Remember to write your full name and class period on the first line of you entry.
Two choices this week:
1. Write at least 15 sentences about what you learned from Rob about The Tales of Hoffmann.
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2. Write at least 15 sentences about what you learned from me about the styles of Art History II.
As always, be brilliant, insightful, creative, and wildly entertaining.
Madison Ferris
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This week, I am writing about your presentation on Art History part II. We aren't completely done with learning about the different art periods, but I've already learned a lot. First, I didn't know that there atleast 3 different subcategories of the first art period we learned about which I am blanking on the name (expressionism?), but I remember the later part of the period the style shifted. Near the start of that period, the painting style was kind of fuzzy and not as detailed, then became more clear and more stripey. At the end of the period, the paintings focused on pointilism, which was a ton of dots which came together as colors. I also loved the Pop Art time period that wasn't all that long ago. I learned about the Andy Warhol soup cans and how they were originally supposed to be arranged all next to each other in an art museum. I really liked the Pop Art Period. I also learned from you that Art Nouveau is a style that's still around, seen in fashion like our prom dresses possibly even. The only period I did not like much that we learned about was Dadaism. One example was the stool with the bike wheel in it. I don't see the art and beauty in this period but I know you mentioned the art is worth a lot still!
Julia McMichael
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One style of art that I really love is Impressionism. Impressionism was a movement in France in the 19th century. The paintings are the impression of a moment. Impressionist artists paint from real life. Landscapes and people are very common. Impressionist paintings are very messy and have many layers of color up close but look more out together far away. One artist Claude Monet is known for his water lily paintings during different times during the day. Also different times during the year. Monet shows how the colors and shades of hues are different and unique depending on what time or season it is. Other artists who are under the Impressionism movement are Degas, Renoir, Manet and Pissarro. Many artists did not just stay in the impressionist style such as Cézanne who also overlapped with Post-Impressionism. Many artists went between many different styles of art from the beginning to the end of their art career. Another example is ratify Van Gogh who moved through many styles of art. Van Gogh went through Post and Neo Impressionism. Neo Impressionism started a new technique of pointillism. Where paintings are made up with dots of different colors to create an impression of the moment.
Arthur Gulledge
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I learned a lot from Rob a couple days ago. It’s always fun when he visits as you don’t know what will come with. His presentation was pretty solid, but I thought there were a few holes in it. There weren't any slides on E. T. A. Hoffmann the author, or the original playwright. The presentation seemed to focus a little too much on Offenbach and his life than the other people around that were just as important. I did learn more about Offenbach and what inspired him to write the opera. Jacques Offenbach started small, writing operas, and gained attention until he was almost a super star of opera. As he got older, he found a play called the Tales of Hoffmann and decided to write an opera for it. He was very sick, and died before he could finish the music. I also learned he was also a talented cellist. I did want to know from Rob what the original conductor of the first performance did to handle with the incomplete work. Did they pretend there weren't any gaps and played what they had, or write new music, as our performance will? I also wondered on the character slide, it had black and white pictures and captions under them, but they only had the characters they play. I was confused if the actor’s names were the same as the characters. If he had pictures of actors, why didn’t he label them as such? Overall I liked the presentation and with a few brush ups, I feel like I will be perfectly ready for the performance soon.
