Modern and postmodern review week 9

The two videos I chose to discuss were Uncertainty: Modernity and Art, and Andy Warhol: Images of an Image. I chose each because first I wanted to understand what was behind the uncertainty in modern art, and the ties to Nazism, and I chose the Warhol one because I absolutely love him, and want to know everything I possibly can, new or old information about him.
The first video discussed the fact that modern art tells us that there is no single code for living, that the burning issue for us is uncertainty. Subtle bits of obscurity have been made glamorous, and Hitler himself believed this. The early 20th century is when modern art really started to take place, and when reality is completely transformed. Modern art is based on speed, efficiency, and mass-production, just like any material object of its time. We live in uncertainty because we're just parts in a system that is mostly mysterious to us. During the Nazi movement, Hitler himself said that modern art is a refusal to show things as they really are, and was a display of weakness because it shows uncertainty. Whether uncertainty shows weakness or not, it still has been justified as being a large part of what's behind modern art.
The second video about Andy Warhol discussed the methods of silkscreening. He would select and crop photographs of his choice, found in the media because they were popular, and reproduce them. Mainly his subjects were famous actresses, some being Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol was very interested in the lives of the famous women, and used that interest with another- one that included making a lot of money with his method of quick mass-production. He would destroy the original photograph by rendering it and making them even more superficial. His works now show viewers that they are mere images, or even images of images, and simply a consumer product in the end.
The films relate to the text because they focus on topics like art movements, and the effects of them on artwork of the time. Consumerism, industrialism, and mass production effected both artwork and cities. This related both the text and the videos because each discussed how the movements of the time effected people and art. I absolutely loved the film about Warhol, and was completely in tune the entire time. I feel like I learned a lot more about the fact that art work can end up being a consumer product, and lose it's meaning. I never considered this before, but by studying Warhol, I realized that he realized the link of art work and consumerism, and manipulated it because he knew exactly what people wanted and the way to work them.