This video really helped me understand what people mean when they say "modern art". Modern art is all about beauty, but not the beauty that we are used to, this is a more challenging kind of beauty; a beauty that we have to look for. In this episode of modern art they showed an artist named Henri Matisse, he is considered a modern artist, not only because his pictures are some of the most elegant, but because they are truly beautiful and delicate. Quite the opposite of artist Chris Ofili, which often likes to challenge the eye of the viewer by presenting a more distorted kind of beauty. This video also showed an artist named Jules Olitski, I personally, had never heard of him. He ended up being my favorite artist out of all the artist they presented. He was a master of the formalism movement, and was considered at one point the "greatest painter alive". He truly appreciates the beauty that nature offers, which has allowed him to paint mind-blowing landscapes. They also talked about Elizabeth Peyton, she mainly paints famous people. To me she is a modern artist, because of the way she portrayed celebrities. Her paintings tend to have some sort of delicate, "angelic and feminine" kind of beauty.
Questions:
1.Why would Elizabeth Peyton paint "angelic, feminine" beauty?
2.Why Jean Michel Basquiat wouldn't talk much during interviews?
3. Why would Chris Ofili challenge the idea of what "beautiful" is?
4.Why would Elizabeth Peyton only paint celebrities?
5. How have these artist define the term "modern art"?
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