Week 16 Video Review

The key concepts in the video Greenberg on Art Criticism: An Interview with T.J Clark: There were only a few things that i found interesting in this video one was the Greenberg said that it's harder to write about visual arts than anything else. Also when he was talking about critics Ruskin and Sylvester and he said that they knew the nature of the value judgement.

The key concepts in the video Pollock : An Interview by T.J Clark are:

• 1947 Jackson Pollock created his first splatter drip painting.
• He won the Guggenheim award.
• He never cared for easel painting and yet he created his own paintings by using an easel.
• Jackson said that his paintings were transitional works from easel to mural.
• Pollock says his paintings are far from containment and orderliness but yet Greenburg argues that their is a lot of order in his work.
• Jackson was tied to Dionysian painting he felt isolated in the art world and remained a solitary figure.

The key concepts in the video An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance are:

• The Renaissance was a time of renewed enthusiasm in art and same people credit Giorgio Vasari.
• Rome created art based on natural beauty while Byzantines puts focus on religion.
• Giotto used a realistic style shown in architecture and landscapes.
• Ghiberti was an apprentice of Giotto and he created Biblical scenes in a realistic human form.
• Piero created a new way to view human and animal figures while Masaccio creates figures based of physical and phychological depth.
• Francesca created "The Madonna and Child"
• Botticelli created the "Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"
• Leonardo da Vinci created "The Last Supper" and the figures are created naturally in their surroundings.
• Raffaello creates "The Transfiguration" with control and balance.

The key concepts in the video The critics: Stories from the Inside Pages are:  Letting people know just how important critics are and why they do what they do. A book critic said he sees his job as helping readers make good choices when it comes to picking books. The same goes for movies critics they are helping the views stretch their money and pick good movies. Criticism can change media while it not only keeps artist on their toes it also can help an artist gain attention from. Emotional impact plays an important role in if someone is for or against the art or artist. Good critics write with a specific target audience in mind and create pieces that are well written and constructed.

In the video The Colonial Encounter : View of Non Western Art and Culture are:

• Dahome art is created with visual beauty but it;s usually not thought of as art.
• In 1900 the Paris fair ran for eight months and part of it was French Imperialism and the rest was other colonies showing their artistic styles.
• Colonialism was justified by showing African people as savage beasts.
• The transformation into tourism occurred at the end of the 19th century.
• Europeans justify nude photos of women as scientific and artistic studies
• The colonial exhibits at the fair display racial differences.
• Palestinian costumes are shown in a contemporary way and the political context is important. This helps expose cultural erosion and resilient transformation in light of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.

In the video Jackson Pollock: Michael Fried and T.J Clark in Conversation are:

• Both Fried and Clark agree that Pollock is a modern master and yet his work raises many questions. while they also think Pollock has been used as a negative reference as well
• Clark focus on Pollocks historical role in modern art while Fried focus's on his independence of aesthetics's.
• Fried wrote an article on Pollock talking about how he thought his work was optical and not tactile. he has changed his ideas because they were not very constructive.
• Clark talks about Pollocks "Lavender Mist" and his idea of quality is the ability of a painting to show conditions of human beings at a certain moment.
• Pollocks "Autumn Rhythm" is something neither one can agree on Clark says he shifted towards complete abstraction that shows desire to communicate subject matter. While Fried says he is focused on pictorial elements.

These video's were all right I didn't really care for the interview ones with Greenberg but besides that they were very helpful for me. They remined me to just keep my focus on being open minded and to not judge base on my personal feelings.