Video Review

1. I selected the four videos based on the order they were in. Matisse and Picasso was probably the only video that I choose because I wanted to learn more about it.
2. Matisse and Picasso- I learned that they were a little nervous about the relationship in the beginning. The relationship between the two was unique and has never been repeated in art history. Both artist broke with tradition. Matisse was the uncontested leader of Fauve and it was an American family that was stunned by his work of a woman with a hat. He was a strength of genius. Picasso was a born painter and Matisse did not become aware of his talents until his early twenties. Matisse rationalized and Picasso didn't care much about rationalization but was more impulsive. Picasso had an intellectual approach which was foreign to Matisse. Picasso was the first to create a colleague. Picasso painted most of his paintings from memory and observation not form posed model. Awareness of differences brought them together. Matisse believed paintings are not for decorating apartments and that his paintings are the pages to his journal. Death of Matisse was awful for Picasso, and a way of his mourning was to carry on their dialogue.
   Dance at the Moulin de la Galette- Was the most beautiful picture of the 19th century. Renoir painted the picture twice only changing the size. Renoir lost his childhood family home and looked the originality of it in the city he moved in. He painted local girls and believed there was no such thing as poverty in art. His paintings depicted the way women and men interacted with each other, flirting with sexuality. Renoir aesthetics were of sunshine and daylight and the beautiful. A gap in between seats in one of his paintings gives you room to venture into the picture. Renoir pictures invite you into them. He had a hope for life that was doomed and his paintings responded to the heart first and the mind later.
   The Mystical North: The Spanish Art from the 19th Century to the present- I learned that Goya questioned what it means to be a human being. He began painting lighthearted decorative pictures and was considered the father of modern art. Illness left him deaf and he began creating a darker style more pessimistic. He often painted pictures of despair. His home was isolated and he painted the walls with black paintings.. Antoni Gaudi was the first great artist in Spain since Goya and exemplified Barcelona. His style was opposite that of Goya. He was inspired by God's natural world. Picasso was driven by the tension between spirituality and sexuality. Cubism was the coldest most rationalist phase of Picasso's art, making people and objects shimmer something like seen in a vision.. Spain never lost deep conviction for work of art to really capture you. Surrealism was an artistic movement to explore irrational, ideas of the unconscious, and world of dreams. Dali pictures showed an endless clowning around.. There was a tension between his genius and self-pradody. His paintings combined sex, death, and food. Self-obsession and self-exploration was present in the 20th century. Dali was kicked out of the surrealist. Architecture holds the key to Spanish art in the 21st century.
   A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884 (Seurat)- This was the painting of the artist who was concerned with experiment and obsession. He repainted the whole canvas. It is hard to understand what the painting is about and often the meaning is changed. It became a hide and seek and was inspired by endless caricatures.Seurat was somewhat conventional and decided early on to study art. His art making was interrupted from his military service. His everyday subjects were mostly solitary figures caught in a half light. His figures were somewhat mystical figures. The subjects were more commonplace. Often painted unaccompanied women and was believed to have painted a prostitute in one of his paintings who was fishing. The revolutionary technique was most important. Only an artist for about 10 years before dying of diphtheria and his death was considered a great loss to art. Popular culture adopted the painting and adding to the characters. Advertisers love the serenity of the painting.
3. The videos relate to text just like the other videos the elaborate on concepts and abstracts within the text. Focusing on main portions that the text briefly referred to.
4. I like the films. Although for the first one I was a little nervous because of the subtitles in the beginning. After continuing to view the video it became just like the rest of the videos, easy to understand and enhancing the meanings and concepts that I read in the text previously. The add depth and understanding to the material for me because of the details and background knowledge that was provided of the artist and the time in which they were created.