The two videos I chose to watch were "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" and "Dada and Surrealism." I Chose them because they were both mentioned in topics I found interesting while doing the readings. "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" was a part of the post-impressionism movement and the other video included the word Dada in the title which I was intrigued by because those artists were pretty much anti everything!
Like the video, the text did not give me the impression that Seurat's painting was so controversal. It was nice to see and hear the reaction of real people towards the painting. They also shared some of their interpretations of the painting which made me think of ideas I did not think of before. They also gave alot of insight into the background of the artist. I never would have thought the woman fishing could be a prostitute in disguise or that the monkey suggesting there may be some "monkey business afoot."It was interesting to discover that he lived just two streets away from his mother with his lover and son, yet kept their existance a secret. He did a lot of landscapes with common subjects like fishermen. Seurat went through such a process to create this painting, even going to the park to paint an image of the background without any subjects in it. The video tells us that it took him a total of 10 months to complete this work.
In the second video about Dada and Surrealism it was nice to learn of some of the other artists involved in these movements as well as examples of their works. This too served as a nice suppliment to what we read in the textbook. The first artist mentioned, Schwitters was categorized as a dadaist yet considered himslef to be the opposite of that. But the video gives examples and explanations of his works that show how he would be considered a dadaist.
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