Week 15: Video Review

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

Greenberg thinks writing about visual art is tougher than writing about literature or music. Visual art doesn't have a score like music does. He says he that several times he let his preferences come out, but he accepted what was good. He said you need to keep an open mind. He states how he is not fond of abstract art, but that he kept an open mind when looking at it. He explains how abstract did well.

This video helps with the project because even if you necessarily don't favor a piece of art, keeping an open mind is always the best choice. That was something that I definitely had to work around when finding pieces to add to my project because researching what to put in it was hard and at times I found pieces that I didn't like, but I added them for the overall project. I kept an open mind while critiquing them.

The video was alright, it did give me insight, but it was hard to follow along with. The two kept talking over one another.

The Colonial Encounter: Views of Non-Western Art and Culture:

The 1900 Paris World Fair was the largest fair in history and it exposed nationalism. The image of the colonies of the late 19th century and early 20th was not coherent or consistent. The people of France did not favor the exhibit of the Dahomian people. They didn't favor the structures. The images displayed in the fair showed the Dahomian people in scenes of violence and gore. The people of France saved the Dohamian people from themselves. They saw the Dohamian people as a threat to themselves and to others.

This video does correlate to the project, I think, because even though the people of France didn't like what they saw in the images of the Dohamian people, they still chose to rise up and save those people from themselves. The people of France thought the Dohamian people were barbaric and dangerous. Even if you don't like a piece of art, you can still choose to incorporate it to show others and keep an open mind.