Video Review

1. I choose those videos because they interested me the most out of all the videos that were there in all honesty. I didn’t choose them because of their length but because of their topics. Michelangelo and his drawings seemed like an interesting topic to look at and Albrecht Durer was one of the greatest renaissance painters

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Hokusai: The Suspended Threat

• ·        Hokusai made 45 other views of Mount Fuji, which is what the actual main subject of the great wave print, the mountain and not the wave.
• ·       While the mountain is what the works are based around, they show different things from scenes of everyday life.
• ·       Prints were so common during that time that they were used as wrapping paper.
• ·       It took 3 different people to produce the prints we see from those days, the artist, the engraver and the printer.

African Art: Legacy of Oppression

• ·        Belgium has the largest collection of African art.
• ·       The art was abstract and not simplistic, they choose to make the art not realistic.
• ·       African art glorifies motherhood, chief hood and ordinary objects such as combs and cups.
• ·       This art was stolen by the Belgians during their colonization but the art has proven more of a positive influence then what the Belgians did to the Africans as a negative influence.

3.  The videos relate to the text because it gives you a deeper understanding of the text and helping you learn the material that much better.  The videos cover the parts of the material in the chapter and it is good supplementary material.  They cover line in the works of Hokusai which is extra knowledge on the subject we are currently going over.

4. I, personally, enjoyed the films and the added material they provided for the understanding of the material. I would say that they do add depth to the topics discussed in the videos. They give you a greater look at all different aspects of the topic and give you the ability to decide how you feel about the topics.