Professor Brown
Art History 141
26 May 2015
Fowler Museum Project
The Fowler Museum was an interesting experience. The name of the Exhibition is Intersections: World Arts/ Local Lives, the exhibition doesn’t have an ending. The name of the organizers and curators were not provided. The art is interesting for the facts that the people who made the art pieces put a lot of dedication and time in wanting to make them look great. The first section in the exhibition is the Art and Action which is all about artifacts of how people who made them went far beyond the boundaries to make a statement through their creativeness. The next couple of sections were the Art and Knowledge and the Art and Power. The art work in the Art and power section had a couple figures that were a bit scary it was darker than any of the other sections and you just felt that the art pieces …show more content…
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