1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I actually chose this video because in reading the summary, it spoke of the Gothic style of art. Yet when I watched the video, it actually took place during the time period after the popularity of the Gothic style.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
- Durer ~ 1471-1528
- Dragged German art out of the Middle Ages.
- Apprenticed with his father, a goldsmith, at the age of 15.
- Opened up the Gothic style of art during his early years to the influences of the Italian Renaissance.
- Used nee techniques like silver point & steel engraving.
- Extraordinary with portraiture.
- Enjoyed painting hands.
- Carefully observed the process of aging.
- Skilled in woodcuts.
- Was the 1st true landscape artist in Europe.
- Heavy Italian/Venetian influences in painting style.
- Searched for what was considered "perfect form" by the Greeks.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The video showed how during this time period of the Renaissance, even artists who were not from Italy were strongly influenced by the great strides being made in the world of art. Techniques changed drastically during this time period, as is shown by both the text book & the video.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I liked this film. It gave me information of an artist I had previously no knowledge of, & introduced me to his unique techniques like silver point & steel engraving, both of which I found very beautiful.
Velazquez
1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I chose this video to find out more about an artist I had hear of, but have no real knowledge of.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
- Velazquez ~ 1599-1660.
- 1623 ~ named court painter for King Phillip the 4th of Spain.
- Painted the King & his family at many stages of their lives.
- Tried to catch figures in "real time."
- Treated historical images/myths in his paintings as though they had just happened.
- Was interested in how his ability as a painter could make these myths real.
- Some of his paintings were done over a period of many years before they were completed.
- Many of his works were based on the work of an earlier age & other artists.
- His style was built on the foundation of the Baroque period but reached beyond it.
- His works represented an "artlessness" based on nature, not arrangement.
- Painted many portraits, landscapes, & equestrian portraits.
- Also did portraits of the palace jesters, fools, & entertainers of the royal family; tried to find the humanity in their disfigurement.
- Some of his most influential paintings were done in the last 10 years of his life.
- Thought the purpose of painting was not to imitate nature, but to guide the eye of the beholder to see what the painter's eye had discovered.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The video relates to the readings in the fact that some of Velazquez's influences came from the Baroque period, yet he was said to have taken the expectations of this time & pushed his technique a bit further than was normal for the time period.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
This film was okay. It just seemed to me that if he was such an influential painter of his time, even considered to be a master, his paintings seemed kind of boring to me. I know it was just the time period, & that he was mainly into portraits, but his pictures were boring in my opinion. Despite the time period I guess I just expected a little more pizzazz.
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