Final Project – Museum Curator
HUMA 1315: Fine Arts Appreciation
Virtual Museum Exhibition
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September 3, 2023
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Outline
Introduction
Curator’s statement
Visual art pieces
Sculptures
Video art piece
Poem
Background music
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Introduction
 This is a virtual museum exhibition about the theme of
love and death.
 The exhibition involves the use of visual art,
sculptures, a video art piece, a poem, and background
music to illustrate this theme.
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Curator’s Statement
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this museum exhibition. The exhibition features a display of
various works of art, right from paintings, to sculptures, and poems, etc. Most of the artworks
on display are of antiquity. However, some of them, like the photographs displayed here, are
pretty recent. This exhibition gives one a feel of what changes have been happening in the art
industry since the middle ages until now. Works of fine art from famous artists such as George
Frederic Watts, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustav Klimt, and Sarah Bernhardt are featured in this
exhibition. Furthermore, a video clip dance showing some dance choreography has been
featured as well. For this exhibition, the works of art paraded are in the theme of love and death.
I entrust you will enjoy the occasion. Feel most welcome.
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Visual Art Pieces - 1
DISPLAY CAPTION
Here, the character of Love (on the right) is trying to
defend the house of Life. Death (on the left) advances
calmly with a bowed head. Death tramples the wild roses in
its path, but doesn’t disturb the dove, associated with peace,
on the bottom right. Watts described this painting as ‘the
progress of the inevitable but not terrible Death, who
partially but not completely overshadows Love’.
Title: Love and Death
Artist: George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
Date created: c.1885–7
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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Visual Art Pieces - 2
DISPLAY CAPTION
The idea of the God of Love
guiding a Pilgrim on his quest
Title: Love and the Pilgrim
Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898)
Date Created: 1896–7
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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The painting depicts a couple dancing under a chestnut tree: the man is
Paul Lhôte, a friend of the painter, and the woman is Aline Charigot, who
later became the wife of the painter. Both figures are painted life-size and
occupy almost the entire painting. However, a table in the background on
the right, and a hat on the ground, and a pair of faces below the level of
the dance floor, can be seen. The woman who holds a fan in her right
hand, displays a smiling face and looks towards the viewer. The scene is
bathed in a bright and cheerful atmosphere, and the women's clothes use
warm colors (yellow gloves, red hat)
Title: Dance in the Country
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Date Created: 1883
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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Visual Art Pieces - 4
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The painting depicts a couple embracing each
other, their bodies entwined in elaborate
beautiful robes decorated in a style influenced
by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the
organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts
movement.
Title: The Kiss
Artist: Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)
Date Created: 1907–1908
Medium: Oil-on-canvas painting with added gold
leaf, silver and platinum
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The painting is a full-length double portrait of the couple
seated in a bower of honeysuckle. They are surrounded by
love and marriage symbolism: the honeysuckle and garden
are both traditional symbols of love, and the holding of
right hands (junctio dextrarum) represents union through
marriage. Additionally, Rubens depicts himself as an
aristocratic gentleman with his left hand on the hilt of his
sword
Title: Honeysuckle Bower
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640)
Date Created: c. 1609
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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Two lovers are trying to kiss through
their separate grey hoods, lips never
meeting, the cloth dry and suffocating
on the tongue. They cannot see each
other, they cannot feel each other and
they cannot even kiss: It’s the
nightmare of a lonely relationship.
Title: The Lovers
Artist: René Magritte (1898 – 1967)
Date Created: 1928
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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A couple joined in love
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Title: The Jewish Bride
Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606 – 1669)
Date Created: c. 1665 – 1669
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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In this painting, the dead Christ’s body is
being carried by two men.
Title: The Entombment of Christ
Artist: Caravaggio (1571 – 1610)
Date Created: 1603 - 1604
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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In this painting, several people gather at a
funeral. The cloths are funeral-themed.
Title: A Funeral
Artist: Anna Ancher (1859 – 1935)
Date Created: 1891
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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In this painting, a lady is in her
deathbed battling death.
Title: Camille Monet on her deathbed
Artist: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
Date Created: 1879
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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This painting shows Leonardo da
Vinci dying, with Francis I of France
holding his head.
Title: The Death of Leonardo da Vinci
Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
(1780 – 1867)
Date Created: 1818
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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Socrates has been convicted of
corrupting the youth of Athens and
introducing strange gods, and has been
sentenced to die by drinking poison
hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a
final lesson for his pupils rather than
fleeing when the opportunity arises, and
faces it calmly
Title: The Death of Socrates
Artist: Jacques Louis David
(1748 – 1825)
Date Created: 1787
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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This painting depicts Hector, who has been killed by
Achilles. Andromache is the wife of Hector, who is
mourning over his death and comforted by his child.