Ashley Glinn
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Although I was absent on Wednesday and missed a part of your presentation on art history part two, there are so many styles of art during these time periods that I absolutely love! Some of my favorites include, pop art, abstract art, superrealism, impressionism, installations, cubism, op art, minimal art, and my current favorite: abstract expressionsim. Some of my favorite artists include Claude Monet, Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Georgia O'Keeffe, Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz, Dan Witz, Lee Price, Eloy Morales, Joel Rea, Cliff Briggie, and a true inspiration: Michael Carini. I highly encourage everyone to check out Michael Carini's work and read his backstory, his art is absolutely incredible, I wish I could own every single piece of art that he has done! Michael Carini is an abstract expressionist artist and today I learned that this art movement was the first movement to be lead by America, rather than Europe. It began in the late 1940s and 1950's and the most commonly known abstract expressionist artist is Jackson Pollock. Abstract art is defined in the packet Mr. Schindler passed out as, "the preference for working on a huge scale; the emphasis placed on surface qualities so that the flatness of the canvas is stressed; the adoption of an all-over type treatment in which the whole area of the picture is regarded as equally important; and the glorification of the act of painting itself". Another art movement that I am currently in love with is superrealism, also known as hyperrealism and photo realism. Superrealism became popular in the late 1960's and was mostly popular in America and Britain. The art is a style of painting which has extremely minute and exact detail to make the painting seem as though it was just a picture taken from a camera. One of the modern photorealism or superrealism artists that I personally love is Joel Rea. I am so excited to be working on this art history project with all of these amazing art movements, I can't wait to see the projects that everyone comes up with!
Andrew Park
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According to Rob's introduction to "The Tales of Hoffmann", one thing I learned was that in French, it's "Les contes d'Hoffman". As a person who loves to speak French, I find it a highly interesting fact. As of the composer, Jaques Offenbach, his career in music started as a conductor. He later wanted to gain fame in music. He ultimately tried his hand as a composer and actually found some success in his early years. As the Franco-Prussian war raged through France, Offenbach met end of his prime. His value in his works diminished severely. Surprisingly, I found it interesting how at the time Offenbach's prime met its demise, Germany's Richard Wagner and Italy's Giuseppe Verdi were the famous figures of music. As Offenbach's demise was nearing, he was desperate to bring back fame he experienced in his primetime. Offenbach started to compose the operatic version "Tales of Hoffmann". It had consisted of 3 loves stories in there. However, technically, there were actually 4 love stories from E.T.A Hoffmann. The opera was not completed of the all the stories because Offenbach's life came to an end during the progression of adding the fourth love story in there. After Rob's presentation, one thing I feel I must consider is if the music actually helped Offenbach's turnaround in his career. After listening to a few clips, I felt it was more than fantastic enough to bring back the fame in Offenbach's work. The musical tunes bring that romantic theme, which is what Romanticism is all about. As of E.T.A. Hoffmann's stories mentioned in the presentation, they were humorous in a bizarre way. The most bizarre one was where one of Hoffmann's lovers was a doll instead of a human. After learning more about the opera and the composer from Rob, I felt that Offenbach wanted to use those unusual stories as a chance to write a great opera in his final years.
Byron Murray
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In the presentation on art history there were many things that i learned about that i previously didn't know. For example i learned that you can sell some urinal you stole from a bathroom and then sign your name on it and then its suddenly called a beautiful piece of art. I also learned that you can just go into any dictionary and make an exact copy of one of their definitions and then blow it up on a huge piece of canvas and then sell it for millions of dollars. It seems to me that the more "modern" art gets, the more it becomes meaningless garbage that takes little to no skill whatsoever to do and is almost an easy way to get rich. Another prime example of stupid garbage people try to pass as art would be splatter paintings because i know of an elephant that can do the exact same thing, so would the elephants painting also be worth millions? Despite my rant about modern art there are some art styles that i enjoy. Superrealism is pretty cool in my opinion because of how realistic it looks and the amount of detail/time had to go into the art piece and how they create a subtle illusion of reality. Another style i enjoyed was expressionism and how it had its roots in America which was a cool fact that i learned. Pointillism was the coolest in my opinion out of all the other styles though. It was really interesting/cool how pointillism creates colors by putting different colored dots close to each other and how they do that to create entire scenes. I also learned that pointillism art had the same concept as pixels.
Laney Mcfarland
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From the Art History II presentation I learned a little but mostly it was just review from when i took art history.One of my favorite styles/pieces you talked about was photo realism, Chuck Closes self portrait. Every detail in this art style has to be done perfect, and he executed it Flawlessly. Another style i think is really cool is art nouveau, Its known for its flowing natural forms, and beautiful flowers and plants. My other personal favorite style is pop art, not only is the art work cool but the culture around it is interesting. Artist like Andy Warhol have some very interesting history and there is no doubt about where they got inspired. Some of the other styles were cubism which is thought to be started by Pablo Picasso in the early 20th century, and inspired by 3 dimensional figures.Another style i think is weird is Net art, and particularly the fountain piece done by Marcel Duchamp how a urinal can be considered artwork is bizarre. But the thing I remember the most, you told us alot is you like modern art styles the best because you find it most interesting.
