument to support it based on a western work ethic..what is your philosophical argument against this work ??
@AstronomyGuru1 you are entitled to your opinion..but to assume art must represent something is to deny it's right to function as a purely visual language..and no..i don't want to see an artist who 'works hard' particularly..i am not not an abstract painter but i hope i will not become so retrograde in my responses to creativity that i insist on drawing skills as the basis of expression. i do not judge talent on someone's ability to represent in paint something which i may clearly see myself..
@AstronomyGuru1 ou are an art history major and you completely missed the post impressionists ??? and a wide range of other movements..sounds like you refer only yo abstraction..and for some reason believe that art is abioyt...the rennaissance..there are 30;000 years of recoded art history..your viewpoint seems to come from a middle class 'white' perspective..that's a shame..you should perhaps have studied something which you could have benefited from
IT IS precisely what the artist is trying to accomplish is get in the frame of mind of a child, no judgements, with the innate and intuitive ability for composition - something most adults loose along the way starting at age11- So yes I teach kids and see all the time how amazing they are. Miro, Picasso they all wanted paint with a child's mind.
@ArtbyNubia AMEN!! by the way, I have visited your website and love your work!! I love the intuitive creativity of children, and it is the rare artist who can truly create like a child. I have decided recently that the next time someone says to me (in relation to my paintings) "my child could do that" my reply will be "thank you, thank you, thank you!!"
@junioribanez66 I am imagining a much better job! i mean ifs a rel child ves an imitation of a childs mindset i would figure the work of the child, will stand out!
your work and methods of painting give me energy somehow! great works, great video and music choice! Drop by my channel if you get the chance....I do live paintings as well! cheers! raeart
1. Mute this
2. play figaro pist pump
3. you've got yourself a golden video
JeanneBren 1 week ago
1. Is he high? 2. Is he dancing when paints?
JordyLovesYa97 1 week ago
this is beautiful! the painting!
kayrox3501 3 weeks ago
its like these colors reflect the soul of the music
abstract677 1 month ago
I thought it would be ugly, but they all turned out really pretty in the end.
lordportico 1 month ago
There are quite a few ignorant people here on youtube, however i wouldn't imagine to find that many degrading comments in a video of art. I mean - who the fuck are you, to declare what is art, and what isn't? To me, art is that which has meaning. 20.000 year old paintings on a cave wall - is it art? To me it is, because it inspires emotion and thoughts. You watch abstract art and expect the meaning of the art to be given. I feel sorry for you, and your lack of imagination and understanding.
TheJingvardsen 1 month ago
It's abstract but I GET it
diZZybomb6789 2 months ago
bravo, Excellent Artiste, j'ai aimé les couleurs la libertés des touches la matière... . vraiment je suis heureux de voir la mélange entre la musique et la peinture . merci beaucoup .
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jasonkm77 is obviously a republican. The artwork is great :-)
blahnupunk1 2 months ago
Ugh, I'm sorry I clicked on this video....
jasonkm77 2 months ago
I met Jonas today! He is an awesome person and his,art in awesome! Unless you met him then you have no idea. Art can be many things.
scrowe215 2 months ago
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All art must have content, abstract or not. That artists are still exploring the philosophies and practices of High Modernism today may be valid and fine for the artist personally, I would argue that it is a reactionary practice and is not doing much to push painting (or art in general for that matter) forward. That being said... nice compositions, good use of color, and atta boy for having some fucking fun!
MsRyandaly 2 months ago
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." -- Wassily Kandinsky.
Mariontl 3 months ago
@cinnabear. No, abstract art does not need to have a meaning.Please look up abstract art - does it need a meaning? on the net. tried to post links here but would not allow me.
Mariontl 3 months ago
I have just visited Jonas Gerard's website and I am really impressed! Thank you for positing this film.
LiliannaMaria 3 months ago
There are some very rude, incorrect and nasty comments here. People who wrote them do not appreciate or understand abstract or surrealistic art. Jonas Gerard is my artist mentor and I want to learn to paint more freely and happily like him. One needs to know about composition, shape, colour, and design to paint abstract . It is not just throwing paint around. Check out Jonas's website - he has beautiful paintings that he sells regularly.
Mariontl 3 months ago
@Mariontl While the abstract paintings that Gerard creates are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, where are their meanings? I thought that abstraction was supposed to still hold some representational purpose while taking all of those properties into consideration, not solely focus on the properties alone and neglect realism as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed viewing his abstract work but I can't help but feel that something is missing.
