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1. This introduction explains American painting's issue with subject matter….. What does this mean to you? Use examples from the intro   They said that paintings were getting tangled with the problems that America was having and that stopped the creativity from being put on a canvas because they were paintings things that people didn't want to see because they were Americas problems. They also talk about how they feel like painting should be something like portraits about ourselves and not talk about the problems that we are having.  2. Explain why Raushenberg insisted that he erase a piece by Willem de Kooning for his masterpiece  Erased de Kooning. He wanted to try and explore the art concept of the creation of art by using erasure. He wanted to do this to be able to try new things that other artists haven't done so that he could try a new angle at the modern art to make his own art style. He thought that this would add a level of significance to his artwork because it ...

 He talks about how much painting has been modernized and how much it has changed over time and then depending on the artists and how everyone wants to have something that makes them what they are. He also wants to tell people that these new artists want to make a statement with their art because that is what separates them from other artists. This changes my experience with art because it only shows me what I already think and that is that every artist has something that they would like to have as their own way of setting themselves apart from others. It doesn't bother me that they showed his downfall because it could teach other people what not to do in order to get to the place that he fell under.  Macho modernism was when people after the second world war were painting things to look like they were macho. This was also a time where men weren't really seen as being able to be artists because it wasn't macho and it didn't show what men were supposed to be like. 

 I think what makes this film interesting is that Dali considers himself the most free artist of all time because he was able to do so many things with his art that he would want to. He would use costumes as a way to express his paintings and what he wanted to show with them and he would put all of his time to show what he wanted with them. He would talk about how there was always a specific element to all of his paintings that would make people look at his paintings. Landscapes was something that was important to him because he wanted the place of his art to be an important showcase of his paintings