The Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska, has an interesting gallery dedicated to the idea of Perspectives. In the gallery, regular citizens, not museum curators, were asked to write an analysis of a piece of art and their analyses were paired with the paintings and sculptures they described. A hiker, for example, wrote an analysis of a painting of a mountain. A doctor wrote an analysis of a female nude. This type of analysis where a non-expert is asked to say something engaging about a piece of art directly relates to what I will be doing with my students at the Milwaukee Art Museum this fall. We can all learn to see more in a piece when we sit down and take time to "read" it.
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