CinnaBear21 3 months ago
Nice work
earthalien77 3 months ago
Surely he is fat, but art is having emotion in doing it, if someone else likes this too, way better, others simply don't buy it and look at something more conventional. He is having fun, so go on!
EsclusoIlCane76 3 months ago
What exactly is the point of the charcoal scribbles if you are then going to slop brown shit over them like some H block dirty protest?
It's nothing more than Uncle Fat Bloke dancing at the wedding, except this time it's done with a paintbrush in his hand instead of a cigar.
What a fucking waste of good paint.
misternylon 3 months ago
How many more of these buffoons are there dancing around slapping paint everywhere like some sort of fat messiah??
I for one am fed up with this pretentious crap, it is just sheer arrogance that they feel themselves superior to others and charge extortionate prices for such drivel.
Sam Francis being another fat prime example of these overfed slop pigs living in a dream world.
misternylon 3 months ago
House painter.
MrSmackdown100 3 months ago
@MrSmackdown100 not even that, house painters at least have some degree of skill, this guy is just plain drunk.
misternylon 3 months ago
smoke another joint pops
thedecaycafe 4 months ago
he flows with such instinct. his art represents his internal music - it is a dance and it is beautiful. i am sure that he can his account his skill of blending to experience. his art is pure emotion.
orchidmusiq 4 months ago
Beautiful! I usually paint realistic things but Im trying my hand at abstract now...Im really nervous.
aley2watt 4 months ago
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Happy paining! Just have fun with it!! Don't paint too long on one, keep starting new ones and go back with fresh eyes to add if needed on the older ones. It keeps them fresh and you don't allow yourself to get stuck! ;-)
camelotnax 4 months ago
I like very much the strong connection between color and movement, I think that's really a good idea to show the action. Very interesting, nice and excellent work.
HPedregal63 5 months ago
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westongopro 5 months ago
Beautiful compositions!!
MikeyMidtown 5 months ago
at the beginning what does he use for the lines??
hollyisamazingOO1 5 months ago
wish i had his assortment of paint!
artistwithsomepiano 5 months ago
If I still have that much energy painting at his age I would be very happy. Nice work & great music, except for the last song.
MendoArtworks 5 months ago
@MendoArtworks Last song is part from Putumayo project, Made in Greece. But i cant find there and forgot the singer..:( It's my favorite Greek song!
zlatkasto 4 months ago
@zlatkasto Pame gi allou ( Πάμε γι αλλού ) - George Dalaras ( Γιώργος Νταλάρας )
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what is this white thing he applies at the beginning.
adichandi 5 months ago
This is so worthless. I could literally do this. What's the point? Where's the talent? He all does is smear paint onto a wall. I like real artists who can paint something of actual talent. This is just shit...
TrueScandinavia 5 months ago
@TrueScandinavia .... your a jerk
dwsavage1 5 months ago
@TrueScandinavia .... your a jerk... fyi.. he get's in excess of 2500.00 for the little ones.
dwsavage1 5 months ago
@TrueScandinavia Haha, I totally agree. As a blog I read somewhere aptly puts it, the merits of modern art are inversely proportional to the talent, proficiency, experience required to create them, and directly proportional to the explanation required to understand them.
Apparently, according to modernists, if something is beautiful, simple, accessible and immediately understandable, it isn't art. Morons.
iridescentFUZZ 5 months ago
Great to see as it's made.
EdgeworthJohnstone 5 months ago
When I have no energy to paint and my Multiple sclerosis says: today isn't day to, Jonas gives me it back with his works. Thank you Jonas!
gokpak 5 months ago
有此心态才能有此外露的情绪，我梦想有一天跳舞画画
caohuitalk 6 months ago
Interesting Technique and music is great
awildalc 6 months ago
i was surprised all of his audience are senior citizen.
NatoBord 6 months ago
love how he dances while drawing lol
bored2deathish 6 months ago
can you tell me what you used to draw before painting?
jransm 6 months ago
can you tell me what you used to draw before painting?
jransm 6 months ago
???? no le encuentro el arte en manchar la tela mientras bailas.
Que nadie se da cuenta que no tiene nada de arte esto???
sikandarbn 6 months ago
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jonasgerardart 6 months ago
What type of paint is that?, plus what is the white stuff and does anyone know what kind of pencil he was using??
