Gallery Design
Your local art museum has asked you to design a gallery dedicated to works of art from one of the following movements:
- Renaissance
- Baroque
- Romanticism
- Impressionism
- Modernism
Using your outline from Week 3 as reference (attached), select only ONE movement for the design of your gallery.
You will design your gallery as if you were guiding a visitor to each work of art. You may draw from images that you find from the following websites:
- Art and artists | Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/art)
- Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)
- Art Renewal Center Artist Index (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)
- The Frick Collection ( http://www.frick.org/art)
- Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
- Guggenheim (http://www.guggenheim.org/)
- Louvre Museum Official Website (http://www.louvre.fr/en)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org)
- MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/)
- National Gallery of Art(https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings
- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (https://www.sfmoma.org/artists-artworks/
- SIRIS – Smithsonian Institute Research Information System (https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/ariquickstart.htm)
- Smithsonian Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/)
- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)
- Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence (http://www.uffizi.com/)
- Vatican Museums – Official web site (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
- Victoria & Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/)
- Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/)
- WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (http://whitney.org/)
In your gallery, include the following:
- A brief introduction to your gallery, which includes a description
of the movement and the time period to which your gallery is dedicated. - Six images of works of art that incorporate the characteristics
significant to movement and time period. Along with each image of a work
of art, include the citation for the work of art. A summary of how the
media (materials), methods, and subject are significant to that time
period and region, using appropriate art terminology. - A summary of how iconographic, historical, political, philosophical,
religious, and social factors of the movement are reflected in the work
of art. - Make use of at least five scholarly sources