Summary Art 21

Summary of Seeing the Videos in the PBS Art 21 series
I saw a lot of videos and heard a lot of artists speak about their work. From all these videos, I learned about new methods to make art. The artists were all contemporary artists. Many of their ideas seemed to me to be very abstract. I was especially impressed with the work of Cai Guo Qiang. He uses gunpowder to create images. It was power. A video imagines a car bomb, I learn the new imagines. The process he uses is filmed and there is lots of smoke and noise. He can make images of animals using the result of exploding gunpowder. It is dangerous to make this art but he has learned how to do this safely from many years of experience. He also uses lots of lights and big ordinary objects like automobiles to make sculpture. This art and ideas about this art are very special. He showed how to make art on the video. This video series is a compilation of contemporary artists. The artists in this video series are all trying to do something new. They are trying to give new expression for what can be considered art. They try to create their art using skills they acquired from their studies and from their life experiences.