Event 1 Blog

Event 1 Blog

For my first event requirement for DESMA 9 I decided to go the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). I had never been to LACMA before so I was really excited to see what all the hype was about and take some fun photos. All of the exhibits were very intriguing and appealing. Each one is very unique. Throughout the grounds of LACMA there were lots of works of art that were great examples of the fusion of art and science. It was cool to see how this merging of the two cultures was embedded into the very foundation of LACMA.

One of the exhibits that was showing was the Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015. This was a cool exhibit to see because it documents different types of menswear throughout time. It was interesting to see how men dress has evolved so much. The pieces that were the oldest seemed to be the most embellished and used a lot of colorful, fancy fabrics. I also noticed the menswear was much more formal in the past. There were a lot of elaborately decorated suits and no shirts and jeans. As the pieces in the exhibit got closer to the present the clothing got much more casual, light weight and less coverage. One of my favorite pieces was the Naval Uniform Ensemble. The suit itself looked like a prop out of a American Revolution film. It was more simple in comparison to some of the other pieces but held its own amongst them. There was a lot of beauty in the simplicity of it. There was an Italian suit that was beautiful as well.  This suit was one of the more flashy and detailed suits, much more so than the Naval Suit and you could see that whoever wore this suit was someone of wealth and prominence. This exhibit was very interesting because it made me think of how one dresses as an artful process. I think that this relates back to what we have been studying in this class because with this exhibit we see how throughout time people have dressed themselves in such a way to look like an art piece on display in a museum. In each outfit shown you see how much time and care people put into how they looked everyday with the intention of appearing as more than simply a man in a suit.

Walking around LACMA was really fun. I enjoyed walking through the grounds and looking at all of the interesting works. I saw the Urban Light sculpture which was very beautiful. Even though I had never been to LACMA I knew about this sculpture specifically because of how popular it is. This sculpture is also a great example of the merging of art and science because it is a sculpture composed of street lamps. Without the technology of electricity this sculpture would not exist. I want to go back to see it at night when all of the sculpture is lit up.

The Sculpture Garden and the Levitated Mass sculpture were also high points of my visit. The sculpture garden was fun to walk through because some of the poses they were in were very interesting. I tried to mimic a couple of the poses in a few pictures but the sculptures definitely won in a posing war. The Levitated Mass was also really cool because it is a giant bolder that is held by a couple steel platforms over an open space that you can walk through. This is an example of math and art coming together to make a sculpture. Without proper calculations of how the bolder should be placed or how strong the steel harnesses needed to be this sculpture would have collapsed. Going to LACMA was a great experience for me and I hope to go back soon to see more exhibits.