Forger's Masterclass - Ep.04 - Claude Monet

"Can I borrow you brush a minute." That is bad teaching.

Legitimizing criminality. Training a whole new breed of potential Forger's. There is a growing number of fakes and forgery's in the market today some high end Collectors speculate two thirds of the high end art today are Fake's and Forger's and withe the increase demand for Contemporary and Modern art this is not helping. Train all you want but not under the guise or premise of a master Forger this is just wrong on more than one level.

Kevin got the gold star of this group I think.

They need to paint with BIGGER BRUSHES!!!

Kevin, amazing for Cezanne. Emma, amazing, love it. Margret, composition is there, keep going.

The portrait dude is drop down gorgeous! My God😊🤙🏻😍🙌🏻

Wanker...he was a shit forger. And he’s a twat of a teacher

Hope young Emma knows the dangers of putting the Cadmins onto your skin or Zinc White..... Lovely video .

These series are so enlightening. After watching several, I definitely am sensing John's desire to help his audience understand the difficulties in stepping out of your own "style" and getting into the head and mind of a master. I feel sympathetic to the difficulty in what he actually accomplished, which is its own genius, though not appreciated by the art critics. In the end, it has come full circle as he is now teaching us how to bend, flex, and empathize with another, fellow artist, to FEEL what is felt at the moment of creation, and to record that feeling and thought, in the magic of the moment and medium. Beautiful really. Thank you John for your own genius and for sharing it with the world so that we may understand, just a bit better, what it truly takes to create our own masterpieces! Well done.

It would drive me absolutely nuts being coached by this guy while I am trying to paint

He faked monet with house paint and the experts didn't pick up on it. That just goes to show the pretension and what a joke art people are. Sorry but if I was going to spend millions on a picture,I'd have all manner of forensic tests done. He said it didn't feel good to sell fakes as real, but I think he did everyone a huge service. They should have not put him in jail, but the fake art experts who can't tell house paint from oil. They are the criminals.

so great. feel I'm there with you. very inspiring.

brilliant that you share your knowledge and experience

There is a tendency for people to see what they are thinking rather than what they are really seeing. I would invite painters to look into the work of Douglas Harding, as he explains this difference. Harding was not a painter, but his philosophy applies and is helpful.

Not easy! Or, there would be missing Monet's in my bedroom.

Kevin 💕

I hope the young girl uses non-toxic paint. If she mixes cadmium or cobalt in her hand she poisons herself - one painter died because he did that, mixing paint loaded with heavy metals in his hand.

I hope the students can do a Van Gogh landscape ....seems to me Van Gogh tried to be an impressionist but turned out to be an expressionist kind of impressionist.

Lousy landscape completely featureless, would hate doing it.

There is a specific juiciness to using oil paint for impressionistic work, not the sloppy slosh of many premixed tubes of today and I would not imagine I’d be happy with any other medium, especially for painting broken brush strokes in the field.
Monet also used far more colors and employed optic blending.
His greens were not just greens but had plenty of rich reds and violets as well.
He nearly never used straight yellow.
I did find watching this entertaining.
So, thank you!

Like if you’re being taught art right now

Came for monet,
stayed for emma.
poor emma.

These people were not listening

How great would be if he would have at least a weekly class teaching how to paint a landscape demonstration for us to follow and learn, something like Bob Ross only better

A lot of people called themselves abstract painters are actually not good at painting.

I like Kevin is he married ?

Emma should abstain from using her hand as a palette, the paint has resins and chemical that absorb in the body. I thought all 3 paintings quite good.

That hair .. blowing in Emma's face ! omg ! It would drive me NUTS ! Maybe it would have been better to think more about the painting than having her long locks flowing in the breeze..

What kind of paints are they using ? ... Monet worked in oils but they were given paint and water .. I am confused .. : / That said.. it was a really fascinating video .. entertaining ... so .. I am NOT complaining .. lol ! : ]

The cloudiness goes against the light that Monet relied on the majority of time..this hindered the painters here.

He is a terrible teacher, allowing the girl to use her hand for a palate is a habit that should be instantly broken. The woman who considered herself to be a professional artist was unable to draw and may be color blind. Where did he find these people?

Doing a painting in pure colors right away is not easy. Very challenging.

I know nothing about art but love this show ....

They guy his painting...beautiful.
Young girl...very special
Older lady...NO

I lived in Staffs but unfortunately never met John. These days Noel Gallagher's lawyer could have got the case thrown out! The crooks are the auction houses who buy cheap then pass on. John did what he did to feed his family but single Fathers don't count in British society.

What is the name of the painting from Monet they are referencing from?

The giant step away from photo realism was a shock to the art public at the time. Artists (like Monet), at the forefront of this shift felt that, since photography existed to capture a true to life image, it freed them to explore outside of realism.

They wanted to convey the feel and idea of what they were painting, and instead of spending weeks and months on one painting in the studio, worked at quickly imparting the colour, feeling, and contrast of a scene.

The intention was to complete a canvas quickly before light levels changed too much. Details were suggested rather than painstakingly rendered, and the finished result gave a sense of life and motion as opposed to the static appearance taught in the schools.

To me it is kind of like superimposing a half dozen frames of film versus a single frame. It breaks the lines up and allows that sense of movement and change to the viewer. Rather like looking out the window of a moving train.

His style of teaching this is quite wonderful, and I’m sure these artists gained a lot from the exercise. No doubt they were able to use the experience in later projects.🖤🇨🇦

Sky Arts and the BBC should have more of these types of shows!!!

Lots of fun. Monet worked on his paintings many sessions and sometimes finished them in the studio. He also started off with small strokes. So, these artists were trying to do a Monet alla prima. It doesn’t work that way.

Enough screen time on the students. Get to the painting.

How is a landscape "Timeless"?

Emmas colors were realy good, it looks a bit like a quick study in composition and color interpretation

You end up getting ripped off ....he is a bloody chancer

Who puts paint on their hand like that?

We own an original painting bye John wyatt and with picture light's and couler lights the paintings change with different lights,john wyatt is a fantastic painter,in privileged to of met him.he was fantastic

Margaret ..a student fm hell🤣🤣🤣

Beautiful ❤