My exhibit is based on the concept of the afterlife throughout human history as it's depicted with visual art. Finding relevant pictures for different human interpretations proved to be a challenge in some cases, because so much of what I could find was based on the Christian concepts of heaven and hell. I ended up with about a 50:50 split, non-Christian to Christian which was enough for me to feel pretty strongly about the exhibit. I chose a dark (but not too dark) powerpoint theme to try to help keep the mood. I was having a hard time with ArtStor, but the Encyclopedia Britannica image search turned out to be a godsend, as long as I could figure out the right search terms. I ended up using that for most of the pictures. A few of the pictures really need to be seen at a larger higher resolution to really be appreciated due to their immense size, such as Michelangelo's Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel and Bosch's gigantic triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. I included a couple close-ups from the latter to really show his surrealistic version of hell.
It was a really fun assignment and I really enjoyed doing it. I also learned a lot about history and art while I was doing it which is always a plus.
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