Module 9 Video Review

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned. (please categorize the comments for each video/reading)

The Great Wave:

• Japanese master Hokusai known for his prolific paintings
•  work of representational art that depicted tools, baskets, animals, clothing, and the human body

Early Photography:

• Louis Daguerre is the technique inventor of daguerreotypes which has more detailed photographic images on a copper plate that were made in factories by mostly women and children
• it has to be polished with rouge power which improves the viewing of images, reflection, and light sensitivity
• the plate is coated with iodine crystals to use for the camera; cloths or leather used to protect daguerreotypes 
• the formula of how to create daguerreotypes was sold to the French government by Louis so that it could be freely used by anyone

Manet:

• A Bar at Folies-Bergere painting; can see visual strokes of painting up close
• in that time era, if women were seen in bars it meant that they were sexually available (an informal rule)

Delacroix:

• mainly contemporary subjects expressed in paintings like the Revolution era
• symbolic meanings and images like the small flag of the revolutionaries that was an example of personification and symbol of freedom 

Monet:

• representational art in paintings with nature (trees and skies); effects of light and reflection shown; texture
• paid a person to not cut down a tree while finishing his painting this confirmed that he was a visual creator

Cassatt:

• elements and principles in the painting were pattern and space throughout the background/on the mother clothing
• a sense of trust or relationship between the mother in the painting while the mother is giving her a bath and the child leans on the mother

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The videos relate to the readings because they carried a common theme focused on the events in history that has influenced art and artists creations of art.

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

The films were ok but if there was more time it could have been more information in depth about them, however, the readings helped better understand the concepts and components that make up art work and reasonings why certain objects or images are portrayed.