virtual exhibition
1. choose 7-12 artworks for your virtual exhibition using this website here: http://www.googleartproject.com or here: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/project/art- project. Go to the website and familiarize yourself with its capabilities. ?
2. CREATE AN ENGAGING THEME ?After spending time exploring the available artworks and museums, you are required to choose 7-12 artworks for your virtual exhibition. There are a variety of ways you could approach creating your exhibition. You can approach it by style, subject matter, relation to historical events, artists’ use of material and form. It can be a simple approach (i.e. Springtime), or something more complex (The Cycle of Life or Good and Evil). Additionally, ?How are the works connected? Do not simply choose artworks at random. Rather, determine how the works you choose have similarities or work together visually or thematically. Think about the order in which you select works for display. ?Anything on the Google Art Project website is available to be chosen (there are hundreds of museums, cultural institutions, and archives to browse). However, there are two parameters set: ?•?You must choose works from at least three different museums/institutions.?•?Your exhibition must include works by at least at least two different cultures or two different ?periods in art history. ?
3. SHARE YOUR EXHIBITION’S URL LINK AND PROVIDE A WRITTEN STATEMENT, ENSURING YOU ANSWER ALL OF THE FOLLOWING. Your statement must be a minimum of 350 words.
3. • €Exhibition Link: Instructions on how to obtain the URL link to your exhibition are discussed at the end of this document in the section titled “How to Use the Google Art Project Website.” Please ensure your exhibition is viewable by the public (and not private or inaccessible). ?
4. • €Exhibition Title: Include a title for your collection. ?
5. • €Curator’s Statement: Share a Curator’s Statement with your group’s discussion board on CANVAS. ?
o In your statement, you will explain your overall theme. Be enthusiastic, leaving your peers with the desire to go “visit” your exhibition. Give them insight into your choices and thought process. Please go beyond: “I picked them because I liked them” – this type of brief explanation will result in a reduced grade.
o Within your statement, identify one specific work from your collection (artist, title, medium, dimensions) and discuss how it exemplifies your chosen theme. Additionally, in what period of art and historical context was this particular artwork made? (see Part 3 of your textbook for help in identifying artistic periods/movements).
o Next, select and identify a second work from your collection that is from a different art historical context or culture. Compare and contrast the two works. In your comparison, you may consider what the artworks look like and what they are communicating. How is your theme reflected similarly or differently in these two works? What do the works tell you about each culture’s attitudes and/or beliefs?
• Physical vs. Digital Museums: In Unit #3 you visited a physical museum. This may have been your first visit to a museum or you may have visited many museums prior to our class. Consider the positives and negatives that arise from both virtual exhibitions and brick and mortar institutions. From your experience, do you think that virtual museums such as those in the Google Art Project are comparable to physical museums? Why or why not?
