Module 12 Video Review

I chose the two videos because I did not know much previously about either artist, though I had heard them mentioned before by other students who are further along in their education than I am.

Key Points Andy Warhol: Images of an image

• “I thought department stores were the new museums” - Andy Warhol
• Warhol began his career as a commercial artist, creating graphic designs for magazines.
• His portrait of Marilyn Monroe was the first time he used the silk screen technique to produce an image.
• The dimensions of “Ten Lizzies” was made to force the viewer to move around the piece.
• Warhol had “An insatiable appetite for money”
• “One of my assistants or anyone else could reproduce the motif just as well as I could”-Andy Warhol
• Warhol’s artist loft was known as “The factory”
• Death was one of warhol’s main themes.

Key Points Hockney on Photography

• “The camera, remember, is older than photography. Photography is only the chemical invention of how to put the image on a flat surface with light that reacts to things.” -Hockney
• Hockney used a multitude of images taken of the same object and stitched them together to create a larger, more complete version of that image.
• “Every image is an artifice essentially, however much you may think it’s a documentary.” -Hockney
• He used the stitch technique to capture the whole figure while still staying close to it, giving an intimate sort of detail.
• He was attempting to break the old rules of one point perspective.
• He continued on to paint images using a series of small canvases put together to create a larger, yet separated canvas.

The videos related well to the text. I enjoyed learning more about specific modern artists. I also thought it was very educational to hear from videos and interviews from the artists themselves. It felt more personal than talking about the art as separate from the artist.