1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I picked Uncertainty: Modernity and Art, and Andy Warhol: Images of an Image because they happen to be the two shortest videos. Besides that, Andy Warhol was the first video I saw that caught my attention. I feel like in grade school we always talked about Andy Warhol and his work. I would like to listen to this video to see what it talks about on him.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Uncertainty: Modernity and Art:
Modern art is a tradition from the late 19th-century, but takes off in the 20th century
Picasso was one of the first to break art traditions
Total power - Hitler - no questions, told how to view things
Modern art - against war
Modern life has a dark side
Pop Art
Disillusioned with modern society
Abstraction
Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:
Images replicated on a canvas multiple times
Made Marilyn's face world famous
Elizabeth Taylor- Andy made a silk screen of it
2 meter wide double Liz
Image of her as Cleopatra duplicated multiple times
Excess ink or paint can produce smears
Process on how to create a silk screen image
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The video Uncertainty: Modernity and Art has an entire chapter in the textbook dating from 1800-1945.This chapter talks about pop art, abstraction, realism, expressionism, etc... Expressionism is talked about in the video a lot more than the others. There are many images in the text to relay these art styles as there is in the film. For the video Andy Warhol: Images of an Image, it explains how he creates the images of the same picture multiple times on one canvas. There is a whole section on Andy Warhol in the text, also including his Marilyn Monroe piece and Thirty Are Better than One piece.It relates to the text by exploring art styles that he used such as pop art which was his biggest.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
They helped me get a better understanding of the text by giving me more visuals to look at. I definitely am a visual person, and the more examples I see the better I learn it. Using the examples I was given from the videos and text, I know understand this topic better. I liked the videos a lot. They were different, but something I kind of already knew about. Teachers teach about pop art in grade school so I knew about it. Andy Warhol had a Cambell's Soup picture that was repreated multiple times. That image always sticks in my head. And I know who Marilyn and Elizabeth are so I could make the connections to them about pop art as well.
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