1. For this module I chose Abstract Expressionism and Pop:Art of the 50s & 60s and Andy Warhol: Images of an Image. I chose these two because I wanted to pick the first video on the list and then I chose the other one because I recognized Andy Warhol's name and wanted to learn more about his art.
2. Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the 50s & 60s: With this video I learned that bright colors can be important for abstract art and that abstract art grabs the audience faster and leaves them with a quicker impulse of emotional reaction. Franz Kline's art was interesting to look at because he didn't really use much color but his pieces had layers of different understandings. Even when he used color, he was still able to preserve his vigorous strokes. I liked looking at Andrew Pollock's paintings because I remember seeing his paintings in grade school and it was interesting to make a connection back to things that I was shown years ago. His drip technique is so weird but yet so intriguing. He just rolled with it and let the paint just drip off of his tools. With Ellen Frankenthaler, it was interesting to see as she was exposed to more art and surroundings, she had realized that the landscape belonged to her. I also liked the idea of a cotton cloth that she used as her canvas. It had a different affect and absorbed the paint differently than a regular canvas and I liked the results and how the cotton embodied her art. Looking at Jasper Johns works of art is also quite weird. His painting of the flag was more than just a flag. It looked like there was newspaper underneath the paint which kind of made it seem like it had a deeper meaning. I also counted the stars and found only 40 stars, but 13 strips which kind of made me question it a little. But I did like how he used every day objects that had a symbolic meaning and exploited their meaning. His piece of the map was interesting too. I wasn't sure what I was looking at but it seemed to work. It was also interesting that when giving it a closer look he did have labels on the states. Seeing Warhol's pieces at the end were interesting just because I've seen lots of his art, like the Campbell's soup and the Marilyn Monroe. Lastly, Lichtenstein's pieces of work were interesting because I always thought of comic books as just being a comic book and never being art. He makes it art though. It was simple and sophisticated. It was interesting to see his view on love and war.
Andy Warhol: Images of an Image: With this video I liked how it opened with the Ten Lizes and also ended with it too. I didn't realize that Marilyn Monroe's face made him famous, I always thought he was famous before it. I liked how they included the process of creating a silk screen to show how Warhol would do it. I always questioned on why he would produce so much of one print just because I feel like the value would go down, but everyone still is amazed by his work. It was interesting to see the different faces that he had reproduced, but the focus was mainly on Elizabeth Taylor. When they were getting a closer look at the prints that Warhol had created with the same silk screen on Elizabeth Taylor it was interesting to see how none of them were exactly the same due to the flow of the ink with the screen, some had more some had less, and some had clogged pores. It was interesting on how these prints could show the flaws. She was a beautiful woman and his work can reveal that but yet at the same time it shows flaws. It is interesting how it can do that and make it work at the same time. I also didn't realize that his work revolved around death. The prints of Marilyn Monroe weren't created until after her death and the prints of Elizabeth Taylor weren't created until she became deathly ill. He also had silk screens that incorporated electric chairs, car accidents, suicides, and skulls. Its just interesting to see how one person can be so fantasized with death at such a level, but yet the audience might not realize it.
3. These videos really can relate to chapter 22 of the textbook. They go over Jackson Pollock with his drip art, to Warhol and his pop art, and then into the 90s with the abstract that we see today. But with chapter 23 there was a connection to the videos, but the videos didn't really go over what was in the text. This chapter had the same concepts with color but it also added in sculptures and shows abstract differently and shows an evolved form of it compared to the movies and the chapter previous to it.
4. I liked the films, but I think I liked previous films from differently modules more than I did with this module. The videos were informative but they seemed more dull than others. Even though they were talking about abstract art, which isn't dull, they brought it together in a way which I didn't think fit the presence of the abstract art. I wish the videos were more up beat and captured my attention more, just like how the abstract art had grabbed my attention. But besides that, I do think the videos were very informative and were on the same track as the text but did give more depth to what the text was trying to say.
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