Module 11

Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting: 1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above. I honestly chose the first two videos just at random there was no particular reasoning 2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned. Matisse and Picasso: -believe drawing and painting are the same thing just with more/less materials -Matissa was a child protogy –followed after father -had a northern temperament -Picasso acted more impulsive -irreducable in each others work- innocence, naïve in matisse intellectual approach in Picasso -painting represent the idea of things-picasso (cubism) -1912 picassos first collage -matisse “I sculpt like a painter” -I put everything I like in my painitins, too bad, things can work out for themselves – Picasso -“I want art of balance and purity that neither harasses nor worries” matisse says -keep harass and worries inside of him and presents the beauty -puppet painters -2 compassions are combined: the female nude and febrics-matisse -picasso made paintings to mock matisse and resemble his new wife -matisse said when you want to use color, you cant just walk in without thinking -matisse- painting always meant panic, struggle fear he used to try and deliberately instigate struggle -matisse peoples his world -objects are apart of his vocabulary, but infact the baroc chair -the objects that interest him are the worthless ones -3/4 of Picassos objects did not exist -woman are the engines that drives him the mystery -all done by memory/ imagination- Picasso -the painter and his model –matisse is one of his greats -matisse has an understanding of the human body -matisse chooses dark latin models -sleeping women open artists inspirations on feminity -matise- every week new beginnings -matisse work out the day then later rub out the work rubbed out result of work-next day had progressed wasn’t actually starting on something different -painting is an exorcism for Picasso -violence is everywhere -no evil in matisses paintings -in the work of a painter- anguish is a tool -picasso can also be seen as an expressionist -matisse said he goes to meet his feelings, he goes towards ecstacy -matisse lives in the country of color -matisse proclaims we should always see life as we did in childhood -uses sissors instead of drawing/painting cutouts resemble memories -picasso exploring ceramics The Mystical North: -Goya: created graphic drawings/images -black paintsings- devil worship, witches, black subjects, black colors -spain became power horse of modern art -modern atheism and ancient religion -Antoni Gaudí’: organic sexy shapes, carnival spirit -Goyas opposite -inspired by gods natural world -clung to certainties of spains catholic past -cathedral religious climate was changing- new ideas were undermining ancient religion of the church -sexuality and spirituality -Pablo Picasso- first sexual expierence- carried out in his work- -artists looked else where for spiritual nourishment -surrealism: view the unconscious, territory of the mind -Dali called his pictures hand painted dream photographs -sense of time standing still just as dreams or death - architect was American and the Spanish were not happy about that 2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text? The reading did a basic understanding of Picasso and Matisses lives. Matisse kept away from wars and politics and it discussed how he loved the adventure of the human body (mostly women) and domestic interior. It discussed how his wife was involved in helping him create his master pieces and how when he had no choice but to stray away from his usual techniques, he took up creating art with cut up paper. Picasso was said to be a woman lover because he loved all sorts of women. The mention of the surrealist Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. 3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts? I liked the first film on Picasso and Matisse because it gave a broader and brighter understanding behind their travels, their relationships (some serious women lovers) and behind their art work. I did not know about Picassos depression and suicidal emotions and you sometimes cant tell with the vibrant works he did at the time. Although some were deep, dark and saddened as well. The Persistence of Memory art work was described it greater depth what it symbolized and represented.