Event Blog: LACMA

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Although the circumstances for my impromptu Los Angeles trip were unfortunate, I left the hospital for a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where I enjoyed the numerous and varying exhibits available. 

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The first thing my girlfriend and I saw was the city like moving art piece. Chris Burden's Metropolis II  (3) immediately reminded me of a smaller scale version, Eurydice, made by George Rhoads that I saw at Discovery Cube a few weeks ago (4). Similarly to Eurydice, the movement in this piece was never the same and the use of science and mathematics as well as some mechanization was needed to build this piece.  However, on a much larger scale, Metropolis II had the added sense of "sound".  The artist, Chris Burden strived to "produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st century city" (Burden 1). My guest wanted to leave because the noise and all the movment gave her "anxiety", providing proof of the success of the piece. 

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 The most apparent example of the use of mathematics in Art was in the sub section of Fauvism, Cubism and Purism. This portion featured paintings that contained all different types of lines and shapes. This painting named "woman in front of window", by Fernand Leger, was made from "a style intended as a rational, mathematical, correction to the decorativeness of late cubism" (6). This style was also






REFERENCES:
(1) Personal Photo. Degerstedt, Emma. 29th July, 2014

(2) Personal Photo. Degerstedt, Emma. 29th July, 2014

(3) Burden, Chris. "Metropolis II." Los Angeles County Museum of Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Aug. 2014. <http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/metropolis-ii>.

(4) "42nd Street Ballroom"." Sculptures by George Rhoads. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Aug. 2014. <http://www.georgerhoads.com/Monumental.html>.

(5)  Personal Photo. Degerstedt, Emma. 29th July, 2014

(6) "Woman in Front of the Window (Femme devant la Fenêtre)." LACMA Collections. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Aug. 2014. <http://collections.lacma.org/node/235773>.