Event 3

On May 15, I've visited LACMA for my event assignment. This is very well known place that contains a lot of art+science works of art. I've found a lot of pieces and structures that related to our theme of class topic we discussed in the quarter.

There were diverse types of artworks that I could enjoy myself. Among the ones that I've browsed through, I've found a few works that highly related to the theme of what I've learned in the class.

This is Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can, 1964. This is a part of pop art which was brought from the industrialization that we've learned in Lecture of Robotic + art. Thanks to the mass production triggered by industrial revolution in 19th century, artists also influenced by the trend. It doesn't seem like an art at all, which is just tomato soup can that we can easily find in the market. This could also be regarded as a form of art that Andy Warhol proved it. In a flash of inspiration he bought cans from the store and began to trace projections onto canvas, tightly painting within the outlines to resemble the appearance of the original offset lithograph labels. Instead of the dripping paint in his previous ads and comics, here Warhol sought the precision of mechanical reproduction. Creating an art through mass produced product, he aroused the sympathy of many fans of art.

The individual paintings were produced by a printmaking method—the semi-mechanized screen printing process, using a non-painterly style. Stenciling, from which screen prints evolved, has been with us since we supped in caves, but, like soup, it underwent major changes during the industrial revolution when its ease of replication attracted commercial interest.

I've found another work of his art, Two Marilyns, 1962. This was also created in the same regarded explained above. Silkscreen ink and pencil on linen were used. He is known for his exaltation of both celebrity and the ordinary. Among the earliest in a series of paintings made shortly after Monroe's tragic death, this work shows the sex symbol's carefully constructed public persona. Warhol's use of the commercial silkscreen technique suggests his love of the banal, while his use of pencil in this work harks back to his early calligraphic skills. 

From the two pieces of art, we can derive the idea of his pursuit of intimacy and popular appeal to the public. His influences by industrialization and other social and scientific changes definitely impacted on his paintings that gives a philosophy of modern art. 

I definitely recommend to visit LACMA at least once to see the paintings and sculptures and other pieces of creations from the ones back in the days and the most futurist works of art. You can definitely broaden your perspectives and ideas when it comes to art + science. There are so many collaboration of two. For example, the photo above is a "Metropolis II." It is an intense kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 19 roadways, including one six land freeway. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. The creator of this masterpiece Chris Burden claimed that "The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st century city."