PAPASHANEbreh 6 months ago
He is sort of an abstract Bob Ross, except that he isn't trying to teach... he spends his time making a better picture and does better than anyone I've seen considering the time constraints.
Zubdigs 6 months ago
Fantastic painting and great combination of colors in your mind made this painting more creative.This is a great video to get some knowledge in painting abstract art for every one who is interested in paintings and art."thumbs up"
ipo123able 6 months ago
I LOVE THIS!!!!!, THE JOY OF ABSTRACT ART BEING RELEASED <3
DarkElement14 6 months ago
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DarkElement14 6 months ago
i love the painting and check out how he's dancing the whole time.. that's so awesome.
supersunflag 6 months ago
excelente ,visit my video please,thanks
andrespiatek 6 months ago
I like it.............
kimyounggeun100 7 months ago
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jamestargetedindiv 7 months ago
Soulful and Passionate - one of my favorite artists of all time.
TikiStudio 7 months ago
love the way you paint...
lulacole58 7 months ago
رائع جداً , فنآن بالفعلْ
mira1988100 7 months ago
Time and things changes, if you want to stay in a safe zone you are not going to be a great artist. By my experience is more difficult to make an abstract than a picture .
About the colors, i am pretty sure that "His pallet is in his heart".
mifrancesita 7 months ago
The Proof is in the taste of the pudding. Try it at home. I guarantee you'll get a horrid mess. Not as easy as it looks to be so loose and free and unconscious in composition, color, shape and line. I'd like to see yours before you describe "talent." This is fantastic. I'd like to paint with him.
lddiamondgirl 7 months ago
The Proof is in the taste of the pudding. Try it at home. I guarantee you'll get a horrid mess. Not as easy as it looks to be so loose and free and unconscious in composition, color, shape and line. I'd like to see yours before you describe "talent."
lddiamondgirl 7 months ago
Well I will be subscribing. The technique was excellent and I enjoyed and learnt a lot from this Video.
Well done Jonas.
Thank you!
megaleo451 7 months ago
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what actually i wanted to ask is. what is the usage of first random lines that this painter made?
aporonju 7 months ago
what actually i wanted to ask is. what is the usage of first random lines that this painter made?
aporonju 7 months ago
@aporonju This spontaneous expression helps break the canvas down into "parts" or "rooms" which helps the artist "see" where he is going. At least this is true in my case. lol
LaMaraj 7 months ago
nice editing! great video!
QuitWastingTime 7 months ago
Perfect, unique, excellent!!!!
HanaPainting 7 months ago
SUCH PASSION, GREAT CHOICE IN MUSIC, I CAN SENSE THAT YOU CAN FEEL
WHICH COLORS GO WHERE BY THE RYTHM OF THE MUSIC. A JOY TO WATCH!!!
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOUR WORK ON YOU TUBE.
lulubug53 8 months ago
very nice....great artist
kidzviewtv 8 months ago
Wowwww, me dejaste sin palabras, simplemente maravilloso!!!! toda una obra llena de colores que transmiten alegria pero paz a la vez. No soy de las personas que le gusta mucho lo abstracto, pero tus pinturas me dejaron boquiabierta. Tienes el arte no solo en tu interior, sino hasta en el aire! felicitaciones.
viviproano 8 months ago
joyful! it is his own language in brushstrokes :)
MountainQueen 8 months ago
This guy is having so much fun showing the joy of creating. That's what art is creating joy and happiness and I like it!! Keep up the good work. You're one authentic dude...
bloomsums 8 months ago
He's interesting but not genius interesting. Pollock, Kandinsky...
Frutoses 8 months ago
this is amaaazing <3 georgeos color!
nicolemarieSEE 8 months ago
AMAZING!!!
