What's the Story?: Art in Search of a Narrative
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Have you ever wondered about what is going on in a painting? What that daydreaming figure is thinking about? What story the artist is trying to tell?
In this original Polk Museum of art exhibition, visitors were invited to use their own imaginations to look beyond the canvas, asked to envision the unwritten – and unpainted – stories in works of art with open-ended narratives. With more than forty works featured from the Museum’s permanent collection, this show placed each viewer into the essential role of narrator, providing creative answers to the questions the art itself poses but can never reveal.
This exhibition was also made available for viewing online! Click the button below to view the exhibition.
Essay
Read an essay written by Dr. Alex Rich on the idea behind open ended narratives some works of art have and the narrative they allow us to conjure and create.