Video Review

I chose the Dance at the Moulin de la Galette because it was about Paris and Dada movement was interesting reading in the book.

Dance at the Moulin de la Galette – most joyful painting of Paris, it transport the viewer back to Paris.  It sold at an auction for a record price.   It depicts a sunny Sunday afternoon at a dance hall and windmills.   It represented two worlds: bohemian and fashionable men and lower class women.  People socialized in classless harmony.  Other artist Federico Zandomeneghi, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, and Van Gogh painted the dance hall differently depict sinister, somber and dark versions.  Rod Stewart’s used the painting on the cover of his 1976 album cover.

Dada and Surrealism – Dada movement was born as a reaction to WWI.  Most of the paintings in the video were in the text book.  Hannah Hoch used art to attach the society she detests and attacks the political figures of the Weimar regime.  Joan Miro paints only the abstract structures of its composition.  Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter, and probed the darkest regions of the human subconscious. 

The videos related to the chapters and discussed the Dada and Surrealism movements.  The videos were interesting to watch and see the detailed sculptures and the people associated with these cultures and religions.