MultiSkyline2011 8 months ago
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annablumeification 9 months ago
I LOVE THIS PAINTINGS SO MUCH!!! W O W
You just inspired me to start painting again. Thank you
igor2978 9 months ago
To take something you see and to express, through art, an interpretation compounded with the artists feeling and emotion, by using skill and effort shows artistic talent, in my opinion. That you get something from the art he creates serves the purpose and thus justifies the fact that it IS art however turn on your media player and turn on visualizations. That is the same degree of "skill" as this guy uses.
ritsoupify 9 months ago
The reason people like this is because the colors are vibrant and attractive, diverse. The artists skill is in that he can mix them and slop them on a canvas without making too many browns or 'ugly' colors. Other than that anyone can do this, and coupled with a name and a sense of "you are a deep person if you see how special these colors slopped together are" you get "great art".
ritsoupify 9 months ago
@ritsoupify The reason a lot of people beleive that contemporary art requires no skill is because we can look at older art, artists for the most part were able to layer and mix and create with color but they also captured something real or a theme. Therefore, they had to use there skill in a way where there is a critical eye and possibility for flaw or error. The great thing about just slopping vibrant color is there is no "wrong."
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I used to think like you do, & I'm a working professional artist. My work is similar to Jonas Gerrard's. I used to call it "scribbling" and wonder why any sane person would buy my work, since it was so easy for me to do. A few friends expressed interest in painting. I invited them to my studio to paint alongside me. Their work was unattractive even to them. They could never sell what they'd painted. Not everyone can do what this guy does. Yeah, It looks easy, but it's not.
ArtShower 8 months ago
When he is drawing at 1st, .. whats the technique behind that? :S
EmilyandLaura54 9 months ago
excuse me while i go pick my jaw up from the floor.. :o
CherThinksPink 9 months ago
This man is an excellent artist, he is someone that has passion and pure talent.
jacsobrien 9 months ago
When I first saw the video I thought here is a guy that is going to scrawl over the canvas and call it art. But further viewing took me from pessimistic to in awe in about 3 minutes flat. He makes it look so easy, I wish I could blend color as well as he does.
sdgoes99 9 months ago
Fun and beautiful I love it
hayaty100 9 months ago
I love his work too many people think art has to be landscapes, seascapes, people, those are places and objects, art as we by now should all know, is anything that we can originate from our minds and hearts and thoughts, it doesnt have to be something relevant, in my opinion there is nothing more f-----kng boring than a landscape or a pic of a deer laying in the woods, but again, my personality is not demure, i prefer laughter fun and i always have had unique taste
jude3235 10 months ago
@jude3235 From the last little bit there I'm pretty certain you like what you like because it's the opposite of what you feel the majority likes. This doesn't make you unique, it makes you contrary. People enjoy artists renderings of things they see with their own eyes is because they can judge skill. This art succeeds in one of the many faceted purposes of art because it moves people, fine it's good art. My opinion is that it required little or no skill.
ritsoupify 9 months ago
I love it - it's beautiful - very inspiring, thanks for uploading!
brilliantcheese 10 months ago
What an artist.... hahahaha lol
JiOnStEePrH 10 months ago
potboiler
OrlovIV 10 months ago
what kind of paint is he using?
agentike2 10 months ago
@agentike2 acrylics
JBulDesign 10 months ago
so so
MrToshka92 10 months ago
Je trouve cela superbe merveilleux j'aime la façon dont vous vous laisser emporter par vos gestes cette désinvolture entre parenthèse c'est fantastique je n'ai pas de mots que de l'admiration signe Kolico
quioko30 11 months ago
Amazing! You are by far my favorite abstract artist.
lyndachristie 11 months ago
So awesome! I wish I could paint like that!
blujet3141 11 months ago
this link I mean artizenfinearts
ballbased 11 months ago
Jonas why you are not included in the artists list of the site indicated in your channel
this is the correct link ?
thanks
ballbased 11 months ago
sorry for much comments, it's due to my pc work slovly
ballbased 11 months ago
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is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
do you shows in Europe?
ballbased 11 months ago
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is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
do you shows in Europe?
ballbased 11 months ago
is a fantastic painter, but good, but as it does, it all seems so simple and natural but is probably very, very difficult to make these paintings abstract.need a great preparation. How much do your paintings cost jonas?. I am a worker and I don't have great availability. How do I buy online with your pictures and be sure to receive it is not damaged. can you send a certificate to accompany the works, from which institution is recognized. Can I pay with a credit card?
do you shows in Europe?
ballbased 11 months ago 2
@ballbased
I think to be a good painter I don't really need to recognized from any institution or so, 'cause the greatest
painters in history are well known as the masters of the master because on that time nobody needed any
recognition though.
Well, that's what I think.
Nice paintings!
jeffblash 5 months ago
BIG Robbery..
search on this
150 X 100 cm Abstract on Canvas live Painting demo "Mediterranean Storm"
what a looser.
