1. I chose this video because these decades both seem like an exciting time for art since there was lot of interesting history being made during this time. I was also interested in learning more about pop art.
2. The space which figurative paintings fill is quite different than the space that abstract paintings fill. When we travel into the ideas of an abstract painting we have to look deeply into it. We travel towards it in imagination but it meets us half way. Franz Kline was an abstraction artist living in New York. When Kline began to reject figurative paintings, he seemed to reject all elements that might recall it by association. In his early work in the 1950's Kline restricted himself to purely black and white. He was interested in the neutrality of black and white and their interrelation. He is not just painting black on a white canvas but he paints the white just as he paints the black. The way we perceive black and white is the same idea of how we interpret depth and surface. Mountains and Sea was painted by Helen Frankenthaler in 1952, it went on to influence a whole generation of American artists. Mountains and Sea consists of pale colors. The shapes are indeterminate smudges and blotches. The illusions to real objects are too vague to gain attention. There is an overall fascination and mystery with these colors and illusions that come out of the surface. Willem de Kooning paints, Morning: The Spring, a work that is unrecognizable but brings a lightness to its abstract shapes. Wind, sunlight, and reflection come through the colors and off of the painting as everything flows together weightlessly. Much of the painting is monochrome except in the bottom corner where the bright yellow figure jumps away from the picture. In 1954, an artist named Jasper Johns took the stars and stripes and created a piece called Flag. Before Johns created Flag he went through a streak where he destroyed almost all of his previous work. Flag was a new beginning and the turning of a page for this artist. Looking hard at this piece you begin to see it differently and to question its significance. Johns was known to choose subject items that were found in the every day world that had become invisible and wanted to bring them back to life through his art. He took these subjects and made them interesting, beautiful, and interestingly seductive to the viewer. The colors of flag are bold and simple, they are merely symbolic. Andy Warhol paints a portrait of his fellow American artist Robert Rauschenberg, titled - The Texan: Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg. This painting includes the portrait 28 times in one work. The image shown of Robert is tough and private, but not specific. Andy Warhol is undoubtedly know as pop art's most famous son, but Robert Rauschenberg is actually said to be the father of the movement. It seems this piece is Andy Warhol paying homage to the father of pop art. Pop art embraces the rhythyms, images, and textures of modern city life. This portrait of Rauschenberg displays each picture in rows of lines. Warhol had developed a silk screening techniques to produce multiple images. Roy Lichtenstein: Girl With Hair Ribbon is the last pop art piece we see in this video. This work shows a brightly painted girl looking over her shoulder somewhat surprised or maybe upset. She is seductive with her half open lips. Lichtenstein uses a mechanical painting style. He uses areas of blank canvas with dotted colors to create patterns that make up the girl. This image is both simple and sophisticated. The abstract pattern takes over the entire painting. The details are very vital to this piece and take over the whole for the viewer. The way he chooses to convey his ideas is amusing and powerful.
3. This video related closely to chapter 22. The pop art section in the chapter talks a lot about Andy Warhol, icluding a biography page on him and we also see Lichtenstein in the text as well. The artists of pop art really brought excitement to the art world with their new creative techniques and important messages to convey.
4. This film was really helpful to expand on the art of the 1950s and 1960s. It was nice to "meet" some of the artists that worked around the time of Warhol and Lichtenstein and how they compared. It was also interesting to learn about the Rauschenberg piece. I learned that he was said to be the father of pop art and I thought it was interesting that Warhol created The Texan piece as sort of a tribute to him.
Hockney on Photography
1. I chose this video because most of the other videos we've watched have been more about painting so I thought it would be interesting to hear more about photography. After reading the summary on the video page it sounds like this man made a transition from painting to photography so it should be interesting to hear his story and see his work.
2. This video is about the career of David Hockney. He was a great painter from Britain who developed a strong skill for photography. Listening to Hockney speak about cameras you can immediately feel his love for his craft. He clearly got into photography because of his fascination of the chemical process and experimentations a camera could bring. He began with a polaroid camera in Los Angeles. His work is incredible. He describes his piece that features Bill Brandt. It is a series of 49 polaroids laid out in a large 7 x 7 square. Each polaroid is evenly spaced to show Bill Brandt sitting with a woman. He uses the polaroids to create these grids that take the medium to a whole new place. Vogue magazine did a 40 page spread with David Hockney in 1985. This was really cool to see because not only did we see some of the pieces hanging in a gallery but the video was also able to show a copy of the magazine. Hockney explains one piece from this project with a chair. The chair is created with a series of images of different parts of one chair that are collaged in a way to use all the individual photographs to show one chair. Hockney explains the perception of this chair and how the linear perspective might take you one way but goes on to explain that his idea was actually with movement. He saw one side of the chair one way as he approached the front of the chair and then kept walking to see the other side of the chair. The image isn't suppose to be like you're just standing in front of a chair but movement is created. Hockney from then on was fascinated with perspective. One of the coolest things Hockney did was take photographs of his own paintings. The video shows him taking a picture of a painting of a vase of flowers he did but he left the real vase he was using to paint from beside his painted piece. He then used the camera to see his painting a different way and make his painting even more realistic.