Isabelle Carson
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All of the art periods that we will be researching sound very interesting. I found Neo-Impressionism, Magical Realism, Superrealism, and Surrealism the most intriguing. I’m excited to start my project on Superrealism. Neo-Impressionism uses the technique of pointillism, which are tons of single colored dots put together to create some sort of picture. It was funny to hear that critics absolutely hated Fauvism. This in a way looks like a little kid painting something, because of its use of vibrant un-natural colors. Futurism is kind of weird since its basically like cubism but trying to show movement. I also didn’t know that optical illusions are considered an art form. Its art form is called Op Art. Superrealism is really cool in that it is a painting that is so realistic that it looks like a photograph. One way to tell that it is a painting is because it’s too realistic, the reflections and shadows fall too perfectly. Post-Modernistic art is an art form that takes past artwork and changes it a little. A lot of artists from the 20th centaury to now, switch their styles of art often. Most cannot be found in only one period.
Tristan Liebrock
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Overall I think the thing that I learned the most of from your art history was the fact that all the artists bounced in between different styles of art. Another thing that I found interesting is the fact that most of the styles are so distinctive. I think that people think forget that each art style is so unique that it is its own part of history. I also liked how most of the artists did really just random things as their own way to shove it to the art community. I think that each person made it so unique each art period so so different.
Elena Wagar
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All the art periods seem very interesting and cool. I think my favorite kind of art is superrealism, its amazing how realistic they can make the pictures. Superrealism is a completely figurative style of art that was popular during the 1960's and 1970's. People and scenes were shown as realistically and objectively as possible. The technique is characteristically flawless and smooth, executed in an attempt to compete the images that result from photography. One way to tell that it is a painting is because it’s too realistic, the reflections and shadows fall altogether. I also really liked pop art. In pop art you can reconize what it is and its drawn from popular media and products.
Lily Kristjanson
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My favorite style from Art History II is pop art, though it was not the topic I am presenting on. Pop art is a style of art that is based around popular culture as the inspiration. I find pop art to be the most interesting style because I can easily identify and relate to the topics in the artwork. Many pieces of pop art often incorporate advertisements. One of the most famous pop art artists is Andy Worhol. He is known for the use of his abstract expression in his art. His most well known piece is Campbell Soup Cans. The topic I will be presenting on is constructivism. Constructivism is a very architectural based style of art. It incorporates a lot of straight lines and geometric shapes. Much of modern architecture has been influenced by the geometrical properties found in most constructivism pieces.
Mack Ohnemus
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All the art periods in our Art History Part II project are very interesting. I like all of these periods better than part I of this project. One thing that I found interesting about Schindler's presentation is that there are soo many overlap with each other. These time periods cover about 150 years, whereas part one covered hundred upon hundreds of years, and had about half the periods. One example of an overlapping of two periods would be with my favorite artist, Vincent Van Gogh. He is often classified as an impressionist, a post-impressionist, and and a neo-impressionist. I really like that the artists post-late-1800s were able to paint in more than just one art period. Something else that I found interesting was that for the most part, in the older times, there would be a predominant type of art throughout the world (or at least western), but more recently, many different types of art happen in one place and time.
Arezu Abdollmohammadi
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It amazes me how many art styles there are. Neo-Impressionism was one i enjoyed learning about. Its incredible that the artist would create their painting with tons of little tiny dots. The dots would consist of different colors that when one would step back from the painting, the eyes would automatically mix the colors, tying the picture together. One example of this style of art is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. I have seen this work of art many times before. Its cool that i now know more about the painting, such as which style it comes from and the artist and the technique used. Overall I loved your powerpoint on art history part two because i learned so much from it. Its interesting that art styles would overlap and would have art styles branch off from one another.
