Wednesday, March 2, 2016

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Through the Eyes of a Sculptor:
  • The dangers of the job
  • How some craftsmen would focus/work on just one part of the sculpture, some had specialized jobs 
  • Marble quarries
  • How weather effects the materials

Glass and Ceramics:
  • Ceramics used in computers
  • Ceramic used for medical purposes
  • Sound waves vs Glass
  • Bonding, PBV
  • Blowing/ heating process

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The text talked about blowing glass and the video showed us someone actually in the creative process of doing so.  Also we learn more about casting in the video as mentioned in the text.  The videos helped connect the processes talked about in the text by showing us how exactly they are done.  
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?
I really like the glass and ceramics video mostly because I visited the Corning Glass Museum before and watched artists create glass.  It was cool seeing someone create glass in a furnace and blowing into the glass to help create it's shape at the museum.  It's more interesting now that I have a fuller understand of how exactly the process works and more about the chemical process of it all.  Also I enjoyed the sculptor video because it's crazy how huge some of these sculptors are and how they can start from huge chunks of material into beautiful things.  Being able to actually see both processes in video helps me further understand.  

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