Week 12 Blog Video Review

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image
1. I chose this video because I wanted to learn more about Andy Warhol, the guy behind the famous campbells soup painting.
2. Andy Warhol liked repetition in his artwork: This is seen in many of his works such as the Campbell soup and the Ten Lizes. He saw his silk screen images as a way to make money. He photographed and filmed hsi friends, and started adding paint to his silk screen images. Andy Warhol was also a narcisistic artist, producing dozens of self-portraits. His art journalism has been compared to Manet (cultural revolution in China, Race Riots, etc.).
3. Warhol's work is of modern art, which the book discusses. This video helps see the depth of a modern artist's work.

Abstract Expressionsim and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s
1. I chose this video because I wanted to learn more about Abstract Expressionsim and Pop Art
2. Abstract Expressionism was born from bringing together the ideas of American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art.. The film compares Abstract Art vs. Figurative Art,
3. I like how this video compared the different forms of art and made a little more clear distinctions between the different kinds of these modern arts than the book.

Uncertainty: Modernity and Art
1. I chose this video randomly because I didn't know much about the other titles of the remaining videos so I clicked on this one!
2. Talks about how modern art communicates chaos, anxiety, and, most importantly, uncertainty. The video describes modern art as documenting the metamorphis of mankind, and that something broke hundreds of years ago and there is no certain "code" we should live by that previous cultures thought, but rather uncertainty. I found this aspect very fascinating. Unlike many forms of previous art, modern art does not depict any god or higher intelligence, but rather it comes to no conclusions. Pop art describes civilization relaxing.
3. This video went more in depth than the book and gave me a greater understanding of modern art.

The Art of Henry Moore
1. I chose this video randomly because I didn't know much about the other titles of the remaining videos so I clicked on this one!
2. This video talks about Henry Moore, a mid-20th century modern artist. He thought people placed too much emphasis on his coalmining background. He believed that sculpture was a mix of visual and tctile experience, and that art is not an escape from life but rather an expression of the significance of life. He drew for his own enjoyment, and also used drawings to plan out his sculputres.
3. I think that this video goes in depth into the mind of a 20th century modern artist. It helps tie in the concepts that the book teaches about modern art.

4. For all of the vidoes, I think that it adds a little extra in depth understanding of each concept and goes further into the mind of a particular artist (like Henry Moore) so that I can better see the examples they give to reinforce what I read in the textbook.