Exhibit Reflection

I will fund my exhibit through donations and sales. I would reach out to the community, explain my exhibit and ask for donations, but I would primarily generate revenue through selling items related to the exhibit like prints of the works being shown, creative posters, key chains, t-shirts and other mementos. Additionally, I would have bake sales and fairs and other activities of a similar nature.

I would keep my exhibit local. Tucson may not be huge, but it is home to a diverse group of people with different thoughts, feeling, and opinions, and Tucson is a community that celebrates those differences and wants to use them to bring people closer together through celebrations such as the many cultural festivals that take place throughout the

In other words, my exhibit would showcase pieces of art that express life and how we live and experience it in some way, shape or form. Art pieces with cultural significance, deep meanings, or ones created by artist none for their deep personal turmoil that they expressed through their creations would be at the center of this exhibit. I picked this theme because not only is it a personal favorite, but I considered it to be a theme that produces some of the most beautiful and fascinating pieces of artwork. Since being in this class I’ve learned that in order to appreciate art fully, the audience must exposed to the context surround it. So I would have my exhibit be as dedicated to the “background story” surrounding the artwork as much as it would be to the art itself to help the audience appreciate it more completely. However, I would want to encourage people to find their own meaning within the art as much as I would want them to see the artist’s meaning, so I would keep the information about the art covered, and viewers could uncover the information and then compare their own interpretation with the

As I mentioned, I want to dedicate my exhibit artwork that gives insight into either the artist themselves, the world around them as they saw it/ heir culture, or both and these pieces are all phenomenal representations of that. Paintings like “The Scream” and “Self Portrait with Monkeys” and “The Starry Night” give tremendous insight into the inner workings of the artists mind. There is no better reflection of how we see ourselves than they way we’d paint ourselves. What better to see how artist viewed the world around them than by studying how the painted it? In Van Goh’s “A Starry Night” the city below sleeps, but the sky is a swirling mass, seemingly alive with activity and energy and why? Because Van Gogh, a deeply troubled and tortured artists had a somewhat poetic and optimistic view on life after death, he believed that people journeyed to a star after death and from there continued their life just as they had on earth. “The Starry Night” is more than just a beautiful painting, it’s a laborious expression of the artists own personal beliefs and values. Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Monkey’s” is equally as fascinating because it presents the viewer with an opportunity to analyze hoy they artist