Blog video discussions

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

Through the eyes of the Sculpture

Carving shop that involved a warehouse built out of stone. Under the streets where the Artist live are tunnels made of limestone miles and miles long.

• Every stone has a unique smell
• Machines cuts blocks of stone out of the underground warehouse, once the stones are cut into smaller pieces the stones can be taken out and worked with.
• The stones are heavier when coming out of the warehouse because the stones start off wet
• The stone can be cut as easy as wood with the right tools. In the video the warehouse workers used large saw machines to slice and dice the stones into desired size
• Mountains have been a great natural resource for marble for thousands of years, and marble is the product of limestone. It's baked and squeezed and crushed together when tectonic plates collided 50 million years ago (Interesting fact)

Glass and Ceramic 

• Glass is everywhere. It's made form sand which is abundant resource of the earth.
• Glass in not a true solid, it's a form of liquid (Interesting fact)
• Ceramic and glass are some of the oldest man-made materials.
• Before artist mastered glass artwork, they first mastered ceramics
• Ceramic is also made from fire, but not with silica like glass
• Ceramic is a rock (Interesting fact)
• There are many different grades to ceramic. Depending on the quality raw materials used and the temperature it was made in.
• Ceramic made in a temp of 1400 degrees will result in fine china and Ceramic made in a temp of 1100 degrees is made for bricks or floor tile (interesting fact)

     

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The videos relates to the readings by giving real life art examples of the the topics discussed in chapters 11 and 12. In the Through the eyes of the Sculpture video many "In the round" sculptures where shown. The topic human figure in sculptures were shown throughout the entire video which is very popular. Each artist in the video showed carving artwork that was done by using a number of different tools. In Glass and Ceramic video the narrator discusses how glass is formed and made and techniques of stain glass windows. Chapter 12 also discusses how glass is made and the uniqueness of stained glass windows.

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?

I actually enjoyed both videos, both had interesting facts that I didn't know and that the book didn't discuss. The videos added depth by discussing more of how the materials are produced and how the artist produce their work.. such as the techniques they used and specific materials they used for their crafts.