Video Reviews

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art

1. The actual definition to “Lowbrow” relates to someone with no “taste”.
2. Lowbrow has been said to relate to pornography because of the “balls” they have to create such outlandish artworks that in some instances include nudity.
3. It’s really a matter of taking art to the unknown and to have the audacity to take it to limits that are going to be controversial.
4. Different forms of art that are said to be Lowbrow are: Conceptualism, Minimalism, Abstract, Expressionism and Pop Art.
5. Lowbrow can be linked to music because of artists’ style, which can visually be reflected on album covers.
6. Artist’s realized no one was going to stop them and that they were free to express themselves through art how ever they may like.

Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach

1. This is the most popular museum in the world of modern art.
2. There’s no admission and due to the oversize crowds visiting the museum on a regular basis they had to expand.
3. The layout of the museum takes you through different styles of art and how they chronologically came to be.
4. “Water Lillie’s” by Monet was said to be the most controversial piece in the whole museum because of traditional use of materials.
5. There’s a room in the museum that doesn’t quite “flow” with the rest of the facility and because of its church-like atmosphere, not everyone is fond of the transition.

Bones of Contention:  Native American Archaeology

1. There’s been much controversy about the remaining bones of the deceased.
2. Some feel the bones should be “returned” to their ancestors versus being used for study.
3. Archaeologists have even been criminally charged because of bone possession.
4. This led to the creation of laws to protect Native American reservations.
5. Eventually people were actually hired to protect gravesites.

George Eastman House: Picture Perfect

  

1.      Eastman was a marketing and business genius and was the founder of Eastman Kodak.

2.      He also created the first motion picture.

3.      Invented the first affordable camera.

4.      There’s a House that includes over 14,000 photographs for people to visit and take in.

5.      He even created a school that taught how to restore and preserve motion pictures.

Yes, they do relate to my project.  Although I haven’t started, it had given me ideas that are shifting the focus of where my project is going.

The first video relating to pop-art was presented in a manor that I can appreciate.  I’ll most likely star my project in an expressionist manor.  Generally I like the films I watched.  However, the film on American Indian film was more like history lesson rather than an expose on art in America.