3. This video connects to chapter 22 in the text. The video and the second half of chapter 22 explain how art has evolved since the eighties and how the digital realm has changed the world of art. David Hockney was like any other painting artist until he got his hands on a camera and his work went in an entirely different direction. With Hockney's work it is interesting to learn where the world of painting and photography intertwine. Hockney went back and forth between painting and photography on different projects to allow him to develop his projects in a stronger way. He would paint from pictures he had taken or photograph his paintings to see them in a different way. Hockney was adamant about always looking in a different direction.
4. I really enjoyed this video. It was probably one of my favorites from this semester. It is incredible to hear David Hockney hear about his experiences and ideas and thought process as he was creating his photographs. His passion about photography just pours out of him in a really genuine way. This video definitely taught me a lot more about photography, cameras, and printing. It also gave me more insight on perspective.
3. This video related closely to chapter 22. The pop art section in the chapter talks a lot about Andy Warhol, icluding a biography page on him and we also see Lichtenstein in the text as well. The artists of pop art really brought excitement to the art world with their new creative techniques and important messages to convey.
4. This film was really helpful to expand on the art of the 1950s and 1960s. It was nice to "meet" some of the artists that worked around the time of Warhol and Lichtenstein and how they compared. It was also interesting to learn about the Rauschenberg piece. I learned that he was said to be the father of pop art and I thought it was interesting that Warhol created The Texan piece as sort of a tribute to him.
Hockney on Photography
1. I chose this video because most of the other videos we've watched have been more about painting so I thought it would be interesting to hear more about photography. After reading the summary on the video page it sounds like this man made a transition from painting to photography so it should be interesting to hear his story and see his work.
2. This video is about the career of David Hockney. He was a great painter from Britain who developed a strong skill for photography. Listening to Hockney speak about cameras you can immediately feel his love for his craft. He clearly got into photography because of his fascination of the chemical process and experimentations a camera could bring. He began with a polaroid camera in Los Angeles. His work is incredible. He describes his piece that features Bill Brandt. It is a series of 49 polaroids laid out in a large 7 x 7 square. Each polaroid is evenly spaced to show Bill Brandt sitting with a woman. He uses the polaroids to create these grids that take the medium to a whole new place. Vogue magazine did a 40 page spread with David Hockney in 1985. This was really cool to see because not only did we see some of the pieces hanging in a gallery but the video was also able to show a copy of the magazine. Hockney explains one piece from this project with a chair. The chair is created with a series of images of different parts of one chair that are collaged in a way to use all the individual photographs to show one chair. Hockney explains the perception of this chair and how the linear perspective might take you one way but goes on to explain that his idea was actually with movement. He saw one side of the chair one way as he approached the front of the chair and then kept walking to see the other side of the chair. The image isn't suppose to be like you're just standing in front of a chair but movement is created. Hockney from then on was fascinated with perspective. One of the coolest things Hockney did was take photographs of his own paintings. The video shows him taking a picture of a painting of a vase of flowers he did but he left the real vase he was using to paint from beside his painted piece. He then used the camera to see his painting a different way and make his painting even more realistic.
3. This video connects to chapter 22 in the text. The video and the second half of chapter 22 explain how art has evolved since the eighties and how the digital realm has changed the world of art. David Hockney was like any other painting artist until he got his hands on a camera and his work went in an entirely different direction. With Hockney's work it is interesting to learn where the world of painting and photography intertwine. Hockney went back and forth between painting and photography on different projects to allow him to develop his projects in a stronger way. He would paint from pictures he had taken or photograph his paintings to see them in a different way. Hockney was adamant about always looking in a different direction.
4. I really enjoyed this video. It was probably one of my favorites from this semester. It is incredible to hear David Hockney hear about his experiences and ideas and thought process as he was creating his photographs. His passion about photography just pours out of him in a really genuine way. This video definitely taught me a lot more about photography, cameras, and printing. It also gave me more insight on perspective.
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