Lesson 5- Film 2: Seurat/Bugler

 1. Who made this documentary? Why should we believe their story? If you never see the narrator but only the interview subjects does it change the way you perceive the stories?

- The people who made the documentary is BBC. We should believe in the stories the documentary provides, it shows us with some backstory behind what the world was like when Seurat was still around, how the artwork was like back then, taking a more modern turn as well. In terms of the documentary as a whole, the interview subjects gave us some good information throughout the film, besides the narrator to showing up, I just appreciate that other subjects are present and not just one person.

2.Have you ever seen this painting for real? Tell me about it. OR 

- I have seen Seurat’s Saturday Afternoon piece at the Art Institute in Chicago. Really great to see that large piece of artwork up close in person. In my other classes, there are times where we went to the art institute to either view at the entire building, and for one of our finals, which is a scavenger hunt of all the artists we learned about.

3.Which is more interesting to you an artist making a different picture every day like Van Gogh or the cave men or spending 2-4  years on a painting like Seurat or Michelangelo? Why? which would you do? How would it change your life or our world? 

- To me, I feel like making a painting or any form of artwork every day would be better than making a work of art that would take up to 2 to 4 years. Making a work of art every day would expand creativity on what you’d want to make and how you would like to approach it, plus using different techniques as I progress as well if I want to make a series in terms of art as well. If I this changed my life on how I approached art, I’d continue making artwork in terms of using different said techniques, different ways to make art, whether it be digital, painting, etc.


Saturday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte


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