Friday, April 1, 2016

Mod 9

The first video that i chose to watch was Albrecht Durer: Image of a Master. Some important facts and information that I pulled from it was:
-Gothic art ideas were opened up to new ideas from Italy (Renaissance)
-At 15 Durer made a self portrait with silver point
-Durer enjoyed painting
-In his pictures he emphasized aging
-he became an apprentices of Michael Wolgemut at age 15
-his work began to have a bit of narcissism
-his journey over the Alps gave him an inspiration of landscape
-he was the first true landscape artist in Europe (Rose garden)
-painted a chapel in Italy and made a decent commission, he used 4 to 6 coats of paint to give it a enamil like finish
- He researched art of prospective (wood cuts)
-He believed at home he was nobody, but actually it was the opposite and he was treated as an Nobel man.
-He could produce several hundred of his prints which reached out to more people.
-led to engrave copper (night,death and the devil)
-Emperor Maxamillion- Durer made portraits of him and decorated his prayer book

The second video I chose was Velazquez.
-Velazquez was born in 1599, in 1623 named court painter to Philip the 4th and he died in  1660.
-The king rewarded Velazquez with order of Santiago and we know nothing of his daily routines.
-He captured timelessness and only had one friend (kind) and one lover (his wife)
-he was interested in painting and was a man of good character
-he painted what the king wanted him to paint
-the theme in the myths is what interested him in painting them
-He painted slowly and painting things one at a time
-Velazquez  and his wife died a week apart and left a lot of works behind
-his works had a sense of spaciousness and abstractness
-more of an idealist closer to reality
-Velazquez paints what he sees without clarifying it.
I chose these two videos because they are about people that before this class i never herd of. I thought it would be good to find something different and be able to know more about it instead of watching a video on something I know a little bit about. I liked the videos, but the second one was a bit dry. They still did help me grasp the concept of what was going on with the text and all of that, but I would have chosen different movies if i knew it was going to be like that.

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