Video Review

Greenberg on Art Criticism, discusses that criticim comes from a value judgement and taste. It mentions the importance of being relevant and that relevance is the only limitation one should have. They investigate the idea that a value judgement from an art critic comes from some art history. Greenberg on Pollock's key ideas are on Greenberg's criticism and relationship of Jackson Pollock and how Pollock himself reacted to criticism of his work. It talks about how Pollock referred to his works as "just easel paintings." In An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance we learn that the Roman Empire gave way to an area for art to flourish before the Empire was overtaken. It focuses on how Giotto led to the birth of art and revived the interest of recreating what we see in depth. He used landscapes and architecture to create a scene of depth and realism. A large part of the Italian Renaissance style of art was realism, perspective, chiaroscuro and the video discusses how different artists used these concepts. The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages's key ideas to me that were professional art critics must use intelligence and have a real passion for the work they are doing. It talks about how if enough critics say something or believe something, they will have an impact, instead of how in the past a single critic could change opinion. The Colonial Encounter discusses the 1900s world fair and the impact of the french government. The view of the french of the dahomians were that they had no infrastructure. Colonialism was justified by the idea that Africans were savages or barbarians who might turn against Europeans. The Jackson Pollock video's key ideas were on Pollock as a modern artist. We also learn about quality of art and how quality can be judged by an artists ability to articulate conditions of humans at a moment in time.

The videos did relate to the creation of my art crticism project in that I believe it is necessary to have some knowledge of art history and to see many of the works from that time period to properly criticize an artist's work. I also agreed with the idea that an art critic's idea comes from a value judgement and taste because I would have been more likely to be harder on those works that I didn't have a taste for.

The films taught me a lot about art criticism. I can understand the process from a professional critics point of view. The films were very educational.