Wednesday, April 16, 2014

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.

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