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Week 5 and Week 6 Discussion Art 21 Videos_Art Orientation

Week 5 and Week 6 Discussion Art 21 Videos_Art Orientation

Q • Go to the ART21 website (http://www.pbs.org/art21/home/ (Links to an external site.)) • Pick any episode from seasons 1-9 and watch one of the sections on an artist. There are usually 4 or 5 artists discussed in each episode. I only ask that you watch a section about one of the artists since each episode is almost an hour long. • Write up a summary of the video and include the following: 1. A brief description of what the video was about 2. Your thoughts on the artist(s): what you appreciated about their art and what you were less impressed by 3. What sort of questions about art, art-making and the art world in general did the video bring to your mind? 4. A picture of a work of art related to the video you saw--and explain how the image relates to what was seen in the video

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The 21st-century art brought with it a new wave and meaning to what already existed as an understanding of art, and this created a further dimension to the perspectives that it had to offer. I chose to watch and discuss Season 1 Episode: “Spirituality” from the ART 21 archive which focuses on the works of Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, Shahzia Sikander, and James Turrell. The main focus of the latest works of art and in particular these four artists is that they experiment with the different meanings that the everyday stories,