Film 21: Exit through the Gift Shop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alSYMvObQgs&feature=plcp

Question for open discussion: Why was Tierry's obsession video recording everything he saw? What was your input on the video itself?

Film 20: The Universe of Keith Haring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5mBcPzg6zs&feature=plcp

Question for open discussion: Do you think the people in the two videos have the same common interests with the two different artists? And what makes the two artists almost the same or different?

Film 19: "The Radiant Child" (Bisquiat)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUGG6RQzTAc&feature=plcp
Question for open discussion: What did you like about "The Radiant Child"?

Film 18: Painters Painting

Q1.  What were the one thing the painter’s paintings did well? They created a national art; American painters took hold of abstract and made high art out of it.

Q2.  What was Jackson Pollock’s point of view on paintings?
He felt that it was time to leave the era of the small paintings on an easel, to painting large paintings on a wall size picture.

Q3.  What was the purpose of the painter’s paintings?Not only did they create a national art, but they took America’s art and turned them into paintings. They made painters see that abstract painting is all around them.  It was done because they wanted us to see the art around us. The simplest things in life can be art, from a simple butterfly floating around flowers, to a tall skyscraper building with different colors on it. The city of Chicago itself is like art, all the different styles and heights of the building and how they light up at night is what gives Chicago its uniqueness.

Question for open discussion: What are your thoughts and views on today’s art? Do you feel people are more open to contemporary art or abstract paintings?