Module #12 Video Review

#1 I chose the video Andy Warhol: Images of an Image because I really like his work and the way he incorporates advertising into his work. I also chose the video Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the ’50s and ’60s because I like the emotion surrounding the expressionism movement and because the 60’s was my favorite decade.

#2. Key Concepts

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:

-Was a commercial artist and used advertising images in his work

-Was inspired by famous women such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor

-Used silk screening

-Photographs were blown up and developed onto silk screens, then transferred to paper and canvas using ink and paint

-Ten Lizes, 1963

-Used consumer products as repeated silk screen images

-Shot about 100 films

- Produced dozens of self portraits

-His work addressed race riots, the conquest of the moon, the cultural revolution in China, and the universal reign of the dollar

 Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the ’50s and ’60s:

-Abstract Expressionism was born from joining the attitudes of American art and European avant-garde art

-It was later rejected for its nonfigurative and egocentric character and replaced by the ultra- objective phenomenon, Pop Art

-The video shows how various artists used expressionism in their art and the change to Pop Art

-Frankenthaler: feminine and mystical, and makes the observer experience a warming and exhilarating sense of fruitfulness (expressionism)

- Andy Warhol: most famous artist of the Pop Art movement, the first 20^th Century art movement since Futurism to embrace the rhythms of city life

#3. The videos and the text both talk about when and how the Expressionism and Pop Art movement started, art works and artists during these movements, and what inspired Andy Warhol’s commercial and advertising based art.

#4. The films helped me to learn about the leaders of these art movements and the characteristics involved with these works of arts that define Expressionism and Pop Art.