Video Review- Module 12

Andy Warhol
Art and Modernity
 
I chose the Andy Warhol video because I think Andy Warhol is an interesting person in art and has made a big impact of art in the modern world. I chose Uncertainty: Modernity and Art just sounded interesting.


Warhol: When she passed, Marilyn Monroe made Warhol famous. He used the silk screen technique and printed a serious of the Monroe motif. He began with a certain idea, took images, cropped them and changed them many ways and produced many of the images. The next celebrity that sparked his interest was Elizabeth Taylor, also silk screen prints of these images of the actress. Transferring a photograph to a silk screen the image must be enlarged several times, the contrast can be altered, then the image is printed. It is stretched and treated then after covered in water. This creates a negative image and then paint is applied to the silk screen over canvas. Warhol played with the technique, if there is too much paint the image becomes smeared, if the pores on the screen are clogged the images is lighters, etc. The texture of the canvas and the screen create a pattern. He used Polaroids to capture images of himself and his celebrity friends and clients to make the screen printed versions. Consumerism was at the time Warhol created these pieces, so his pop art style drew consumers and he took advantage of the consumerism movement. The repeated images, such as the one of Liz Taylor, each image after the initial seems deformed to some point.

Uncertainty: Modern art, is it the higher realm or the lost path? Modern Art tells us that there is no single code for living. Future will look back and see a changed society and a society that lives by change. Obscurity had been made glamorous. The bricks that lay on the form of has an uncertain meaning. Modern art is difficult, we wish it could just pull itself together.  Picasso's first cubist painting, was out of the norm and this became the look that began the change. Distortion in modern art is to give life to new forms. Modern civilization agrees that everything is relative, that is where abstract art began. Abstract art asks you to look beyond something that doesn't have a meaning to find a meaning. Abstract expressionists asked viewers to look at the void. The artists we outcasts because they couldn't accept consumerism, they felt reality was chaotic. Art in this case is telling society off for its falseness. Popists seem to be cruising through society, because that is what society does.

These videos relate to the text because they discuss the artists in the texts such as Warhol and Picasso, also those artists of the art expressionist movement, also known as the New York school. These videos discuss the terms we read about society like consumerism, and also painting techniques like silk screening.


I like that the films allow us to see more visuals of the art being produced in different art movements. I also like that they do in depth about the meaning of art. These two videos seem to support the idea of pluralism. Art has many different meanings all at one time.