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| Henri Matisse, Dance (II), 1910 |
Art history has a reputation of being boring. Even artists can find art history difficult to sit through. I have watched many art history videos, ranging from great to extremely boring. Art history has enough to overcome without people making boring art history videos. Today in my modern art history class, we watched a video on Henri Matisse. Love his work,which is colorful, passionate and dynamic. So the question is how does one take such dynamic work and make it boring? By showing painting after painting, stating title and date, without any commentary, without enough time to take the painting in. Just title, date, picture, title, date, picture and on and on. The entire 1920's, 30's and 40's of his work are given no commentary, just a relentless slide show that changes pictures every few seconds. Bored with Matisse is not how an art history video should leave the viewer. Enjoy this groundbreaking work of Matisse (see picture) and give art history a chance. Enjoy!
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