Video Review

For this week’s video reviews I just randomly picked four for our list and just like last week I decided to use bullet points instead of writing in paragraph form because it’s a nice change. All of this week’s video’s that I watched relate to our readings this week because they help reinforce art styles, mediums, and movements that artists used in their art work as a reflection of them and their feelings towards certain things.

In the video Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the 50’s and 60’s the key concepts were:

·         During the 50’s and 60’s abstract expression was born from combining the attitudes in America and European art, but it was soon rejected because it had nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric characteristics.

·         Franz Kline’s painting was used to compare figurative and abstract art.

·         Kline’s starts off with creating his paintings based off of mood and expression but eventually moves towards using color t create imagination with sensual impact.

·         His paintings can be viewed as impact painting because shapes are used to create emotion this is meant to allow the viewer to constantly be discovering new things. The outcome of this process is what leads to a world of color and form.

·         Another artist by the name of Frankenthaler is known for creating art based off of feminine and mystical influences. She has impacted a new generation of artists.

·         Willem de koonig’s work “Women One” was also a clear example of what an action painting should represent.

·         His work “Morning: The spring” shows movement with examples such as the plant forms, light, and falling water.

·         Andy Warhol was pop arts most famous during the 1960’s

·         Pop art was never a well defined movement but it was the first movement since Futurism in the 20^th century.

·         Warhol and Rauschenberg were icons of the 60’s and helped create a pathway for future pop artists because of the use of everyday objects.

In the video Hockney on Photography the key concepts were:

·         During the 19^th century the camera was not created it was only the chemical process and painters would use this to create an image to paint from.

·         David Hockney played around with photography during the 1980’s for five years and he shows examples of this through picture collages.

·         His first collage was created with a grid-like form but them he later moves towards free form.

·         Hockney’s photo’s show the same multi-perspective philosophy as Cubism.

·         Cubist pictures were the first set of photo’s that confused viewers because they were “only perceptions of reality and that are pictures, not reality”.

·         Hockney painted a chair for Van Gogh’s foundation.

·         Equality is present in every one of his photos because he says “Everything is related to everything else.

·         When he moved from Polaroid’s to 35-mm he had to know keep compositions in his head because he was not able to view each photo individually before taking the next one.

·         In the 80’s he created a painting of the Grand Canyon and to appreciate the painting the viewers had to look at it just as they would the real thing.

·         He then created another painting of the Grand Canyon which showed his mastery skills with color

·         Hockney created a series of collages of things close up the perspective one would see if they were doing it themselves.

·         With collages there is really no limit to what a person can create or use.

·         Hockney has a love hate relationship about his photography life.

·         He has done work for Vanity Fair and Vogue magazine.

In the video Andy Warhol: Images of an Image the key concepts were:

·         Andy Warhol was a commercial artist in the 60’s until he started experimenting with advertising images until he died in 1987.

·         He was very interested in Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

·         In 1962 when Marilyn Monroe died Warhol took an image of her cropped it and printed a series of this image colored it, discolored it, etc. This is what made him famous.

·         He created a huge image of Elizabeth Taylor using one image and repeating it over and over again. It was called “Blue Liz”.

·         The “Ten Lizes” was created in 1963 and Warhol used a 5.65 meter canvas each face was 1 meter wide and he placed ten images of the same picture on it, because this is such a huge canvas the viewer is forced to move around while looking at it.

·         Silk- Screening is when you take a photo and blown up onto silk screens they use transfer paper, canvas, ink, and paint.

·         He created a silk screen of Elizabeth Taylor in 1963.

·         Warhol used repeat images as a way to make money.

·         Warhol used his art journalism to talk about things such as riots, the cultural revolution of China, the conquest of the moon and many more.

In the video Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces the key concepts were:

·         Isamu Noguchi uses his childhood memories and feelings when he creates his sculpture gardens.

·         When he was young and lived in Paris and the US he lived in poverty.

·         He redesigned Bayfront Park in Miami and his sculptures help show just how versatile his art work is.

·         Noguchi uses the medium such as water to create a new approach to his sculptures. Through his “Expo ’70” and others you can see how he uses that space around his sculptures.

·         The “Black Water Mantra” is an example of how he can create something useful to people.

·         “Water Stone” is an example that shows us that nothing is perfect and yet nature is always perfect even with its imperfections.

·         In his Japanese residence the gardens surrounding it are made of metal, stone, grass, and earth which he calls “Celebration of life”.

·         In 1988 he creates his final work which is created within a 40 acre park in Japan and he uses three dimensional models.

·         This park is described as going into another realm because of the way he created it and it will forever be a monument to him and his visions.