The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Lowbrow is something I’ve never
heard of prior to this class. From the
paintings in the video I definitely like it because it seems more modern and
very much more brightly colorful. They
seem to use the term lowbrow as opposed to surreal or surrealism. They also put rock posters into this
classification, the types of posters with the big colors and the psychedelic
images. It’s very reminiscent of what I
relate to as graffiti art. Lack of
Lowbrow art museums, most are highbrow.
2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition
project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.
This video does not relate to my
exhibit. I’ve chosen an exhibit that would
be highbrow. An exhibit that is what is
considered normal. The art in this video
is out of the norm and wouldn’t be a normal exhibit. What I did get from it was seeing how so much
different art from this lowbrow style can be put together and work together.
3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to
understanding of the art concepts you practiced while creating your curation
project?
What I like best about this video
is learning more about something I’ve never heard of. The images in the videos were familiar to
me. The Grateful Dead posters, the comic
type of pictures, and all the lowbrow art seems to be things I’ve seen before
and like. For the curation project
itself, I did not get any help from this video for that.
Tate Modern is 10!
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Modern art galleries is the main
focus. Vastness in art display. Tate Modern gets 5 million visitors a
year. Has a lot of hands on art, slides,
balls, ropes, and other interactive items.
Popularism had now joined intellectualism. They changed warehouses into art museums,
giving a lot of space and big structures.
They took 7 years to create the space of Tate Modern before it opened. Gallery had white walls hung with art in a
non-pattern type of way and white podiums, with art on top encased in
glass. They explained opening the modern
art museum as ground breaking and kind of risk taking. Only 10 installations put in the huge turbine
hall over the years, the hall was a huge beautiful space to show art. They talked about the people who go to
museums take away their personal experience from the museum. The entire collection of Tate Gallery tells a
story and it’s up to the viewer to make their own.
2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition
project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.
This one definitely related to
the Exhibit project. It tried the best
it could to show the view not only what the gallery looked like 10 years after
the opening but what the curators went through to create the gallery. It showed a lot of the different rooms that hold art and showed the detail that was put in to make it a likable experience
for the viewer.
3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to
understanding of the art concepts you practiced while creating your curation
project?
This one does add depth. This museum seemed to have taken a giant leap
from the regular art museum to what they thought the people wanted, a modern
museum. A lot of art is risk taking and
they did exactly that with this museum.
An Inquiring Mind: Phillipe de Montebello and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Right from the beginning the lady
explained curating as explaining the works and placing them in time and
place. A museum is never finished. Do not fill gaps with representative
examples. Need to get only the truly
outstanding works. The Met has curators
for each specialty of art so they are experts in that form. The video covered how Montebello took the Met
from a narrow focus of art to a wide focused world art collection. The techniques covered for refurbishing the
art they find were vast, they even used NYC tap water and x-ray machines to
work on the art. This museum went with
yellow walls and seemed a little more crowded on the walls than the modern
museums.
2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition
project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.
This video also related to the
project. This one not on how to create
an exhibit but how to improve it and how to keep working at it. It seems with this video that the museum is
ever evolving and growing, and that they keep working very hard to improve it
as much as they can.
3. What is your opinion of the films? Do they add depth to understanding
of the art concepts you practiced while creating your curation project
This film added depth. It showed a museum that was the opposite of
what the Tate museum was. This one was
focused on great works of art from all over the world and that were classic
pieces. Tate conversely focused on the
modern art.
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