
Discussion Forums
We are interested in your views on this exhibition
Exhibitions come to life when visitors look at and respond to the works of art on display.
Please take a moment to answer one or more of the four questions on this exhibition website.
Your views can then be read and commented upon by other visitors. If you prefer, you can express your opinion in a visitors' book outside the exhibition.
Click on a question heading to enter your views.
1. Your general impression
Did you like the exhibition? What impressed you most? What do you think will stick in your mind for some time to come? Did particular works in the exhibition inspire any new ideas?
2. What is important in a work of art?
Many of the works on display challenge established assumptions about art and what we can expect from it. Have any of the works on show widened your ideas about what art can be?
For instance, do you think a work of art should
- Be beautiful?
- Be new and original?
- Demonstrate manual skill?
- Be made entirely by the artist?
- Remind us of shared experiences?
- Be a voice of protest?
- Inspire us to look at the world in new ways?
Would you like to add your own criteria and comments, giving examples from the exhibition?
3. Can the artist be a shaper of knowledge?
With the development of perspective during the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci created images that were previously unimaginable. Ours is a time when perception is again open to change. With recent developments in digital technology, the possibilities for artists to picture the world in new ways seem limitless. How might we look to art and artists as a source of knowledge about the world? What examples did you find in the exhibition?
4. Other comments
Are there other issues you would like to comment upon or open for debate? For example, how do you think the exhibition title Intelligence relates to the exhibition content? What alternative title might you have chosen? Do you see artists as intelligence agents at large in the world?
Thank you for your contribution.
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