week 12

1. Explain why you selected each of the FOUR videos you choose from the selection listed above.

 I chose Abstract Expressionism and pop art, Uncertainty Modernity and art, Andy Warhol and the Art of Henry Moore because these concepts were in the text and I wanted to enhance my knowledge. I am very interested in Pop art and Andy Warhol, I love the patterns, bright colors, and inspirations because the works.

2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Abstract Expressionism:

·      Abstract art is compared to figurative art in Fraz Klines painting “C&O”

·      He uses shapes to represent his emotions.

·      Color and form is introduced.

·      Frankenthalers work Mountains and Sea causes her to emerge on the art scene and then influences a generation of artists.

·      Her work is feminine and mystical

·      In 1952 De Koonig makes his name with "Woman One." By embracing a passionate and instinctive approach to painting, he becomes an instant talisman of "action painting.”

·      Andy Warhol is said to be Pop Arts son.

·      He made a path for other pop artists.

Uncertainty: Modernity and Art

·      Greek statues reflect back to man as an idealized version of himself.

·      Modern art is contemporary society’s version of the Delphic Oracles. It documents the metamorphosis of mankind. It is a tradition that occurs in the 19^th century. It is a response to modern life.

·      In the 20^th century speed and mass production come into play.

·      Modern art is to Nazi degerate and impure.

·      Hitler had annual art exhibitions displayed Nazi Art

·      Modern art takes another turn against Nazi art and becomes “Anti German”

·      Picasso’s “Guernica” is anti German

·      Modern art has many different forms. It does not to a god or higher intelligence.

·      Among the abstract expressionists are Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Abstract expressionism invites viewers to look into the void. The artists were outcasts because they could not accept the values of consumerism.

·      Andy Warhol's larger-than-life portraits of Elvis holding a gun gives an audience pause for thought. Five hundred years ago, painting was about saints and religion. Pop art suggests that things and people are thrown away because things keep changing. Pop artists wanted to be the opposite of everything that has gone before.    

Andy Warhol:

·      Andy Warhol worked as a commercial artist until 1960 when he began experimenting with advertising images. He worked until his untimely death in 1987.

·      Andy Warhol's interest in the lives of these famous women inspired several repeated images.

·      Photographs are blown up and developed onto silk screens; they are transferred to paper and canvas, using ink and paint. The techniques used for Warhol's silk screen, Ten Lizes, featuring Elizabeth Taylor was created in 1963.

·      Warhol begins to photograph his friends; soon he is filming them also, shooting about 100 films. He begins adding paint to his silk screened images.

·      Warhol produced dozens of self portraits. As an art journalist his work addresses race riots, the conquest of the moon, the cultural revolution in China, and the universal reign of the dollar.

Henry Moore:

·      He speaks and writs about his job which releases tension, some may call him a theorists. He explores human figures.

·      Moore believes people place too much emphasis on his coal mining background. His mother’s ailing back and a rock in a natural landscape near Yorkshire influenced his sculptures.

·      Moore has always been obsessed with the mother and child motif. The reclining figure is another of his themes. Moore believes that beauty is a deeper concept than perfection. Moore believes the Madonna and Child should have an austerity, nobility, and grandeur that the mother and child sculptures do not.

·      Moore used drawings to generate ideas for his sculptures. He also like drawing for its own enjoyment. His string figures represent his most abstract form of art.

3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

These videos relate to the text because they are an extension of the texts explanation of digital media art, pop art, and modern art. The images shown in the text were further explained in the videos, which makes it much easier to understand hearing and watching rather than just reading and not being able to appreciated the work.

4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

I enjoy these videos because they explain the concepts from a different point of view which make it easier to understand rather then just reading the text. These add another level of information of culture and inspirations. These videos get more and more interesting as the chapters go on. The Andy Warhol video was my favorite, I love his work, the colors, the concept, the outcome, everything about it.