An enlightening class about the philosophy of art would be the best way to describe this class in a broad sense. It challenges moral views on what museums do and the meaning of the art as a whole. Whether it is wealth and power or an abstract way to express one’s feelings, either way, art has a purpose.
For example, a moral dilemma that the class discussed in class was the moral rightness on having mummies in museums. As mummies typically come from Egypt, the people from there in the past placed high respects on the dead by performing rituals to preserve the bodies. However, by removing the bodies from their resting place people disrespect the bodies of the dead, and this makes the showing of mummies immoral if thought out.
This is only a segment of that argument, as the class then went on about how it could be justified to hold mummies. As stated before, however, this was an enlightening class on art and its many purposes.
The link above is the classes exam where each person had to “co-curate” with the professor. In order to do so, we had to present two pieces of art and explain why they represent the meaning of contemporary citizens.
For my project, I presented Cargador de Flores by Diego Rivera and Untiltied by Keith Haring. Haring’s painting, in my opinion, represented the collective whole of society. It represents groups of people instead of the individual showing what we can do as a group. While Rivera painting is about the individual struggle of a person being in a society.