Module 6

In the sculpture video, I learned that there is an amazing connection between the sculpture and the raw material he/she is going to work with. there is also a lot more planning involved that I would think. I thought the same thing on a previous chapters video regarding painting.

The second video was about glass and ceramics. I have learned a lot about glass before, as I have visited the Corning museum of glass several times in my life. They have a lot of demonstrations there and it has always been an interesting topic to me. One thing I did not know was that different temperatures make the glass react differently and that this is used in the creation of glass items.

Installation art work is a idea that was new to me. I have seen things that qualify as installation art, like a sound room at the art gallery on campus, but I have never seen it in so many forms. I found it interesting that artists work with so many new mediums to create their work. Video installations are particularly interesting to me, like the picture in the text with the Buddha watching a video of himself.

I always find the videos more helpful than the text. Not only is the text very technical, but the example pictures of art it shows often don't have a lot of descriptions. Experts in the field describing works in videos is not only more informative for me, but a lot more entertaining.

While the videos on glass and sculpture certainly added more depth than the reading, at least for me, my favorite video was the installation art video. I found the subject matter fascinating and the variety of methods it depicts and displays is astonishing.