video review

Greenberg on Art Criticism: An Interview by T. J. Clark
This video was basically Greenberg speaking about all types of topics. He talked about art criticism and how it is harder to write about art than literature and music because art is mostly abstract now days. He spoke about other art critics such as Ruskin and Degaro. He also spoke about his own writing and the things he liked to write about back in the 1940s. I think this video may be related to our art criticism project depending on the project we pick to critque. This video talked a lot about modern and abstract art.

Greenburg on Pollock
This video was similar to the first video because it was an interview with Greenburg. Instead of discussing art critics, he discussed Jackson Pollock. The first half of the video is bascially about Pollock and easel painting. Pollock didnt want to consider himself an easel painter. He wanted to transition to mural painting, but Greenburg stated he did easel painting til the end. The second half was about his technique and what worked and didnt work. Also about his realization that his work was never considered a painting. This  i dont think really pertained to the project very much because we are not going to be criticizing the life of the curator, just one project.

Introduction to Italian Renaissance
This video was about the Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. It was the basis of art criticism since the 16th century. Vasari and his apprentice discuss the different artists, from Giotto, Botticelli, daVinci, Donatello, and how they learned from the people before them. This was written about the Italian REnaissance and they discuss in the video about how they used Italian influences in their work. I think this is related to the project because it is a art critics piece so we can see what an art critic really does first hand.

The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages
This video is basically the likes and dislikes of art critics. It goes through what art critics really do and is opoinions from both sides, the artists and the critics. Critics believe they keep artists on their toes and may give them the break they are looking for but artists believe show they negative aopinions toward them. The video goes in depth about art criticism as an art, its social value, and how reknowned critcs got to be where they are. I think this helpw ith the project because it puts us in the mind set of becoming a critic for the project.

The Colonial Encounter: Views of Non-Western Art and Culture
The title basically explains this video good. It talks about the world fair and how it showed its nationalistic feelings. When it was held in France, half of it was French art. It then goes into colonialism and how it is justified because of the violent tendencies of the african.The video also spent a lot of time on Dahome and art vs. material culture. I didnt really see how this tied into our project because although it was criticising the world fair, it wasnt doing much else related to the project in my opinion.

Jackson Pollock: Michael Fried and T. J. Clark in Conversation
This was a video about the discussion had between T.J Clark and Michael Fried about two of Pollock's works, Autumn Rhythm and Lavendar Mist. They tried to find common ground. Clark believes Pollock was more abstract whilfe Fried believes he was focused on pictoral elements. I thought this one was interesting to watch because it was almost like a debate. It also shows contructive criticism from two people. This helps to show that for the project that criticism is not right or wrong its the way you go about it and it can be different for everyone.