Final Video Review

An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned
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Giotto was one of the first artists during what would become the Renaissance. Roman artists loved nature and beauty and liked to make very realistic art. After barbarians sacked Rome, the tradition of art was carried on by the Byzantine empire, but they stuck strictly to religious art. Giotto brought back the use of perspective in architecture to give a 2-d painting a 3-d appearance. Uccello did the same thing with people and animals. Masaccio brought back intensity and drama into painting.

2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Criticism project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

It helped give some perspective into the beginnings of the Renaissance.

3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to understanding of art criticism?

The acting was pretty silly, but keeping it lighthearted kept me interested longer than a boring interview.

Greenberg on Art Criticism: An Interview by T. J. Clark

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Staying open and receptive is important; art must be good; all of the best art of the previous 50 years was abstract art and that’s not Greenberg wanted.

2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Criticism project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

Yes, the way he kept saying that all he wanted was for art to be good and to be open and receptive when criticizing art. I appreciated how he admitted to past mistakes and was open about why he said what he said in the past. 

3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to understanding of art criticism?

I enjoyed Greenberg’s candor and his friendliness throughout the video. If I were asked to picture an art critic, I would guess much more conservative and very bristly, without a smile on his face. Greenberg was the complete opposite and I enjoyed it very much. It did add a lot of depth to my understanding of art criticism, but I didn’t understand a lot of what he meant.