I choose these two videos because they seemed the most interesting to me. The 50's and 60's have always been a time that I was very interested in and wanted to learn more about. The second video I didn't know that much about so wanted to see if something in the video sparked more of an interest for me.

Uncertainty: Modernity and Art
- Modern art is contemporary society's version of the Delphic Oracles. Art has its own memory of itself, its own psychic strata. Modern art documents the metamorphosis of mankind.
-Modern art is a complete break from art of the past that was inspirational, idealized
-Modern Art is a tradition that revs up in the late 19th century. It takes off in the early 20th century. Modern Art keeps responding to modern life
-In abstract art, surface appearances, the look of the world, is left behind. Abstract artists present an experiment, one in which the viewer participates. Abstract art asks questions, and it provides no answers.

Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s
-Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character
-In the 1960s Andy Warhol is pop art's most famous son. This is never a very clear movement but is the first 20th Century art movement since Futurism
-Both Warhol and Rauschenber become art icons of the 60s by paving the way for pop artists in their use of everyday objects


I really enjoyed the videos about Andy Warhol because I have been learning about him since middle school. The videos bring to life what the text cant. You are able to visualize and understand there points more because you are actually looking and seeing what is happening with the art and how it can evolve. I usually always enjoy the videos because they go more in depth with the topic and lets one visualize rather than imagine.