Riley Schroeder
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During the art history part II presentation I learned a lot about these more modern styles, and i found it interesting how much more these art styles branched off of one style. It seemed like for art history part one the styles were not connected to each other except for some shared characteristics. That's why i found it a little bit more interesting to see how in the second part there were connected, yet very separate styles going on, like all the different realisms that have mainly the same style, but one more major defining characteristic. IT is particularly seen in styles of art like Superrealism, how to paintings are almost photos and it could be hard to tell it apart from a photo and everything is meant to be as realistic as possible versus the style of Magical Realism. They both look amazing and share the main traits of realism but then Magical has a whimsical and lighthearted feel with weird visuals, instead of trying to look like a photo, and i thought it was really interesting to see how there are the different styles that branched off like these two. The artists also seemed to gain more freedom as time progressed, which is a great thing to happen to art. It felt like while artists could be in one or two styles during art history part I, they had much more freedom to try new things and not be defined as one style. Artists like MC Escher or Picasso could fit into half the styles and maybe more, because they had completely free reign to express themselves how they saw fit. I feel that this is the most important thing in art, because something like art should not be defined by one thing and artists shouldn't be trapped to one idea or set of rules. It's about expression and how the artist personally feels and that's a great freedom that was given more and more through time. Along with this idea i liked seeing styles like Dada, where it was almost a mockery of art, but it also worked to question what art is. It further pushed this idea that if done right, anything can be art. John Cage giving a performance at a symphony with multiple movements where every single instrument was tacit. It's freedoms like this where an artist can really question society and peoples views freely that make art what it is, and what works to keep new art being made and new styles to be formed. I love being able to see things like this, as well as learning some of the classifications of my favorite art styles that I enjoy seeing, but just never knew the actual name for. I really enjoyed the presentation for Art History Part II.
Bryia Madison
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This week I will write about Art History Part II because I found it imensly interesting. Upon entering this class, I had no idea that there were so many art styles and eras. After learning about Art History Part I, I didn't realize that there would be twice as many art styles because I was already blown away with the number of art styles in Part I. What I also thought was interesting was the amount of overlapping art eras and the schools of art. The fact that people sat down together and made up their own art style and called themselves a school is just so innovative and inspiring; You and a dozen friends can create something that would be talked about for decades after. I also really enjoyed the size of the art and the way it was created. Dada artists were creative and almost ironic, and Superralism was crazy huge and yet so precise. Magical Realism and Surrealism are very dreamy and interesting. The idea that dreams and other worldly things can inspire and create art is very cool. Dreams were always something of interest to me and I really enjoyed the style that these artists had.
Joshua Scheck Period 3
ReplyDeleteOn Wednesday, I learned about multiple styles of art in Art History II. Firstly, I learned that the first style of art, impressionism was started in France. Another interesting thing about impressionism is that the whole style of art is based on the impressions of light at any given moment of time. The second style of art in Art History II is post-impressionism. I learned that this particular style of art was painted in plains. The post-impressionism artists sought to extend expressionism while rejecting its limitations. They specifically used vivid colors (exactly like the impressionist), painted real topics, used a thick application of paint, and emphasized geometric forms. The Neo-impressionism was probably the most interesting, since the style of composed of dots. Naturally the dots were positioned cleverly to show a realistic picture in the distance. But if you were to get closer and closer, the painting would not look like anything besides a bunch of dots. Viennese secessionism is the subsequent art style, in which a completely new form of art was sought to be created. Their goal was to create a style that would have no historical influence. Another art style I learned about was symbolism. Symbolism tried to make art not realistic but colors and shapes that have deeper meaning. Symbolism also had been used in poetry and was said to evoke, rather than describe.
