Modules #13-14 Blog Review

Robert Barksdale
Fundamental of Art 1785
Modules #13-14

     The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast and Pop Art, was a thought-provoking video of what makes art worthy and who is judging what is worthy and unworthy. Lowbrow art is distinguished from high brow (elitist) art seemingly they same way that crafts were considered different. This video illustrates that art is in the eye of the beholder. Lowbrow art is relevant in everyday life in the modern world, from comic books, tattoos, automobile painting, graffiti, and many other expressions of vividly colored representational art. The bold colors, lines, use of bubbles and words, and the creation of modern everyday heroes are some of the ways this underground art is distributed and represented in the artworld. This art is vibrant and can possess different moods with its freedom of individualism. The Tate Modern Video gave a peek into what a exhibition might be by incorporating highbrow and Lowbrow art into its curation. It combines works of the masters with modern and unconventional works. The video celebrates 10years of unconventional art curation and the survival of the institution despite its critic’s misgivings. One of the narrator’s states that the Tate is an institution for storytelling with integrity, where Lowbrow art may exist side by side with the work of masters such as Jackson Pollack. This film is also insightful for providing guidance on how to develop themes and how to curate an exhibition. The Tate has positioned itself between Lowbrow art and the Highbrow art procured for The Metropolitan of Art collection procured by Phillipe de Montebello. Montebello has spent 30 years in search of meaningful and important works that are diversified, culturally relevant and diverse in order to bolster its art collection into one of the worlds most envied collections of art.

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