Module 15 Video Blog

#1. Key Concepts:

Jackson Pollock: Michael Fried and T.J. Clark in Conversation

-Pollock is an enormously important modernist master

-Clark’s emphasis is on the historical role of modern art while Fried is focused on the independence of its aesthetic

-Both are committed to a historical way of looking at art

-Fried strongly dislikes the description of art in vulgar existentialist terms

-T.J Clark is a social historian that has been concerned with relating art to other human action

- Studying Lavender Mist: compressed energy of the painting surface

-Autumn Rhythm: Pollock focused on pictorial elements VS fragility

The Colonial Encounter: Views of Non-Western  Art and Culture

-Dahome art, visually beautiful but treated as a craft

-The 1900 Paris World Fair

-Colonial Images

-Images of African people showed violent behavior toward each other

-The shark symbolizes Dahome’s determination to protect its chores

-Algerian exhibition

-Racial differences

-Shows the ways in which Western prejudice, ethnography, and art consumption have counteracted authentic intercultural dialogue

#2. The videos showed that when critiquing art people can have varying interpretations of an artist’s work. This shows that the artist’s intentions for their work may not always translate to everyone on the same way. This was shown through Michael Fried and T.J Clarks conflicting views on the work of Jackson Pollock.

#3. I learned that art criticism must involve some sort of argument about the basis of the critic’s judgment. Also intuition and reasoning are an important part of art criticism