Andy Warhol: Images of an Image
1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I selected this video because I always found Andy Warhol fascinating, both as a person & as an artist. I was hoping this video would give me more of an insight to both of those things.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Process of silk screening:
- original image must 1st be enlarged several times.
- contrast can be heightened or turned down at will resulting in a large, half-toned sheet.
- sheet originally made of silk, but now is synthetic material of either fine or coarse mesh depending on desired effect.
- screen is stretched across frame & treated with a light-sensitive material.
- sheet is then laid on a screen & exposed to strong light.
- Rinsed with water; black exposed parts dissolve leaving weave visible, white parts harden, filling in weave to form a flat surface; image on screen is a negative 1.
- once dry, put on paper/canvas that will hold final image.
- ink is pressed firmly on with a rubber blade/squeegee. this forces ink through uncovered parts of the screen creating a positive image.
- screen can be used any number of times.
Warhol:
- fascinated/obsessed with idea of celebrity/famous people.
- published a magazine.
- did portraits for celebrities.
- wanted to use silk screen as a way to destroy relief & contours.
- silk screen used to put artists hand at a distance & eliminate artist's presence entirely.
The video related to the text in increasing my knowledge & understanding of what I had read in the book about the silk screening process. It also made me look at him in a different light because I read in the text his art was considered "Pop Art," & I have never even considered him to fall into that category. But after reading about it & then watching the video with this new information, I put it all together very well.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
This film was really interesting because I had no idea that most of Warhol's early work was mainly adds cut out of magazines & papers that he turned into art. It definitely added depth & understanding to the text in the explanation & visual aspect of the process of silk screening.
Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces
1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.
I honestly chose this video because while I was checking out all the videos before choosing any & clicked on this 1, I saw the awesome sculpture that you see before you hit play on the video & thought it looked like something I really wanted to learn more about.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
- 1933 ~ vision of "earth as a sculpture."
- use of water on sculpture to create new approach.
- 1949 ~ traveled the world for 2 years, ended up in Japan, which influenced his art after this point due to his vision that Japanese stone gardens had aspects of sculptural instinct.
- "Humanizing of space/sculpture."
- difficult childhood.
- age 13 ~ came to U.S.; Indians, known as Sam Gilmore.
- Guggenheim fellowship in Paris.
- returned to U.S. ~ N.Y.
- Poverty influenced his art.
- experience colored greatly by the theater.
- discovered the character of a place & how differences, not sameness create interest.
- scale of sculpture should be the scale of man.
- nature completes composition that cannot be duplicated by an artist.
- took sculpture to a whole new dimension/realm.
- was doing in the 1920's/30's what people are just starting to see as landscape/instillation art today.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I really enjoyed this film. It was incredible to see Noguchi's visions come to life, & it gave a deeper understanding of the intense process of Land Art.
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