If, like me, you enjoy YouTube videos about art and artists, you may have come across a number of slideshow style videos showcasing the art of historic painters.
In many of these, if not the majority, the creator of the videos seems compelled to add motion — panning, zooming and using transitions that flip, swipe, rotate, dissolve into blocks and otherwise try to be “entertaining”. It’s a video, so things have to move, right?
While I appreciate the effort invested in gathering and presenting the images in these presentations, as soon as I realize it’s one of those, I click away in search of another. I like viewing art images whole, or with simple close crops, without them squirming around on my screen! (Sigh.)
Fortunately, there are other options. One of them I enjoy is a YouTube series under the name of LearnFromMasters.
The channel offers an extensive selection slideshows of varied and interesting artists that are mercifully free of unnecessary motion. They are arranged as simple straightforward slides of the full image separated by basic jump cuts. (What a concept!)
In addition to the regular YouTube listing of the videos, there is a text list here of all of the videos posted to date. The channel has a Patreon account for those who wish to support the effort.
The LearnFromMasters videos are engaging and plentiful enough that I will issue a Timesink Warning.