Mark Gibbons
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On this blog, I am going to talk about The Tales of Hoffman. Rob did a really good job at explaining the play. The opera is based on a play by the writers Jules Barbier, who wrote the opera's libretto, and Michel Carre. Offenbach's drama follows the same scheme, placing the title character into three, fanciful stories of failed love. The result is one of the best plays of the 19th-century French operas. It achieved a combination of emotion and music. The Tales of Hoffmann was scheduled for a premiere at a Paris theater called the Gaite-Lyrique — during its 1877-78 season. Offenbach died in 1880, while the production was still in rehearsal, leaving the score incomplete. Over the years, all the way to the 1980s, scholars continued to find manuscripts for the opera that were left behind, and many different versions of the score have been assembled. Despite all the different versions, The Tales of Hoffmann has long been one of the most popular operas in the standard repertory.
Alex Rees
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What I learned from art history part 2 is that there are obviously more art topics that we still haven't studied. They are more present day art themes but they are still very interesting. Some names that we talked about in class like Joan Miro were familiar due to studying spanish art. But these are more present day artist and themes. I'm excited to have this new art history project and I think it will shed more light on more present day art that we may not even notice that is around us every day that we might stop and appreciate more often.
Grace Nelson
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I am going to talk about what I learned in Art History Part II. I find Art History part two most interesting than part on because the periods are more current and modern which I find to be cooler. I had very little prior knowledge when going into part one except for that I knew a little about Renaissance. I know more about the periods involved in part two. I had learned about pointillism, like you said there is a famous piece in Chicago. It was featured in the film Ferris Bueler's Day Off and it looked like little smudged dots as they got closer to it and it looked more realistic as they stood further back. I have also learned about photo realism in my previous art class. I did a project on Chuck Close, I find him really interesting because first he's from Monroe and also I think it's amazing how his portraits look like photograph's. He got in an accident and lost some feeling in his hands so he had to learn a new way to paint realistically which I think is pretty cool. Also I forget the name of art that isn't considered art to some people but I remember learning about this gal that would sit in a chair in a museum and have people sit across from her for as long as they wanted and she called it art because they would have different emotional reactions. My art topic is futurism, I don't know too much about it but it sounds very interesting and modern so I'm excited to start researching!
Jessica Bruce
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Art History Part 2. I think that the biggest thing I have learned is that unlike the later art history periods, contemporary art periods tend to blend together with many artists painting in several styles. It all started with Impressionism which focused on capturing the an image in one specific moment. Then came Post-Impressionism grew out of opposition to impressionism. Neo-impressionism was mostly concerned with light and color. Art Nouveau is characterized by more geometric shapes. Symbolism was all about discretion and not making meanings blatantly known but instead symbolizing them. Fauvism was about vivid and unnatural colors. It originally was highly criticized. Cubism is usually represented by an artist who attempts to show all angles of an object through geometric patterns. Futurism tried to capture the illusion of movement especially in statues. Expressionism is when an artist lets his work reflect his feelings on the subject. Like the painter who didn't like women and always painted them looking really terrible. Surrealism was a fascination with the irrational. minimal art is all about taking something that isn't art and making it into a simple art piece. For example a bike wheel attached to a stool.
Abbey Folsom
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I really enjoyed your presentation on Art History 2. I think the most important overall thing I learned was that this was the time when artists of all kinds would bounce around between the syles. My favorite art syles would be Impressionism and cubism. Impressionist artists paint small but visible brush strokes and depict accurate lighting and the perception of movement. The main artists of the Impressionism syle is probably Monet and Van Gogh. A big part of Impressionism is the syle of pointillism. This is when an artist paints small dots of pure color that when you look at it from a far your eyes make it a picture. Some of the most famous paintings from pointillism is Van Gogh's self protrait and Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.Cubism is when an artist splits up a 3-D object and does different viewpoints of that object with shading. Pablo Picasso is the artist that people think of when thinking of cubism. Usually cubism paintings are considered to be abstract with the different viewpoints of the painting.
