Response to Painter's Painting

One of the most interesting things I found in the film we watched in class was hall all of the artist's from the different periods after World War II in the 1900s interacted. When studying the different periods of art, it almost seems like each artists functions in isolation of all of the other periods. In contrast, i think the film did a good job of showing how each artists worked within his own movement but also knew and commented on other artists from different movements. For example, some abstract expressionists would claim that they were not a part of the Dada movement. Additionally, when looking at art I tend to assume that the piece was done entirely by the specified artist; however, I found it really intriguing that this was not the case in many of the movements discussed in the film. For example, a good portion of Andy Warhol's work was not actually done by him, and many artists had many extra helpers to complete the piece. Seeing this aspect of the art making, made me wonder whether the other people involved in the work deserve credit? Why do they not get any recognition. I suppose we can think of it in terms of an architect. The architect designs the house, yet does not actually build it; however, he gets the most credit for the building.