Video review

1. The reasons why I watched these particular videos was because I thought they would interest me. Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces and Andy Warhol: Images of an Image peeked my interest when I saw that he designed a park in Miami.

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Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces

·        He has a world heritage site based on the Japanese style of garden in Paris

·        He creates them as he puts it to humanize space and time

·        He has artistic versatility, shown in the Miami bay front park and his use of water to delineate space around his works

·        Learn about the sculpture park he designed in Jerusalem

·        Designed a 400-acre park in Sapporo Japan and it shows the depth of his vision

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image

·        He was a commercial artist before going into advertising.

·        We learn about his use of silk screening and about his interest in the lives of famous women and how that lead to several repeated images

·        He also was an journalist and a film maker.

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text? I believe that these videos relate to the text because they talk about artists who at that time were different and they didn’t do conventional art. I also think that the Isamu Noguchi video relates to the text because he is exactly like one of the artists that would be included in the chapter.

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts? I enjoyed the films, especially the sculpture of spaces video. They added depth to my understanding of artists that they talk about in chapter 23. I consider these videos both informational to the chapter we had to read this week but while they supplied us with supplementary knowledge, I do not necessarily believe that I had to watch the videos. While the last two videos that I watched were on styles and subjects and helped to understand the material, this week’s videos were all not essential knowledge, in that it isn’t really needed.