1.)
The reason
I chose the first video Matisse and Picasso was because I was interested in
learning more about the artist Martisse.
I also wanted to see the similarities and differences between both
artists.
2.)
There are
several important concepts I learned from the video entitled Matisse and
Picasso. This video served as a
comparison between the two artists Matisse and Picasso, and the differences
were clearly obvious. Matisse was a
serene, self-indulgent father figure. He
was deliberate, rational and very French in the way he organized his
thoughts. In 1917 he finds the light he
wants to paint in Nice, France. By 1930,
he traveled to America where he was welcomed with the Carnegie Prize, the Nobel
of the art world. He works on the clock
on a regular schedule, and often wondered where his inspiration would come
from.
Picasso was the
eternal adolescent and fiery primitive.
He was a worker, impulsive and immerses himself in his painting. In 1912, he invents the first collage, which
is at the forefront of cubism. He
parodies his work in order to provoke Matisse, and also it distracts him from
his wife with whom he hates. He did not
travel, but worked in solitude in his studio.
He worked at night when he is as close as possible to the unconscious. Three fourths of the content of Picasso’s
paintings di don’t exist outside the paintings, his inspiration came from life.
Although these two artists share
many differences, they also had some shared characteristics. For example, both broke with tradition with
the establishment. They also served as
influences on each other. Picasso uses
lines borrowed from Matisse, and later Matisse borrows subjects, color, or
lines from Picasso. By 1945, London
hosted an exhibition of paintings by Picasso and Matisse. In 1948, both Matisse and Picasso moved to
the south of France.
There were several important
concepts from the video The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th
Century to Present. Northern Spain has
produced some of the world’s most celebrated artists including, Picasso, Goya,
and Antoni Gaudi. Goya foreshadowed
modern painting with his dark political consciousness. He was often referred too as the father of
modern art, he left 80 etchings of war that reveal his dark political
consciousness. He was completely deaf,
focusing his artistic vision on death, the wrath of God, and man’s inhumanity
to man. He isolates himself in a house
whose walls he leaves his infamous black paintings of witches, violence and
devil worship.
Antonin Gaudi was an architect that
exemplified Barcelona’s spirits of exuberance.
This can be seen in his work in Park Guell. Unlike Goya, who rejected religious, Gaudi
clung to the certainties of Spain’s Catholic part. Gaudi’s Casa Mila earned the name La Pederea
because it series of curvy cave-like balconies looked like a stone quarry. This movement towards the primitive is
similar to Henry Moore’s abstract monumental bronzes. In 1997, a new building in the north of Spain
broke with the past and ushered in a new form of architecture and a new future
for Spanish art. Frank Gehry’s
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a Picasso-inspired monument of Spain’s past and
future.
3.)
Both videos relate to the readings
in some ways. The readings cover a
majority of what was said in the videos, however the videos offer a much
broader prospective on both topics. For
example, the first video offers a great comparison between two artists Picasso
and Matisse. The second video also gives
a great comparison of different Spanish artists and their effects on modern
art.
4.)
I really enjoyed both of the
videos. I think they both offered a vast
amount of information that I had not learned before in this class or in other
art classes before.
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