These four videos were not my first choice. As I started to watch the others, I didn’t find them to spark my interest as the ones I chose did.
In the Expressionism video, color has a role of its own and not there to describe a scene. This was evident in the Blue Horse painting where the horse is set in its own color not to match the background. Also in the painting “After the Fall” by Munch the colors are used to portray the emotion of the work. Munch also said he don’t paint what he sees, he paints what he saw.
In Dada and Surrealism, Dali had a style of worry. He utilized drawers to symbolize what seemed to be emptiness. He was a surrealist. Familiar objects in an unfamiliar position are what Man Ray displayed in his painting La Fortune. The pool table with two white balls, outside, and supported by a large fat wooden leg are examples of the different layout that we are used to. The objects are exact replicas of what they are, just not in the normal location that we are used to.
Matisse and Picasso were different in personalities. Picasso digs in, gets dirty and spends a long time on a painting. Matisse needed to plan and explain his paintings.
The Dance at the Moulin de Galette was a painting that was the most controversial painting by Renoir. The painting was creating at a time in Renoir’s life where dances were held on the weekends. The Moulin de Galette was up on a hill and would open on Sundays for celebratory events. In the painting there are Renoir’s family and friends. The images are displayed in real form as they would be in the real world. Like displaying the people who would be seen dancing are dancing and those that didn’t, not dancing.
I want to start painting after watching these videos. I always seem to hold back on a project that I am not totally happy with. If I can’t do it how I want to, then I just can’t seem to finish. Now after the videos, I learned that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the true to life perfection but the thought that goes into it. This will help me for the rest of this course I believe.
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