Saturday, December 5, 2015

Module 13 and 14

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

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art

  • Lowbrow’s evolution- underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles California area in the late 1970's,cultural roots in underground comic,punk music and hot rod cultures of the street.
  • iconoclasm-The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs
  • Robert Williams-lowbrow pioneer
  • Doug Nason-Curator

BBC Culture show: Tate Modern is 10! (Part 1)

  • The Tate Modern-Art Gallery in London England
  • Modern Art-a genre of the fine arts

An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art- One of the worlds largest and finest art museum (a museum is never finished)
  • Philippe de Montebello-Born in France,served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the metropolitan museum of art in New York.
2. Do the videos relate to the creation of your Art Exhibition project? If yes, explain how. If no, explain why not.

  • There are some similar pieces in the pop art video and it always talk about street culture which I also have in my collection.


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 think the films do a great job at delivering information,they definitely do add depth and give a different perspective.

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