2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
1) Andy Warhol: Images of an Image- Andy Warhol was one of the artists I really knew before this class and really liked his work.
Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the ’50s and ’60s- Pop art is fun and colorful and I wanted to see more examples of it.
Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces- The name actually sounded really different so it caught my attention!
Hockney on Photography- I like seeing people's "artsy photographs" and the subjects they used so I wanted to see more examples.
2) Warhol- Andy Warhol worked as a commercial artist until 1960 when he began experimenting with advertising images. Warhol's interest in the lives of these famous women inspired several repeated images.
Warhol saw the repeated silk screen images as a way to make money.
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.He also starts making self-portraits.
Abstract and Pop- Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American
art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its
nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the
ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art.
Sculpture of Spaces- Isamu Noguchi creates sculpture gardens to "humanize space and sculpture." He experiments with different media such as water to create a new manifestation of an approach to sculpture.
Photography- Painters used the "camera obscura" to create an image to paint from. Hockney uses photographic images to create something pertaining more to the condition of painting. He first uses the Polaroid to create a grid-like collage; later his collages were more free-form and not limited to a grid.
3) Learning about Warhol and his silk screening not only covered what was read about in this chapter but carried on information we have already learned about different screening processes. Same with photography, as we already learned about some digital and media technology and how they relate to art.
4) I think it is cool to learn about photography as an art because some people take pictures just to take pictures, and others have a sole purpose or image they want to get out of taking a picture. There are also so many ways to fool around with a picture to make a final piece which is also covered in the last few chapters. Warhol and other artists were known for playing around with colors.
Photography- Painters used the "camera obscura" to create an image to paint from. Hockney uses photographic images to create something pertaining more to the condition of painting. He first uses the Polaroid to create a grid-like collage; later his collages were more free-form and not limited to a grid.
3) Learning about Warhol and his silk screening not only covered what was read about in this chapter but carried on information we have already learned about different screening processes. Same with photography, as we already learned about some digital and media technology and how they relate to art.
4) I think it is cool to learn about photography as an art because some people take pictures just to take pictures, and others have a sole purpose or image they want to get out of taking a picture. There are also so many ways to fool around with a picture to make a final piece which is also covered in the last few chapters. Warhol and other artists were known for playing around with colors.
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