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1)  I chose to watch the "Mystic North" Spanish Art from the 19th century to present, because it was not a era or location that I new much about, although I found that I new some of them already.
     Expressionism was my second choice, again because I thought I knew little of this style and this time I was correct, most of their names I was not familiar with.


 2)  The key concepts of both films were similar, artists were experimenting and breaking away from status quo of the old masters.  Led by Goya in Spain paintings began depicting its subject's in a different light, such as true agony in his religious paintings and the horror of war from the point of view e everyday person lived and died through.  Artists such as Picasso and Dali took different paths but also broke away from there traditional training to produce their art with more impressionism than the earlier masters.
       In expressionism the artists seem to be giving more thought to how the piece effected your emotions using colors and distortions of the subjects than staying true to traditional notions of technique.  Both videos showed how artists were even more, the activist, showing the true results of war and the ills of the society of the time in a new way.


 3)  The videos gave a more in depth at the artist's in their time, such as when Goya lost his hearing to illness that he became a recluse and painted the walls of compound in black and depicted morose scenes on them.  The video on expressionism gave a much greater explanation to the work of those artists and their motivation for  expanding the realm of art in the way that they did.


 4)   Both videos were entertaining, the Expressionism video was a great introduction to works I had never seen before and also historical giving context to the work from the time.  The Mystic North reminded or informed me of how many great or famous Spanish artists there are and filled in the gaps of what these famous artists were famous for.