Module 9 Videos

1. The first video I chose was Albrecht Durer: Image of a Master. The second video I chose was Velazquez. I chose the first video because he was in our reading from last week and I wanted to be further educated in his work. I chose the second video because I have heard of Velazquez before from an art history I took back in high school. I enjoyed his works of art and I thought it would be interesting to learn more 2. The first video explained to us who Albrecht Durer was. He was a traveling craftsman and sold his work. He traveled to Italy and he became intrigued by landscape. He became known as the first true landscape artist in Europe. He was also known for producing excellent portraits of either himself or others. The second video explained to us who Velazquez. He was from Spain, and became a court room painter for King Phillip IIII. He was seen as noble by the king. In Italy, Velazquez studied Italian artists such as Raphael. He copied many of the well-known Italian artists art. He was never in a hurry for painting. Unlike most artists that work continuously on a piece of work, Velazquez would work on a piece, stop and take a break then come back to the painting a few days later. 3.The first video relates to the text because we are shown his famous works of art shown in a church. This also relates to the Baroque style of art. Baroque art is often bright colors and seen in churches and resembles a story being told as if to an audience. A perfect example of this is his painting “The virgin and Child”. The second video relates to the reading because of the time era Velazquez is born into. It seems to relate to the high Renaissance. He also seems to paint in Rocco era style A great deal of his paintings that we were shown I the video tend to be that of pastel color. He did not use bright colors in his paintings, and most of his paintings were hung in houses of kings. He also has very little interest in color. Most of his paintings were seen to have just plain and simple colors. 4.I believe the films give us a great visual to what the book has been teaching us. They put what we learn into great perspective. It was interesting how both of the videos talked about woodcut because we learned about woodcut earlier in this semester.