Does learning art history make you a better artist? What are

Just go to wiki art and take a stroll

>>2837441
Learned about 20th century art
Didn't become better
Not one bit

>>2837526
oh, thank you anon

>>2837441

>Does learning art history make you a better artist?

Yes, knowing art history brings an understanding which is really important especially if you are going fine arts route. I actually unironically liked what Brian talked about in his podcasts, that ultimately you'd like to know that you'd be able to draw like people before you, that is: post-impressionists, impressionists, pre-raphaelites etc. That you know the aesthetics they were going for.

I actually won't give you materials strictly about art history (I mean, I will give you 1), but I will recommend "Ways of seeing" by John Berger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk

And here are entertaining videos briefly analyzing some different pieces that are more or less important:

https://www.youtube.com/user/smarthistoryvideos/videos

And here is a site that you'd like to remember - handprint. It is mainly about watercolors, but not only, have plenty of universal knowledge. It's one of the finest resources out there to teach you about perspective. See how it does - it refers to the PAST. How people were doing it in the old times and why. This insight IMHO helps tremendously. And it carries out to other things, to design decisions etc.

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech10.html

Practically every part of this site is useful. See what he recommends for art history books:

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/artist00.html

and here he explains what is wrong with most art publications out there:

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/booked.html

Learning art history won't make you a great artist, but it will help you understand what it takes to be a great artist.

It could go both ways. There's plenty of loser art history plonkers who are worse for it.

I learned nothing from my art history courses. Granted, most of them were post modernist garbage.

Is there such a thing as applied art history? Learning about artists by imitating their subjects and techniques seems like it would be a blast.

>>2837441
Learning about it won't make you better, but it's more tasteful and nice to have in your artist's repertoire.