Lesson 6 - Hughes - Shock

The Future That Was

Michel Hizer - art and land have the greatest value, here you have both, neither are excusable and not worth very much. Isolation is the essence of land art, this large sculpture by Michel Hizer is something more of a statement.

Side Note: Is it just my computer but these videos just will not load for me!! Ok back to the art!

Lesson 6 - Lecture

Fork in the Road

This week we are hitting a fork in the road in art. On one end we have the minimalist that leads to the death of painting. One the other end we have those that want to reference what we see everyday and those are the pop artist. 

One of the most famous artist of the pop culture time is Andy Warhol. Jasper Johns famous for the American flag painting and Andy Warhol famous Campbell Soup can - " I eat soup everyday, lets celebrate that like we celebrate a king or religion?" How can you compare soup to those two?!?! 

Professor Pecks favorite moment for Andy Warhol was the Brillo Soap Box. What is a Brillo Soap? Am I showing my age? I think they look completely different now. But the advertisement for these items were not something you would traditionally see in a gallery.

Andy Warhol - Brillo Soap Pads

Leo Constelli - key player in the art scene in New York and how it continued to change. His gallery set the tone for artist and other galleries in the city. 

Robert Rousinberg - instrumental in beginning the minimalism era. Josph Alberts - study aesthetics also instrumental in the minimalism era. 

Art begins to take a direction to either change what you see or change how you think. The rules are starting to change depending on the direction you take at this fork in the road. 

Lesson 5 - Dali - Dali

Lesson 5 - Smithsonian - Pollock

Lesson 5 - Scorsese Picasso Braque

Lesson 5 - Lecture

Lesson 4 - Collings - Impressionism

A snooze fest 

This film covered four different impressionist artist, all of which made great strides for the movement itself. 

Courbet, Manet, Cezanne and Monet 

Collings film is more of a documentary for each artist, this facts and information are surrounded by him roaming the streets of France pointing out reference locations. Okie dokie, let's start! 

Courbet painted to fight against the government. His largely successful painting and very critical painting is a 20 ft "The painters Studio" that was a direct assist against the government without saying so directly.

Courbet strives to fight against the academy and their view of the perfect person. Their view of paintings were that they were to reflect the past not reflect reality, Courbet thought that painting should be reality and a sense that a photo could not provide. Courbet stops painting politically and begins to paint nudes, not pretty nudes but ugly average woman nudes. Courbet was a great impressionist but not a conventional artist for he did not paint with bright colors. The next artist did tho. 

Monet painted the outdoors, was raw and intense. His involvement in the impressionist group was one by accident. But a great accident it was, he later founded the impressionist group. Born in the lower middle class Monet thought that colors were the path to the future. His greatest painting was Poppyfield for his color arrangment and how everything ties together. 

Impressionist are inspired by this painting and he began the movement for many to follow. One great accomplishment he did was to create the anonymous society of artist. With the fight that Courbet did against the art world, here artist could display their work without judgement and show the new look for painting, the looks of reality.

Another painter shown in the film was Manet. Manet and Monet were constantly criticized for having such close names but they were close friends da and associate painters. He was a posh painter, thinking of how paintings should be painted and what paintings are made of. He was known for painting his muse Victoria, later to state she was not his mistress. A great painting by Monet right before he passed was of the Barmaid. It had a sense of modern life, liveliness in his painting. The logistics of the painting are incorrect but that's not important, the piece is a masterpiece.   

This film was long and the narrator is a bore but the artist are very interesting.