Project 4-Emulation

While creating my video emulation, I wanted to make it personal, but also something fun. Figured if I didn't know what I was doing, might as well make something that would one way or another make me smile. The artist I chose to emulate was William Wegman, with an excerpt from the video, Selected Works (excerpt). This "Two Dogs One Ball" excerpt from this video caught my attention because honestly, it involved dogs, and I have an obsession with my dog. ,I enjoyed that my one dog, being compared to Wegman's two dogs, was really humorous to me. The fact that the two dogs were different in every way intrigued me, and made me smile. The choice to add audio, while the original had no sound, was simply because I thought it was a requirement. If I thought I could have left out the audio, I would have. I chose to make the video black and white, since the original was black and white, and filmed where I could find a simple background, as the video as well. I also used a ball to catch the pug's attention, as Wegman did in his video with his dogs.

(The second video posted is not Selected Works, but it is the part of Selected Works that I chose.)

Artist Emulate Change-Project 4

Instead of Yoko Ono's piece, I have changed my artist to William Wegman. The video I chose to emulate of his, isSelected Works (excerpt). In this video, there is a piece from his Two Dogs and one Ball. I chose this piece because I have a dog, and honestly, there is nothing more that would bring me more joy than doing a project like this with my big eyed pug. I enjoy the comparison between my short and chubby single dog with a small snout, with Wegman's two giant, fit dogs with quite the large snout.

Reading 2

1- Since video artists had some rather graphic art, and art that, for the time, was very different, how did society react to this new form of art? Did they find it intriguing, or at the bottom of the totem pole when it came to the quality of the art? Did they find it avant-gard, or not interesting?

2- It seems as though video art sprang up around the same time as Pop Art. I know that Pop Art was meant to be seen by the mass media. Since video art was new, did the artists want to make it seen by most of society as well? If so, did they try to take advantage of most Americans have televisions at home, and try to get it into the television media, so it could be seen by a wider audience?

Project 4-Artist to Emulate

The artist I chose to emulate was Yoko Ono, through his film, Yoko Ono - Eye Blink (1966). I was intrigued by how he created subliminal messages, that travel through the eye, that was as quick as a blink, and incorporated the eye itself. He took a simple part of the human body, and made that the main focus of the video. It made you think of why he chose the concepts of the human eye, and how we see hidden messages. It made a simple video of just an eye and words, and made it something with complex meaning, that makes one think about what just happened.