This is a student project of the course "FVA2107 Arts of Europe" at Lingnan University. For this project, students are required to imagine they are a museum curator and use Google Sites to create a website for their exhibition. Each team of students has designed an art exhibition on a theme related to European art.
This course introduces methods to engage with art works, visually and intellectually. Students will acquire visual and socio-historical analytical skills. The class introduces the major artists, art movements, and artworks that have shaped the history of European art from Renaissance to the twentieth century abstract expressionism and surrealism. The course familiarizes students with key authors and historians of European art, who have shaped the methodology of the discipline and impacted other modes of scholarly inquiry. Different from conventional European art history courses, this class views European art not as a purified domain but as shaped by global networks of exchanges, including trade, colonialism, and migration of people and ideas. The course also experiments with infusing computational and AI technologies into art history. In addition to museum visits, object studies, and classroom discussions, this class holds hands-on workshops using AI to study, analyze, reinterpret, and rethink stories, styles, and spirits of art.
Prof. Wang Gerui is an Assistant Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She studies media, art, and AI, as well as the intersection of art and ecology. Wang leads a digital humanities project: Storytelling with AI, archived by Stanford Libraries. Her first book, Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960-1368 CE (Hong Kong University Press, 2025), has received publication grants from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. The book unveils the rich debates on natural resource management in flourishing landscape imagery and policy documents in pre-industrial China. It illustrates the representations, contestations, and expressions of the tension between economic growth and the long-term well-being of the environment through the lens of visual culture.
Gerui has published in the Journal of Chinese History, AsiaScape: Digital Asia, and Journal of Visual Art Practice. Gerui contributes regularly on topics such as AI, media, society, and culture. Her articles appear in Alan Turing Institute’s AI & Arts Forum, Australian National University’s Center on China in the World, Asia Times, The Wire China, South China Morning Post, and Forbes, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and French.
Dr. Zhu Yi, Felicia, received a PhD in Visual Studies from Lingnan University. Dr. Zhu's research focuses on museum studies, exhibiting culture, digital heritage, and Chinese art.
Zhao Hanzhang (creator of this website) is a first-year MPhil student in Film and Visual Arts. Her research focuses on film history and feminism.
Banner image source: The National Gallery.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851), Ulysses deriding Polyphemus - Homer's Odyssey, 1829. Oil on canvas. Turner Bequest, 1856. The National Gallery.