Creative Process for Impressionist Exhibit

I'm not really sure what to write here...

I started out by watching the videos for this module anyway, intending to get the throwaway work done first.  The first video - the one on West Coast Pop Art - inspired a Pop Art exhibit idea.

I had already been toying with an Impressionist theme - from the time I read about the project I had been thinking about an Impressionism theme.  I am not kidding when I say it's my favorite movement; I have had a fascination with the works of Monet since I was little - I have a huge coffee table book containing a biography and all his works, plus received calendars of his paintings until I was a teenager (they no longer had any works I hadn't seen.)

I ended up with a third idea when I randomly asked my fiance what he might do as an exhibit.  So I thought wrote out three different exhibits:

- An Impressionism exhibit focusing on the changing nature of light
- A Pop Art exhibit looking at the evolution of the form, from the founders to "lowbrow"
- An exhibit looking at the history of water as a subject matter for art, from early civilization to now

My paper ideas were then passed around my household and the consensus was on the Impressionist exhibit (with one vote for Pop art, and one torn between Impressionism and water.)

Now, I came to the idea of light as the focus of the Impressionism theme simply by refreshing myself on the basis of the movement.  I wanted an Impressionism theme because I wanted a showcase for Monet - my favorite artist - but I didn't want to it be just about him.  One of the goals of this movement was to study light as naturally as possible - to recreate the way light changes a subject.  To this end, Impressionists frequently painted the same subject matter over and over, but at different times of the day or during different seasons.

That's where I got the idea for the exhibit.  I would showcase different Impressionist painters, and where I could I would pick paintings in a series reflecting directly the goal they were chasing - the changing nature of light. All paintings chosen would be a study of how light plays on the subject, whether part of a series or not.

I picked the PowerPoint format for a couple of reasons.  First, it is designed to look like an art gallery space, and second, it gave a few choices of theme colors and the color palette for this one seemed most in line with Impressionist choice of colors.  I've also refrained from using black in the PowerPoint (except for the text of the body) - much like the painters themselves refused to use the color.  I picked the heading/title font because it looked like the way a painter might sign their work.  Colors were picked to be pretty and complimentary of the paintings.  Regular text is in a font people can read - I'm fond of Times New Roman.