Love your work gerrard
pager3060 11 months ago
He doesn't care about being filmed. As for the paintings, I do something similar on 3 large wood panels, except I am constantly changing the rotation around, and flipping them over in different combos, and reworking them dozens of times. These paintings of his are a little to fast and direct imo.
xonage2 11 months ago
in my opinion it doesn't matter how much skill is involved in the making of paintings its the energy put into them and the thought that goes into them. I appreciate skill but on the same note if its visually appealing, what ever the subject may be it can be just as good as a painting that has lots of talent behind it. As for the video I'm loving both the paintings and now I'm going to look for more.. adios
BezGraff 11 months ago
I love paintings at 8:45 8:53 9:21 and 9:27. Those paintings have beautiful energy. Don't like this one so much, but it's hard to paint when you are being filmed. So got to give him that. Still, I liked the video.
PinkLederhosen 11 months ago
good stuff
rebelartist 11 months ago
:D
terispore 11 months ago
great rythm and vibrant colour,,, especially @9:01 onwards
peacechild61 11 months ago
Tthis is some of the best abstract i've seen. Also this may be more difficult to do than a representational painting because in order to create a good piece of abstract art, you need to have a great composition that includes movement, space, etc., etc.
MOCOKEMSR 1 year ago
@MOCOKEMSR And these, in your opinion, are great compositions? Jonas Gerard has indeed chosen the easy way - fast, colorful, nice, and completely random. It's not hard at all if you have a good flow (Gerard doesn't claim it to be hard, though, I'll give him that). He's signing his name at a point where more serious painters would consider having just started the piece (that is, after dumping a lot of pleasing colors on canvas with a good rhythm & feeling). This is utterly shallow. Look deeper...
mundusabsurdus 1 year ago
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I'm thrilled by this way of painting and what I call the zen-approach of "wu-wei" or letting go of every benefit (in Japanese called "mushotoku") by just being the medium of something that comes out of Nothingness. You showed me the path, approach, mindset, ... I have to follow while painting. Thank you very much, Jonas.
zenarts 1 year ago
These paintings are so Beautiful. I am very sad right now and watching him paint is balm to my soul. The colors are magnificent. *sigh*
jooch05 1 year ago
so i can see all u are still stuck on art history. which is safe to an extant. what the guy in this video is doin is justpainting at its core. sure he had color comp class and design. he just using basic tools that can be learned by anyone. personally i think it lacks narritive which is what all collecters, patrons, art historians, curators and all the other hob nobs look for. not hatin on the guy for makin a living though. cash still rules.
n8bordeaux 1 year ago
@n8bordeaux yeah. wonder what art they'd b doing with no cash. it's a paint in the what next. I hardly make any money with my art and I've become totally unknown in a sea of spam and it's-who-u-know-s... I do paintings of the future so I can travel through time. kida actually there's another side of art. the functional side.
paulhallart 11 months ago
wow. this is absolutely beautiful.
Why dont you all take time to appreciate this ans stop argueing over stuff.
Art is ambiguous. Either take it in or dont
BigGreenDinosaur7 1 year ago
ronniegrey2003....The point is NOT how long it took Duchamp to sign a urinal R. Mutt, but how long it took him to concieve of the READYMADE. Up to that point in time, one can argue, it took him his entire life up to that point. And since you brought up Duchamp, if you were astute, you would remember that it is not what Duchamp did or made, it is what he DID NOT DO that caused his sensation in the art world that still lives today. There goes a saying: Some people do...others Duchamp.
englabide 1 year ago
@englabide One could argue the same for this painter. Just because he can do one so quickly it isn't art? Like my response to MATTDUNCAN1. One doesn't have to languish on something for it to be art. Not all art is about changing peoples viewpoints. In some cases it is merely made to be beautiful, and yes for crass commercialism.
ronniegrey2003 1 year ago
@englabide Also, as far as I know, the story goes that Duchamp stopped at the hardware store on his way to the show.
ronniegrey2003 1 year ago
Go to your local Museum of Modern Art and seek out REAL art, not this commercial stuff made for video to impress people who can't make art because they are totally untrained visually. As I said before, you cannot make a painting in a matter of hours that will have a LASTING impression and stand the test of time. Check out HANS HOFFMAN, the father of Abstract Expressionism if think you like this guys work, Hoffman will blow your mind if you will spend hours looking at it!
englabide 1 year ago
@englabide are you kidding me?......Hoffmans work will take hours looking at it trying to figure out why he even made a living at anything he took a paintbrush to....my 4 year old does better work than that in school.....lasting impression you say?....to each his own i guess....but man you have a closed mind
DannyDee2011 1 year ago
wake up people!!!! this is ''abstract Bob Ross''
a22words 1 year ago 4
his paintings are so beautiful...
