Module 12

The two videos that I chose for this section was Andy Warhol: images of an image and Uncertainty: Modernity and Art. I chose these videos because I thought that it would be interesting to know more about the image of an image idea and the modernity of art because I never thought of it to be interesting.
For the first video the interesting facts that I chose was:
- Andy enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist.
-collected photographs of celebrities and printed a series of Marilyn Monroe and this made him famous
- Elizabeth Taylor: made a silkscreen image of a childhood picture of herself
- To transpher her photo to silkscreen, it needs to be enlarged several times
- was silk but today it is a synthetic material used
- the screen could be used many times
- he wanted to work hard, but he realized anyone could do it for him, industrial assembly line of photos
- Shoes the viewer and image of an image with Elizabeth Taylor 10 images and he took an interest of the Mona Lisa and Kennedy.
- He moved into the factory and used it as his studio
- published his own magazines and became an international superstar
- began to add paint to his portraits and became a society painter
- cinema replaced painting
- In his portraits, only the basic traits survive
- Made himself his main model/ produced dozens of self portraits and was also a art journalist.
-Death was one of the artists main themes
For the Second video:
- We wonder what future civilizations will think about us by looking threw our art
- You don't have to make a cut into material for it to be a sculptor (the bricks)
- Modern art never stops changing
- In the early 1930's Nazism came about and it was total power, Hitler started degenerate art
- You had to be told what your looking at
- cubism fights anything recognizable- different way to approach truth
- abstract art is an experiment of what its telling you
- some people find it hard to like abstract art because involves a lot of thinking
- abstract expressionists- look into the void
- we don't have war men in our art galleries
- pop art after the 1950's early beginning moments
- finds civilization relaxing/ everything to be what it seems
- pictures re change for civilization today
I liked the first video because it gave us a good outlook on what Andy's ideas were and what he did that was important. The second video I did not like as much because of the way it was structured and how fast the guy talked. The ideas were nice though.