Module 12 Video Review

Why I selected each video:
Hockney on Photography:
  -I have always been fascinated with photography, so, why not watch the video on it? I would like to learn more about it and learn what it truly is. I wanted to learn about photography from a professionals perspective.

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:
   - I have always heard the name "Andy Warhol" but I never knew much about him besides the
Campbell soup painting. So, I decided to choose the video with his name in it to learn more about him.

Key concepts learned:
Hockney on Photography:
  - There are so many types of photography. It is way more than pictures and a camera. Hockney's photography is even more special. Some how he creates images out 50 of the same and/or different pictures. He called his work "drawing with a camera". This art was made with polaroids and grids, something very unique. You can see the enthusiasm in his face when he is talking about his art. One of his artworks was composed of people looking at a picture, who are looking at a picture, very confusing, but unique. There was tons of movement through these pictures. There are really no rules with photography. Anything photographed can be art. Hockney liked to portray pictures within pictures within pictures, it was a game of infinity to him. He played around with perspective a lot, which was unique as well. His collage of the Grand Canyon was a different project for him. He had to do a bit of painting. He basically proved that pictures do not do the Grand Canyon justice, it is a real-life spacial experience. Even when he painted, he took smaller canvases and made a collage to make it one bug painting.

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:
   - Andy Warhols life was explained through this video. He wanted to be a tap dancer, clearly that did not happen. He then moved onto advertisements in magazines and newspapers. This opened his mind to art. He had always collected pictures os famous celebrities, models and actresses. He took real life people, events, and images to construct his art. Elizabeth Taylor was one of his favorite people to create art from. The video portrayed all of the techniques and materials Warhol used to create his images. His artwork always had a unique aspect of it. Ten Lizes was constructed to look like a newspaper photo, although it was not in a newspaper. A lot of his art was made from silk screen, something I have never heard of before. Him and Hockney had something in common, images in images. His artwork was compared to the Mona Lisa at times, which I thought was cool. His art became real at one point: he portrayed death in many different ways like suicide and plane crashes.

Relation to the reading:
Hockney on Photography:
  - I am not sure if I was reading in the wrong places but I could not find anything in the reading that relates to Hockney. In these chapters, photography was barely mentioned. Therefore, there is no correlation between the video and the reading.

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:
   - Andy Warhol is mentioned quite frequently when reading about art in the sixties and seventies. His artworks "Thirty are Better than One", "Black Bean", and the "Golden Marilyn Monroe" are the ones mentioned. His artwork had meaning, especially about Marilyn Monroe. This meaning was said in the video and the book. He had a whole page dedicated to him in the book depicting his life, which was cool to learn about. The book and the video were very similar about his life and creations.

Opinion on the films:
Hockney on Photography:
  - This video made me happy in an odd way. Hockney explaining his own artwork was wholesome and innocent. It was really cool to learn about how different his photography is. Very unique. The visuals were incredible. I loved looking at all of his art and learning about. The video was not very informative on photography as a whole but strictly on Hockney's perspective, which I figured would happen based on the title. But, I still learned a lot more about photography than I originally knew prior to watching the video.

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image:
   - This video depicts Andy Warhols life very well. I learned a lot about him, which were my intentions prior to watching this video. He had one interesting life. This video was also narrated very well, easy to learn from.