Mikeskiboshskiisme 1 year ago
when he starts I was like "what the hell is he doing?" but then you see the final project and its absolutely amazing!
StephCyanide 1 year ago
@StephCyanide For me, it's the opposite: the first gestural marks are lovely but by the end I think 'what the hell has he done'.
Nicklas4500 1 year ago
It looks easy because what he is doing is easy. His work is NOT significant, and never will be. It takes weeks or months to make a painting that is going to last the test of time, or at least look interesting. This stuff is in acrylics, so it dries fast, and can be completed in a few hours...so what? If it is comleted in a few hours, the it's impact can only last a few hours...
englabide 1 year ago
@englabide lol... perhaps you didnt paid much to anything when you were younger, perhaps you did and you forgot about it when you made this last statement...art makes lasting impressions in minds bc they are original thoughts or ideas... it is the most viral.... perception dictates reality my friend, or have you not climbed that tree yet either?
pimpinkid69247 1 year ago
@englabide That's a really absurd thing to say. Marcel Duchamp bought a fucking urinal, signed it R. Mutt, and put it in an art show. It's now considered a major landmark in 20th century art. How long do you think it took him to sign it?
ronniegrey2003 1 year ago
@ronniegrey2003 by taking an object out of context and asking us to look at it in a totally different way, for example..as a sculptural form., the conceptual transformation, when extended, allows us to see a more interesting world..if you choose to see it as a only a signed urinal, then unfortunately you will continue to see the world through the eyes of a person who asks...how long did it take to sign that ?
MATTDUNCAN1 1 year ago
@MATTDUNCAN1 I don't see it as just a urinal. Jesus. I was merely pointing out that one doesn't have to languish in a basement painting one thing for a lifetime for it to be art. It can be something that already exists and the artist changes our viewpoint of it.
ronniegrey2003 1 year ago
@ronniegrey2003 this sounds dangerous... comparing conceptual art to representative art in this context will lead nowhere but confusion and disagreement, man. Talk about painters.
mundusabsurdus 1 year ago
@englabide i must ask you then englablade,how would you interpret a brilliant piece of improvisational music ,or a once in a lifetime sunset,or a fleeting moment of love with a beautiful woman,it seems your judgment of art is rooted in the notariaty one gets from a single piece,or how famous you can get from art.to REAL artists this is a foreign concept,a selfish concept. have you ever done performance art for a live audience obviously not.its quite liberating . try it then post on it!
libknocker 1 year ago
@englabide I half agree with you - his work, as it is, will never be significant. But i don't think it has to do with speed - it's very possible to make great art in a relatively short time (think Zen calligraphy, for example... Or the obvious, Pollock & abstract expressionism...) - BUT, if you strip your process of all intention, meaning, idea, self-criticism, like Gardner... You end up with a heap of cheap, bright colored, easy-to-swallow, even-easier-to-forget eye candy. Good flow, though.
mundusabsurdus 1 year ago
thumbs up for the artist and also for the Greek singer and the bouzouki !!!!
popolXTZ 1 year ago
watching your creativity process made me appreciate your final product even more! that was amazing! very inspiring
infinitecanvas11 1 year ago
And Everybody can talk but they don't get thousands of dollars for just talking!!
beauleeful 1 year ago
It's like a talk show host. When you watch them talk you just feel no effort.They look like they're just having a good time and joking and fooling around. But the training and the talent must be there or it will not be presentable.
beauleeful 1 year ago
he makes is look so effortless. amazing
blindninja907 1 year ago
Do you know what kind of gesso or consistency he is using for initial texture spread?
And of course, this man is absolutely amazing, I adore his work and his style.
jakehaspaint 1 year ago
Many of the negative comments here totally show a disregard for what art is He paints to make himself happy and express his feelings for others. For haters and artistic know-it-all critics, Jonas is an talented "traditional" painter who can paint landscapes and portraits like no one's business. He choses to paint abstracts because they capture his real emotion. Paint an abstract like Jonas and post it. I bet It's no where near as easy as you'd seem to think. Go ahead, I dare you.
