Films About Paintings w/ Jack Morgan

 - Ask and answer 1 question about Goya that directly relates to his artmaking. - Who is Francisco Goya, what is his art style, and what is his influence? - Francisco Goya is a Spanish painter and printmaker, also know as an important artist back in the 18thh and 19th centuries. He was born on March 30th, 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain and passed away on April 16th, 1828 at the age of 82, the cause of death being an attack of cerebral thrombosis. In terms of what art style Goya does, he takes a more Classicism and Realism approach, making paintings like The Third of May 1808, Saturn Devouring His Son , and The Naked Maja . Throughout his career, he was influenced by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Diego Velazquez. - Ask and answer 1 question about Hughes’ film. - How does Hughes break down and look into Goya’s life? -Throughout the film, Hughes brought up that Goya’s unpredictable when it comes to his art. He also brought up Goya’s family life, saying that his mothe...

 - Ask and answer 1 question about David that directly relates to his artmaking. - Who is Jacques-Louis David, what kind of artist was Jacques-Louis David,  and what was his influence in terms of his artwork? - Jacques-Louis David is a French painter in the Neoclassical style, born on August 30th, 1748 in Paris France and passed away on December 29th, 1825 in Brussels, Belgium at the age of 77, he died due to an unchecked spread of adenocarcinoma of the parotid gland. David is considered to be an artist in the Neoclassicism, making his work in France during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, making paintings, using sculpted forms and polished surfaces. - Ask and answer 1 question that directly relates to Schama’s presentation of David. - How did Schama describe David, his life, his artwork, and his art style as a whole throughout the film? - Schama stated that David was a struggling artist and his artwork was rejected four times. When David got more successful...

 -  Who is Matthew Collings? Why should we believe his stories?  Collings chose to discuss a wide range of art history. Why? What was his point? - Matthew Collings is a British art critic, broadcaster, writer, and artist, born in September 1955, in London, United Kingdom, he is still living at the age of 68 years of age. He also made and wrote books such as This is Modern Art, This is Civilization, and Art Crazy Nation as well. To me, I feel like we should believe his stories, I say this because he gives us an inside look of paintings being brought up throughout the film, also throwing in what the significance is behind it as well. Collings decided to discuss from a wide range of are history because he wanted to discuss about how the paintings would start to evolve in terms of development over time, seeing how each paining would tell more of a story and have more meaning behind it all. -  What storytelling approaches did Collings use to tell his stories? Compare his ...

 - How did Schama approach Rembrandt differently than Caravaggio? (Aside the facts) - Throughout both of the films, Schama approached Rembrandt using mostly the historical locations with a hint of reenactment about who and what Rembrandt is as a person, his ups and down, and his history with art. While on Caravaggio’s side, it’s the complete opposite, majority of the video showing reenactments of who and what Caravaggio was like in terms of his artwork, his violent side, showing him killing Ranuccio Tomassoni, and showing off the violent-like aesthetic works of art he makes, like The Beheading of St. John the Baptist and David and Goliath. - Schama combined historical locations with theatrical reenactment. Which was more effective? Why? - Besides using historical locations throughout the films, which was very informative, I always thought that seeing a theatrical reenactment in each film was the most effective. I say this because they gave us, the watchers, a good visual look of w...

 - Who is David Hockney? Some people don’t believe his stories. Do you? Why? David Hockney is an English painter, born on July 9th, 1937 and is still living to this day at the age of eighty-six. He is mostly known for making pop art, since he was involved in the pop art movement during the 1960s, and is considered one of the most influential British artists in the 20th century (www.tate.org.uk). Hockney did not get married, he came out as gay in his 20s and his partner currently is Jean-Pierre Gonclaves de Lima, who works with Hockney in his studio. In terms of his stories, I can believe that he used lenses to further investigate a work of art and to make a piece of his own artwork as well, also using different types of techniques along the way as well in terms of making different styles of artwork.   - What was the Secret Knowledge? Does it change the way you look at the painting? Why? Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters was a book that Davi...