Films About Paintings w/ Jack Morgan

  1. What did America invent, relative to the museum, according to Hughes? How did this change the art collection approach of modern collectors? How did Alfred Barr contribute to this approach. How did this shape MOMA? How was this exemplified by The National Gallery? - In Robert Hughes’ words, America created the modern museums we know and go to today showing us the importance of the educational purposes of the museum and how to exceed in terms of education as well. In terms of Alfred Barr, this man was a huge contributor, he was the man who was the director of the Museum Of Modern Art which is located in New York City. MOMA is a museum that contains loads of not only regular paintings, sculptures, drawings, etc but they also contained film art, media, and performance arts as well, plenty of room to store different works of art in different categories. The National Gallery in Washington would bring attention to the influence on America in terms of engaging in the different fo...

 1.  What are the three most interesting stories in this film? Do you like Warhol more or less now? Is Warhol avante garde?  What do you think is Warhol's strangest piece? Why? - While watching the film, the three stories that were interesting was the beginning of Andy’s life of how he wanted to be a top artist, the struggles he went through throughout his personal life, and dealing with art directors, finding the image that would speak to him more. In terms of Andy, he is very Avant Garde, he started doing silk screen art and combining popular figures as well. As a whole, I still like his background as an artist as a whole and the work he makes, like the Shot Marilyns, the Campbell soup cans, and his self portraits. In my opinion, Warhol’s strangest piece of art he made was Big Electric Chair, majority of the piece is purple while a little bit of it was, instead of focusing it one one color or colors that would make it look like an electric chair. 2. What do we learn fro...

  1. In the film, you are essentially given a tour of Lichtenstein's artistic thought process from his own mouth. Discuss his approach to making art in terms of where and how he is inspired and what he chooses for his subject matter. - In this documentary about Lichtenstein, it tells us, the audience, on his background in terms of how he made art, his backgrounds when it comes to making his artwork, and how or what drove him to making said works of art as well. His first exposure to the art scene is in the comic book scene, also being inspired by seeing logos, brand names, and cartoon characters as well. Roy went on to make a style using bold lining, bright colors, dot patterns, and sometimes adding wording as well, making his artwork pop out more, giving his works of art a feel as if you’re scrolling through a comic book. As mentioned, the subject matter that speaks out to Roy the most is pop art, besides that, he made pop art through parody, using different characters throughout ...

  1. This introduction explains American painting's issue with subject matter….. What does this mean to you? Use examples from the intro. - In the beginning of the film, it tells that subject matter kept getting entangled in different ideas i America when it comes to making art, it was also focusing towards self portraits as well, in terms of what this means to me, I always feel like the subject matter when it comes to art it can be either expressive or it can tell a story when it comes to said work of art and sometimes they will not go according to plan, the film stated, they tried to find garden landscapes of a garden that they were destroying as fast as they could paint them. 2. Explain why Raushenberg insisted that he erase a piece by Willem de Kooning for his masterpiece  Erased de Kooning. - Rauschenberg insisted that he erased a piece by Willem de Kooning because Robert always respected de Kooning, there was no question that a drawing of his would even be considered a t...

  1. What does Jackson's introduction mean? (the text spoken over his painting in the first 30 seconds) Compare that to his craft statement (2:50 seconds) In this film, you hear our feature painter speak and actually apply paint. How does that change your experience? Does it bother you that these films (that give us such an interesting record) lead to Pollocks downfall? Explain. - In the beginning of the film, it mentioned that a modern artist would need new techniques and making a statement. I believe that it means that Pollock needed a technique that would put him on that map and that he can be known for, and he would start taking a more abstract approach. When Pollock was speaking while applying art to his canvas, it doesn’t change my experience in terms of art, he was explaining that he feels at home while doing large canvases on the floor, he stated that he would rather express his feelings on the canvas rather than illustrating them, this shows that artists like him have a di...

  Some characteristics make this film hard to watch in many ways. Describe why it is hard to watch and also how it makes the film more interesting. Please use   specific examples from the film to back up your position .   Include at least one example that discusses each of the following 1. a costume 2. Dali speaking 3. a scene / vignette with actors 4. a narrators description 5. an artwork 6. architecture / landscape - To me, when I first started watching the film about Dali, I immediately found it hard to watch and to understand Dali’s approach whenever it comes to the filmmaking that was used throughout the entire video. When there’s parts in the film that Dali was speaking, I old immediately tell that the actor that was portraying as him was very expressive, but at the same time, when watching the film, I couldn’t understand what was entirely going on, almost leaving me on the fence even, since at times, I could barely understand what he was saying. In terms of costume...