Week 9 Video Review

 

Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” was a painting with large scale and a big achievement of a painting with much movement, and that is why I chose this video.  Rembrandt captures a moment in time here, and this given moment is the troops are getting orders to start marching.  There is no stationary element in this painting, shadows are cast, and three dimensions are achieved.  I learned that if this picture was not captured at this very moment in time, the impact would not be the same.  It would have changed everything.

In the video “Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance,” I learned that the more educated, the more intricate work and the more worthy of its praise.  Leonardo first became a master of perspective, and also mastered proportions of man and animals.  I also learned if you take different parts from more than one other various real creatures, it can make an imaginary creature look real and believable. 

“La Primavera.”  I learned that egg tempura was used in this painting.  Even though it was an older medium, and oil paints were more current, it was used to give an illusion like translucence appearance.  Flesh tones are made very realistic with this paint and detail is apparent and realistic.  I chose this video because tempera is a medium I enjoy using, and I like the vibrancy of the colors with this paint.

“The Power of Art: Caravaggio,” was a video on a Roman painter named Caravaggio.  I picked this video, because I was curious to find out who this person was, and what did he do?  I learned Caravaggio never learned to draw in his life, he just learned how to paint.  Most artists studied the human body and structure.  Not Caravaggio, he eyeballed his subjects and applied them to the canvas.  He objected to the standards of artistry and their concepts, painting in the style and steps he felt right.  He replicated the lives subjects exactly and one feels like the characters in the painting could come to life at any time.   Caravaggio’s replication of flesh tones made his paintings believable and so realistic.

I thoroughly enjoyed this week's videos, as they discuss some of the same key concepts, but also shed more light on the text with more in depth discussion.  It was more descriptive and thorough on the backgrounds and history of the artists and their works.