Module 11 Video review

The two videos I chose were the Mystical North, and The Impact of Cubism. I chose the first one because I think learning about Spanish Art would be interesting. From the past to the present. Different Art around the world is so fascinating. I've always had an interest in Spain so I thought this would interest me the most. I chose the second video because the idea of Cubism got my attention. I wanted to learn more about it. I don't know very much about Cubism. Seeing the different artwork involving cubism is very different to me so I thought this video would catch my attention.

In the first video, the Mystical North: Spanish art from the 19th century to the present, had a few key concepts. It introduced some Spanish Artists like Picasso, Goya, and Dali. Ideas of each of their artwork and their lives in Northern Spain. A lot of there lives they knew war, and fighting so a lot of their artwork had a lot to do with tragedy and war. After Goya's terrible death, artwork became boring and uninteresting for over 50 years. The artist Gaudi, was the next big artist but he was a lot different than Goya. His artwork brought light to Barcelona. It was happy and based a lot of artwork on catholic religion. Gaudi's architectural work was actually amazing, and was so inspiring during the 20th century. Picasso was also a great artist in the 20th century. He was very involved in cubism. He too based a lot of artwork on catholic religion, and a lot of the cubism faces was based on African masks. Dali had a way of being comedic with his art and surrealism. His artwork definitely gets my attention the most. It is so much more different than anyone else's. A lot of war sights in Northern Spain are kind of considered artwork.
The second video The Impact of Cubism also has a lot of key concepts. Picasso was a very famous cubism artist. This video shows the different concepts of different artwork. Including the famous "coffee table". There are different colors and values, and different things our eyes tend to see and what different things each mean. Some things mean exactly what they are but others have different meanings and it is explained in this video. Different artists used real life objects as their main artwork. Like the painting with the Eiffle Tower, was based on the artists memory and imagination but had so much going on that it was kind of hard to tell it was the Eiffel Tower that he was completely focusing on. In this video there was a lot of artwork that I could not really imagine what it was until it was explained. Cubism is a hard but interesting artwork to follow and understand.

Both the text from the book and the videos relate in many ways. They both explain the understandings of cubism and different artists who used it in artwork. Also talked about the Spanish artists and artwork over time and how it was changed.
In my opinion I don't really like the cubism, but it is still interesting. I think the Spanish artwork is very interesting and I like learning about that a lot. The different artists have such different ways of creating great artwork.