Week Thirteen and Fourteen - Blog: Video Review

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art

1.      For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Lowbrow is art that nobody else can really categorize.  It is a reactionary category against highbrow art, which was uninvited among the fine art types.  Originally a term to depict images of half naked women and hot rods it has now grown and evolved to include comic book images, b-movies, rock and roll, surfing, surrealism, etc.  It seemed like almost an uprise against the strict and rigid culture of art schools and dominating art forms.  Cartoons and narrative were a large part of lowbrow culture.  Very rarely is something stillborn without dynamic.

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 relate to my Art Exhibition project.  I thought I might play off of something Tim Burton related that has a dark feeling to it but an uplifting kind of story.  That is very lowbrow culture I believe and displays the multi faceted idea of lowbrow.

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 helped me narrow down a better theme for my project by giving more depth and understanding to the lowbrow culture and what fits into it.

Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach

1.      For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Modernists helped to shape the presentation in museums and galleries.  Each room in the museum was dedicated to a particular art movement or artist, chronologically set up to travel into the present.  The progressiveness of this movement was a new development in a world that picked and chose, generally omitting female artists all together.  It gave the illusion that these movements started and ended and built upon one another.

2.      Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

This video helps give insight on the principles of which a gallery is set up upon.  It helps to narrow down my range of pieces for my project by realizing that a collection should have a beginning and end but also show that it builds on past movements and offers something for future movements to build and be influenced from.

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 video helped me to gain a perspective for the span and size of the project; 15 images, what I should be looking to cover, how to begin and end a collection, etc.

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Montebello was the director of the Met for 31 years.  In his time there the museum space doubled in size, acquired over 84,000 new works of art and implemented new innovative conservation techniques.  With a growing budget the Met became one of the top tourist attractions in NYC.

2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.
This video helps to explain how art changes over time.  A span of 30 years as a director of a museum is almost unheard of aside from Montebello.  It helps to see how time changes everything.

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?
I liked this video.  I have visited the Met before and it gave me a new found appreciation for it that I didn't have the first time I went.