Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
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?
The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century to the Present
I had mix feelings about this video. I chose it because it was the shortest of the videos, and by short I mean 50 minutes. -_- But anyways the host, Andrew Graham Dixon, seemed to be like the Steve Irwin of art, which for presentation purposes is excellent. You can't have "Dry Eyes" guy hosting this thing with monotone voice and his molasses like cadence. You would be put to sleep. So for him to be really into what he's doing is great. I learned quite a few things. Touched on a number of different subjects I had gone over in the textbook. I got to see Goya's artwork, Saturn Devouring His Child. I'm not sure if the book went over this. The discussed him early on in the book, but after just having finished the sections covering the history of art I never realized that Goya lived during the times of Napoleon. I also never realized that Picasso could actually draw realistically. I was impressed to see that he had done so at a young age. Also I didn't realize that he was the true designer of he Guggenheim museum, or at least according Dixon he was. Even though he a had a Steve Irwin vibe about him, I couldn't help but kind of hate him. I really just wanted to punch him. He just kept talking, pulling crap from literally out of nowhere. Just stop! You're not going to convert me into being intrigued by all this art. This is actually getting me to appreciate minimalism more and more. Where the art work is just is what it is. No deeper meaning. No B.S. it just is what it is. I feel like he along with countless other are reading way to into this stuff.
Dada and Surrealism
Again I just picked this video randomly, there's no deeper reason or anything like that. Honestly none of these subjects interest me in the slightest, so really I just want to get it done. With that being said videos like these are really difficult to pay attention to making really hard to grasp anything that they're saying. Whenever I hear people talk about art or "analyzing it", everything just seems to go in one ear and out the other. That's why I think I found the more earlier videos more interesting. I feel like there was more to take away from those videos than these ones. Well moving on I guess, I learned that Dada is Russian for "yes, yes". I also learned of the works from
Kurt Schwitters, Hanna Höch, George Grosz, Joán Miró, Salvador Dalí, and Man Ray. I found the last three paintings to be the most interesting of the bunch. Probably Salvador Dalf's Burning Giraffe was the most interesting just because of the fact that it contained a burning giraffe. The women with drawers coming out of them were somewhat interesting I guess in the sense that they are out of the ordinary, but the Giraffe on fire was way more fascinating. Next would be Joán Miró’s Dutch Interior I mostly because it's somewhat of a comparison piece in that it's based off off a postcard that he once saw. So it's interesting to look at what he saw and what ended up painting. Then the last piece that was the most memorable to me was the last piece by Man Ray. I just dig the name Man Ray. It reminds me of that character from Spongebob, so every time I hear the name that's who I think of. But anyways I don't know what it is about this piece that made it so memorable. I do like to play pool whenever I get the chance so maybe that's why I related to it so much. That and I liked the abstractions that he put on it. The clouds were each a different color, the perspective is all off and that kind of stuff. I don't really remember seeing any of these pieces in the text book, but Dada and Surrealism sound like familiar terms.
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