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Pompidou – Miro:

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/lib/Exposition-Miro-VR

The exhibition focuses on his art series of Bleu l, Bleu ll and Bleu lll.

There are 3 distinct areas in the exhibit, the first is on the left and it shows his life story using chronological references on a timeline.

The second part is a small room containing the actual 3 paintings, one on each wall with a description beside it on the wall. They are out in chronological order with the first one on the left and third one on the right wall.

The third part is on the right as you enter. It shows all the previous exhibitions they’ve held about Joan Miro.

Getty Museum:

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en

The exhibit focuses on European sculptures and decorative arts through the 1600s and 1700s. There are 3 rooms and the pieces are displayed in chronological order. Each room and time period also shows us what the artists intentions were with the pieces they made.

The first room displays European sculptures and decorative arts from 1600- 1650, the pieces in this room are mostly of Baroque style which depicted instantaneous movements or actions, like horses kicking. Sculptors blurred the line between art and reality.

The second room displays European sculptures and decorative arts from 1650- 1750, the pieces in this room are also of Baroque style but the artists now wanted to depict their subjects to evoke an heightened emotion response. Dramatic compositions and sacred figures were used.

The last room displays European sculptures and decorative arts from 1680- 1750, the pieces in this room have now changed from the previous grandiose forms of baroque style to a more light, colourful and whimsical Rococo style, developed by french artists. The rococo style was made of motifs and organic shapes of plants and animals that were put on furniture and other objects. This was picked up by italian and german artists that looked to Paris for artistic inspiration.

British Museum:

https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

The virtual form of the British Museum is organised in 3 ways, Location (the 5 continents), Time or when the artifact was discovered (from 2,000,000 BC) and field of knowledge.

Essentially once you pick the field you want to look at, a timeline for all 5 continents appears with pieces represented as dots on the timeline. You get more information and a picture of the piece when you press on the dot. It also shows which piece is connected to which by connecting them with lines when a dot is clicked on.

Guggenheim Bilbao:

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/guggenheim-bilbao

The pieces in the virtual form of this museum are organised in two ways.

In the first way, all pieces are put in several albums based on medium used(oil paints, iron etc), type of art made (installation art, conceptual art etc), Location (spain, bilbao etc) and artist. Here multiple art pieces have been repeated in groups.

In the second way, pieces are organised based on chronology, colour and art movement. You can click on any piece to get further information on it.

What I’ve learned

The most common way of classifying artefacts and pieces in museums is chronological. Some other categories are location and art style. Within a certain category, we can further organise artefacts in various ways like their size, their colour, etc.