Carry on...
drowningcreek 1 year ago
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Agreed. When I first starting doing abstract art I actually found it more difficult than when I was doing portraits. It's hard to let go of all the feelings stopping you from 'going outside the circle' regarding painting. I thought it would be simple but it's taken me a long time to find my artistic skill with abstract.
Lillyvon 1 year ago
@AstronomyGuru1 .. i refer back to your original comment.."you no longer need talent to be an artist"..that is a statement..NOT an opinion. You offer only a moral argument to support it based on a western work ethic..what is your philosophical argument against this work ??
MATTDUNCAN1 1 year ago 13
@MATTDUNCAN1 What does art have to do with morality?
ritsoupify 9 months ago
@ritsoupify i cannot answer that question..i think you misinterpret my comment
MATTDUNCAN1 9 months ago
@AstronomyGuru1 you are entitled to your opinion..but to assume art must represent something is to deny it's right to function as a purely visual language..and no..i don't want to see an artist who 'works hard' particularly..i am not not an abstract painter but i hope i will not become so retrograde in my responses to creativity that i insist on drawing skills as the basis of expression. i do not judge talent on someone's ability to represent in paint something which i may clearly see myself..
MATTDUNCAN1 1 year ago 11
@MATTDUNCAN1 It's true that art is a visual language. Good art speaks to you, it tells a story. But what story does this tell ^ ?
Valleyartify 9 months ago
>Hire nut case
>make him throw paint on a canvas
>Sell for thousands.
smilie120 1 year ago
@AstronomyGuru1 ou are an art history major and you completely missed the post impressionists ??? and a wide range of other movements..sounds like you refer only yo abstraction..and for some reason believe that art is abioyt...the rennaissance..there are 30;000 years of recoded art history..your viewpoint seems to come from a middle class 'white' perspective..that's a shame..you should perhaps have studied something which you could have benefited from
MATTDUNCAN1 1 year ago
@AstronomyGuru1 you should do more:))..oh...perhaps study a bit of art history..particularly what has been going on for the last hundred years or so
MATTDUNCAN1 1 year ago
very energetic.
ArtbyNubia 1 year ago
welcome... visit gpabsky.com website for the ARTIST. ty!
taylor2001 1 year ago
love your work and style!
raeart 1 year ago
if i gave my 8 yr old a few buckets of paint and 3 24X36 canvas, he probably came out with the same art work.
junioribanez66 1 year ago
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pnnettles 1 year ago
@junioribanez66 Really? Let's see it! I don't believe it for a second. I do like kids' work too, though!!
wsmyers55 1 year ago
@junioribanez66
IT IS precisely what the artist is trying to accomplish is get in the frame of mind of a child, no judgements, with the innate and intuitive ability for composition - something most adults loose along the way starting at age11- So yes I teach kids and see all the time how amazing they are. Miro, Picasso they all wanted paint with a child's mind.
ArtbyNubia 1 year ago
@ArtbyNubia AMEN!! by the way, I have visited your website and love your work!! I love the intuitive creativity of children, and it is the rare artist who can truly create like a child. I have decided recently that the next time someone says to me (in relation to my paintings) "my child could do that" my reply will be "thank you, thank you, thank you!!"
wsmyers55 1 year ago
@junioribanez66 I am imagining a much better job! i mean ifs a rel child ves an imitation of a childs mindset i would figure the work of the child, will stand out!
SubconsciousDweller 1 year ago
Energetic music.....Energetic Paintings....Salsa
ArtbyNubia 1 year ago
what paints do you use?
net26020 1 year ago
what is the name of this song?
campcapra 1 year ago
your work and methods of painting give me energy somehow! great works, great video and music choice! Drop by my channel if you get the chance....I do live paintings as well! cheers! raeart
raeart 1 year ago
Beautiful work with a very free style of painting.
Damichar 1 year ago
nice painting style and i felt very happy to hear the greek song from Dalaras!!keep walkink man!!!nice work!
natpapa1984 1 year ago
very nice
i start painrigs not so long time
so if u can watch my art and tell me wchat u think about it??
Kisyth 1 year ago
the difference between artists and art critics is one paints the other talks.
graciesueful 1 year ago
@graciesueful AMEN!
wsmyers55 1 year ago