Module Twelve - Blog: Video Review

I choose this two video because both are like a sequence of each other.  In the second video Uncertainty: Modernity and Art they mention the abstract art before the abstract expressionism. In the video Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s  they said “Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art”.  They talk about Abstract Art vs. Figurative Art and Color in Kline's Art.  Frankenthaler's "Mountains and Sea".  The Impact of Frankenthaler's Work was mention too in this video. They explain to the abstract expression of Rauschenberg vs Warhol and Lichtenstein’s Style and Themes.

 In the second video they show How Instead of offering an idealized or ennobled vision of humankind, modern art an instrument of the tumultuous 20th century communicates chaos, anxiety, and above all, uncertainty. In this program, Matthew Collings contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso with the abstracts of Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian and the architecture of Le Corbusier; tells how the Nazis tried to eradicate modern art’s uncertainties with some crushing certainties of their own; and shows how modern art’s relationship with modern life changed. In this video they explain the meaning of modern art and the different stages in the history. They mention the china and the isolations of art and globalization. They finishing mention the journey of the art to this days.

They are related to the reading in chapters 23 and 24 because in the book they start from the modern to postmodern and them present the modern art too. Both theme present in the videos. This video definitely help to understand better the history of art. In my opinion they are great videos.

Module Eleven - Blog: Video Review

I choose the video The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century to the Present, because I speak Spanish and right know I’m enroll in Spanish classes related to this theme. This video are very helpful for me in both classes. Northern Spain has produced some of the world’s most celebrated artists, including Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Goya, who foreshadowed modern painting with his dark political consciousness. Goya is known as the father of modern art. In this video the talk about Antoni Gaudi is work was inspired by God's Natural World. Gaudi was the Inventor of the art of the future. Other artist present in this video was Picasso's brothel paintings are "soaked in memories of his Catholic past." Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter. Francisco Franco create a repression of artistic expression. Santiago Calatrava create a blend of Spain's past and future.

The second video The Impact of Cubism Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian Peninsula, Cubism the most influential style of the early 20th century offered European artists unfamiliar, nonclassical ways to represent form and space. The video study Juan Gris’ The Breakfast Table (1915), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  Marcel Duchamp’s Sad Young Man on a Train (1911), from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Robert Delaunay’s Champ de Mars (1911), from The Art Institute of Chicago, Sonia Delaunay’s Electric Prisms (1914), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris Kazimir Malevich’s An Englishman in Moscow (1913-14), from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Umberto Boccioni’s Farewells (1911), from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. I choose this video because I found fascinating the cubism. With the video I have more opportunity of learn more about the cubism.

Both video as always are related to the readings. The videos explore more the themes present in the chapters. They help me to depth my understanding. I like the videos because the places presented transport me to the moment.

Mask Making

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I chose this mask because I like the colors of the mask and the (2) mask because said is one of the oldest one. Very basic but I appreciate a lot of happiness and history in that one.

 Mask 1 Artist: Azteca

Title of work: The mask of Xiuhtecuhtli

Date Cultura Mixteca-Azteca, 1400-1521 d. C.

Source of picture (URL),http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhtecuhtli#cite_note-Matos_Moctezuma_2002.2C_p.476-7

 

Mask 2

Artist  Neolithic Era 

Title of  Work The stone Mask

Media

Date the pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000

Source of picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_%22Bible_et_Terre_Sainte%22

 

Mask 3
Artist  South  America
Title of Work  Unknown
Date Unknown
Source of Picture http://masksoftheworld.com/rich-masquerade-in-the-andes/

In my mask I use the element of colors and shapes. When I create this mask I feel desire of create more mask Its amazing how many different mask we can create just changing colors and shapes. In my mask I like to show the elements of nature.

 

 

 

Module Ten - Blog: Video Review

 

I choose the video African art because I found the reading in the chapter 18 very interesting, and I feel desire to know more about that. In the video I learn about African Art, Cultural Meaning, and African Rock Art. Also how Egyptian and Saharan art and architecture show influences of agriculture. Traditions of African Ethnic and the Magic and Religion in African Art. I learn about the design of the African mask and the elements. The next video that I choose was the Buddhism, is a theme very popular and I feel it’s something good deep in the understanding of the Buddhism.  In this video the key concept learn was India Bodh Gaya and how the Buddhism was spread in the world. They show the Sanchi a center of Buddhist art and architecture. I learn more about the Borobudur Temple in Indonesia. Something amazing was the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York, the Chuang Yen Monastery is a complex of buildings dedicated to Buddhism. The video was much related to the reading in the text. They show real images that transport me to that time. Definitely they deep my understanding in the African art and Buddhism.

module nine/art making

Use my hand for make a drawing was very interesting. I use pencil, because was most accessible to me in the moment. Creating a drawing with my non dominat hand was a little more easy that I thought.  I have to put more attention doing the lines. At the end they almost looks like the same.  Just with a little differently in some lines. I definitely consider using my non dominant hand to make a drawing in the future.

Module Nine - Blog: Video Reviews

 I choose the video Velázquez and  Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance. The first one Velazquez was very related with the Spanish class civilization of Spain that I already take last semester. I remember his name that give me interest in watch the video and learn more about him. The second one about Leonardo Da Vinci I found the title very related to the chapter. In the video about Velazquez  I learn about how he chronicled the life and times of his friend King Philip the Fourth, who built the core of the Prado collection , with El Greco, Goya, and Picasso, comprises the quartet of the greatest painters of Spain. Velazquez is an idealist from a vantage point above reality. Paintings of the Villa Medici in Rome reveal a tactile reality and roots of Impressionism. Returning to Spain, Velazquez paints his finest works like "Las Meninas" and "Phillip IV." He was miraculous at painting the truth with his technical expertise. The second video about Leonardo Da Vinci I learn about all his life.  Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and student of anatomy, physiology, botany, architecture, hydrodynamics, aeronautics, and other disciplines, he was the quintessential "Renaissance man."  Da Vinci become first painter, engineer, and architect to the King. Leonardo dies in 1519 at the age of sixty-seven. The videos was very related to the chapters the talk about the renascences. They definitely deep me in more understanding. In this occasion I understand better the concepts  of the video for the experience that I have reading the text and my course of Spanish.