These videos were quite interesting and had similar themes and topics for each video. It was about museums and curators. How ironic since we have to make our own museums and become a curator ourselves. This is quite thrilling and nerve racking since I don't know where to begin. These videos painted a picture and brought ideas to my mind. As I was watching the videos I wasn't only taking notes but definitely blanking out and day dreaming about how my museum would become.
Tate modern exhibits correspond directly with the chronology of our course which is 1900 to the present. This is called International Modern Art era. Theres a collection which is relatively traditional in terms of its focus on NATO Alliance, Western European, North American Art, emphasizing the canonical movements, surrealism, abstract expressionism, constructivism and pop.
A history embodied in a collection which principally excludes non-western discourses principally excludes art that is politically engaged and consistently ignores the contribution of women artists throughout 20th century so there is a very partial collection.
The way that we look at modern art is partly shaped by art historical concerns. Museums of modern art have played no less a role in framing our values and judgements.
MOMA which is the Museum of Modern Art in New York is powerful and prestigiou institution that pioneered a new form of display that was to dominate the exhibition of modern art for over half a century. This system for exhibiting what we were recent artistic tendencies was largely the product of museums first director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Barr's view of art was in significant ways a response to artistic modernism, the form that he used to display come to be seen as the characteristic type of modern exhibition. Barr displayed artworks that are primarily other responses of art and it traveled on a direct path to the present. Barr believed that art was ultimately self contained and bore little relation to social, political or intellectual history.
Art movements evolved from one another with experience we can see time based work like performance and video, ephemeral works that do not resemble the museum's commodity the museum usually housed.
There are four themes that curator use to organize the museum which is landscape, still life, history and the nude.
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