Lesson 6: Film 3- Painters Painting

 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 true art piece as a whole, and this statement would be. He went through another portfolio and told Rauschenberg to get one that would be considered super hard to erase. When that happened it said that it took him about three weeks to erase, and used around 15 different erasers.

3. This film is full of "art speak", and that makes it difficult for non-artists, (and sometimes artists), to understand. You get to hear the original artist speak about their own art in their own words and in their own time. Why is this better/worse then previous films?  

- I feel like in terms of the “art talk” used in films like this, I always think that it gets relatively better, since we get to see and experience what the original artist was like in terms of personality and different style when it comes to making different works of art, whether it be on a big canvas standing up or on the floor, each artist has a different taste and feel to it. Plus in some other films, besides the narrator hogging all the spotlight throughout the video, we also get different people who get interviewed and often talk about what the artist being discussed about is like as well and his background story, his ups and downs, etc.


Source Used: 

https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/essay/erased-de-kooning-drawing/#:~:text=Even%20as%20other%20details%20of,true%20than%20ever%20in%201953.


Erased de Kooning
Robert Rauschenberg 


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