Project 4 Reflection Journal

For my art curation project, I chose Horses in Art as my theme. I love horses and think they are beautiful animals and think it is interesting how there are so many ways they are depicted in art. Sometimes they are depicted by themselves in a peaceful beautiful setting, are depicted as being wild and free, as being useful (i.e. as a means of transportation, pulling something), as entertainment (racing, rocking horse), and everything in between. I ordered my project so that similar works of art went next to each other. For example, the first three images are of two actual rocking horses and then an image of a child on a rocking horse. These three artworks go together and I would display them that way as well. I didn't want all of the artwork in my exhibit to be paintings, so I included several other ways horses were portrayed; as a decoration on a fan, on a ring of a Pharaoh, a statuette, and even as an ancient cave painting (I'm not quite sure if that painting has been removed and is on display or if it still sits in the cave, but I would probably get the image blown up and spread across a wall in a matte ink to try and keep it as true to the natural way it was painted on the wall. I found many artworks with the horse as the focus, and I found ways to show through all of these works of art in my exhibit just how important the horse has been to man throughout history.