Monday, June 20, 2016

For this exhibition, I decided to stray away from paintings and architecture, and focus more on statues.  I did this because I found it easy to find different statues from each time period that helped portray the characteristics of the periods I found them in.  When going to chose the statues I would us in this exhibition, the process was really simple and obvious.  For this exhibition, I selected a statue from each chapter that we are studying throughout the course.  By doing this I am able to portray what we are learning from each chapter and I avoid overloading the reader with information from a couple chapters. 
            From this Virtual Exhibition I am hoping the viewer learns more about art history.  Most often when someone thinks of art history, they think of famous painters, such as Van Gogh, Monet, Seurat, etc.  Through this I can show that art history is more than the Mona Lisa, but that its statues of kings, cave paintings, carvings on buildings, and more.  I also hope that through this exhibition the viewer realizes that art is all around them, not just in museums.  Art is in the vase on a table, the chairs they sit in, their rugs, and in everything else around them.  That art is not something you have to visit a fancy museum to find, but that you just have to look around you.  I hope through this exhibition it is made apparent how important art truly is and how it is not so distant.

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