Sean Rankin
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Ill write about Rob visiting us and sharing his knowledge on The Tales of Hoffmann. Firstly I thought it was nice of him to come down and explain the Opera to us. I think he did a much better job than the last two times he came in. We learned that the Tales of Hoffman Opera is based off three short stories that we read in class. These stories were Written by ETA Hoffmann and Jacques Offenbach produced them into the opera. Rob went on to tell us that Offenbach died while writing the final act. Hoffmann is the main character in the opera. He falls in love with three women based off the stories that we read. The three are Olympia, Antonia, and Giuletta ( or something dont remember how to spell it). It ends up not working out with these people and he says he will never love again.
Jace Brandmeier
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So for the art history presentation, I learned a lot. I never realized that there were so many different art styles crammed into such a small period of time. The only art styles I had learned about before were the ones around the Italian renaissance time. Those ones all lasted for a long period of time. But the more recent art styles have all only lasted for a short period of time. Which I think is kind of cool, because it keeps things interesting. There is a lot more creativity when the styles constantly change. Another thing I learned was that there are art styles that are greatly influenced by political events. That purely reflects political situations and people. I also learned that there are styles that you just have be the first to do it. If you’re the first then you will be famous for it. Even though anyone could do that today, if you did it, it would be worth nothing. For example the Bicycle wheel by Marcel Duchamp. It looks like a simple idea but he was the first to do it. So you just have to be creative, to become famous or start an entirely new style of art.
Sophea Thach
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What I learned from Schindler about Art History II is that there are three different types of Impressionism. For one there is just regular Impressionism. Then there is post-Impressionism. The third is Neo-impressionism. Some of the ones I loved hearing and looking at were of abstract art, pop art, and photography. I really like anything that has more to it than something plain-ish. I learned that there are more art history that we haven't even talked about from art history part 1. Some that I haven't even heard of are Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, etc. It was interesting hearing about these new ones that we didn't learn about from part one of art history. I remember Schindler telling us about the man who just took a toilet and used it as art, like a sculpture. And it was worth A LOT and I found that super interesting.
Austin Stenberg
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I will be writing about what I learned in Art History Part II. Some parts are more relatable and modern which I find easier to understand because it is more modern. There were a few names that I recognized from other classes like Joan Miro from my Spanish history class. Also my personal favorite was the Neo-impressionism, since the style was pretty much all dots, it caught my attention because it was so simple yet confusing. From a distance the dots look like a picture but up close they are nothing but a munch of randomly sized dots that don’t look like anything. Symbolism also tried to make not realistic colors but shapes. It was also used in poems, not being used to describe anything.
Joey Keating
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This week we learned a lot about the other art history project topics that we will cover. To me, there is a lot of very fun and interesting topics that we have yet to cover. One being neo-impressionism. This was a very interesting topic that I wished I had chosen earlier. This topic is chalk full of a bunch of interesting and fascinating art pieces that caught my eye multiple times. One of the most interesting things that I noticed about the art was that is was created by a bunch of small painting dots that in the end created a large painting. Also their was so much detail in the paintings. Also after seeing these different art pieces I feel like I have seen this style of art many times before in museums and other schools. Although I will not be studying this topic, I look forward to seeing and hearing more about this very interesting topic. I also was very interested that most of these art styles went in intervals and that they all were a little bit different. Lastly the whole entire power point was very interesting and I was glad to see all of the other art history topics.
Katie Daniels
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Rob's visit to the classroom this week was one of my favorites. Before he would mainly just talk about what to expect in a preformance, however this visit he went more into the history of it, and different styles of the preformance. I never would have expected so many different forms of art going on in such a small window of time. I also was interested in ther fact that artists did not always have one style, and they often bounced around with the kind of art and techniques they used in their work. I would say Impressionism was the art style i was most interested to learn about. I like the techniques the artists use for it, and the looks of pointillism. Pointillism is a technique of small dots of paint being used is odd forms of color, creating art if looked at from a distance. An example of this technique would be the painting Sunday Afternoon, as well as Van Gough's self portrait. Futurism was a new type of art that i had personally never heard of, and adding onto that i had heard of cubism, but not the interesting techniques used behind it. Bottom line, Rob's visit was a great experience, and i definitely gained a lot of knowledge on the art.
