Module #13 Video Review

1. For the first video on an acquiring mind, I learned that there is a lot that goes into creating an exhibition within an art museum.  Art curators will find artworks that are "weaker" than others and perhaps make them more brilliant by choosing careful locations within a gallery.  I also learned that art has to be worthy to be selected by the acquisition process.  The director is in charge but is not the only one who has a say in what is brought into a museum.  Meetings are held to discuss this matter and high levels of creativity are pushed when creating each exhibit.  There is much more that goes into creating an exhibition than I had anticipated.

The second video on live q & a with the MoMA curator was very interesting.  The woman brought us to the fifth floor inside the Museum of Modern Art.  Not only did she show us all of the pieces inside the exhibit she explained what modern art means to us.  She explained that modern art is art of the now or the present and it is just as important as art in the past.  Modern art brings open ended conversations to the table and explains what the new and compelling could be.  Modern art is creating new to respond to our society or world entirely.  The exhibit she showed us was specifically dedicated to Pablo Picasso's modern art.  This was the theme chosen by the curator.

The last video on lowbrow art gave great insight about the specific type of art.  Lowbrow or pop art is mostly made up of ideas that are against the status quo.  They are pieces created by artist, which not everyone see's as popular.  Many of the artist did not want to be labeled as lowbrow and I think it has a lot to do with where the name originated from.  Although it is not the same anymore, many lowbrow art was considered pornography, but now it means something else.  There are others that believe lowbrow is actually serialism art.  Another thing I learned is that this type of art has created a social scene and groups together.

2.  The videos related to the creation of my art exhibition because it helped provide me with an idea for a theme that I like.  I got a better understanding of what can be grouped together for a specific exhibition.  I learned that you can chose a specific year, artist, color, location, or type of art to stick with when creating a gallery.  It doesn't have to be the same throughout and paintings don't have to stay with painting's.

3.  In my opinion the films were a little long and could have developed the main points of interest faster.  They did add depth to my understanding of how to create an art exhibition though.  Without the videos I would of had no idea where to begin and stuck to one type of art instead of multiple.