Event 1: LACMA

I arrived at the LA County Museum of Art with an open mind, eager to see what I would learn and experience on this Sunday afternoon. I attended the museum with my best friend, Jessy, and we walked to every exhibit and appreciated all that the art museum had to offer. Here is a photo of me at the Urban Lights sculpture, designed by Chris Burden. 

Our first stop and the featured exhibition that interested me the most was called “Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920’s.” In this exhibit, I was able to see the connection between art and technology as we observed featured drawings, manuscripts, posters, and set models from German expressionist cinema. As described on the LACMA website, “Film is perhaps the most dominant art form of the last one hundred years” (LACMA Website). German expressionism refers to “a number of related creative moments beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin” (Wikipedia, German Expressionism). In this course, we have studied the connection between technology, medicine, robotics, and other things that converge with art, but to experience hands-on the connection between film and art was very interesting. We were even able to see clips of lost films of the expressionist era playing in the exhibit. Below is a photo called "M" by an unknown artist, and it is featured at LACMA in the Haunted Screens exhibit. 

I was also intrigued by the modern art exhibit. One artist that stood out to me was Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol pursued a career as a commercial artist and began to create paintings based on advertisement imagery, otherwise known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression and advertisement that flourished in the 1960's. What I found to be most interesting was Warhol's incorporation of technology in his works of art. He used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, print-making, photography, film, and music. These are all related to the topics and connections we have been studying in this course. A couple Andy Warhol's paintings are below:

Many of the paintings in the modern art exhibits were accompanied by an explanation of the artist's vision or meaning of the painting or sculpture. I believe that although the artist may have had a specific idea of the meanings of their paintings, every individual can create their own meaning and assign their own themes, depending on how they perceive a work of art. 

Sources and Links:

"Art + Film Initiative." Art + Film Initiative. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

"German Expressionism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

"Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s." Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

"Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)." Andy Warhol Artworks – Andy Warhol on Artnet. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

Andy Warhol." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

Photos:

Wieber, Jordyn M. Ticket Stub. 2015. LACMA, Los Angeles. Taken with iPhone

Wieber, Jordyn M. Urban Lights. 2015. LACMA, Los Angeles. Taken with iPhone

Wieber, Jordyn M. Andy Warhol Painting. 2015. LACMA, Los Angeles. Taken with iPhone

Unknown. "M" Digital image. Lacma.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.