Great Video - 18th Century Art

More great video from Phillip Scott Johnson. Mr. Johnson can be found here, or here.

18th Century Art includes the European portraits of Thomas Gainsborough - "The Blue Boy", Angelica Kaufmann - "Portrait of a Woman Dressed as Vestal Virgin", Allan Ramsay - "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau", William Hogarth - "David Garrick with His Wife Eva-Maria Veigel", Jacques-Louis David - "Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thelusson, Comtesse de Sorcy", Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder - "Portrait of Prince Boris Golizyn", Francis Boucher - "Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses", Maurice Quentin de La Tour - "Self Portrait", Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes - "Portrait of Marqueza Pontejos", Heinrich-Friedrich Fueger - "Portrait of Franz Joseph Graf Saurau", Jean-Marc Nattier - "Marie Adelaide of France as Flora", John Singleton Copley - "Portrait of Mrs. Humphrey Devereux", Anton Raphael Mengs - "Self Portrait", Antoine Pesne - "Portrait of Maria Susanne Dinglinger", Joshua Reynolds - "Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards" and Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - "Portrait of Marie Antoinette".

Music: Final Movement from Mass No. 7 in B flat major composed by Joseph Haydn.

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Great Video - Visages d'Art

More video art from Phillip Scott Johnson. Mr. Johnson can be found here, or here. Music: Bach's Prelude And Fugue No. 6 In D Minor BWV 851 - Praeludium from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 performed by Daniel Ben Pienaar.

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Great Video - Baroque Art

I am once again running a video of Phillip Scott Johnson, the video artist. This is just visually beautiful. Mr. Johnson can be found here, or here. Music: Bach's Prelude And Fugue No. 1 In C Major - BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 performed by Daniel Ben Pienaar. Enjoy.

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Great Video - Women In Art

Revisiting the video art of Philip Scott Johnson.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma.



Mr. Johnson can be found here, or here.

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Great Video - Self Portraits

Video art by Philip Scott Johnson

500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Western Art

Artists in order of appearance:
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, Francisco Goya 1746-1828, Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528, Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792, Rembrandt 1606-1669, Andy Warhol 1928-1987, William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905, Henri Matisse 1869-1954, Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863, Jean-François Millet 1814-1875, Jan van Eyck 1395-1441, Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903, John Singer Sargent 1856-1925, Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665, Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, Paul Gauguin 1848-1903, Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, Diego Velázquez 1599-1660, Nicholas Hilliard 1547-1619, Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641, Titian 1485-1576, Paolo Veronese 1528-1588, Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472-1553, Édouard Manet 1832-1883, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Music: Bach's Bouree 1 and 2 from Suite for Solo Cello No. 3, BWV 1009 performed by Antonio Meneses.



Mr. Johnson can be found here, or here.

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Great Video - Men In Film

There is a man I can only describe as a video artist in St. Louis. His name is Phillip Scott Johnson. I find them fascinating and just beautiful to watch. He morphs one image into the next, set to classical music. On YouTube, his screen name is eggman913, and he has posted 18 videos.



First of two videos I will post is Men In Film.



The faces used are Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Peter O'Toole, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Harrison Ford, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon and George Clooney. He also did one for Women In Film.



The women in the video are Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon and Halle Berry.

He has focused most of his work with artwork, and I will post some of that soon.

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