Title: Andromache Mourning Hector
Artist: Jacques Louis David (1748 – 1825)
Date Created: 1783
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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Many historians believed that the original
title of this painting was Brutus returning
home after having sentenced his sons for
plotting a Tarquinian restoration and
conspiring against roman freedom, the
Lictors burnt their bodies to be buried. The
Lictors remains one of the greatest
examples of death in art.
Title: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies
of His Sons
Artist: Jacques Louis David (1748 – 1825)
Date Created: 1789
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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This event can be dated to 31 January 1632: the
Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, of which Tulp was
official City Anatomist, permitted only one public
dissection a year, and the body would have to be
that of an executed criminal. The corpse is that of
the criminal Aris Kindt, who was convicted for
armed robbery and sentenced to death by hanging.
He was executed earlier on the same day of the
scene. The face of the corpse is partially shaded, a
suggestion of umbra mortis (shadow of death), a
technique that Rembrandt was to use frequently.
Title: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.
Nicolaes Tulp
Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606 – 1669)
Date Created: 1632
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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This painting was inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844
poem “The Bridge of Sighs.” The painting depicts
the dead body of a woman washed up beneath the
arch of Waterloo Bridge, with her lower body still
immersed in the water of the River Thames. She is
presumed to have drowned after having thrown
herself in the river in despair to escape the shame of
being a fallen woman. The grey industrial cityscape
of the south bank of the Thames is barely visible in
the background through thick smog.
Title: Found Drowned
Artist: George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
Date created: c. 1850
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
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This painting shows a life-size, grotesque
depiction of the stretched and unnaturally
thin body of Jesus Christ lying in his tomb.
Holbein shows the dead Son of God after
he has suffered the fate of an ordinary
human.
Title: The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497 - 1543)
Date created: 1520–22
Medium: Oil and tempera on limewood
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Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at
Buckingham Palace, London, shortly after they announced
their engagement in 1947. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty
Images
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Barack Obama Surprised Michelle With a Bouquet of Roses During Her Book Tour (November 19, 2018)
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Summer Beach Lovers Couple (December 12, 2018 )
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Sculptures - 1
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This sculpture shows adulterous lovers Paolo and
Francesca, who are surprised and killed by Francesca’s
husband while sharing their first kiss.
Title: The Kiss
Artist: Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917)
Date created: 1882
Medium: Marble
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Sculptures - 2
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This sculpture depicts a Breton peasant woman cradling
the body of her grandson who had been caught in a
fisherman’s nets. Sarah Bernhardt had seen this woman
on the seashore and was moved by her story, which ended
tragically with the death of the child. But in Bernhardt’s
sculpture the child’s right hand grips the woman’s
garment, perhaps suggesting the possibility of a more
hopeful ending.
Title: After the Storm
Artist: Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)
Date created: 1876
Medium: White marble
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The sculpture depicts the touching
moment when Psyche - who was put
into a deep, death-like sleep after
opening a forbidden box - is awakened
by a kiss from Cupid, her husband.
Canova
skillfully
captures
the
heightened and humanist emotion of
the scene by paying special attention to
the lifelike expressions and intimate
positioning of the figures.
Title: Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
Artist: Antonio Canova (1844–1923)
Date created: 1787–1793
Medium: Marble
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Video Art Piece
Title: TWICE "What is Love?" Dance Video
Artist: JYP Entertainment
Date created: Apr 16, 2018
Medium: YouTube
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHEQ-W3x5Y
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Poem
Title: My One, My Only, My Everything
Poet: D Lancaster (March 2015)
For so long, I wished for the day.
The day that our love would find its way.
From my heart and into your soul,
The feeling so strong, I had no control.
You are everything I could ever need and more,
More than I deserve or would dare wish for.
You are my baby, my angel, my dream girl.
I'm thankful every day that you are my whole world.
When that day came, when I found you again,
For the time I spend with you, my heart truly sings.
I vowed never to make the same mistake.
My one, my only, my EVERYTHING.
I knew I would never let you go,
For my life is now complete in a way I cannot show. Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/myone-my-only-my-everything
For eternity I will spend making you believe,
You are the sole reason that I breathe.
My life is yours, my hopes and desires too.
Until my dying day, my heart is reserved just for
you.
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Background Music
1. Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, K. 447: II. Romance. Larghetto – Mozart W. A.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2fUL7yM5Q
2. La finta giardiniera, K. 196: Ouverture. Allegro molto – Mozart W. A.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGHzPAZeL8
3. With You In The Morning – Carl Storm
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM28mkaPgOI
4. Piano Concerto No.5 2nd movement – Ludwig van Beethoven
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM28mkaPgOI
5. Don't Worry About Me – Frances
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7j8HphvjE
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THANK
ENDYOU!
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