Reflection Blog

Thinking of a theme was relatively easy. Once I got that, the next big task was finding artwork. At first, I tried looking on Google images thinking that would be easiest. It wasn't! I followed my professors advice and looked on Artstor which has a huge collection of artwork from centuries ago. That website allows you to look at specific artwork from different countries. So I started with the first country on the list and went down to find various street paintings for my theme. I found ten that I really liked and thought fit well. What's nice about Artstor is that it gives you the media, artist, year, and etc for the artwork so I was able to collect all of that information and put it aside. Then I started creating my PowerPoint. Since my theme dealt with streets, I wanted my background to look like a street, the closest I could get was a cement type texture that reminded me of it. All of the paintings I chose were sort of similar in terms of color and balance. So I didn't want my background to be too bright, but I wanted it to fit in with a lot of the warm colors of the paintings. I chose black  as my font because it was the most visible color that showed through the cement background. For the most part, each  painting  had its own slide ,except a few which had two on them. The ones with the two paintings on a slide I thought really compared and contrasted so I put them together. Overall, creating this PowerPoint was fun and it was exciting to be an art curator!