Evyn Anderson
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The second art history presentation was very informative and interesting for a number of reasons. First of all, I thought that the second presentation of art history was more interesting than the first one. I just appreciate modern art more than the styles covered in the first presentation. I found it fascinating that the more modern styles of art were all connected in a way and had something to do with one another. The older styles had this feature to a degree, but you could really see it in the modern styles. A few of the styles I found most interesting were Futurism, Pop art, and Minimal art. I think Futurism is so unique because of the different lines that are used and how the style flows in things such as sculptures. In paintings the style is equally as thought provoking because of how chaotic yet impressive they are. Pop art is one of my favorite styles because of how it looks like a comic book. I also like it because of the use of colors, and because Andy Warhol is a favorite artist of mine. Minimal art is interesting because of how basic it is yet how deeply it is considered. Normally a block of wood wouldn’t mean too much to anyone, but when you put a meaning behind it suddenly it is the deepest thing in the world. I just find that cool how artists are able to do that.
Michael Stiles
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I will write about Mr Schindler's presentation of art history II. I really like how with art history number 2 we learn about more modern art that is of just in the last hundred years leading up to today. I didn't really like that last art history project mainly because I wasn't interested in learning about art from the greek and roman era. With the modern art period everything is easy to comprehend and much of today art has some collaboration of concepts of previous periods. My favorite period of modern art would have to be installation art. My favorite piece being the "Tunnel House" by Dave Havel and Dean Ruck. I like the artist uses three dimension objects and incorporates it into space such as a side walk or an exhibit in a art gallery and transforms the area into something like no other.
Mimi Gerhardt, Period 4
ReplyDeleteI really learned a lot during your presentation about Art History II. A lot of it was very insightful and surprised me! For instance, I never realized that Pablo Picasso did several different painting styles. I assumed he just did his odd abstract paintings. In fact, a lot of artists throughout that large time period jumped around and played with different artistic techniques. My absolute favorite art style from the powerpoint you showed was definitely superrealism. I've seen many different drawings of celebrities that looked exactly like the picture, but I never exactly realized that that was an actual style. It's absolutely incredible; I could look at superrealistic drawings and paintings forever. Alternatively, I never could fully understand the minimalist sculptures. The "anti-art" is pointless, and frankly, incredibly stupid! I believe art should be something that someone can only create once, but if you're just taking a urinal and turning it, you're just making profit out of something anyone could do.
Spencer Read
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I’m going to write about Art History II. My favorite period in particular was neo-impressionalism. It was by far the most interesting Period to me, personally. The artistic movement was origionally was initiated by Georges Seurat. All of the pictures have urban type scenes and landscapes, and were very far from abstract. The way it seemed, was that the original paintings would have very defined and organized lines, so they looked so much more real. They were super particular about the study of how colors should look and match up with one another. At first, most people didn’t support it. However, after a while, it began to gain speed when the style began to become viral. In the end, the movement ended when George Seurat died. Though, people continued neoimpressionalism. Often, it was political types of art. It was a fascinating, controversial period.
Taylor Ingrum
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One style of art that really stood out to me was Social Realism. Social Realism refers to the paintings, photographs and films who draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working classes and the poor. Much of this art is critical to the social structures within these classes. Social realism dates back to the 19th century European realism. Many of the pieces made caused social unrest because of working conditions. For example, the British Industrial Revolution had many critical pieces done that showed urban poor. Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" also shows the common lifestyle of a poor mother and her child. Art like this had not really been made before the social realism period. I think this is so cool because it not only shows real life people in real life situations, but it also causes social unrest and awareness. I think that the fact that art can have such a big impact on society is so cool and so powerful!
Ashley Barnett
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I’m going to write about the Tales of Hoffman. I was gone this last week and missed the art history presentation. I also missed Rob’s presentation on the tales of Hoffman but I’m still excited to see it. I’m hoping this will be the most interesting opera for the year. I think it will be interesting because it seems to have the most interesting story line. I think it will be very engaging ad funny. I really liked it when we read it in class so I think it will be a good show. Also how it was described in class to me with the set up makes it sound like it will be very fun to watch. I’m really looking forward to this show. I’m also excited to see it because it will be like a surprise for me because I didn’t get to hear Rob talk about it. I’m also excited for the art history two project. I can’t wait to see what time period I get. I’m also excited to see other people’s projects.
