I chose Expressionism as a video because it is something that I didn't really know a lot about with art before this class and I thought that a video on it would be insightful. The other video I chose was The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century. I chose this video because I never really thought of art as Spanish and I know that is like who made it and where it was made, but I wanted to figure more about the topic.
For Expressionism the key facts and important information that I pulled out was:
-Colors and Expressions tell stories about the art
- colors used symbolically for sorrow, innocence and passion -after the fall picture
- The self portrait from Mook showed dis-pair from childhood.
- Time and space are no longer necessary and forms became simplified to emphasize loneliness.
-works represented a constant and very pessimistic view of life.
- Frank Mark painted the Tiger in 1912 when he was 32 and thought that animals were cleaner and more beautiful
- All spares are simplified and made bold colors
- Forms are described in an abstract way
- Blue Reiter group Mark was apart of with other parties
- Cubism is a means of heightening realism and sentiment
- Marks paintings portrayed his fear of war
- Ernst Ludwing "Five women in the street" was made in 1913 and the way its painted it looked like they were here in a hurry
- The fashionable get up gives the 5 figures a ghost heir
- Visual language becomes more linear
- contains permissions on upcoming disasters
- Max Beckmann The Actors. In 1915 the self portrait you could feel the anxiety and terror of his experiences.
- not much mood in the picture with the king trying to commit suicide
- Every part of the picture has some sort of action and the meaning of the picture was partly personal.
- George Baselitz The Great Friends painted in 1965
- Baselitz is often associated with invert or undermine tradition
- Sometimes comic and tragic in the painting
- The body itself emphasizes is hope is all they have left
- Some patches of color show objects/ images from another reality
- Anselm Kiefer Interior- associated with Nazi Ragime
- technique is ruff with the flow of paint/ texture
- He has an obsession with dark colors and geometrical perspective
- windows and doors are sealed to emphasize doom
The Mystical North: Spanish art from 19th century to the present
- Goya spent his youth painting for the Spanish court and the royal masters but his work changed to be dark and mysterious
- when he became deaf he changed his work to a darker style
- he took the medium and gave you the last thing that you wanted to look at like the worst options
- he painted black paintings in his house
- Spain is one of the power houses
- Antoni Gaudi id the 1st great artist in Spain to emerge after Goya
- inspired by the gods and the natural world- famous building cathedral and was incomplete at his death and he saw himself as gods architect
- had abstract balconies and movement
- Picasso's works have coded messages
- draw inspiration from African masks and took on the Spanish past
- Picasso turned himself into the god he spent his whole life looking for
- Dail's portirait symbolizes death and how we are all doomed
- Dail's youthful visions were so morbid that he spent his life to get away from them
I really liked the idea of the videos in this section, but the Expressionism video was really dull and dragged on. The voice of the video makes it so inattentive and hard to want to pay attention to. The information in the video was good though. The second video was better and I really liked it. I liked learning about it because it is something that I never really looked into. All the videos in these sections help me with the text because I like to visually see what they re talking about besides pictures and having someone talk to me helps also.
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