Honestly I chose the Cubism and Expressionism videos, because I did not quite grasp the concepts of the styles from the text. It was nice to have an animated explanation of these styles and it furthered my knowledge of these subjects.
This Impact of Cubism video was very educational. I liked how it had a story line and gave specific examples of the content being provided. It was a well designed video and definitely went hand in hand with the text. It described the concepts of cubism as the text did and then compared it to a piece of real world art. This gave cubism a more definable identity and allowed me to make the connections of the pieces to Cubism.
The key concepts that I took away from this film were the way cubism evolved over time and even impacted other industries in the world. I liked how the video described cubism as abstract objects representing real life scenarios. It showed that the artists did not depend on realism, but did depict every day life experiences that could be easily related to another person's life. Also, the video talked about how cubism made its way into the designing world and supplemented the art form by entering a new industry.
The Expressionism video was also easily related to the book. I feel like this video did not further explain the concepts, but it did provide a bunch of new examples that could be related to the text. Overall I think it was an educational video. It did have a lot of repetition as per the text, but it was reinforcing and provided many more examples to help understand how Expressionism came about and what its intentions were.
The key concepts of this video that I think were most important were the descriptions of the expressionism art style. I liked how they described it as real subject matter that was majorly distorted with shape and color in order to provoke strong emotions. There were examples of the relationship struggle between a man and a woman, everyday scenarios. and even religious background stories.
Thank you,
---Michael Ushman
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