Review(s): DVD Chuck Close - A Portrait in Progress
a bit slow-paced for my high school students
I bought this video because I wanted my high school students to gain some inspiration and motivation before we embarked on our own self-portraits using the grid method. I read other reviews that claimed the video had students engaged from start to finish. Well, something must be wrong with my students because I showed it in two different periods and in both classes I had more than half the students falling asleep or putting their heads down!! Those that paid attention stayed awake by doodling or doing homework. Maybe it was my fault by not assigning notes or a worksheet on the video but I wanted my students to just relax and watch some good art in the process. They relaxed, alright! I enjoyed watching the video but I found the sound to be distracting because you hear so much of the background that I had to strain to listen to the dialogue. The video is also a bit slow-paced but that may be due to how we are conditioned by today's media that uses snippets of video and audio in a fast-paced editing format (and our decreasing attention-span).
fantastic
amazing to see chuck's work in progress. anyone would be facinated watching this man's dedication to his medium. Until you see it, ya can't believe it.
A Rare View into the Life of a Modern Artist
As a high school art teacher, I really appreciate a well-made, engaging art video. This is one that kept my students' attention from beginning to end. One of the best things about this video is that the viewer gets to see Chuck Close in his studio painting and talking about art-making. He is shown working on one of his huge self-portraits from its beginning, when he chooses the large-scale photo reference and lays out a grid on a canvas, through the painting's completion. What a great opportunity to see inside the life of one of our most talented and admired modern artists! I highly recommend this video.
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Being a visual person and a compulsive art maker, DVDs and Videos of artists working (as well as the paths of experience and experimentation that educated the work)are my very favorite way of collecting knowledge and inspiration. This is the best of the current artist profiles I have ever seen. The personality of the artist really seems to have instructed the atmosphere and pace of the film. The scenes of he and his assistant transfering his vegie dye photo enlargements made my mouth water with tint and image. BRAVO More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert Rauschenberg - Sean Barrett DVD Release Date: Released the 22 May 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Jasper Johns made history when his painting "White Flag" sold for $7 million in 1988. The next day he broke his own record when a second painting sold for $17 million. But this 56-minute 1989 PBS documentary makes it clear that Johns's work is not about commerce; it's about the expression of his brand of intellectualism. A series of art critics (including one who despises Johns's brand of pop art), curators, and good friends (choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage) mull over the beginnings of his career and his place in the art world. Johns himself speaks at length about his influences and his method against the backdrop of footage showing him at work in various media: etching, lithography, and painting. Little personal information is included; a cousin reminisces briefly... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Rick Tejada-Flores DVD Release Date: Released the 30 January 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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