1) I chose these films because the titles seemed like topics I'd be interested in learning about. I'm hoping to hear about Andy Warhol and Marcel Dumchamp in the videos.
2) Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s Key Concepts:
- Abstract act is meant to be thought about and felt rather than simply looked at.
- Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell were among a group known as action painters who were abstract expressionists in America in the late '40s and '50s.
- Actions made in the process of painting were as important as the final result.
- In abstract painting, the question of where to stop becomes important.
- Jackson Pollock created a record of the movements and gestures used in the process of making his paintings.
- In Helen Frankenthaler's later work, there are allusions to biblical, especially Old Testament, themes.
- Painters, printmakers, and sculptors started to use popular imagery, juggling our notions of representation and abstraction.
Dada and Surrealism Key Concepts:
- Schwitters asserted that works of art had lives of their own.
- Schwitters removes the objects he uses from the roles with which we associate them, and by giving them new roles reveal their secret identities.
- Schwitters has been called the most materialistic artist of his generation.
- For the Berlin Dadaists, as for the Italian futurists, it was important that the world of art should be combined with the world of technology.
- Before and during the first World War some artists had rebelled against symbols of the past, claiming that cars and airplanes were more beautiful than statues.
3) The videos expand on the different eras of art that have evolved over time and give a more in-depth view with examples of the artists who pioneered these movements.
4) I enjoyed the films because I like to hear more about the artists that founded and led these movements in art. It helps to understand the different styles.
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