Greenberg on Art Criticism
I enjoyed that in this video Greenberg discussed that even many years ago that the stereo type was that money and fame would alleviate all of life’s problems. However he went on to mention that this time was around avant-garde and meant that if one was successful they were typically not very liked. This was the same for artists, musicians, and sculptors alike. What I really liked was his quote “you don’t ask anything of art except to be good.” I feel that this video relates because he spoke about mainstream art and I feel that my project which focuses on nature is about as mainstream as it gets.
Greenberg on Pollock
Greenberg began to explain how he was told that Pollock was an artist with great talent and that he would be a great painter. With much skepticism he dismissed the idea however after 1947 he began to see that he was a talented man. He also felt that the demise of the easel paintings around this time as well. I didn’t realize there was specific time that this idea took place. This related to my project because from the size of some of the works I included I know they were too large to have been painted on a standard easel.
An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
Before the collapse of the Roman Empire the culture was shifted to the east which was then called the Byzantine Empire. These artists were required to only paint religious figures as it was not accepted to paint men and women who were god’s creation. Giotto’s work revived the representation of humans as well as using perspective by using architecture and nature landscapes. This related to my project because I chose landscapes as a theme. In many of the works I chose however, the element of perspective were not identifiable.
The Critics
Critic’s jobs are to continuously teach and get people to start thinking in a fresh way. Books and other media are designed to give people things to talk about as well as educate and provoke. If these artists can provoke thinking then they have done a good job. Critics also are key as reviewers to TV and movies. This video didn’t seem to relate much to my project because we had to write on what was evident in the images and not our personal opinion of the work.
The Colonial Encounter
During the early 1900’s travel began to become popular. Tourism and pleasure were the reason for the development of many cities. The introduction of postcards allowed for outside cultures to become familiar with Arab women. There was a large emphasis on physical attributes in relation to intelligence. These images fell in between scientific and erotic themes. But since they called them science there was a refusal to the sexuality behind them. This video had nothing to do with my project as it discussed non-western art and culture and not at all landscapes.
Jackson Pollock
The point of Pollock’s work is to try to discover a complete other figure. His works express something different then works of the past. Instead of distinct figures he broke the mold and chose to drive further past abstraction. The viewer would now take the colors, shapes, and lines as the key elements of the work. He attempted to redeploy the standard of typical art. Ambition and feeling is always immediately clear in these types of paintings. Abstract art did not fit into the theme of my project either. I think it would be very hard to represent a landscape type theme using abstract art.
These videos were a nice change from the chapter reading at the end of the semester. Each of the videos covered topics in great depth and also shared many interviews and examples for each themed video. I always find it more enjoyable and more interesting to watch these videos then reading out of the chapter. Overall another great set of videos
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