1. Lowbrow is art that nobody else knows how to categorize. It somewhat has a meaning of its own. Lowbrow is going against the stuck up art culture world and took their own spin on art. It is also a social scene that involves a lifestyle and related popular culture. Big Daddy Roth was a huge part of Lowbrow art. He was a sign painter well known for his psychedelic posters. Lowbrow art is known for its bright, eye catching colors, with a psychedelic- cartoon like style. Zap comics, hot rod girls, and cartoons were all seen in Lowbrow art. Lowbrow artists also had a connection to the drug culture around the time of the vietnam war. Robert Crumb and fellow artists started underground comics. Lowbrow is always a narrative, it is dynamic, moving, and something is always about to happen. It was interesting to learn of the tiki culture coming back with the men that were in the service who loved the tahitian culture. Lowbrow artists were also fascinated by these lands and used them as inspiration for their work.
2. This video was helpful for the Art Exhibition project because now I have a different type of art to search through for ocean themed art that will bring a totally different feel of art to my theme.
3. I really enjoyed this video because although I have seen some similar types of art I had never heard of or didn't know it was called Lowbrow art.
Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach
1. The Tate Modern Museum has drawn in crowds of thousands of visitors. The museum pioneered a new form of display by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the museums first director. The forms of display he developed for this art had come to be seen as the characteristic type of modern exhibition. Works of art were displayed on white walls and picked out with flexible lighting. The works were then categorized in a series of rooms that were each dedicated to particular art movements or individual artists. He believed that art was ultimately self contained and bore little relation to social, political, or intellectual history. Barr's model of a modern art museum was unable to incorporate the new expanded field of art. Tate Modern had to find a new way to display modern art. The new idea was to display the work in four sections. The thematic approach allows the curators to bring together works of art from widely different points in the last century. The four themes were: Landscape, History, Still Life, and the Nude.
2. This video related to the creation of my art exhibition project because it explains the way a museum would design and organize exhibits. While Tate Modern started with pretty specific categories but then redesigned to four broad categories. While I chose ocean life for my project, it would have fit into the entire landscape category in this video.
3. This was a helpful video and it added a deeper understanding to the art concepts I practiced for my project because the video shows many examples of the different examples and explains why they are categorized the way they are.
Bones of Contention: Native American Archeology
1. The video begins with the story of how white people dug up the bones of an Indian girl and her baby to be studied. A native american woman was very bothered by this and went to her governor to fight this discrimination.
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