Module 9 Videos

Velázquez & Albrecht Dürer: Image of a Master were the two videos I chose to watch. I chose these two videos because they seemed like they would be the most interesting. 
Albrecht Dürer: Image of a Master- The younger Durer always enjoyed painting hands, he was 1 of 18 but only 3 survived. He was an apprentice at the age of 15 and most of his paintings showed age.  He also made woodcuts, and took many journeys and one for 4 years. He also painted himself a lot. He always tried to get perfect form in his artwork by using shapes such as triangles, circles and squares. In 1509 he bought an impressive large house. He had artwork that showed what was going on with the church and the mounted knight was armored to protect the church. 
   This film relates to the text because it talks about the religious artwork of Durer, and the use of perfect form, and triangles, circles, squares, and lines to reach perfect form.  It also speaks about drawing/painting of hands.
   I thought the video on Albrecht Durer was very interesting and I thought that with his travels, that his life was very exciting and I think that he got to do what he really wanted to do.  I thought that his artwork was very well done and had a lot of detail.
Velázquez- Valazquez was one of the greatest painters in Spain.  They do not know anything about his daily life. He looked at, copied, studied and recreated paintings from Italy and a lot of other famous painters. He was a deep painter.  He used mythology to do some paintings which were very rare in Spanish paintings.  Velazquez used a lot of contrast in his paintings. Used excessive realism in his artwork.  Some of his work looked like sketches and outlines, not finished artwork.
   This film hits on a lot of stuff from the text and other portions of this course.  The film talks about a lot of the elements and principles in art. It also talks about ancient art in Spain and Italy. 
    I also thought this video on Velazquez was very interesting and gave me a lot of insight into some of the old art work from Spain and Italy.