Event Blog Number 1

This past weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the LACMA Museum. I found it to be extremely interesting and an eye-opener to the world of both modern and historic Art. First we visited the historic portion of the art museum. I was particularly interested in the work from the early 1900’s in Europe. My favorite piece form this era was By Alexander Rodchenko. (Pictured below) I thought it pertained to this class because of its symmetrical lines and angles similar to the work of Leon Battista Alberti as discussed in my second blog.

I also really liked the piece History as a Planter by Edward Kienholz. As you can see above, it includes a Jew plant and headlines from a newspaper. It alludes to the Holocaust and the news headlines connect to the 1961 trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Edwards’s works were so famous because they confronted current issues of the time in extremely creative interesting ways.

Next I ventured over to the Contemporary Art exhibit of the Museum. I found it interesting to see just how much different the art was here than in the historic section. Most of the art here was structures of some sort, such as Agnès Varda’s shack made of film strips pictured below. Their were very few pieces made with simply paint on canvas like that of the older European art. Also many of the contemporary pieces incorporated math and science by using video stream, robotics, and other modern technology in their pieces.