John Ross
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i am writing about the different styles of art. one big contrast from modern art from what we learned last semsester is that modern art is more abstract. modern art can be about anything. fruit people places and so one. you have more of a range and variety to choose from. that is why i like modern art more. i can relate to it. i am also excited for our projects because i am doing abstract art. abstacrt art can be anything you want it to be. everyone can have their own opinion on one particular piece of art. and that is what art should be about, opinion and discussion. this is why i am so excited to start on art history II
Noah Manns-Taylor
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I am going to write about what I learned from the Art History Project powerpoint in class. I learned that there were a lot more artistic styles than I had originally thought. I don't remember what topic I got for my project but I am excited to learn about my topic and present it to the class. Last time I did the art history project I did it on Neoclassicism and learned a lot from my own project. I enjoy learning about art like this and learning about artistic styles and how they influenced the world and how they're used in todays architecture and how they influenced modern art.
Chris Root
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This week I am going to talk about what i have learned about the art history project. I was surprised to see that there were many different types of art in our modern times than I thought. If i had to pick a favorite it would be abstract art. I learned that abstract art can be a painting or sculpture. It does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world, even in an extremely distorted or exaggerated way. The subject of the work is based on what you see such as color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, and scale. I am excited to do my research on the topic because it is interesting. I've never been to an actual art museum to look at abstract art, but I've seen examples of it and it really catches my eye. Other topics that really interested me were social realism, neo-impressionalism, superrealism, post impressionalism, and many others. I am excited to learn about my topic and the many others being presented.
Campbell Gunnell
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so i'm gonna try and talk about what i learned from tales of hoffmann so shindler bear with me i know you don't agree with me but it is my opinion. i honestly thought those were some of the worst stories/plays that i have ever read. i could see how they may make an interesting performance because of the fanatical aspects of all the characters. i'm sure with the right set and costume designers it would even hold ones attention for awhile, however i thought the general story line was terrible. it lacked any sort of plot and i lost interest super fast. the play may be good but i hated the reading, sorry.
I am going to write about a few things I learned from your Art History Part 2 Presentation. First of all I had no idea there were so many movements of art in just the 1900s! The Pointillism artwork caught my attention because I had previously learned about it in Sophomore Year Art with Goff. I remembered thinking how long it would take just to create one piece of artwork. Its interesting and amazing how the color is conveyed from several little dots of color. Also how this artwork relates to how tv's and computer screens project its color and image. Another thing that surprised me was how some pieces of art were actually called artwork. For an example, the dust artwork was literally just a collection of dust with a design in it. The picture of this is sold for millions of dollars. It seems like something to easy to create, and almost too simple for the amount of money its worth. Its amazing how anything anyone creates can convey a unique piece of artwork worth a lot of money. I liked seeing some pictures of Surrealism, I am doing that topic for my project so it was nice to see an overview of it. I like how dreamy and fantasy like all the artwork is. It's probably one of my favorite art movements because of it's dream-like qualities. I am looking forward to learning more about it when I do my project.
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Yesterday Rob came to talk about The Tales of Hoffmann. It was very interesting and taught me that there is a lot more that goes into these stories than I thought. He explained how the music is chosen for the stories. Each story had a very deep meaning behind it and he kind of broke down how to interpret some of the things said in the stories. I thought that some of the toys that they use to make were very creepy but cool at the same time. I didn't know that toys were that complex back then. In some ways they are even more complex than the ones we have today. I also learned about what the music from the stories are saying. Some of it didnt make sense to me but he helped to explain that. I also thought it was interesting finding out how the author of those stories saw grown-ups when he was a kid and how that was similar to the author of the book Where The Wild Thing Are. All together i thought he had a great presentation and enjoyed learning some new things about The Tales of Hoffmann.