Comments on: Baumgartner Restoration – The Hole Nine Yards https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:06:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1542012 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:06:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1542012 Who can forget…

Rick Dale
“American Restoration”
(Season 1 Episode 2)
https://youtu.be/ZNUz1HHYMEo
36:52

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541992 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:23:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541992 In reply to Andi.

Andi: Yes. Fixed. Thank you.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541800 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:49:19 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541800 Did you mean “breath-taking”?

]]> By: Cotour https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541777 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:40:28 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541777 In videos like this it is all about the complete process for me.

There was a beginning, nice smooth and calming narration laying out the problems, the goals and how to achieve them.

And then there is a satisfying end result / finished piece.

The subject or medium most times does not matter to me.

I love the dedicated process.

I always loved industrial films in grade school.

]]> By: Mark Sizer https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541752 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:17:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541752 “There’s no way I’m watching 30 minute of this, but the evening pause is usually interesting. Let’s see…”

30 minutes later.

“Wow. That sets a new standard for ‘expert makes something impossible seem easy’.”

I have an very old photo album. The ancestors in it are labelled with first names. No one alive in the immediate family knows who they are or cares. I wrestle with the idea of just throwing it away. I never look at it. I don’t know who they are. But the history! This makes me feel guilty for even considering throwing it away.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541565 Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:23:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541565 Don C.:

Can’t vouch for this, but there is a Tool….

“Art Restoration Cost Estimator”
https://momaa.org/art-restoration-cost-estimator/

]]> By: Don C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/baumgartner-restoration-the-hole-nine-yards/#comment-1541543 Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:50:58 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111070#comment-1541543 A great restoration, combining engineering & artistic expertise. I especially appreciated his hand-tearing of the Japanese mulberry paper (8:10) because he wanted to have a feathered edge, not a scissors-made straight edge.

One thing missing – how much was the cost of the restoration? $500?; $10,000? How much was the painting appraised for before restoring it? I’m not impressed with the painting itself, so restoring it would not be a consideration if I owned it, as a second or third owner, say. If this were a relative in the family, however, then it doesn’t matter what I think of it, it holds value to someone willing to pay to make the painting whole again. Can’t attach a price to someone else’s idea of beauty. As long as I am not required to use my own money to pay for it. (Government, are you listening?)

Full disclosure – I am not impressed with any of Pablo Picasso’s paintings either, whether his old or his new styles. So what do I know.

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