The two videos I selected
were Andy Warhol: Images of an Image
and Uncertainty: Modernity and Art.
The reason why I chose two videos was because they portray and speak about a
mass culture and the separation from it.
In the video about Andy Warhol
we see an artist who wants to portray life in the 1960’s which was a lot of consumerism
by the masses. Through the Ten Lizes, an image of the actress Elizabeth Taylor,
Andy Warhol uses an original photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and creates ten
images of this photograph as if they were the negative of the original. He takes
pictures of the picture. By doing this he created 10 unique images in a way
because no image is the same as the one that came before. In the video, Uncertainty:
Modernity and Art, the concept that modern art tells us that something broke
100 years ago cannot be put together again. This breakage has created a feeling
of uncertainty. Art in the early 19th century used to tell us the
identity of a group or movement in society. The uncertainty started with us
wanting to break away of mass culture, and in the process, we lost ourselves.
The textbook is different
from the videos because it focuses on defining the different styles and
movements that protested against consumerism. The videos speak more directly
about human identity, where the book explains about the historical factors and
other different movements.
The films were eye opener,
specially the Uncertainty: Modern and Art. The reason why is because it really makes
me think about why did we, as a society, and as individuals, break away from
mass culture 100 years ago, as far as art goes. The reason why we lost that is
because many artists refused to continue to master the basics of art, like how
it was in the renaissance time. Everyone wanted to be their own person and
create their own art that they forgot about where they came from and what used
to inspire those before them.
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