Week 13 and 14 Video Review

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art: Some of the key ideas of this video were that lowbrow is something that someone can use. A lot of people don't really know what lowbrow art means. But some of them say that it is reactionary to highbrow art. Some people don't really know where the term lowbrow art came from and the guy that said he created it doesn't really care for the meaning. West coast pop art has spread all across the world. Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach: This video talks about the most visited museum in the world, there were 4 million visitors in the first year. The art is on display in themes. This is where the videos tie into our art exhibit, because we had to place art into a theme. One of the themes in the modern art museum is that of landscape art. There is a lot of realist art in the museum. Some of the artwork is spiritual. An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art: This video talks about some artwork from 5,000 years ago. They talking about moving a giant statute in 2003 into a new gallery. Some say it lost some of its value.  They also talk about the only temple in the Western Hemisphere.  This temple was a gift of the Egyptian government.I thought these videos were very informative and very interesting.   However I thought they were very time consuming and a little too long for my liking.  The videos definitely related to the art exhibition project. They gave me some good ideas on what to look for in images, and how to tie them into my theme. I thought the videos were very useful and added a lot of depth to my understanding of the art concepts that I practiced while creating my art exhibit. 

Art Curation Exhibition

I had a very easy time deciding on a theme for this project, I chose to go with a Hunting Exploration theme.  I love to hunt and have been hunting a lot lately, I love that we did have some snow for the deer season. It makes it a lot easier to track deer if there is some snow on the ground.
I first began by choosing my theme for this project, then I went to the course resources and tried to find some images for my exhibit.  I found a lot of good images that would fit my theme on the Google art project page.  They had an endless supply of images that would fit my theme.  I then placed the images into power point and wrote about each of them.  I chose some paintings, sculptures, and prints for my project. I thought this project was actually kind of interesting and a little time consuming. It was overall pretty fun.

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

I chose the Andy Warhol: Images of an Image and Uncertainty:Modernity and Art because I thought they would be the most interesting, and the least time consuming. I thought that would be the easiest ones to understand.  

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

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image: Warhol put most paintings that he did in horizontal rows. Warhol did many images of real life events and things such as magazine articles and newspaper headlines. He used a lot of drama to do his artwork. I thought it was interesting how he did so many pictures of the Mona Lisa in one image. Did most of his work on canvas. In the second video Uncertainty:Modernity and Art: Some of the artists in Greece created idealized statues of themselves. They don't have to make cuts into the materials to make them sculpture, and the materials themselves can be made into sculpture.  The bricks were a phase of modern art. They didn't use much religion in their art. The video hit on how expressionism and pop art took over the modern art world. 

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

These videos both relate to the readings in the text because the book talks about Andy Warhol and his Pop art paintings. It also talks a lot about Modernity and art throughout the chapters. 

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

I thought that the films were very interesting and they gave more insight into these topics than what I gained just from the book. I thought that the were a little long and dragged out but overall they were pretty interesting. 

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

I chose The Impact of Cubism and the Dada and Surrealism videos to watch, I thought they would be the most interesting videos on the list.  

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

The Impact of Cubism- Cubism was the most influential art style of the early 20th century. They used many different textures and shapes to imitate different things. I liked the Eiffel Tower painting and how they talk about it. They have special details in the paintings that you wouldn't normally see but the different simple geometric forms allow us to see these. Some of the forms provide distractions and take away from other details. Some of the artists used lines to split objects to show how one is impeding on the other. 

Dada and Surrealism- The Dada movement, was a reaction to WWI, and Surrealism followed it and opened up artists creations by taping into the unconscious mind. There was no limit on the materials Dada artists could use. Schwitters’ was the most material artist of this time period. Some considered Dada as a public execution of false morality.  Mockery and Character are what performs that execution. Some artists used some weird ways of portraying things. They portrayed madness of people towards the war and the reasons behind the war. 

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

 These two videos relate to the text because the text talks about how Picasso and his partner Georges Braque created the movement of cubism.  They also relate because they talk about how cubism is still used today in some artists work and how the movement was founded and used by using cubes, cylinders, and cones. They also used some circles, squares, triangles and lines.  The Dada and Surrealism video relates to the text by talking about how these two movements were used during the war.  The book hits on many of the points made in the video about Dada art or anti art.  

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

I thought the films were a little long and a little boring.  They do provide some great insight into these art movements, the type of art used during these movements and how they shape art today.  Overall they were kind of interesting and gave some good details that I didn't pick up from the book.