Video Blog Week 11

1. I chose these four videos because I really don’t know very much about any of the subjects in these videos. I have never taken a class on art history and so I have never learned much about art history. I am hoping to find something interesting in these videos about art.

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Matisse and Picasso

The relationship Matisse and Picasso is examined. Picasso and Matisse had broken with tradition with the establishment. The works of the two artists are compared. They studied each other's paintings to learn or to do the opposite. Matisse's high regard for Picasso's work was evident in his reaction to "Winter Landscape

The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century to the Present

This video takes a look at modern Spain crucial to the history of modern art and the artistic and social turmoil that engulfed Spain as the 20th century loomed, dawned, and rolled forward. Goya, often referred to the father of modern art, left 80 etchings of war that reveal his dark political consciousness. Goya was deaf. . Architect Antoni Gaudi exemplified Barcelona's spirit of exuberance, represented in Park Guell 50 years after Goya’s death. The Spanish Civil War tore Spain to pieces. Picasso's "Guernica" records one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

Dada and Surrealism

Out of the ordinary objects not traditionally found in art galleries are now found in art galleries. The Dada movement was one founded in reaction to World War I. Surrealism is the successor to the Dada movement. Schwitters includes many objects in his art. Hannah Höch, a Dadaist, uses art to attack the society she detests. Dali, surrealist painter, probes the darkest regions of the human subconscious. In "La Fortune," individual components of the painting are true to life. Yet, other elements diverge from reality. Familiar objects appear in an unfamiliar arrangement. 

The Impact of Cubism

Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian peninsula, Cubism—the most influential style of the early 20th century—offered European artists unfamiliar, nonclassical ways to represent form and space. Creating interesting juxtapositions. Marcel Duchamp used an experimental approach to represent movement of a figure evolving in space and time. Representing movement as a visual phenomenon, line and color connect figures and environment to create powerful moods and settings to reveal personal values and visual complexity. 

The information in the books was very breif.These videos went into much more detailed information on each style/movement. I really enjoyed these videos, though they were a bit long, because it really was information that I hadn't been given before. I like the video on the Dada movement the best because the section in the book dedicated to the movement was so short and didn't talk about as many artists and works as the video did.