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Iconography and Images of The Human Body Summary Term Paper
The profession of Curator—an individual who conceptualizes and helps design exhibitions about all types of themes and media, as well as within a wide variety of viewing venues—requires not only a broad knowledge of historical and/or contemporary art
practices around the world, but also the ability to find insightful connections between individual artworks that synthesize into both a cohesive message and an engaging viewing experience.
You will embody the role of Curator by selecting specific artworks from across the places and times periods covered in our course, explaining how these selected works could be exhibited together in an imaginary show, and evaluating the overall significance of this exhibition to convey messages to the general public about Western art from the Stone Age to the Gothic era.
Assignment Description
For this Museum Exhibition Design Project, you must select at least five (5) specific examples of objects, artworks, or monuments to put together in an imaginary art exhibition that showcases Western art from the Stone Age to the Gothic era and centers on a specific theme.
Each of your five (5) objects/artworks/monuments must come from a different era or topic covered in class, according to the following list:
Stone Age
Ancient Mesopotamia and/or Persia
Ancient Egypt
Prehistoric Aegean
Ancient Greece
Etruscans
Roman Empire
Late Antiquity (anywhere in Europe or the Middle East)
Byzantine Empire
Islamic World (anywhere between Western Europe and Central Asia)
Early Medieval Europe
Romanesque
Gothic
In choosing a theme for your exhibition, you may draw from the following list of ideas or create your own:
Identify a specific design element that recurs over time and across different geographical locations (i.e., a certain color hue or temperature, a geometric shape or pattern, a type of perspective, the use of hierarchical scale, the dominance of a certain type of line, etc.), and compare and contrast the effects this recurring element has within the group of works and their contexts.
Identify a specific iconographic element and explain its changes and continuities over time and across different geographical locations (i.e., certain common features in the appearances of religious figures, such as facial hair, types of clothing, postures/gestures, or halos; presence and meanings of certain animal motifs in visual works, such as bulls or lambs, etc.)
Identify a specific medium or method of display (i.e., marble sculpture, mosaic, temple/mosque/church decoration, etc.) of artworks across different time periods and places, and explain the ways that the materials and/or viewing arrangements reflect the interests of artists and art patrons within their original contexts.
Or, mix and match! Feel free to compare and contrast the use of different media over time, or analyze the changes and continuities of certain design elements over time and place, etc.
Or, choose your own! If you have an idea for a different type of theme that you would like to discuss and that crosses multiple time periods and/or geographical locations specified in our course, let me know!
Exhibition Proposal
Part of a Curator’s job is to explain to others why their planned exhibition would provide a valuable informational and viewing experience. After all, exhibitions take a lot of work and logistics to organize, so museum leaders will want to know how the proposed exhibition will offer to the public something that adds value to their experiences of and understandings about art.
To help explain the value of your planned exhibition, write an Exhibition Proposal of approximately one (1) page that describes how your exhibition will illuminate an important theme in early Western art through the collection of works you wish to bring together. Additionally, describe what the overall viewing experience of these works will be for the average museum visitor. For instance, will they be hung on the wall, or shown in a mixture of ways (hung, draped, laid flat, propped, etc.)? Will visitors encounter works in chronological order, or across regions? Make sure to explain why the works will be encountered in these ways—what benefits do the placement, arrangement, and ordering of the works within the exhibition space contribute to conveying the overall messages about the chosen theme that you want the visitor to receive?
Conclude your Exhibition Proposal with a summarizing evaluation of the exhibition (about one to two sentences in length) that explains both how and why your proposed exhibition offers insights and presents the value of viewing these works together, in order to understand a specific aspect of early Western art. This evaluation should state how the exhibition conveys these insights and values (i.e. by encouraging viewers to look at works slowly, or by allowing viewers to see a surprising combination of examples that encourages new ideas and impressions of early Western art, or that showcases an underappreciated design aspect, etc.) and why the exhibition reveals a specific aspect of early Western art (i.e. the selected works all present different interpretations of a similar theme, the exhibition brings to light an overlooked aspect, the exhibition presents a new way of looking at familiar media, techniques, and/or themes, etc.).
Wall Labels After your one-page Exhibition Proposal, your Museum Exhibition Design Project should contain five (5) wall labels, one for each work included in the exhibition. The overall purposes of the Wall Labels within your exhibition assignment are: 1) offer viewers guidance on what they are looking at, and 2) identify and explain how each individual work communicates the collective theme of the exhibition. The most important thing to keep in mind when writing a Wall Label for a specific artwork is that your reader is in front of the work itself, seeing it in person. That one key aspect should direct everything about the Wall Label’s text, from the identifying details to the organization to the content. With that in mind:
You need to give the identifying details at the top of the Wall Label (name/title, artist(s), date(s), materials and techniques).
The Wall Label needs to be short in length (think one big paragraph). You want the reader to spend a very short amount of time reading about the work and the majority of their time looking at the work in front of them and having a more intimate viewing (rather than reading) experience.
The text should explain the subject matter (what the viewer is looking at), then draw the viewer’s attention to only the most important visual and physical elements of the artwork. You don’t need to do a long visual analysis here. Instead, highlight the key elements you want them to notice that make this work special, such as the patterns, lines, colors, or style (such as naturalism, for instance).
The text should tell readers why this artwork is important. Does it show the typical style of art from the time and place it was made? Does it show a dramatic change in style or subject matter from what came before? Does it display a specific ruler or religious figure to send specific messages for its original audience? Basically, make sure your reader has a good idea of why they should spend time looking at it and what overall value it brings.
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