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Exterior of The Museum of Modern Art (1939)   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?     Relative to the museum, according to Hughes, America invented the "notion that this could be the place where modernist credentials would be sealed and stamped", meaning that this is where they would succeed. This changed the art collection approach of modern collectors by pushing them to spend more money on paintings. Modern collectors were intrigued and would pay anything to get the latest scoop. Alfred Barr contributes to this approach by convincing a group of millionaires that they needed to collect modern art and treat it like a "historic fact" because it is the art of their time. This shaped MoMA because it started to collect and display modern art t...

Man Ray Andy Warhol 1. What are the three most interesting stories in this film?     The first story that I thought was the most interesting in this film was the one about Warhol's mother and how she fueled his love for art when he was younger. The film talked about how she would make her kids draw a picture and whoever drew the best one would get a piece of chocolate or something similar. I just thought that this story gave some interesting insight into his life as a kid. The next story that I thought was very interesting in this film was that Warhol would go to church with his mother every Saturday night and Sunday. This is interesting because there is evidence of "iconostasis" in his work due to his brilliant use of color and "simplicity". The last story that I thought was interesting was that when he was starting to become successful as a commercial artist in New York, he would not bring his work that he was going to present in a portfolio, but insteads woul...

  Reflections on Girl  Roy Lichtenstein 1. POP -  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.     Lichtenstein has an interesting way of making art. Lichtenstein is an artist who loves to rework art that he already loves as is. His most famous paintings are his comic book paintings. To make these paintings, he would start by flipping through a comic book to find a panel that looked interesting to him. He then would create a colored pencil drawing of the panel in his own style, and then would project this colored pencil drawing onto a canvas. The canvases he used were large scale and would allow the comic panel to come to life at a much larger scale than before. He is influenced a lot by pop culture when it comes to his subject, and he also uses artists that inspire him as his fuel...

  1. This introduction explains American painting's issue with subject matter….. What does this mean to you? Use examples from the intro.     When the intro talks about how the "problem with American painting had been a problem of subject matter", I was instantly intrigued. This, to me, means that for the longest time, painting had been restricted to subject matter that was able to be digested by anyone. "American themes were not going to lead to a great national art" because this was "obsolete", but once the artists began to take "a hold of abstract art", they began to reveal a power within art that has never been seen before. This was a time of innovation in art, when people decided to go against everything that once was, and create something unforgettable.  2. Explain why Rauschenberg insisted that he erase a piece by Willem de Kooning for his masterpiece  Erased de Kooning.     Rauschenberg insisted that he erase a piece by Willem de Koon...

Blue Poles Jackson Pollock   1. What does Jackson's introduction mean? (the text spoken over his painting in the first 30 seconds)      Jackson's introduction means that because our world and society changes so much, there is always a need for new kinds of art. There are different people, and things happening, in different ages, and making new kinds of art is a way to keep up with these changes.  Compare that to his craft statement (2:50 seconds)     Pollock describes how his process works. It reveals a different form of art than people have seen before his time. This shows how he has changed the way people make art. He also briefly speaks to his want to "express his feelings rather than illustrate them". Actually illustrating was all anyone ever really saw before Pollock's abstract expressionism.  In this film, you hear our feature painter speak and actually apply paint. How does that change your experience?     Seeing Pollock actually...

  The Hallucinogenic Toreador Salvador Dal í   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 narrator's description 5. an artwork 6. architecture / landscape      When watching this film, I felt very uneasy the entire time, and to be honest, I didn't really understand a lot of the content. The film was very hard to watch, but it was also hard to take your eyes away at the same time.       To start, there was one scene that showed Dal í walking with a "6 meter long shirt" which he requested be a costume for one of the scenes in this "self portrait" film. This seemed very odd to me because it is just such an outlandish thing to ask...