week 12 videos

I choose to watch Andy Warhol: Images of an Image and Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the 50s and 60s. The reason I chose these two videos is because I have heard of Andy Warhol before and was interested in knowing more about his life. Also the title seemed interesting to be of an image on an image. I chose the second video because I think the 50s and the 60s are an interesting time period. I think it would be a good time period to have lived in so I was interested in learning more about the art of this time. From the first video, I learned that Andy Warhol didn’t want to be an artist from the beginning of his childhood; he wanted to be a tap dancer. He became interested in art later in life and made images of coke bottles and soup cans. Although this seems like an easy thing to draw, his drawings included many details. Andy Warhol collected photographs of famous people. One person was Marilyn Monroe. This is what made him famous. I found this to be interesting because he became famous because of another very famous person. Everyone knows about Marilyn Monroe and he used her picture to create an image on an image. Elizabeth Taylor was another person that he created a picture of. I like that he bases his artwork off of other people and images. I think this is creative even though it is copying an image. He makes it his own way, which is unique. I liked how it showed his different pieces of art of famous people and how he made them colored rather than black and white. He used a silk screen instead of drawing it. This means that anyone could create it. He created a repetition of the same image. Although it is the same image, it still looks like a piece of art. It’s better than looking at just one image. It is used to form dizziness and shows an image of an image. From the second video I learned, about abstract paintings. We travel towards it in imagination, but it meets us halfway. I think that abstract paintings are fun to look at. The video talked about the artist Kline and his work of abstract art. He died at the age of 51 and used different colors to blend in his work. The video talked about each color that he would used to blend in with a certain color. These details are important. Even though mixing colors seems easy, it is not as simple as one may think.  The videos relate to the reading in explaining the same type of thing the book did. The videos helped get a better understanding of certain things such as abstract painting and images on and image. I like watching the videos more because I can see a picture with what is being explained. I really enjoyed the first video because it was interesting to me. I liked that I had chose this video because I always had seen multiple images of the same image but, to see how this was created gives me better knowledge on it. Also, his drawings were of things that I was familiar with, such as Marilyn Monroe. It is interesting to find out how artists come up with certain ideas and where they first started their ideas. I like that the video showed the images being created. It is easier to understand when the viewer can watch what is being done, rather than just reading about it. From the second video I liked learning about how artists think. It lets the viewer go in the mind of the artist because it explains what they see and think and why they used certain colors that they did. They add depth to the understanding because they provide actual examples and show how they are created. I think videos are typically more interesting than the readings because there are pictures and examples of what they are discussing.