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?
Andy Warhol: Images of an Image
Ok well this video had somewhat of a reason for which drew me to it. Andy Worhol is one of those famous artists I learned about freshman year, and for some reason I just seemed to remember him. Him, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp. I hated the class; boring as hell, but I some things still managed to stick with me. I feel kind of proud that I recognize these artists. It makes me feel like I'm smarter than I actually am. So anyways just the fact that Andy Warhol was in the title is part of the main reason why I chose it. The video was slightly disappointing. From his mini bio and picture in the book, I got the sense he was an "artsy fartsy fruit cake" but when the showed clips of him I didn't get that sense at all. He seemed professional like he was just doing his job. So I was left wanting more of seeing Andy Warhol himself rather than seeing the pieces that he did. I also liked seeing the technique of silk screening in action. I'm still not 100% clear on how the process works but now I got a better understanding of it. Also one thing I did not know, although it is somewhat unrelated is that Elizabeth Taylor was in a coma. I also found it fascinating on how he tried to take the celebrity status out of everything, by duplicating it to the point of insignificance. It ended up kind of having ironic effect to it, raising the celebrity status of his subjects i.e. Marlyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Campbell Soup, ect... I think the video in this case did a better job than what the book was trying to say.Hockney on Photography
Again this video actually has a reason for why I have chosen it, and that is because I thought it would relate to my interest in photography, being a photographer myself. And it did end up relating to my interests. Although it is pre-digital (something I am not interested in) I did like the concepts. The way he was able to use multiple pictures to form a collage of sorts. I've done used this concept myself to stitch panoramas together or using rasterbation. His photo pieces however show the progression of time, so in some photos you will see multiple hands throughout the picture, which physically don't make sense but thinking through it begins to make sense. I also liked his piece about looking about looking about looking. Just that wormhole concept is very fascinating. Where does the cycle end? Am I just another piece within it? Unfortunately the video like cut off halfway through for some reason and I could not get it to load up again, but not before they got onto the subject of cubism. That makes sense because I was wondering how this was going to relate to the text and there ya go.Bit of an update. I was able to get the video going again. There was not too much more to this video though. I learned that he actually painted as well as. He actually painted a big mural of the Grand Canyon based on his Photographs of the same place. These two were each separate paintings all combined into one gigantic piece. Hockney liked to uses the concept of perspective in his pieces. Apparently since the taping of this video, he has since given up Photography. The man seems like an alright guy, but I feel like if I got to know him a little more that he would start to resemble my photography professor, who I just loathe.
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