Mod 13/14-Video Review-Art Curation

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art

• Lowbrow-a person regarded as uncultivated and lacking in taste.
• People can relate to the pop art because it involves all different types.
• Artists started making the pop art genre from the pinup girls on airplanes.
• The decades forties through the seventies are the most popular decades to paint about.
• McCarthyism was willing to point fingers at people that strayed from the norm, and classify them as communists.
• Psychedelic rock posters were created by pop artists.
• Kustom Kulture was a show that first premiered a cartoon pop show.
• Mad Magazine-Humor in the jugular vein.
• Jackson Pollock from a Lowbrow standpoint is just a bunch of mad dots.
• Lowbrow has taken their language and made some very noticeable statements.

Tate Modern

• Tate Modern turned Britain into the booming city it is today.
• Tate Modern is a ten story art gallery.
• On Tate Modern’s curation team, it is important to take care of the artist’s vision and artwork.
• Artists from all over the world are showcased in Tate Modern, and even a specific room dedicated to those from Britain.
• Tate Collective is a form for young creatives figures out how and why young artists create their collections.

An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan

• Knowledge is the engine that makes a museum work.
• A museum is never finished.
• Montebello curated over 80,000 works of art. He would rather not focus on a specific artist.
• Before any work of art is put on display, it goes through a vetting process. The director is the first hurdle in the process.
• The board of trustees decides what finally gets displayed in a museum.

 The videos do relate to the creation of my Exhibition because all these videos each give you a different opinion of how people view art. In each video, in their own way, they help you decide what people what to see in each Exhibition.

I really liked An Acquiring Mind: Phillipe de Montebello and The Metropolitan because it shows the process of how an Exhibition truly comes to life. That is important when designing your own Exhibition.